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The 900 Pound Gorilla story is one of 3 longtime friends having fun and making music. Along the way, 900 Pound Gorilla recently received the award for Punk Rock Group of the Year at the 17th Annual Los Angeles Music Awards. In addition to this, they recently garnered 2 nominations for the All Access Magazine Awards-Best New Group and Best Hard Rock Group. The Band continues to expand their diverse fan base through touring and web presence through their own site, a myspace site, cd baby, itunes, tagworld, this month in music, earbuzz.com, sonicbids, Feature sounds, cafepress.com, and many, many other sites. They are also featured in February's No Cover magazine and on an accompanying cd. In June, they we’re featured on www.rockwired.com with an interview and show. They are also featured with a track on K.t. Recordz Guitars of Tomorrow and Indieguitarists.com. Their recording/rehearsal studio is now complete, with the addition of an analog 24 track machine, a 48 channel mixing board, extensive outboard equipment, and of course pro tools. The idea is to be able to record anytime and still get that fat, analog sound along with the editing of digital technology. The band has music on network and cable tv, published through ASCAP. John is also an audio mixer for a major post production company and Donat has recorded major artists such as Incubus, and Alien Ant Farm. Jeff was the operations manager/lifeblood of Schecter Guitars for 6 plus years and a touring musician. The members of 900 Pound Gorilla have known each other for basically well, forever. John and Donat went to high school together in Fremont , California playing in various bands playing talent contests and all sorts of high school shows. They played together in bands through college and around California and eventually started playing shows with Jeff's band at the time, Dead Lazlos Place (New Red Archives). John later joined Dead Lazlos Place for a year and a half before branching out. Alas things come full circle--jeff , john , and donat come together to form 900 Pound Gorilla. http://www.900poundgorilla.com www.myspace.com/900poundgorilla Discography 900 Pound Gorilla--Midnight in Suburbia, released independently