Kody Ford, the Man About Town interviews A Good Fight tonight on Radiodentata.

about A GOOD FIGHT
The Band

A Good Fight
The Band

A Good Fight formed in 2003 when guitarist Rizz and bassist Jon decided to create a new kind of band. They wanted to form a band that incorporated everything they loved about music into a new sound. They wanted to make their mark, and they wanted to change people’s lives. The group soon began practicing as a trio with the addition of drummer Sean Merriott, but they knew they needed a singer. After three years of newspaper ads, flyers, and vocal auditions, lead singer Eddie Love completed the band in the fall of 2006.

EDDIE LOVE – Lead Vocals
Louis Edward Love V had his first major burst of creativity when he was eleven, after his family moved to Hot Springs, Arkansas, from Dallas. While adjusting to his new home, he found comfort in writing, drawing, and listening to music, especially Sublime’s Sublime, which he still credits as the album that taught him how music could be “different and fun and dangerous.” After three years, his family moved upstate to Fayetteville, and while Eddie kept an interest in writing and singing for fun, he never seriously considered singing in a rock band until he was eighteen, when he first heard The Strokes’ Is This It.

After two years of trying to start bands with friends an ad in a paper led to a first audition with the Woods brothers and Merriott, but the timing wasn’t right. A year passed, Eddie kept working and searching, and so did AGF. A chance encounter at a fundraiser gave Sean the opportunity to invite Eddie over again, and this time it was magic. “History” was the first song they finished, taking just two weeks.

RIZZ – Guitar
Rizz has attached himself to music since he was very young and very small. He was making films of himself playing air guitar at age ten, and even today there are tape recordings of psycho-babble lyrics and noises he made when he was five. As he got older, Rizz would sneak into his big brother’s room at night to watch David Letterman, Night Tracks, and Blockbuster just to hear the new music coming out. He was 15 years old when he finally took his first guitar lessons; his main influences were AC/DC and Guns N’ Roses. Rizz quickly formed his first band The Scarlett Pimps and traveled through the Arkansas music circuit. The successes and learning experiences of that band and others primed him to form A Good Fight, and he’s excited that the hard work he and the band have put in is earning them new fans.

JON – Bass
Born Charlotte, NC, and relocated to northwest Arkansas as a kid, Jon chose to learn the bass guitar because of the song “Longview” by Green Day. “It was the first song in my generation that was completely built around a bass line—I thought, Wow, this is great.”

Jon’s favorite parts of being in A Good Fight are the feeling of playing live and the creative process in the studio. “Putting on a great live show and having the fans leave knowing the guys put everything we had into it is my goal for every gig.”

SEAN – Drums
Born in Hot Springs, Arkansas, Sean first found his love for music playing as a child with his older brother Todd. Sean’s first instrument was a guitar, but it didn’t take long before his parents noticed he was beating on everything in sight. By the time he was twelve, he had his first kit and was memorizing Van Halen tracks. Playing in high school garage bands and later groups with friends gave him a chance to develop his hard-hitting, distinctive style. This drummer is not afraid of the back beat, and his power behind the kit is unmatched. And with the musical chemistry he’s found in A Good Fight, he’s taking it to a new level.

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