Greentree - Music

The Son Of Filipino Immigrants Francis Garcia Was Born In Chicago On June 1 1971. He Made His Musical Debut In 1977 Performing In The Geneva Piano Competitions Where He Earned An Outstanding Award For His Rendition Of A Song Entitled 'The Indian Medicine Man'. The Judges Described The Performance As "powerful And Emotive." As The Snow Was Melting From The Treacherous Blizzard Of '79 The Garcia Family Relocated To Houston. The Pivotal Point In His Musical Career Came Just A Few Years Later While Grocery Shopping With His Father. Torn Between Hopeless Devotion To The Losing Chicago Bears And A Fast-Rising Affinity For Rock N' Roll Francis Chose To Purchase The March 1984 Issue Of Guitar World Graced With A Cover Story On Angus Young Over An Issue Of Inside Sports Featuring His Boyhood Hero Walter Payton. Within Months Francis Convinced His Father To Buy Him An Ibanez Destroyer - The Black Phil Collen Model With The Triple Humbuckers. It Was Quite Kick-Ass. Shortly Thereafter Francis Formed His First Band. Comprised Of His Older Brother On Guitar And A Classmate On Drums The Band Adopted The Moniker Stonehenge - A Nod To Their Fascination With Dungeons And Dragons. They Were Off To A Rocky Start. After Performing The Weekly Teen Swim At The Neighborhood Pool They Suffered A Major Setback When The Community Newspaper Referred To The Band As "The Stoneheads." Infuriated And Feeling As If Their Intellect Was In Question They Managed To Put It Behind Them And Move On Until Breaking Up After Francis' 9th Grade Talent Show. Francis Graduated From 'Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me' To 'Can I Say' In The Late 80s. Not Unlike The "powerful And Emotive" Premise Of The Indian Medicine Man Sans Ethnic Stereotype He Wrote Performed And Recorded 5 Lovesick Noisy Pop Punk Songs Under The Name Yuck As Part Of An Audio Production Class Project In 1991. While It Was A One Man-Shuffle At The Time The Songs Soon Became The Groundwork For An Actual Band Who Became The Surrogate Parents Of The Name. Before Too Long Yuck Went In On A Rehearsal Space With Their Friends From Equal Vision Records Refuse To Fall. After A Subsequent Move To Austin Shows With Fugazi Down By Law Seaweed And A Pre-Warner Brothers Green Day Materialized. The Members Of Yuck Eventually Went On To Other Significant Austin Punk/indie Rock Bands Such As Paul Newman And Gomez. Francis Went On To Join Fourth Grade Nothing. 4GN Shared The Stage With Jimmy Eat World Christie Front Drive Propagandhi Avail And Longtime Friends Gameface Before Disbanding During The Fallout Of A Flawed Major-Label Courtship In 1997. While Beginning To Moonlight As A Music Composer For Independent Film Francis Joined Ex-Members Of Mineral And Sincola In The Newly Formed Pop Unknown. He Began To Divide His Time Between Scoring The Feature Film 'Plastic Utopia' Playing Guitar/keyboards In Pop Unknown Singing/playing Guitar In The Angular Post-Hardcore Band Bicycle Pilot And Directing The Short Film 'Rice With Ketchup' A Documentary/comedy Concerning Filipino-American Ethnicity And Generational Conflict . But After Graduating From The University Of Texas And Experiencing A Geographic Change Of Heart He Bid Farewell To Austin And Moved To New York City. Artistic Distractions And Snowstorms Aside Blizzard Of 2000 Included Francis Continues To Forge Onward In Brooklyn New York Under The Name Drive Til Morning - A Reference To A Journal Entry Made On A Post-High School Graduation Road Trip. The Culmination Of More Than A Decade's Worth Of Musical Influences DTM Juxtaposes Twangy Americana Pop With Electronic And Orchestral Flourishes - All Informed By A Punk Rock Upbringing. And Although Francis' Songs Are Much Quieter These Days The Sentiment Remains The Same... read less