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MP3 Two Word Name - Limited 3 Song EP
3 MP3 Songs in this album (9:55) !
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How is it that a US Navy Diver, a BMW technician, and a scientist, came together to form the charismatic quartet TWO WORD NAME? Here is the front man, Lance Mav, talking about the band.
Well when I first started “Two Word Name”, (formally “Three Word Name” lol), I had nothing. Minimal connections in the industry, NO friends in San Diego, no place to practice, and I was just starting a long nasty break up, filled with cheating, drugs, and plenty of fighting.
Now, this wasn’t my first rodeo. I grew up playing in punk bands all through my youth, but I was a cocky little shit and kept zero connections that could help with Two Word Name. I quit school at a very young age and decided music would pay my bills forever. Turns out that didn’t workout since I was just a PUNK. I had no direction, I was in rehab at 15 years old for a 6 months treatment (which I was kicked out of at 5 ½ months) and I attended 6 different high schools all in the same area (apparently no one appreciated my humor or energy). I was kicked out of my mother’s house and had no direction for my insane drive, but the one thing that has always kept me alive is passion and I had that by the truck load.
So I decided I needed some discipline, money for new equipment, and most of all I needed to learn how normal society functioned so I could manipulate it for my own success. I wanted enough money to support all of my closest friends, my entourage, and I also didn’t want to have to be worrying about money anymore. We would have it all, the women, the travels, the tales, and the fun. But building that kind of wealth takes discipline. The answers to all of my problems lied in the US NAVY. I honestly, accidentally, signed up for one of the most intensive courses of training the Navy offered and proceeded to get my ass kicked for the first year and a half I was in the Navy. Eight months of it I spent running through the snow everyday just to get a chance to play some shitty drums and guitar that they had at the Morale and Welfare Recreation Centers on base. I joined the US NAVY as a skinny little, cocky, big mouthed, chain smoker and came out a man with a mission. Even though it was the most miserable thing I’ve ever done, it gave me the strength to push through anything, and since the program was a volunteer program, in which I could have quit at anytime, it taught me that if I put my head down and just fought through things, that I could beat anything. I somehow graduated at the top of my class, and was one of 9 guys to graduate of the 35+ guys that started within the Navy Deep Sea Diving program.
Knowing that the whole point of all this was to reform my old band, I did everything within my power to get stationed near my hometown of LA. I got stationed in San Diego and spent the first seven months driving to LA EVERY FUCKING weekend trying to form another band. However, when I got there, one of my best friends, and one of the most talented singers I’ve ever played with was so messed up on drugs, drinking, and life in general, that nothing seemed to work. Discouraged, I realized I had to learn how to sing because no one I was trying out had what I wanted. So I enrolled in vocal lessons and started searching San Diego for musicians.
Again, let me reiterate that I had lived in San Diego for 7 months before I spent one weekend there so I had ZERO friends. I was “cool” (meaning I ditched school and thought I was a bad ass, which doesn’t really seem so cool anymore lol) in high school, I was in bands so I never really had to “make” friends, therefore I was lost. So I went out and bought books on networking, I had always had what some would call “charisma”, but had no idea how to control and focus it. Soon I had hooked up with a few guys at a local frat house at SDSU. They needed to increase their roster of guys, and the amount of girls that came to their parties. Now being the social guru I was, I offered to do just that, because after all I was sincerely excited about meeting and making new friends. I met some amazing people and had some AMAZING times there. It taught me a lot, mostly that staying in school and doing well in college is much more fun than the military.
The frat however, did nothing for my career in that Navy. I was constantly late, I was still the same stupid big mouth kid. I was popping pain pills like M&M’s, and was still going through a NASTY break up, that lasted about two years out of a four and a half year relationship. I went to 7 disciplinary review boards, 2 executive officer masts, and 1 captain’s mast. I was on the verge of getting kicked out of the Navy. I was doing so much blow, pills, and drinking that I was out of my mind!!! I had a different girl for everyday of the week and a pill for every illness. I still look back and can’t even understand how I made it out alive much less with my career in the Navy intact. But besides ALL of that BS, I was still putting this band together. I was growing as a singer and quickly put together an all-star cast of musicians.
One of those musicians was Chuck Holiday. He struck a chord with me that most musicians don’t. He came to me as a guitar player. He was wide eyed and it was his first real band, but he just didn’t work for me as a guitarist. But, day after day he kept calling me wanting to come to the practices. So one day, it just so happened I had a bass rig there at the studio and I asked him to pick it up and try it. Then and there it became the perfect fit for him and us. He quickly jumped into bass lessons, got his face in the promotion books, and soon became my strongest asset in the band. Since then, he’s been a driving force in the band and one of the few people I’ve ever met that actually pushes me to really be a better person, work harder, and never give up. Although, I don’t think he realized the storm he had jumped into at first.
There was a lot of fighting due to my violent mood swings, but we pressed on. No one could argue with my drive and hard work. I was meeting industry people left and right and I had huge crowds of friends at every show. I wrote all the music, and recorded almost an entire album including 90% of the instruments by myself as I was still looking for musicians, and Chuck had just started really perfecting the bass. I had my foot in every door I could find and “My Creation: Dry, Hard, and Angry” slowly became a small success on the west coast, due to our constant playing, touring, and shameless promotion. We sold all 1,000 copies of our album and handed out over 15,000 demo cd’s that we got companies to pay for. About the time it released, I got sober, moved from the frat house, the girl finally left me for good because of my partying (which forced me to finally move on), I got back in shape and did my best to save my Naval career.
I had attempted suicide, my own mother refused to speak to me; I went through 3 drummers, 1 bass player and a guitarist. I almost got kicked out of the Navy, did A LOT of partying, and somehow in the middle of this craziness I managed to keep the band together. I had investors asking me to do albums. I read every book I could find on networking and the business of music, I was working and learning with the legendary Dave Jerden (the offspring, the rolling stones, the red hot chili peppers, alice in chains, social d, MxPx, Jane’s Addiction….are just a few of his credits), and being offered tv shows, album deals and tours. We even placed sixth in Emergenza, the world’s largest battle of the bands, beating out almost a thousand other bands. However, we couldn’t take anything, we had to wait for me to get out of Navy and for my long time bass player Chuck to be done with his contract at BMW, to really begin our journey.
And now, here we are, free of our obligated terms, and its been, three years after starting the band. I feel like a new man. I don’t have the depression, negativity, and self doubt that held me back all those years. I realized not only how to make contacts but how to actually form lasting and loving relationships with people. I still party, I still have fun, but today I actually enjoy my life. I don’t have to work and I get paid to do what I love. We just finished a three song demo produced by Darian Rundall (pennywise, yellowcard, suicidal tendencies, kottonmouth kings, DIO…are among his credits) and Mixed by Dave Jerden’s amazing engineer and partner in crime, Bryan Carlstrom. It is a turn for a new style of music for us, with every lyric carefully planned and executed. We are set to start writing for the new album in August, and will be in the studio with Dave Jerden for 6 to 7 months.
How did all of this happen?!?!?!?! People just like you, ya YOU, the person reading this, supported me. I’ve never had any family close to me, just the friends and fans that have stuck with me. I owe you all my life and I can’t wait to see what lies ahead for Two Word Name in the future. So anyway, thats pretty much me. Take it, Leave it...Fuck it, I don''t care, as long as someone gets something out of my music, this letter, out of me being me, then it was all worth it. Thank you for taking the time to read this and I hope you enjoy all the music to come.
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