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Robotwithawing| Phantasmic Phantoms!

 Back in the day (like in 2005-2006) the whole “scene” thing was in; let alone having your parents drop you off to shows and picking you up 3 hours later. Having intense screaming, breakdowns and moshing was always a must and having a band in high school meant that you were cool (it still is like that nowadays, I think and I am still cool). 

So once upon a time there was this band that was really big in the Walnut/West Covina area( I don’t think I am over exaggerating at all :D). The members were: Gabesasandwich, Vincent Dunderhead, Anthony and RegThrillaveza. The band name was called, Robot with a wing (a AIM screen name of a friend of theirs who died). With a name like that, got so many people wondering, “what the fuck does that mean?” or “of course that’s their name, they’re Asian! They probably got their name off of some Gundam thing” ( We didn’t but that would have been sooo cooool though).  But anyways, since we put the words together like that, people assumed our band was called, robot with awing. One time, at this venue called Smart City Grinds in Azusa, when we played a show there, they messed up on the tickets and so our band name for that (which stuck around on people’s brains) was Robot with a wig (and a couple of years after we disbanded, I kept getting calls to play there). 

But anyways, it was cool to be in a band in high school. I would get asked by people I didn’t know or people who I thought would never hear my stuff say, “Hey, you’re in that one band, robotwithawig right?”. We even played at the city’s battle of the bands and though we place second, we still felt like the shit weeks after. But this went down for about 2 years. As our drummer left for UCI ( in fall 2006) we basically disbanded and pursued other things…mainly marijuana.

As the course span from then to now, we do jam around sometimes, but it’s usually on a drunken whim or whenever we are bored of losing in Marvel vs Capcom 3. And nothing really robot with a wing related. But playing music isn’t gone from our system; after this band me and gabesasandwich formed Trinitron Meets The Marspeople (with also 2 of our other friends). A math rock band that got more appraisal in the Alhambra/Monterey Park area than that of the Walnut/West Covina area ( I hate to go off, but one time at Citrus, I was talking music to this one guy who was acid tripped out of his mind and he asked me if I ever heard of Trinitron and that was what he listens to when he’s under the influence of such drugs. I told him I used to play keys for that band and he shat bricks…it must have been that acid) so they played more shows around there (plus the crowd was way more awesome). And also that gabes guy I talk about plays keys in the band The Ready Aim Fire! (facebook or youtube them, I guarantee you won’t be disappointed).

But anyways, Robot With A Wing was fun and if I can, I would do it all over again.. but of course I want to change the overall sound and not play bass too….I want that shoegaze, lo-fi dreamy shit now…. But yeah, I’m the one with the more harsher high screams. It’s also probably the reason why my voice cracks from time to time…unless I’m still going through puberty ..and note, we were in our teens recording this.