TREO '09
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| Jason rocking out on bass- Photo by Dane Mainella from show at The Gateway in Brooklyn on 10/26/2016 |
Velocity: C. RuddellX
Mass: J. JadickXTime: B. Davis
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Their essence lies deep underneath the back roads and streets of USA... underneath the same stones and concrete and dirt where lone cars of hoodlums endlessly speed and swerve around looking for trouble deep into night.Their music has been compared to "jarring pop songs from the inner demons of a voidoid". Their style has been unable to define. Their attitude is unforgiving, aggressive, but optimistic. Their name is TREO '09 and this band could be your life.For starters, Jadick's rare Fender Precision Bass Special, born in Mexico, spits incoherent mumbles. Meanwhile, Davis's raucous drums flirt with suffocation in their own hyperbolic time chamber. Add to this Ruddell's lead virgin Fender Toronado stuck between hating the past and burning the future and the conditions have been set. No small talk. No jingle jangle. They're just animals with wires, metal, wood, and permission slips to do whatever they want. That is success.
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| Charley came out of the womb with this guitar- Photo by Dane Mainella from show at The Gateway in Brooklyn on 10/26/2016 |
The band has modest, punk rock origins in 2007 in Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania. The lifelong non-DNA-sharing brothers began playing under the name TREO at a "Fisherman's Breakfast" at a local church. Their gruff, conservative audience was not pleased with their quirky songs covering topics such as ostracized men who carried purses, so they quickly rerouted to a local basement. In 2009, the band took off with cover songs such as "Milk It" by Nirvana and crafted a more coherent ep, "CHAOS UNION". However sadly, college caused the band to atrophy and prevented any major successes besides a few shows in their small hometown.
Then in 2014, when every member of the band relocated to good ol' Brooklyn, New York, the TREO '09 that exists today was reborn from the embers of a dumpster fire. While living under one roof with 15 other people, the boys would band together in Davis's third floor nook also known as "Alaska" to hang out. One night a keyboard, guitar, and drums slunk out of their dusty corners and new mayhem began.Before long the trio began practicing at "Sweat Shop" in Brooklyn, a pay by the hour practice space. Funkmaster Ruddell hadn't played in a band with distortion in years after attending Berklee College of Music. Davis hadn't picked up the drum sticks since 2010 high school jazz band practice. And you could easily say Jadick had next to no clue on how to play the bass. This was the makings of a true punk rock story.
Ben takes his job very seriously! Photo by Dane Mainella from show at The Gateway in Brooklyn on 10/26/2016 Since, they have played all over Brooklyn, Manhattan and Philadelphia garnering a small but loyal audience dedicated to swaying their hips and banging their fists.They practiced for 6 months and eventually got a gig playing at the infamous Trash Bar on its last night of business. Their practices were and are just what the Sweat Shop advertises--merciless, grueling, and sweaty. TREO '09 made it through the early trials of preparing for their first gig and wound up at the Trash Bar thirsty and searching to destroy. They swiftly burned the place down and the fire hasn't stopped yet. One member of the crowd claimed to have suffered a broken rib after the set.
Look closely or you'll miss Charley getting crazy down low. Photo by Dane Mainella from show at The Gateway in Brooklyn on 10/26/2016 TREO '09 aims to carry on the D.I.Y. tradition so valiantly laid down before them by the likes of Neil Young, The Stooges, The Ramones, Ian McKaye and Fugazi, Henry Rollins and Black Flag, Sonic Youth, Shellac, Prince, The Replacements, The Minutemen and Hüsker Dü, to name but a few. They agree that artistry and musicianship are inseparable and aim to both expand the genre of rock n' roll while also paying respect to its rich history.The band devours music and each have an extensive record collection ranging from Animal Collective to James Brown to John Fahey to Naval Academy Scores to Sonic Youth to The Upsetters. To listen to their own sound, raw unmastered demos currently exist, but you should expect a whole new set of material this winter (2017) along with a ton more New York shows. As for the band members, you can find them in a local gutter or ditch. Send food.
twitter handle: treo09
Bandcamp: https://treo09.bandcamp.com/
Music Videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Qf4sW8_5J4
Photos by Dane Mainella from show at The Gateway in Brooklyn on 10/26/2016
