in case you didn't know, sentai has had lots of bassist over the past 2-3 years we've been around. why we have gone through so many is something i cannot explain.
for those who are curious i thought i'd just take time to list everyone who's played bass for us and give the credit they deserve in chronological order:

1. Michael Butts
(we started sentai with him, and wrote/played/recorded I Am The Never Ending Siren with us. if you have that he's the other guy singing. i'm pretty sure he's starting a new band, i'll update this blog to any that are interested)

2. Andrew Meneghello
(only played two shows with us but yeah he's awesome.)

3. Nick Barkley
(wrote some/ played & recorded our split with La Mi Vida Violenta. right now lives in dc and is playing in a couple bands)

4. Joseph Maniwang
(he played a lot of shows with him and helped write some stuff that's not out yet)

5. Hugh McElroy
(hugh has been a friend of ours for awhile. he recorded I Am The Never Ending Siren & the La Mi Vida Violenta/Sentai split. when joseph informed us he couldn't do the ruffian bff tour hugh agreed to temporarilly fill in. joseph later quit and since hugh already knew the songs he sortof just ended up being our bassist. he is still playing/writing with us. the Studio 13 cdr was recorded during the ruffian bff tour so that's him playing bass & other things. Hugh runs ruffian records and also plays in Hand Fed Babies/Equinox/countless other bands too. you can read all about him on wikipedia.org)

i hope this explains things, this is something people ask me about all the time.

some thanks:
everyone @ flywheel/dude who wrote cannibalistic humanoid underground dwellers and runs gloucester artspace and who was a totally awesome dude to talk to (hopefully we'll be back soon!!!), Marty Cantalini's granma Edie for letting us stay in the best house ever, tim (your studio and practice place is so awesome and we were so stoked to play there and get it recorded you are awesome!!!)
/nick/ian/petepythagoras/dewidecimal/albertgorhythm/attractiveandpopular/those wild dookers who made everyone play twister/
micah in NJ/"CLOSER BY NIN"/eli @ pittsburg/ lisa warwick and her friend katie/ whoever silkscreened that totally SWEET poster for pittsburg/ryan @ philly/justin myer who let some of us crash/marty with the sweet guns who let us crash at his place in bloomington and who is also in the awesome band TURN PALE/ also michael/bob and i'm sure what the other dude in turn pale's name is but to make a long story short we totally think turn pale is wicked awesome and we're so glad to be fellow labelmates/everyone who danced with us after the show in bloomington (we really think bloomington is a beautiful town and hopefully we'll be back again!!!!)/Evan who helped us get a show at the Needle House and also let us crash at his apartment for a couple days/Steve and Ben for hanging out with us and showing us what Chicago/being Crunk was all about/the people at the Bowling Alley nearby Soul Veg in Chicago who were totally the nicest most awesome people in the world/all the kids at the Slaughterhouse (i had always wanted to play at a place where they used to kill tons of animals!!!!!!!!!! so fucking sweet!!) Tony who runs Collective Records and put us on at the slaughterhouse, and evenlet us stay at his apartment!!!Nisa (? i may have spelled this wrong and i apologize this but you made us awesome cake and you came to the slaughterhouse), every single kids in louisville kentucky was awesome, especially Corey for putting us on and the Get C-R-U-N-K Crew, and mischa for buying me some pizza and hanging out.. Mama and Papa Juice for taking us under their wing for a day or two and feeding us awesome food and redefining great hospitality, Ryan/Lauren @ Night Light for letting us play in 2 days notice and letting us crash at their places/Ian for helping us out at getting a show at 315 House, everyone at 315 House who had no idea that bands were even playing that night but were still totally totally willing/friendly about everything, cataract camp is awesome, everyone at charlottesville is awesome and had one of the best times there. Carni/Christina for booking our show there at somewhat last minute and everyone @ DC for showing us why it's still okay to live near there.
very important thanks:
hugh mcelroy for playing bass for us for the tour and making a wonderful tour dad, sean peoples for his moral support/sick jams/and for being an awesome tour mom, ding for helping me out with things/ali for helping us out financially.... if it werent for them we couldnt have done this!!!
also i should note that it was great to see/hang out with our favorite band ever La Mi Vida Violenta so many times in a row....
much love goes to:
Josie Swift/Etienne Duguay/Renee Hadad/Marty Cantalini/Leslie Adams/Leon Pierce IV/D. Alex
Hand Fed Babies are so dope and it was very exciting watching them grow musically as well as watching them grow facial hair.

i am a very greatful person to be in the prescence of all the above people and i'm sure we'll go on tour again and i get to see awesome people again/meet newer awesome people. i may have forgotten to put some people (THIS LIST IS LONG!!!) so if you deserve thanks but arent on there it's probably my mistake and really nothing personal.
i finally get to sleep on a bed.
goodnight!!!
=Collin