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About<\/h2>\n

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LEFT ON HIGH<\/h1>\n

@leftonhigh<\/p>\n

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Left On High’s current lineup includes:<\/span><\/p>\n

Tim Eiswirth<\/span>: guitar and vocals<\/span><\/p>\n

Matt Normal: guitar and vocals<\/span><\/p>\n

Matt Mannucy<\/span>: drums and vocals<\/span><\/p>\n

Uncle Jesse Edmonds<\/span>: bass and vocals<\/span><\/p>\n

Rob Society<\/span>: lead vocals<\/span><\/p>\n

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Bio<\/p>\n

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ROB SOCIETY\u00a0<\/h2>\n

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Old Times<\/b>:<\/span><\/p>\n

I started playing punk rock with some friends in the summer of 1988 here in Jacksonville, Florida.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

We had tried earlier that year to form a band featuring Phil Roberts, Tim Eiswirth, Jack Dunning, and Ty Anderson; but it was just a jam night. I was hanging around and couldn\u2019t stop screaming out lyrics. By the time summer rolled around, the guys decided that I should sing with them as one of two lead singers and we started playing almost every day. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The \u201888 summer lineup was: Tim Eiswirth on guitar; Ty Anderson vocals; Jerry Martini on bass; Jack Dunning on drums, and myself on vocals. Within about six months, Marcus Wood started playing lead guitar with us. When we first started we had no PA, so I would sit with a tape recorder in my lap: if I found the \u201csweet spot\u201d while singing into the cheap mic on the recorder, the vocals would come through and we could play it back to hear what we might actually sound like through a PA.<\/span><\/p>\n

We named the band Secret Society and Ty started calling me Rob Society.\u00a0<\/span>We played in a garage apartment and played our first show with the Creeps and some other bands at Phil\u2019s warehouse downtown.\u00a0<\/span>Our band\u2019s names and members changed often for the next 10 years or so.<\/span><\/p>\n

During that time, we played at Spike\u2019s Doghouse and were eventually allowed to play at the Milk Bar. It seems that I made a bad impression at a previous club that later became the Milk Bar, and was essentially banned from playing that downtown venue for roughly five years. We played a lot of halls before slamming punk bands had steady venues to play. Eventually, local clubs started catching up with the times and started letting hardcore punk bands play.<\/span><\/p>\n

We stopped playing one by one, as we started having kids. Around 2000, I thought my punk-singing days were long behind me.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Left On High Times<\/b>:<\/span><\/p>\n

After helping to raise two amazing daughters who grew into fabulous, strong women, and after a hard fight to eventually overcome a serious drug addiction, I began living on a spiritual path.<\/span><\/p>\n

During this time, Tim consistently called me to start playing again. It took a couple of years, but I decided maybe he was right. So that\u2019s when I made the decision to return to the thing that gave me one of the best feelings I\u2019ve ever had.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I joined the band that Tim was in at the time\u2014but I was not willing to stay with the creative direction they were pursuing. I figured, \u201cOh, well I tried,\u201d and figured this short chapter in my life had closed.<\/span><\/p>\n

Then<\/i><\/span>\u00a0I was introduced to Mike T<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mike is from Baltimore and played in multiple touring bands. He plays drums, bass, guitar and can scream like a Viking\/bear-man. He is also a savvy audio engineer. Mike and I had one jam session with a pop-up, one-off group and I wrote a song the next morning based solely on a riff that he played at that loose session.<\/span><\/p>\n

Within two weeks we had a studio-quality recording of the song \u201cRight Now!\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

That was so fun we made another\u2026 and then another…<\/span><\/p>\n

We eventually decided that we would start auditioning new members.<\/span><\/p>\n

Chris \u201cChrismas\u201d Smith played bass and then JT Murphy joined on drums. The addition of Dustin Geisman on the second guitar fleshed out this lineup. Our first show was at Kona Skate Park.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s been about three years now since COVID-19 hit the pause button on the world. Also, some lineup changes have slowed our roll. But we just keep making music.<\/span><\/p>\n

Our first album ( the orange one) was released in 2020 and our second release is currently being mastered and gearing up for release.<\/span><\/p>\n

The second album will drop this spring.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Bio<\/p>\n

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Tim Eiswirth<\/span>\u00a0<\/h2>\n

