The Pants!

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The Pants are 6 guys who are loud, borderline obnoxious, and think they can skateboard. Formed in late 2005, The Pants started as a 3 piece with brothers Mike and Matt, and their drummer Woody. They often played together at parties, bars, and essentially any venue that you take them. In the Summer of 2006, a neighborhood friend, Jeremy, sat in on practice and sang some covers with them. After feeling a musical chemistry, the 3 of them invited him into the band.



In the Fall of 2006, the 4 of them headed into the studio to record their first demo/EP entitled "Brian Smells!", a play off of a close friend and the Suburban Legends. The album featured 4 original songs and, with the extra time available, they recorded a cover. They ended up putting these on CD-R's and sold them at shows. Still being a budding ska band, all 50 CDs where burned on to non-music CD-Rs, which confused several fans.



After releasing "Brian Smells!", the 4 of them wanted to add horns to their ska-punk crew. Micheal came in on sax, but needed help writing horn lines, so The Pants recruited The Dans from CIO to help assist in the writing process. After writing the horn line for their song "4/20", the chemistry just seemed right, and The Pants met their stable lineup for the next year.



Over the next year and a half, The Pants played shows over the Tampa Bay Area with local and national bands alike. Then, after constant shows, The Pants attempted to record another EP of newer songs, but something always seemed to get in the way, and this frustrated them to the point of inactivity in the Fall/Winter of 2007.



After being inactive for a few months, The Pants finally started to become active and play together again with a whole new attitude towards writing and performing. The Pants then decided that in light of this attitude change, that they would lie low for the Summer of 2008 to write all new songs and come back to the scene that made them what they are today. With all that is ahead of them, The Pants are working hard to make the 2008/2009 year their 3rd and best year since conception.



Even with this new direction, during The Pants' inactivity Jeremy decided to part ways with the band, to pursue bigger and better things, giving Matt and Dan Smyth the opportunity to share the frontman position. With this new line-up, they decided to add more horns and be a more "ska driven" band. They recruited Aulden on Trumpet, but as they wrote with him and started to play more shows, they noticed that the chemistry wasn't right, so they had to let him go. They then found out that Andy, a close friend of Matt and Mike's, wanted to try out on Saxophone, and same with Tasha on 2nd Trombone. Both of them we're perfect for the job, and joined The Pants roster within a few weeks of trying out.



Now, as the band members have matured, and with Matt leaving for college, The Pants prepare themselves for a long indefinite hiatus where they can pursue other projects. They plan in this last few months, to release a full-length album and play 1 more show, as a way to say goodbye.



We've shared the stage with signed bands such as.

Zolof the Rock and Roll Destroyer (le Pamplemousse/ Flightplan Records)

New Mexican Disaster Squad (Jade Tree Records)

Bomb The Music Industry! (Asian Man Records)

The Alcoholic Freshman (Bonfire Club Records)

The Flaming Tsunamis (Kill Normal Records)

Patent Pending (Warner Brothers Group)

Whole Wheat Bread (Fighting Records)

Long Shot Hero (Ultraskye Records)

Jet Lag Gemini (Doghouse Records)

Ceremonial Snips (Stomp Records)

Call it Arson (Kill Normal Records)

Authority Zero (Lava Records)

Beat Union (Science Records)

Lemuria (Asian Man Records)

Jah Roots (GanJah Records)

Safety (Copacetic Records)

Civet (Hellcat Records)

Suburban Legends

The Taj Motel Trio

Fatter Than Albert

We Are The Union

Patrick Cadaver

Royal City Riot

The Pinstripes

Matt Wixson

AmRev2



We've shared the stage with these Floridian acts as well!

Skantly Prepared, The Blood Between, At Heart, Evolution Under Fire, The Filthy Nomads, Pleasant Problem, Is It Safe? The Carnivorous Vegans! A Dying Embrace, The Trojan Warfront, Indofin, The Madd Agents, The Abortion Twins, Defy The Darkness, The Kix, Send Out Scuds, Exodus 20:17, Carry Your Ghost, Voicing The Unseen, CIO, Broken Authority, Ann Bolynn, Arm The Poor, Degenerate Elite, Snook, For All The Unheard, TransFM, Duck for Cover, Forever More, 69 Fingers, The Gatorade Addicts, Can't Do It, As Blood Spills Red, Audio Assassins, Fat Chance, The Sellouts Of Ska, Sexually Transmitted Funk, Sweet Kings, Brave in the Attempt, Mourning Waits, Embers will Rise, And there was Scarlet, Malison, Really Tall Ladder, Domestic Beer Selections, The Haas, Broken Self, The 5 Man A-stevencousic- Solo Project, One and Done, Skylab Hoax, Artless Spills, Muted Revolution, Call For Fire, Hopesick, The Brentford Sound, Angry Banana, Mitchy B, Fang Shooey, Rude Squad, Variety Workshop, The AA Dropouts, The Ten 13 Concept, Until Eternity, And There Was You, Here For the Forfeit, The Hero The Villain, Robots and Butterflies, The Prospect, The Sterling, The Weather Girl, John Gold, Awake in Gear, Driftline, Johnny Cakes and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypso, The Duppies, Skif Dank, Magadog, Frantic Days, Springfield Cubs, One Way, Half-Mast.



We've Been Apart of Festivals Such as

Tampa Ska Explosion!, Ska vs Hardcore, Skatoberfest 2, Grayumfest 5, Woodystock 2, 3, and 4, Lack of Talent Show, Skafest 2 and a Half, Skafest 2007, The Summer Crush Tour [Tampa Tour date]



- We've had a recognition by Dan from CIO onstage as Woody played drums for them while they headlined for Dan Potthast

- We were also fortunate enough to be recognized on the 4:00 AM Sporadic Ska show on WMNF 88.5 several times



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