=PAUL DEVINE -Keyboards & Vocals.
=TIM OLIVER-Guitars & Vocals.
Influences
Alice in Chains, Pink Floyd, Deep Purple, Neil Young, The Tea Party. Alice Cooper, Live, Pearl Jam.
Sounds Like
A mixture of Grunge and Classic rock. (Alice in chains meets Pink Floyd/Deep Purple).
We call it textured garage rock. Mid-tempo clean verses that lead into heavy chorus' with crunchy distorted guitars & lots of soloing (Especially live). The keyboards fill out the sound with natural sounding synth strings, organ & bass often soloing along with the guitar for that extreme textured sound. The drums complete the sound with strong in your face beats and killer fills and rolls.
HEMi 69 has created their own sound in the last five years that never fails to please and impress. Quickly becoming known as the loudest band in the area they're known to take down the house (literally).
But don't take our word for it, see for yourself.
HEMI 69 began in 2000 as a writing & recording project in St. Catharines, Ont. With Tim Oliver on vocals and guitar & Paul Devine on vocals & keyboards. Using a drum machine for basic beats at first they began recording cover songs by bands such as Alice Cooper, Clarknova & early Nickleback, as well as writing and recording original songs based on Tim's experiences after moving from his life-long home in Niagara falls to a small town called Dundas. And Paul's view on society and politics. Playing in a small storage room in an apartment complex, it was hard to get a good practice in but with Tim traveling back & forth two hours every weekend they managed to create a sound all their own, a mixture of grunge & classic rock with Pink Floyd as Paul's biggest influence. Over the years HEMI 69 have gone through a series of member changes including five drummers, two bassists and a rhythm guitarist. And where most bands would crumble under such pressure it only made them stronger and more skilled as musicians, with Tim and Paul remaining sole members. Now onto their fifth drummer HEMI 69 has emerged tighter and more powerful than ever. Starting from the ground up HEMI 69 is determined to take Rock & roll to the next level and show the world what hard work and perseverance can really do. We will never die and we will never be taken alive! After-all that's what Hemi's all about.
HEMI 69's achievements:
Pulse Magazine readers choice poll '04 Best local original band- Honorable mention.
Pulse Magazine readers choice poll '05 Best local original band- Top honor.
Hemi 69 has also won several battle of the bands & came in number 1 in the first week with the 2002 version of "To see you" on the Supernova entertainment charts in '03.
Thanks guys for the continual support. It means so much to us! We ended up comming in second, whci hwe were very happy about. Thanks agin for the support:) -Chris
Thanks so much guys! You guys really did rock harder than us, i guess we just had one or two more people there. So glad share the stage with you all. Thanks,
awesome! i'll try n make it to the BOTB! as for me, im supposed to be recording in about a month..... just a few tracks, nothin huge but FINALLY getting something new up! hows yer disc comin?
I LOVE the new recordings! it is difficult for bands to capture that live energy within a live recording, but you guys did a great job! i hope to hear some more! haha. Take it easy and congrats on the great recordings. -Chris
hey guys wuts up? lol its bn a while sense i last seen yea's.. probably the band pratice was the last time i seen everyone ahah hows everyone doin? happy thanks giving lol ~$CoDy$~
hey guys!! hows it goin?? unfortunately i cant make it out to this show.... i'll be racing in a sailboat all weekend. however keep me posted, i'd love to see you guys play again. be talkin soon. peace
Hey Guys! Hope things are going good. Tim, give your sister a call sometime. Just thought I would let you know, the baby is due in 11days and is happy and healthy right now. Hope you can make it up after she's born, if not then I will try to make it down as soon as I can. Take care!
~*Tarilyn*~
sorry to hear about the loss of kenny..... but like every other great band, you will move on to bigger and better things! hope everything else in hemi-land is great! be talkin tya soon! DT
egad! I forgot to tell you that we posted another new tune on Wednesday night... sorry 'bout that. this one is a bit of a departure from what's been posted already, so give it a few spins and drop us a line to let us know how you like it. thankayou.
hey guys, hows it goin?? its been a while and thought i'd drop you a line. hope all is well and that july 28th is on your calender! talk tya soon. peace
HEY GUYS HOW'S IT GOING.WHAT HAVE YOU GUYS BEEN UP TO I WANT TO TELL YOU THAT ON MARCH 31,2007 IS GOING TO BE MY B-DAY SO CAN YOU GUYS LEAVE ME A COMMENT LOL.WELL TTYL I HOPE TO HEAR FROM YOU GUYS SOON SO COMMENT ME BACK IF YOU CAN BY FOR NOW FROM YOUR FRIEND TRACEY XO XO
Sry i cant make it out tonight to see ya guys hopefuly ill make the next show. But u should all come out to moe's in port on the 31st and see Screaming Black Cadilacs, Its my bday :) So ur welcome to come out and have some fun.
Hope to see ya's there
take care
