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15 Questions For The Band

1. First of all, who comprises the band and what instruements do each play?
Evan "spiderman" davis - Drums
Alex "short stack" rooney - Guitar
Zach "porkchop" Rohlwing - Bass

2. How did you guys first start playing together?
Z
. We were the only people who could get along in the other bands.
E. We played Blink 182 covers in my garage
A. We practiced for the 8th grade talent show and then just stuck together for the following years.


3. What everyone wants to know- What does ZPS stand for?
E. - (no comment)
A.- whatever you want it to mean baby
Z. - zesty penis sauce....NOT!

4. What are your musical influences?
E. Rush of course, and well there are many to name. Neil Peart, John Bonham, Pete Simonsen (My drum teacher, Zachs Uncle), and any drummers that i forgot and love.
A.- Lots of classic Rock(rush)+ Newer Alternative Rock+ A Bit O metal
Z.-any type of rock and roll-classic to metal to alternative, jazz and yes, even classical

5. How has your music evolved from when you first started?
E. - I can now also play right handed.
A.- when we first started we were a Blink 182 cover band but now we have evolved into a rush cover band.
Z.-We started as a real poppy Blink 182 cover band, but now we're a little more alternative and conceptual.

6. What's been your favorite part of being in the band?
E. - the babes! and i guess, the music
A. -The Babes! Not! I'm taken by a wonderful lady
Z.-the babes!!! To hell with the music im all about the chicks.

7. Your least favorite?
A. -Recording is probably my least favorite thing but only the parts when we dn't have any will to play the songs and it takes forever.
Z.-getting stuck in a writer's block
E. - Being with Zach that long

8. Who's "the Boss" of the band?
E
. - No one, but "Who's the boss" was a great show starring Tony Danza
A.- Me bitch your Fired!
Z.- Bruce Springsteen of course

9. Who's the gayest member of ZPS?
E. - I really dont know, i think it wil end up with our "manager" ivy being gay
A. - ZACH
Z.- Zach, wait, shit thats me

10. What makes a good ZPS fan?
E. - Anyone who attends the show
A. -anyone that comes to the show and doesn't rain on our parade
Z.- a hot chick thats willing to sleep with the band and anyone who comes to our shows

11. Do you have any sort of ritual or anything to prepare you before shows?
E
. - I pray to the rock gods for a awesome show.
A. - Drink a lot of water and pray to my god Alex Lifeson
Z.- I sacrifice one hundred lambs to the gods of rock while wearing traditional barbarian headdresses

12. How do you guys finance yourselves?
E
. What ever we make, we keeps
A. - With the income from the shows and our own pocket money.
Z.- We sell our bodies for cash

13. What's in your cd player right now?
E. - Rush - Fly By Night
A. - Jimmy Eat World-Static Prevails
Z.-Coheed and Cambria - In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3

14. What's your favorite ZPS song?
E
. I hate them all! But prolly any new song that we write
A. - El Volume song
Z.- "Battlestar" or any fairly new songs

15. What are your hopes for the future of the band?
E. to get lots of women and booze, and be successful!
A.- Just to play more shows and get a healthy steaming mass of fans.
Z.-to have a loyal fan base in Des Moines and possibly more elsewhere


The Band

Zach

Zach Rohlwing was born on October 20, 1987 somewhere in the Canadian Rockies. His family was a group of Canadian carnies who traveled throughout Canada entertaining small crowds of people with old jokes and pathetic animal tricks involving a dog and a spoon? Anyway when Zach was approaching the age of one he was invovled in a freak accident that changed this life forever. During one of the circus shows, Zach wandered inadvertedly into the circus cannon just as it went off. It has always been one of Zach's most troubling experiences, not knowing who or why the cannon was ignited. Zach hopes to one day solve this mystery. Anywhoo Zach was shot one hundred feet into the air, out of the circus tent, and into a bush next to a pack of vicious wolves. We dont know why the wolves took him in as their own or why the carnies never searched for him, but what we do know is that Zach spent the next twelve years living with wolves. This may explain why Zach has a significant odor problem and an insatiable appettite for forest rodents. This may also explain why Zach uses his nose to determine cleanliness and why he knows jack shit about computers. So twelve years went by and one day something remarkable happened. Zach was feeding on a rabbit when he was suddenly approached by some guy with a penis for a head wearing kakis shorts. This guy of course was Evan Davis. Zach later learned that Evan had been looking for a bass player to play in his rock and/or roll band. Evan had searched everywhere and eventually ended up in the Canadian Rockies. When asked "Why did you pick wolf boy" Evan replied "Well...anyone was better than Brent" So back to the story, Zach was approached by Evan and asked "Would you like to play bass guitar in my band?" Zach replied, with blood running down his chin and bare ass naked "Bah, bass bah!!" This could only mean one thing and Evan knew it...yes. And so it came to be that the next day Zach learned the entire english language, recieved a family, and developed all the social skills needed to function in the seventh grade. Looking back Zach sometimes wishes he could visit his true parents who he has deemed Fluffy and Spot. Though he truly ponders over his real origins, the Canadian circus. He wonders what his life would have been like if he hadnt been blown away by that fateful cannon. But he has come to accept his life and lives today, playing bass and howling at the moon.

