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Mellowdrone
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Mellowdrone is a music project founded by Jonathan Bates in the late 1990s. The style varies from soul, hardcore, indie rock, and electronic genres.
If it weren’t for the snow, mellowdrone might never have happened.
During his three years of exile in Boston as a scholarship student at the Berklee School of Music, far from his Florida home, Jonathan Bates pulled further and further away from all that the city represented. “There wasn’t much to do except get drunk, do drugs, or get into fights,” he remembers. “And it always seemed to be snowing. So I started to write music.”
Beginning with … boredom never sounded so sweet, a home-brewed EP that he produced in 1999 and gave away to strangers on the street, Bates put together a body of work under the name mellowdrone. “I didn’t want to use my own name because people might come to expect me to do only one kind of music,” he explains. “With another name, I felt that I could do anything.”
The disc made its way to L.A., and Bates, convinced that “Berklee really sucked,” followed. Essentially homeless for several months, he crashed on the couches of friends, picked up odd jobs, but mainly concentrated on writing new material. Once he got his own place he pieced together a makeshift studio, with a bargain-basement computer, a tinny Casio keyboard from Radio Shack, and a few guitars.
From this jumble of mismatched gear came the second mellowdrone EP, glassblower, on January 1, 2001, which Bates sold exclusively on his website, mellowdrone.com.
If it weren’t for the snow, mellowdrone might never have happened.
During his three years of exile in Boston as a scholarship student at the Berklee School of Music, far from his Florida home, Jonathan Bates pulled further and further away from all that the city represented. “There wasn’t much to do except get drunk, do drugs, or get into fights,” he remembers. “And it always seemed to be snowing. So I started to write music.”
Beginning with … boredom never sounded so sweet, a home-brewed EP that he produced in 1999 and gave away to strangers on the street, Bates put together a body of work under the name mellowdrone. “I didn’t want to use my own name because people might come to expect me to do only one kind of music,” he explains. “With another name, I felt that I could do anything.”
The disc made its way to L.A., and Bates, convinced that “Berklee really sucked,” followed. Essentially homeless for several months, he crashed on the couches of friends, picked up odd jobs, but mainly concentrated on writing new material. Once he got his own place he pieced together a makeshift studio, with a bargain-basement computer, a tinny Casio keyboard from Radio Shack, and a few guitars.
From this jumble of mismatched gear came the second mellowdrone EP, glassblower, on January 1, 2001, which Bates sold exclusively on his website, mellowdrone.com.
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Mellowdrone - Fat Bastard
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Mellowdrone - What Happened?
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Mellowdrone - Glassblower
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Oh My
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Orange Marmalade
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Beautiful Day
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And Repeat
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Four Leaf Clover
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amazing
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C'mon Try A Little Bit
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Madison
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Fuck It Man
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Whatever The Deal
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bone marrow
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Limb To Limb
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Bonemarrow
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Shoutbox
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dirtyharrold wrote:
i'm the top-listener ^_______^
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kyrios69 wrote:
nice.
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Frostmorn wrote:
their music is unique...to my ear at least
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icedream91 wrote:
;))))))) No words!!!!!!
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Fevered17 wrote:
"You and I" ftw. Srsly
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PThomasAnderson wrote:
Alguna canción me recuerda a EEls
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tdFMason12 wrote:
orgasmic
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kkm20 wrote:
they need to change their profile picture here. greg and scott are no more in the posse.
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Fevered17 wrote:
I have to agree. I only enjoyed about half of Box. I gotta give it props for having Madison though. I fucking love that song.
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Alyfizzy wrote:
Everything pre-'Box' was incredible.
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fernandom wrote:
there's like a million mellowdrone songs out there and i only have the ones on albums. help a brotha out?
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Grungels wrote:
when in the heck is the next album coming out? BTW i have a mellowdrone group you should join :)
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Undedicated wrote:
Wow, I guess I thought they were more popular than they really are... Love 'em!
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Blue_Generation wrote:
Love them... they're so underrated.
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silversurferfm wrote:
the wet dog in you is impressive
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CatFromMars wrote:
i love this band.. yeah, it's damn good..
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kiralove wrote:
Mellowdrone in SF! Friday 1/25/08 www.cafedunord.com Mellowdrone with: Rykarda and the Tower Ravens Excuses for Skipping Cafe du Nord $12, 21+ 10pm!
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NieUwierzeZe wrote:
♥ ♥ amazing ♥ ♥
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celestronica wrote:
Official Mellowdrone group on Facebook: We’ve started an official group on Facebook – so if you’re there please join! http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6586026438
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iamthenight wrote:
That's funny, considering it was mostly made up of early stuff. those early songs were reworked so much that they should have just been new songs... ended up making awesome tracks worse. Unfortunately ever since John got signed he decided to shift away from what made glassblower and ADOIP so fucking amazing and start writing boring, band-based, trendy LA indie-pop. I miss the days of ridealong
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