Groove Stain

Groove Stain

Groove Stain was established in 1997, originating from the suburbs of Coweta County, Georgia. Founding members Eric Patterson, Chris Pope and Jon Etheridge met while performing together in the East Coweta High School marching band. From this experience they branched out to form an original rock ensemble that would deliver a brass punch bedded in the music of a hard rock band. Mike Hatton caught wind of the group of forming musicians and assumed the role of the bass player. Groove Stain began writing their first album "Open Up a Can". After playing hundreds of shows around the metro Atlanta, it became evident that some of the performing members were more serious about pursuing the band as a career than others. Patterson and Hatton went to sharpen their music education at the Atlanta Institute of Music, while Pope and Etheridge attended the University of West Georgia. It was at the Atlanta Institute of Music where Patterson and Hatton met present drummer Brian Daggett. Daggett brought a new diversity to the band adding an influence of reggae and punk that is the backbone of the music today. The band began working on their next release "The Other 9 to 5" and recorded the album in 2003 while Hatton was attending Full Sail in Orlando for Recording Arts. During this period, Groove Stain began performing shows in Florida while in the area recording. The band then began swapping shows with bands in Texas, Louisiana, Florida, Tennessee, Maryland, DC, the Carolinas and Alabama. In 2007, Groove Stain released the self titled album. With over a decade of live performance and three albums under the bands belt, Groove Stain hit the road hard as nails with Soja, Ballyhoo and Jimmie's Chicken Shack this past fall with determination to establish themselves as a nationally touring act. Currently the band is putting the finishing touches on their new album with Grammy Award winning engineer and producer Juan Covas,to be released in 2010.
Groove Stain has shared the stage with such National acts as:
*Reel Big Fish
*Jimmie's Chicken Shack
*S.O.J.A.
*Ballyhoo!
*Ludacris
*The Supervillains
*The Toasters
*The Kottonmouth Kings
*Phunk Junkies
*Authority Zero
*Passafire
*The Movement
*The Expendables
*Less Than Jake
*Long Beach Short Bus
*Eek-A-Mouse
*Rehab
*Crazy Anglos
*The Grease Factor
*Family Force 5
*Heavy Mojo
*Stuck Mojo
*4-IZE
DISCOGRAPHY:
Open Up A Can (1997)
Over The Moon In Extacy (2000)
Other 9 to 5 (2004)
Groove Stain - self titled (2007)

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