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| Information About Papa Roach |
| Year Formed |
| 1995 |
| Biography |
"I'm super-flamboyant, super-happy and super-pissed-off," understates PAPA ROACH frontman Coby Dick. "I'm off the hook at shows. I've done stupid things where our lawyer was going, 'You can't be doing that!' but I've also hugged a million kids. I want to cause every emotion in people. I want them to fight, to fuck; I want to bring out their violence, their sadness, their happiness." The songs on Infest, Papa Roach's DreamWorks debut, are intensely personal and darkly seductive. "We lean more towards hip-hop, punk and funk, and we also have a rock influence," says Dick, "but we're not really rap-core. The songs have a pop structure, and they're very melodic, with a lot of layers and orchestration." Growing up in the Northern California town of Vacaville -- for the moment best known as the onion capital of the world -- P-Roach, as their legion of fans call them, formed in high school. Though Infest is Papa Roach's major-league bow, the band has been spewing music to the masses via CD for several years. Their first recording adventure was 1995's Caca Bonita, which was followed in 1997 by Old Friends From Young Years. Two more independent CDs, also issued on the band's Onion Hardcore Recordings, built on the momentum: 1998's 5 Tracks Deep and 1999's Let 'Em Know. Cranking these out at a steady pace did not keep P-Roach from the stage, howeverbio="I'm super-flamboyant, super-happy and super-pissed-off," understates PAPA ROACH frontman Coby Dick. "I'm off the hook at shows. I've done stupid things where our lawyer was going, 'You can't be doing that!' but I've also hugged a million kids. I want to cause every emotion in people. I want them to fight, to fuck; I want to bring out their violence, their sadness, their happiness." The songs on Infest, Papa Roach's DreamWorks debut, are intensely personal and darkly seductive. "We lean more towards hip-hop, punk and funk, and we also have a rock influence," says Dick, "but we're not really rap-core. The songs have a pop structure, and they're very melodic, with a lot of layers and orchestration." Growing up in the Northern California town of Vacaville -- for the moment best known as the onion capital of the world -- P-Roach, as their legion of fans call them, formed in high school. Though Infest is Papa Roach's major-league bow, the band has been spewing music to the masses via CD for several years. Their first recording adventure was 1995's Caca Bonita, which was followed in 1997 by Old Friends From Young Years. Two more independent CDs, also issued on the band's Onion Hardcore Recordings, built on the momentum: 1998's 5 Tracks Deep and 1999's Let 'Em Know. Cranking these out at a steady pace did not keep P-Roach from the stage, however. On the contrary, the band gigged steadily all over California -sometimes mounting as many as 14 shows a month with acts like Kid Rock, Static-X, Incubus, Bad Brains and other such compadres on The Warped Tour. They're pretty good at getting the audience to join together with the band -- at any given show, the fans are onstage and airborne nearly as much as Papa Roach. The four-piece has incited this mania over and over, headlining major clubs from San Francisco to Los Angeles, playing more than 400 shows since 1993.One of the questions most frequently aimed at the band concerns their moniker. According to Dick: "We're kinda like the cockroach that can survive anything -- we're a tough, warrior-soldier band. We get out there and put the work in."
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