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Sproose Goose

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Years active
  
2008–present

Website
  
www.sproosegoose.com

Labels
  
Sproose Goose Music

Sproose Goose

Origin
  
Bell Gardens, California

Genres
  
Alternative rock, Hard rock, Experimental Rock, post-punk

Members
  
Jose Velasquez Carlos Lopez Alex Sandoval Carlos Garcia

Sproose Goose is a rock group from South Los Angeles, notable for its Dollar Revolution to donate one dollar from every ticket or piece of merchandise sold. The groups efforts have been featured on NBC's digital and Internet programing. Based in the Los Angeles County city of Bell Gardens, Sproose Goose has also been featured in several local LA community newspapers due to the band members' Latino heritage and their efforts in the Dollar Revolution.

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History

All four members of the band went to Bell Gardens High, where they met. Jose Velasquez, guitar and vocals, and Carlos Garcia, drums met in band and have been together in five different bands.

After eight years of trying to come up with the right formula, Jose and Carlos finally took matters into their own hands and got lift off.

Alex Sandoval on bass and Carlos Lopez on guitar were added into the equation in late 2008. They had both been in their own bands before.

Career

In early 2009 the band decided to produce and sell its own independent album recording the first full length LP, Immature. The album was recorded in Dream Lab Studios in Los Angeles under the label Sproose Goose Music. The album was sold via the band's website and at local South LA vendors in limited release. "Cellar Door" and "Get Rid of Him" were featured on Los Angeles radio stations KISS-FM and KYSR as local talent on the rise. Currently the band is working on a second album.

Dollar Revolution

In October 2008, EGP News Group ran a story entitled "Bell Gardens Band Aims to Make the World a Better Place," documenting the bands "Dollar Revolution" as it prepared to participate in the annual Los Angeles AIDS Walk The article quoted from the band's MySpace page:

There are people who say this generation is apathetic and self-absorbed. They call them “Generation Slacker.”

Proving the contrary, an alternative rock band from Bell Gardens fights for social justice issues, and they donate one dollar from every sale—from a shirt, ticket or CD—to research for HIV, breast cancer or global warming.

“We’re not wide-eyed idealists, though we sometimes wish we were,” writes the band on their MySpace.com social networking page.

In November 2009, on NBC's Music Raw program band front-man Jose Velasquez announced that Sproose Goose would go on a tour in spring of 2010, following the release of the new record, with a goal of raising thousands to fight breast cancer, HIV and global warming.

Musical style

Sproose Goose's music is influenced by artists such as Johnny Cash, The Beatles, Deftones, The Clash, Sublime, Lynyrd Skynyrd.

References

Sproose Goose Wikipedia