One More Summer - Discography

Well this is the One More Summer discography. This blog I run, and rarely update has never been known to put any links for downloading records because I usually am not a fan of downloading music. I am not gonna say that I don't do it, cause that would be hypocritical, but I want this blog to be more like an online zine. Anyway I it's my blog, and I will break the rules.

One More Summer started in the summer months of the year 2002, by my friend and brother Felix, and I. But the story really starts some years earlier. Around 1997.

He and I had previously been 2 other bands together, not for a long time. The first one was Espantajo, which was sort of a weird Nu-Metal band, that no one really wanted to play the same style. And ended breaking up after some shows, but actually like 3 years after it's inception. Actually during the time I was in Espantajo, Felix, who played bass decided to quit the band. But asked me if I wanted to play more of a punk rock style similar to MxPx, blink-182 and pennywise. Bands I was really into.

I knew he liked that style of bands, him previously been in the ska-core band Viuda Negra. So we decided to start that "side project". We needed a bassist, and Felix's girlfriend at the time Dennisse was our bassist. We started having some band practices and some really cool songs started popping out. And we decided to add a new guitar player, that's when Josue came into the band. He used to be in this band called Bad Influence. But the whole idea of him traveling a lot for practice kinda didn't work for him. So he quit the band before we even had a show. This band was called Pre-Shrunk, because of a sticker Felix had in his guitar. It looked cool so we named it like that.

Ironically that band's first (and final) show came my senior year of high school, right when I had already decided to go to school in the United States. It was at a environmental rally sponsored by the P.I.P. which our bassist's dad was a part of, and we also agree with their political views so we played. We played with like a peruvian music group, and no one else, at the city square, It was awful, and we only had four songs for a 30 min set. Most awkward show I have ever played.

Anyway, when I came back that december from winter break, me and Felix kept talking about the band, and we wanted to play a more aggressive style. While still keeping some of the old songs. That's when he and I started jamming some of the songs that went on to be One More Summer. We got inspired by bands like Ten Yard Fight, Tropiezo, Stretch Arm Strong, Comeback Kid, H2O and Pennywise. A slightly more melodic side of the hardcore equation. We didn't have a bass player, and Adiel a.k.a. Satan, who sung in Espantajo, also Felix's brother, played bass, so he joined the band. Now we needed a singer.

Originally the plan to have as a singer was going to be Chepi, from the band Kabezudos de Villabajo, and we had talked to him, and he agreed. But as we all know kind of what the mystique of Kabezudos, was that they were famous for not showing up. So that was it, haha. Then we talked to Felix's friend Tommy. Former singer for the band Abortados. We had our first practices and everything went really well, everything took shape. Althought that first batch of songs from the demo I have to add that were songs that Felix and I completely wrote, including lyrics. After that it was Tommy's lyrics (except give and take which I came up with the idea). We were a 4 piece for a while, but our friend Carlos, who also was in Abortados with Tommy came to our practices and shows, and we knew he was a good guitar player, so we asked him to join the band. He did, and it was pretty much the best thing we could have asked for.

Our first show we played in Arecibo, at a weird sports bar with Nothing 2 Face, Deathwosh Bronson, and some other band I dont remember (and I booked that show). It was alright. After that we played our real first westside show with Enaguas de Chavola, and it was great, people liked it, and it was the start of something good. We recorded a demo, and started playing shows, and it was good. We played more shows, and we made lots of friends, some of the friends that we have to this point still.

After I decided to stay full time in the US, so we do not really play shows like we used to, every summer and winter, but whenever I am in the Island, we still play!

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01 - En El Recuerdo
02 - We're True To This
03 - Luchando
04 - Fake Pride
05 - The Compromise
06 - La Decisión Es Tuya
07 - Together
08 - Give And Take
09 - The Compromise (Versión 2006)