EVAN

Evan Davis was born May 10th, 1988 on "whacking day" for any fans of the simpsons, and 2 weeks after he was born, his parents realized that he hadn't shit sicne he was born. So it turns out that Evan couldn't shit and just threw up everything. Evan had an operation done and now he shits frequently. Evan grew up with an older brother that the parents loved and gave him everything, but Evan got a pair of drum sticks and started hitting some Kitchen stools. Ever since that moment Evan knew he was destined to play the drums and be famous, but how? He told his friends the dream and they got guitars and a bass. Now this band was Evan, Eric, Dan and Brent. Dan and Eric were good but Brent wasnt. So they made a group decision to kick him out. Once Brent was kicked out they needed another bass player, but never found one and the band died. In 7th grade Evan was kicked out of the industrial tech shop room for a week, but he wasn't alone. There was another kid that was kicked out and it happened to be a hobbit named Alex. Alex and Evan spent the week talking about music and realized they like the same thing and Alex picked up a guitar. With a new guitarist, Evan went searching for a bassist. Walking through the woods one day, he found this creature, but it just turned out to be a boy named Zach. Evan put a bass in his hands and they had a band.

ALEX

Alexander Colin Rooney was born on July 3 1988. Before this date he spent much of his time as a teeny tiny sperm yearning for that chance to slither into an egg. When this day finally came Alex then spent 9 months preparing to be born into his very rich and prosperous family. Little did he know Alex would soon be born and have to spend 7 years in a mobile home establishment in Ames, Iowa. Later Alex moved to a slightly better house in a broken down part of Des Moines. There he learned all the life skills he knows today, and hasn't learned anything new since 5th grade. But then it was time for middle school and in the 7th grade Alex was enrolled in a little class called industrial technology. There he and a penis with khakis pants got kicked out of class and started a friendship. Alex later regrets that he talked to this penis but at the time he thought that it was all right. Well soon after Alex learned that the big penis had found a creature and had taught that creature to play bass guitar. The three started a band and now the rest is history................

 

 

History of the Band in one run-on sentence

The band began with Dan, Eric, Evan and Brent, Brent was fired and replaced by Zach who quit with Dan and hired Alex who just started learning guitar and formed a band that rivaled Eric and Evans', only to fire Dan and hire Evan who was replaced by Dan in Eric's band, though ultimately both bands reunited for the eighth grade talent show and thereafter everyone returned to their respective bands which now included Dan and Eric and the modern day ZPS, Alex Evan and Zach, though I wont mention the brief side project Evan and Alex had with Eric or the one Zach had with Dan because ZPS still remained intact but I will mention that Alex Dan and Zach have agreed to hire Evan in a "jamband" that has yet to "takeoff" but of course this will not jeopardize the future of ZPS and the band plans to be around for as long as it is able.

Zach's Real Story

As you have probably figured out by now, the biography about me above is complete bullshit, but thats ok because now I can give you the facts in the shortest time possible...Its true I was born on October 20th 1987, but unfortunately it wasnt into a Canadian circus family...shucks. I was actually born right here in good ol' Des Moines, IA, woohoo! And to make it short, the next thirteen years werent very important to the understanding of how I came to be in ZPS. Lets just say I was just a regular kid who had no intention of becoming a rock star, and was content with playing piano and baseball for the rest of his days. The true moment came in seventh grade. I had become pretty good friends with sir Dan Braak and sir Evan "penishead" Davis not knowing what lie ahead. So one day Evan came up to me and asked me if I wanted to play bass in his band. I took the offer lightly but unfortunately Evan and Dan (who at the time was in the band) wouldnt go a day without telling me to "buy a bass". Finally around the end of the year I bought the cheapest, most shitty bass I could find and named it Yotoshi, staying true to its Japanese origins. But anyway I was in a band now, a band that had no songs, no name and no real direction. What followed was a whirlwind of member changes and band splits, but you can read about that in the run-on sentence above that explains the history of it all