The Living Rockumentary

Welcome and How's About a Little Introduction

School for the Dead is a pop-rock band from Northampton, Massachusetts. This is our living rockumentary.

We are five guys who are doing our best to be heard by people who enjoy music. This is who we are:

1.Henning Ohlenbusch
The guy behind the stuff. Tall and lanky, prolific and goofy. Henning writes the songs and plays the acoustic guitar while attempting to sing.

2. Brian Marchese
Curly and cool, fond of fondue. Brian is the New England's premier drummer and a music lover for all seasons. A gifted songwriter in his own right, Brian has a knack for remembering his dreams - and then using them to his advantage.

3. Ken Maiuri
A french fry lover with eyes that gleam a color you have never seen before. Ken plays keyboards in this band but could easily play any of the other instruments. A musical miracle he knows how to play and improve songs he hasn't even heard yet. Ken is a talented writer of both the written and sung word, and an encyclopedia of music related knowledge.

4. Max Germer
Hip and cute, quiet and admired. Max plays the bass with a delicate musical expression that's rare. He is all things pop and has an eye for spacial equations that makes you want to sit down and flip through art-design books.

5. Tony Westcott
Bespectacled and respectable. The young father in the group, Tony plays the electric guitar smirkingly as though each musical phrase is a private joke. Another amazing songwriter and an inspiration in the practice space, Tony won't hold back what he's thinking.

So, What exactly is a LIVING ROCKUMENTARY?

Well, I'll tells ya. We figured since we are just starting out as a band really, we may as well keep a nice log of everything we do. It'll be nice for us for nostalgia reasons, it'll be useful for us for tracking and management purposes, and maybe it might be a little entertaining for you. We are all quite seasoned in the world of indie-pop. We've all been in many bands, played tons of shows, and spent massive amounts of time working on promotion and recording and booking and all the other crazy stuff that musicians have to do. Maybe you also have experience in this, or maybe you have no idea what goes on before and after the concerts.

I wish I had started this living rockumentary from day one but I didn't think of it until the day before yesterday. Brian and I are already very accustomed to keeping online journals. Our GIG DIARY for our old band The Aloha Steamtrain was received very well by our fans. Some folks said it was their favorite thing about the band. You can check it out if you would like: The Aloha Steamtrain Gig Diary 2002. It's pretty good and comes with a whole mess of funny pictures.

Yeah, I wish I had started this right away but I guess in the mean time we'll have to provide a little summary of the goings on up to this point.