All Music Guide – “If you distilled Dark Side of the Moon, Pet Sounds, and Revolver into a glass and poured it over the California surf, it would probably sound like this… Classic sounds make for a classic album, which is precisely what Ghost Notes is.”
Los Angeles band Everest make their US television debut on Late Night with Conan O’Brien May 16th
Everest has just announced their performance at the HOP Farm festival
w/ Neil Young, My Morning Jacket, Supergrass on July 6th
Press Love for Everest:
LA Times, Buzz Bands – An all-star local quintet whose members sport resumes longerthan the intro to “Cortez the Killer”.
LAist – “Expect Herculean things from Everest in 2008”
You Set The Scene – “#1 band to look out for in 2008”
Rock Insider – “Newcomers/frickin’ all-stars”
LA2DAY – “More heart than the Tin Man could’ve hoped to obtain and enormous talent, to boot”
Radio Free Silverlake – “Everest? Hellfire.”
These guys have spent time in bands such as Sebadoh, the Folk Implosion,
Earlimart, Mike Stinson, Slydell, John Vanderslice, and the Watson Twins.
Everest was formed by Russell Pollard (vocals, guitar, drums), J. Soda
(guitar, keyboards, vocals), Rob Douglas (bass, vocals), and Joel Graves
(guitar, keyboards, vocals) and Derek Brown (drums).
The result is the epic Ghost Notes is out soon on Vapor Records
More Dates:
5.12- Indie 103.1, Viper Room
5.16- Conan in NY
5.17- Maxwells, Hoboken, NJ
5.26- Topanga Days Festival, Topanga Caynon
6.29 – Malahide Castle – Dublin with Neil Young
7.11 – Bospop – Boshoven, Holland with Neil Young, Crowded House & more!
A short few Chapters on Everest:
Chapter 1: Everest? You are a band.
When discussing the formation of the band withthe members, one word seems to come up time and time again natural. They may have already been friends, but it took future Ghost Notes producer Mike Terry to be the catalyst. As Graves explains, “We had a long conversation and he said, ‘You guys need to stop all these different projects and support each other.’ It took an outside person to tell us the obvious.”
Chapter 2: Play shows for yourself, not for the crowd.
Shortly after the band began playing live in 2007, local press in Los Angeles began to pick up a vibration from the stage uncommon in the scene. The band’s collective touring experience, chemistry, and unabashed passion for playing
was infectious. For the crowd, each show is also it’s own “unique snowflake”, as bassist Rob Douglas points out, “We always try to play a different show each time, by changing songs, arrangements, and order.” Guitarist J. Soda adds, “There’s a certain amount of trust that’s happening on stage that makes the shows really fun.”
Chapter 3: It¹s time to make a record, and make it fast.
In August 2007, the band entered Elliott Smith’s former room, New Monkey Studio, to document the music. Ghost Notes
was made on classic vintage equipment with producer/engineer Mike Terry recording and mixing the entire album to analog tape. You may be asking yourself, “What, no computers?” Nope. The album was recorded in two weeks, mixed in one week in November, and mastered one afternoon a few days later. Phew. It all happened pretty fast. Most of the songs were tracked with the entire band playing live together.
Chapter 4: Welcome Home, Everest – Now, hit the road!
When the band signed with Vapor Records, the label presented them with a cake that said “Welcome Home Everest.” To Pollard, it was another step down a road he’d always hoped to be on. “I¹d wanted to be on Vapor before I knew
they might be interested. It’s Neil Young’s label, so obviously it was somewhere I wanted to be.”
This May, the band will get the chance to pile into a van and do what they do best: play their music live and continue writing songs together. Douglas points out, “We have a definite pedigree in terms of things we’ve done in the past, but we’re lucky that we’re all coming into our own now in this band. It feels like we found each other at the right time.” Good timing is just another natural part of it. Pollard sums it up well when he says, “I feelvery free about it, watching it go in whatever direction it wants to.”