Ethan Mentzer
Ethan Mentzer
The Click Five was an American rock band from Boston, Massachusetts. The original members, most of them students at Berklee College of Music, started on January 1, 2004 and played in various local venues. They then quickly got the attention of talent scout Wayne Sharp. The Click Five made their first recording, a two-song demo session, in early 2004 after successful local touring. They released their debut album Greetings from Imrie House in 2005. After vocalist Eric Dill left the...
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I didn't even know that malls even had shows.
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We were really driven to do something and hopefully become really successful with it. We set a lot of small goals and just took things a step at a time.
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The suits help make us memorable and identifiable,
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I think our main interest just lay in popular music, something that had a little bit more of a mainstream appeal, that the average person could find accessible.
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We're really trying hard to bring back this thing with melody and good songs and a different way of doing it than the other pop bands that are out there right now. It doesn't really sound like pop did five years ago. Guitar is back.
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We were sort of struggling in the beginning to find the direction stylistically what exactly we wanted to be, ... We sort of had a few different things going on that were probably good for a young band because it gave us options as far as what path we wanted to really go full-throttle with.
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It?s definitely still a thrill. You can be having a bad day or whatever, and you get up on stage and you hear that and it can make you forget about what else is going on in your life.
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With this, it was, yes, we were excited about it but it was something new that we hadn't done before being on national TV. You get one shot, one song and that's it. And you're in a room full of screaming girls and we played acoustically and couldn't hear ourselves.
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We knew when we started this band that a lot of our appeal was going to be in the teen market. We knew that's who buys records; kids in college burn CDs.
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Our heads were just kinda spinning the whole time,
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I like songs that are so damn catchy that you wake up in the morning with them in your head.