1996: (summer: 41 days to be exact) Deryck and Steve steer away from their weezer-like ways and form sum41…
1996(fall)-1997(summer): many substantial things happened, but too many to mention…
*Deryck met up with Greig Nori after a treble charger show… and told him about the band Greig went to a show… was so impressed that he fell on his ass and decided to take the role as fearless leader/manager of the band…
*Greig introduced the boys to his friend Marc from len… they chilled… Marc played in the band for a few months… and also recorded a few demos with the band: “then Marc’s band sort of blew up and then we went our separate ways”- Steve
*played on the oh-so-famous Jono-vision
*appeared on ytv’s “the zone”
*played at the Halifax On Music Festival: Appeared on Much East
*Twitch gets into a car accident: Twitched died when the car fell on his hand… bleed to death on the way to the hospital
*the formation of the ass army now more appropriately called the goon platoon
*October 1997: twitch leaves the band
*November 1997: Cone replaces twitch while the band looks for new bass player
*(note) early 1998: Cone joins the band as the permanent bass player… “Then we got Cone who is a diamond in the rough, I tell you that. Man can he play that bass.” -Steve
March ’98: played at Canadian Music Week
June ’98: played at NXNE signed with EMI publishing…
July ’98: played two dates of Vans warped tour
(Montreal and Toronto)
November ’98: let the bidding war begin… played
many…many show case shows
December 10: signed with Island/ Def Jam:
Aquarius/DKD
December 18: played with Gob at the elmo
December 31: played free show with treble charger
January 25: played with fenix t.x. at the opera house
February - April: recorded album
June 13: Half Hour of Power is released in Canada
June 19: the infamous Zanzibar striptease/ record release party
June 27: the album is released stateside…
Week of July 11: MAKES NO DIFFERENCE was the
most added song to rock radio stations in North America
July 15: joined warped tour @ NYC Randalls Island
July 22: warped tour in Barrie
Week of July 31: filmed new video for ‘Makes no
difference’ with a guest appearance by DMX
August 4: started Summersault tour in Vancouver
August 11: Summersault in Barrie
August 13: last Summersault date Ottawa, CAN
August 13 - the end of the world: world domination and
universal take over
if you want to use it please place a credit note with it... it took me forever to put this all together***