Seven Mary Three: Whatever Happened To the Band Behind 'Cumbersome?'

Seven Mary Three (7M3): Whatever happened to the band behind the hit song 'Cumbersome'

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Seven Mary Three

The LA Times would write about the band Seven Mary Three “The members of rock band Seven Mary Three belong to a minority of young rockers: those willing to acknowledge that the road to commercial success is paved with compromise.” It’s not often that rock n roll bands embrace those kinds of labels.

I was listening to the bonfire on sirius xm. Those guys have been given me a lot of shoutouts over the past year and i’m so grateful for it. WHen you’re a youtuber it feels very insular and small so I honestly have a hard time coming to terms that people even watch my videos. One of the episodes of the bonfire i listened to had them discussing the 90’s era band seven mary three. And usually when I come across a band i had forgotten about, the first thing i usually do is go through my request form. There were several people who have already requested seven mary three. By the way guys if you want to submit ideas for me to do episodes on use the link in the description box below. I go through it every week and TSo let’s get to it today. Whatever happended to the band seven mary three who were best known for the mid 90’s hit song ‘Cumbersome’
Seven Mary Three formed in 1992 when two college students with the same first name Jason met midway through their junior year while attending College of William & Mary in Virginia. Vocalist and rhythm guitarist Jason Ross and lead guitarist Jason Pollack. Both men were born in Kansas with Pollack moving to Virginia later on and having a tv-less childhood telling deseret news I listened to all my parents' classic rock albums, the radio; really anything that sounded melodic and good. I also went to see a lot of local folkie mountain music. I learned to play at college and realized this is what I wanted to do. When I met Jason and heard him sing, I really fell into it.
Ross and Pollack would both pursue degrees in the arts. By this point in time both men hadn’t been playing guitar for very long with Ross telling earofnewt “Jason started playing when he was a sophomore in college,” “so I guess he’s into his fourth year playing now. I had a dusty old guitar sitting in the closet, and I pretty much learned everything from him, so neither one of us has been playing very long.” For his English degree Ross was able to get half of his college credit by writing short stories and poetry, which inspired a lot of the lyrical content on Seven Mary Three’s debut record according to earofnewt.
Both Jason’s woud bond over their love of the 80’s TV show Chips and Gabrielle Garcia Marquez Novels. The duo began writing songs, but Ross was nervous about getting on stage and performing in front of people telling Rolling Stone "I’d always kind of wanted to perform, but I was too much of a coward to get onstage," "Jason was able to push me into it." Within several months of writing their first song, the pair performed as an acoustic duo before adding Bassist Casey Daniel and drummer Giti Khalsa and began playing local coffee shops and clubs and doing their best to avoid the highly lucrat
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