//THESTART IS: Aimee Echo - vocals, Erick Sanger - bass, Billy Brimblecom, Jr. - drums, Jamie Miller - guitar, synth, vocals
//THESTART HAVE MADE: 1 full length CD titled SHAKEDOWN! recorded in 1999 in Los Angeles and released in July of 2001 through TheLabel/Geffen.
1six song EP not officially titled "the Death Via Satellite EP" in 2002 (NEWBLACK) which has only been available online and on tour from the band.
//THESTART HAVE TOURED WITH: Sparta, AFI, Hot Water Music, John Frusciante, the Art Of Safecracking, StrungOut, Finch, Weezer, Tsunami Bomb, Thrice, CoheedandCambria, Vans Warped Tour, the USED
//THESTART HAS BEEN CALLED: "Siouxsie and the Banshees if they were Nirvana", A late 70's new wave band dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century", "Throbbing, pogo deserving, dance punk"
//THEINFLUENCES: The Cure, Depeche Mode, Nirvana, Siouxsie And The Banshees, U2
//THENAME: My mom named the band! How about that? We had a different name in the beginning and that name was taken. Our attorney came to the studio while we were making the record and said you can’t call yourselves that name anymore ‘cause there’s about 15 other bands that are already called that, that you’ve never heard of. And I thought I was really thorough in my search for a name ‘cause there are so many bands out there right now and in America the law is first use. So even if there’s a band in, let’s say Texas, who has a CD out of their own, not on a major label, but they work in the area and they do shows in the area and they sell their CD’s regionally they have first use in that area. So we would have had to go to each one of the 15 bands and say, “Can we have permission to use your name?” The scope of that was far too grand for me to get my head around. So we gave it up and I searched and searched and searched and searched and searched and searched for a name that wasn’t taken. You would not believe how many...any word you can think of, there’s a band called that. So it was a miracle actually that there wasn’t a band called theSTART. My mom was just...we wanted it to be really simple because I think that’s, you know, it’s impactive. And we wanted it to be, not have a negative connotation. My old band was called Human Waste Project, I always just liked that name personally but I had no control over that. I tried to change it a bunch of times but I couldn’t find a name to change it to. But I thought that was negative, so we kind of had bad luck with that too. Then I had friends that were in a band, Failure, so it was kind of like what you put out there manifests. So we wanted to be really careful not to manifest anything that was gonna be negative. And also since we have such a great love of bands from the 70s, and that’s just like the classic thing of a band having “the” in front of it. I was in love with that idea and my mom just called and said, “I was on the freeway and this name popped into my head: theSTART!” And at first I was like, “No! It’s probably taken! Screw everything!” I was literally up 7 hours a night online searching the copyright database, like, out of my mind, searching everything. It was driving me crazy. And all the really clever names are gone, of course, ‘cause they’re great. Unbelievably, there was one band who used the name start in the 80s, but they broke up before their first record came out and I don’t know if they owned the copyright, but it had expired and nobody had bought the copyright yet. So we got it. Everybody else, step off! - AECHO
//MORE ABOUT THE NAME:In the beginning, we had a different name. Notice I said in the beginning. We called ourselves Hero. We wanted something classic and timeless that wasn’t just for laughs. Something that was basic. TheSTART has such a positive sounding name. My mom came up with it. - AECHO