It's hard to say if the members of Bodisartha even care about "being successful" in the music industry anymore. They just float from one thing to the next, occasionally pulling themselves together for long enough to throw everything into a car and play a show.
The joke's on them. It's true. In a fast food culture that suggests anyone can be a rock star and everyone is special, Josh Thomas and Justin Piatt have woken up, six years and two bands deep, into a world where you can no longer sell music. Music is free now, haven't you heard?
One day, Josh, birthed in Memphis, raised in Germany, and shipped around to a handful of states of the American variety, ended up in the lovely, oceanside property of Springtown, Missouri. There he met a young man from Texas named Piatt and within a few hours, Josh was throwing up from over consumption. The meeting was a success.
A band called Grasscanon followed, with Josh on bass (but writing a majority of the guitar parts) and Piatt on drums. There were comparisons made to such bands as the Deftones and Radiohead, but I'm with you, I don't believe the hype.
Parties, broken things and arrests ensued (Piatt's still on probation). Some not-so-fun things happened as well. Then, almost two years invested, as Grasscanon was preparing to record its first full length album, the band fell apart on stage at the Burgundy Room in Springfield, Missouri. By the end of the evening, several guitars, a few glasses, and a band were irreparably broken.
Josh drove around the country for a few months attending hippie festivals and Indian pow wows, piatt hung out in springtown doing whatever it is he does. So what's next? Why not move to Kansas City?
Two years into its formal existence, Bodisartha has played over seventy-five shows and released an album, 'Find Yourself Getting Lost', recorded in equal parts at Chapman Recording in Kansas City and at the band's home studio. As far as I can tell, the band is most often compared to the Pixies, Nirvana, and Queens of the Stone Age.
Album number two is completely written and recorded. Bodisartha has traded in the power chords and screaming for weird jazz chords and moaning. A concept evolved around the songs. The album seems to be based around a revolutionary character that thinks it's possible for one person to change everything. The songs are equal parts philosophy and narrative: the philosophy of this character and the reaction he gets from the general public, more specifically, the authoritarian government of the United States. Reactions include: stalking, wiretapping, crucifixion, you know... the classics.
As of May 2007, Bodisartha has two new members. Ben Breathwaite (Notice Everything) started playing bass after Trevis had to quit. After Gavin had to leave the band for medical reasons, James Capps (The Girl Is A Ghost, Pixel Panda) stepped in on noise guitar.
The new album, tentatively titled
leave the poor people alone was recorded with this lineup in June 2007, it's almost done being mixed, there will be a small pressing in Sping 2008. James, Piatt, and Josh are in
Spidermums.
"Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves."
~Henry David Thoreau