Hey! - We added a new track to the player called "U Dream". It's YOUR feedback that helps us figure out which tracks go on the new CD so please have a listen and drop off a comment. Tonight I am also clicking VOTES for ALL of our good friends in the You Bring the Talent contest. Please vote for us too if you like what you hear. Cheers! ... Adam
We want to say "Hi" to all of our newest friends on Uber & a huge "Thank You!" to everyone for all of the great comments, messages and votes. It's very encouraging to be a part of such a great community of artists and music lovers. Cheers! ... Adam
hey how have you guy been doing? me not so good but hopefully it will get better. Im surprised I still see my last message on here. I guess most are messaging yall on myspace.
Hey guys, wow its been awhile since I left you a message to remember me by lol. Its pretty hard to say something to someone i dont know but ill try :). I hope y'alls concert is going great and y'all arnt overworking yourselves. I would hate to see you guys like that because you love what you do and i love that you do :). Take care of each other and make sure you talk to your friends and family at least once a week :D. very imporant. well thats all the enlightenment i have for y'all. later muah
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Alt-metal heroes Three Days Grace, or as those in the know call them 3DG or TDG, know that all good things are worth waiting for. They formed under the name Groundswell some 15 years ago, when they were in high school in tiny Norwood, Ontario. Ten years ago, one of the four, Joe Grant, quit. The remaining three, Adam Gontier, Neil Sanderson, Brad Walst, changed their name and then took another three years recording a three-song demo and moving to Toronto.
Things picked up sort of once they met Gavin Brown, a Canadian producer who used to be with the band, Big Sugar. He lent a hand with production credits, and, finally, 11 years after they formed a band, they had a record. Once it was done, they added Barry Stock, so TDG was no longer a trio.
With very little advance buzz, the self-titled album was a hit, as were two singles, "I Hate (Everything About You)" and “Just Like You,” which both went to number one on the U.S. Modern Rock and Mainstream Rock charts and to number two and one respectively on the Canadian charts. To make success even sweeter, Brown took home a Juno (Canadian Grammy) for his work.
If you had to single out one reason for the band’s success, it would probably be the lacerating honesty Gontier writes about. This became even more pronounced with the band’s follow-up album, One-X. Much of it was written at the Toronto Center for Addiction and Mental Health, where he spent part of 2005, getting treatment for his addiction fo Oxycontin.
On March 31, 2006, in fact, the band released “Animal I Have Become,” which he wrote in rehab, which went to number one on the rock charts in the States. The album came out six weeks later, opened at number five on the Billboard 200 and sold over 78,000 copies the first week. Two singles, “Pain” and “Never Too Late” both went to number one on the rock charts, making it a straight five-in-a-row number one singles in a row. Eventually it, like its predecessor, would go platinum.
But, to listen to the tale, there are a lot more easy ways to make a living than to expose yourself to a changing mass of people every day. For Gontier, the torment had to do with the overwhelming sense of loneliness he felt on tour, despite being surrounded by his band members, his fans and the people doing the tour.
“I felt like I had a target on my back,” he has written. “I felt there were a lot of things getting thrown at me that I had to deal with and I felt alone. I was the only one who could really understand myself.”
Or so he thought, The feelings of isolation became too acute for him to function properly. “I wanted to be normal and I just wanted someone, anyone, to help me.”
One day, he did what he probably should have done all along and told the other guys how he felt. Rather than give him a hard time, they told him they were all feeling like that. It helped Gontier realize that despite his own sense of isolation, there were other people out there just like him and maybe he wasn’t so alone after all.
The process of coming to grips with that realization infuses One-X’s most popular song and Gontier’s personal favorite, “Never Too Late.” Although not a happy song, it ends with an optistic statement of community summed up best by the lyric, "Do you think there's no one like you / We are.” And that, regardless of your feelings about Three Days Grace, is a cause for celebration to outsiders everywhere.
