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29 Interesting Facts About Woodbine Hotline!
1. Their recording engineer's mom went on a date with Elvis Presley.
2. Each member of the band has been in at least one other band with at least one other member.
Paul + Benn (aisle-7)
John + Paul (Ever Since Now)
Mat + Benn (The Doozies!?)
3. Every song on the "Whitney In Space" EP gets gradually longer in length. This wasn't planned.
4. John's neighbor, Avior Zynda, came up with the band name "Woodbine Hotline." As a shout out to him, he is listed as the manger in the CD booklet for "The People That You Meet."
5. Paul is the oldest yet shortest member of the band.
6. John is the only member that actually lives in Woodbine.
7. Paul and Benn live in the same neighborhood. (not in Woodbine)
8. Benn was in a band called "The Last Goodbye" with Tom Ihle (one of the former members of All Time Low)
9. "Whitney In Space" is a reference to Paul's cousin Tim who has a dog named Whitney. Tim edited a picture to make it look like she was in a moonsuit floating around in space. He e-mailed the picture to paul under the name "whitney_in_space.gif"
10. Vince Giordano (Caught Falling, Damascus, Knuckles) provided guest screaming on "Like The World (Will Never Hear)."
11. In 2008, Woodbine Hotline won the Carroll County Battle of the Bands and the Century High School Battle of the Bands.
12. "For All Intents and Purposes" was recorded at Trevor Simpson's (Gatsby Gets The Green Light, Brighter Shades) house. He did guest percussion and Rhodes piano on the song.
13. Paul named the song "For All Intents and Purposes" because he was annoyed with people saying "For All Intensive Purposes" and wanted to set the record straight.
14. "The People That You Meet" was originally named "Stand Back! Stand Back! Stand Far, Far, Away" but the name changed after the band wanted different artwork on the cover.
15. The cover for "Whitney In Space EP" is a picture of the Lehigh cement plant in Union Bridge, Maryland.
16. Woodbine Hotline opened for Just Surrender.
17. The band practices at Benn's house.
18. During their live sets, the band plays all (but two) of their songs in different keys than on the actual recordings.
19. Paul's brother Adam designs the band's myspace layouts.
20. Paul and John are the only original members of the band. Initially, Tony Priola played bass and Joe K'Mon played drums.
21. Bob Mould stopped by the studio as they were recording "The People That You Meet." He was the singer and guitarist of Husker Du, Sugar, and wrote the theme song for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
22. One of the band's biggest fans, Jankarlo, lives in Kissimme, Florida. Paul finally met him in person in the summer of '08. He's in their top friends.
23. Ryan Burkett designed the CD booklet for the "Whitney In Space EP" in the Starbuck's Coffee located in Mount Airy.
24. Paul wrote "Detroit, Detroit" when he was only 14 years old. He has already begun writing a part II for the song.
25. Currently, no band in Carroll County has more myspace plays than woodbine hotline.
26. The band's first official practice took place on the night of a bad snow storm. Paul and Benn got in a mini car accident on the way to pick up John. That's when they started writing "Kissed In The Rain."
27. Paul has a fascination with designing Dr. Seuss themed fliers.
28. Benn Breeden is pretty good.
29. Paul wrote the lyrics for the new songs on "The People That You Meet"the week they were in the studio. This was possible because the first four days of recording were spent tracking drums, guitar, bass, and percussion while the fifth day was spent doing vocals.
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