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Old Times:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I 1<\/span>st<\/span> heard punk on a local college radio station in Minneapolis MN at the age of 12 in 1984. It was a song called \u201cI Like Food\u201d by the Descendents and then they played \u201c<\/span>Dolphin Field\u201d by the Meat Puppets and i liked them. I remember seeing flyers for punk bands playing at the time like Husker Du and The Replacements and wondering what it was about. The next time I went to the local record store in St. Paul called The Northern Lights I had to make a choice between buying the usual breakdance rap music I was listening to at the time like Run D.M.C. or buying 7Seconds and D.R.I. records which I did buy and never turned back. Rap music changed around then anyway losing the intensity of the breakdance style and dropping most of the keyboards they used back then for bass and slower beats. I started going to the local punks show shortly after seeing some great bands like Toxic Reasons, Raw Power and Dayglo Abortions at 1<\/span>st<\/span> Avenue where they made part of Prince\u2019s Purple Rain Movie. While at the record store it was hard to choose to go on the Metal Side of the Store or the Punk because around this same time Slayer, Metallica and Destruction were also putting out amazing early records.<\/span><\/p>\n

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My parents divorced and I moved with my mom down to Jacksonville, FL around 1987. This was just after they closed the 730 Club and stopped doing punk shows at Post + King so I was very depressed that there was no regular club to see punk shows at until Spike\u2019s Dog House opened many years later. I was pretty miserable in JAX. until I met Rob Society and Jack Dunning at High School and got into a band with them called Secret Society whose name changed to Pit Stop. Rob could write and sing songs just as good if not better than other Great 80\u2019s bands and Jack could do everything else besides sing. For many of our early songs, Jack D. wrote the guitar, bass, and drums. Then one day I brought him to my house to watch my mom play piano and he started playing that too! We were the 3 main dedicated members of Pitstop for at least 12 years up to the 2000s. We had enough songs to release 3 or 4 full-length albums but couldn\u2019t find a dedicated bass player to keep up with us so broke up. We wrote some of our best songs in these years but have very little to show for it but memories and some good shows.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Jason Larsen, David Lynn from Powerball, and Walt S. from 9\/10\u2019s helped Rob and me form Mysterious Briefcase. With a committed bass player in the lineup, we put out a 7\u201d e.p. called \u201cday by day\u201d and played on the big stage at the Milk Bar with 7Seconds. We were about to put out a full-length C.D. or L.P. when Alcohol, Drugs, or some of us just having Kids or a career to upkeep broke us apart which is sad as we were a solid full-member band for around 10 years bringing us into the early 2000s.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Left on High times:<\/span><\/p>\n

I was about to give up the idea of playing in a band and see if I could get my mom to play piano for me to play guitar when Marc B. from Powerball got Rob and I involved in a band called Asphalt Kiss with Allison M. (F.F.N., Grub) and Wayne W. (Gross Evolution). We only got to play a few shows until Wayne moved out of state. Rob and I both wanted to continue playing so I was stoked when he asked me to start playing bass in Left on High. I switched back to guitar shortly after which gets us up to date here in Jacksonville FL which has a much better punk scene now than when I 1<\/span>st<\/span> moved here!! I will continue to play as long as I\u2019m healthy and the punk scene is positive like it is now and always should be.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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uncle jessy<\/h2>\n

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I got a bass for Christmas in 1992 and I didn’t take much interest in it. My dad was a bassist\u2026ha ha!<\/span><\/p>\n

I started playing drums at 15 and guitar shortly after. Started the band Apparition, in 1996\u2014sharing guitar and vocal duties with our current Left On High drummer Matt Manucy, our boy Jimmy Fretwell (Poor Richards) on drums, and high school buddy Dell Hand on bass.<\/span><\/p>\n

We played the Milk Bar a lot along with Spike\u2019s Doghouse, 618, The Moto Lounge, Dante’s Purgatory, and more venues and house parties than I can remember. That went well until about 1999.<\/span><\/p>\n

I tried to put a few projects together over the next few years with no real traction. Then everything changed when I knocked some chick up in 2002. Then I threw in the towel.<\/span><\/p>\n

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My two sons Isaac and Eli both inherited the \u201cjam bug\u201d (sorry, boys! Ha!) and now they’re kicking ass in a new generation! I love you, my guys!<\/span><\/p>\n

My man, Matt, pulled me back in around 2010 with our boys Jonny D and Dell (Last Ditch Effort), and we made a good run at it but only got a year or two in spite of our efforts. I co-hosted open mics at three different bars from 2018-19: much love to Adam Pritchett, Toeknee 6Fingers, Puck, Harry, and Animal McMurray! My Kings of the Hill and BullFish bros.<\/span><\/p>\n

So, in April of 2021, my boy Matt came through again and asked if I might wanna play some bass: so I picked up the instrument I shunned nearly 30 years earlier, and I’m having a blast with it!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Biggest Punk Rock influence……….<\/span><\/p>\n

Jon Horten.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rest in Peace, my brother Horten.<\/span><\/p>\n

I’m Uncle Jesse…..\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I PLAY BASS IN LEFT ON HIGH!<\/span><\/p>\n

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