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Reunited Eve 6 to play concert
in Logan
By Jacob Fullmer
March 28, 2008 | Three years without a performance
or a record deal, the newly reformed band Eve 6 will
show its commitment to a refound identity when the band
performs April 9 in Logan.
Best known for their 1999 single Inside Out
and 2001's Here's to the Night, Eve 6 disbanded
in 2004 after the release of the band's third album
on RCA Records, It's All in Your Head, featuring
the single Think Twice.
With a renewed strength in their identity as a band,
Eve 6 is back out on the road. Max Collins, lead singer
and bassist, said he's been surprised at people's positive
response to the band's return.
"It was kind of a long time for a band. Especially
a band in this day and age. We really had no expectations
either way about what it was going to be like. We've
been pleased," Collins said. "Once we started doing
it again, it felt good."
Collins said it wasn't long after the break-up before
band members started making music together again. He
and Tony Fagenson, Eve 6's main drummer, performed and
recorded together as The Sugi Tap, a name inspired from
the Japanese graphic novel Battle Royal. Fagenson
joined the Eve 6 lineup not long before the RCA record
deal. They recorded their platinum selling self-titled
debut just a few months out of high school. Collins
said it was that record deal that provided the level
of "cocksureness" to continue in the music industry
at such a young age.
"We were going to be in a rock 'n' roll band and that
was that," he said.
Their second album, Horrorscope, reached
gold level sales. And though initial excitement for
their third album, It's All in Your Head, boosted
the band higher than ever on Billboard's charts
(No. 27), a decline in sales forced the band to part
ways. Collins and Fagenson announced in the fall of
2007 they would replace The Sugi Tap with Eve 6 and
return to their roots.
"We kind of just realized we are Eve 6. This is what
the deal is," Collins said.
Collins said their original guitarist, Jon Siebels,
has been busy with the band Monsters Are Waiting but
gave his "blessing" to use the Eve 6 name.
Without a record deal, the band announced through
the Internet its intention to return to the stage. Last
checked, the band's MySpace page has 34,668 friends.
MySpace lists Eve 6 as No. 14 among top "unsigned"
artists, beating out other well known bands Sugarclut
and Nine Inch Nails. According to the official Web site,
as of February 2007, Eve 6's MySpace page "has had over
1 million song plays, averaging nearly 10,000 plays
per day."
The band hasn't officially begun recording for a new
album. Collins said they plan playing events through
April and focusing on writing for the new album after
that. Some of their favorite songs from The Sugi Tap
will be played under the Eve 6 name.
During the three-year hiatus, Collins said each band
member has spent time in his own creative pursuits.
Collins went through a band known as Brotherhood of
Lost Dogs, which included Brian Young, the drummer of
Fountains of Wayne, who are best known for the risqué
radio hit of 2003, Stacy's Mom. Collins and
Eve 6 drummer, Tony Fagenson, also wrote and produced
a track on Puddle of Mudd's recently released album.
Eve 6 will perform at 7 p.m. April 9 in Utah State
University's Nelson Fieldhouse. Tickets are available
through Smith's Tix and various locations in Logan.
Playing at a university holds a touch of irony for
the band. Collins said Fagenson completed a "semester
or two" at University of Santa Clara and as for the
lead singer?
"No college for me," he said.
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