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Hard rock band escapes College Station’s country mi
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BY SCOTT HARRIS
The Battalion
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Linus
Free Form Delusions
CD courtesy of Millennium
Records
For the band Linus, their first
album. Free Form Delusions,
should have been a chance for
them to showcase their talent
and get one step closer to sign
ing a major label record deal.
This album falls short of these
expectations.
Linus is lead by Chris Pate on
guitars and vocals, the bass is
laid down by Eric Dickerson and
Sean Eubanks rounds out the
band on drums.
The strongest musician is Eu
banks, whose talent on the
drums stands out greatly from
the rest of the band. The music
on some of the songs is pass
able, but it will take more to
make this album good.
This album displays the
band’s potential, but is greatly
marred by some weak songs
with weak lyrics.
This is sad, because without
songs like “Cartoon Logic” and
“Sail Away,” this album could
have been decent.
The album’s better songs are
“Love’s Indecent Proposal” and
“Hate.” The problem is that
most of the songs fall into the
rather mediocre category of col
lege rock.
Closing out the album is a
strong musical piece called “Free
Form Delusions.” The band
should have stuck with this kind
of creativity instead of digging
themselves into a hole with mu
sic that could be transposed
from song to song without any
body noticing. (Grade: D)
reaking into the
music scene for a
rock ’n’ roll band
is not an easy task, es
pecially if the band
comes from a small
town with predomi
nantly country roots.
This is exactly the
situation facing Linus
— and the band hopes
it can overcome these
obstacles.
The three-piece
band was formed three
years ago and only one
member, Chris Pate, re
mains from the original
ensemble.
The band went
through different musi
cians before finally set
tling on the group of
performers that now
make up Linus.
Pate said he knew
when the band started
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—By Scott Harris
that he wanted to make music his
life.
“My first intention was to be a
serious musician; it’s what I real
ly wanted to do,” Pate said. "Not
everybody that has played for this
band had wanted to do that.
Some just wanted to be in college
and do the band thing, and that’s
cool, but now we are all serious
about the music and everybody
wants to do it big time.”
Playing with Pate is drummer
Sean Eubanks, who has been
playing with Linus for one and
one half years, and newly ac
quired bassist Eric Dickerson.
Linus just completed their first
full length album. Free Form Delu
sions, which includes songs from
their EP The Sky. The band start
ed recording the album in August
and spent six months working on
their first release.
Pate said they spent more time
with this album than is normal for
bands who are not signed with
major labels.
Eric Dickerson, Chris Pate and Sean Eubanks
“Most bands without record
deals go in and put out an album
very quickly,” Pate said. “We had
the luxury of being able to spend
a lot of time on it. We were able
to sit down and listen to it and
change stuff.
“1 would spend weeks working
on single guitar parts just to get
them how 1 liked.”
Pate said their album is about
breaking molds and stereotypes
that are commonly associated
with the band.
“Basically, I was just sitting
around one night and I thought
about the people who saw us
three years ago when we sucked
and developed certain ideas about
three guys who didn’t give a s—
t,” Pate said. “These people had
delusions about us and we want
ed to open their minds.”
Linus has a managerial and pub
lishing agreement, but are still
shopping their CD around looking
for a major label deal.
Pate said the band has got the at-
PHOTO COURTIS' /
.of Linus will be performing^
tention of some record coniq
“ We are staning to get:
terest generated,” Pate
think we are on the thre lC
something great Jj
ing is definite." E, M
Linus started their localjB, ers
Bullwinkles and has expa
their venues to include He
Dallas and Waco.
Most of Linus’ followinsi
ally comes from these tov
they still play local dates.
Pate said the College
crowd is starting to comec
again.
“In the past six monltt
haven’t played here too mJ
Pate said. “But the hardf
music scene in CollegeStari
getting better. I thinkit’sdj
the younger students who(
out to the shows and really!
into it.”
Linus will be bringing t,|
hard rock music to the Cow f
this Friday night.
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