RYAN MENDEZ – Guitar, Vocals
NICK LONG – Guitar
MATT EVANS – Vocals
VIC BREEN – Bass
GAVIN MILLER – Drums

STARING BACK comes from Goleta, a place local civic boosters call The Good Land. They went to high school together before they were a band and played in many other bands along the way here. STARING BACK always has music on their minds.

STARING BACK are about 21 years old. For the players, STARING BACK is a necessity, their need to express burns bright. In concert their power and accuracy rule. STARING BACK songs reflect the way people look at and look back in the modern world.

In the Fall of 1999 STARING BACK had Lobster Records distribute their self recorded and produced EP, “The Mean Streets of Goleta”. By the start of 2000, the band released their first full-length CD, “Many Will Play”, engineered and produced by Patrick McDonald (X, Spinal Tap, No Motiv).

STARING BACK has a new release, “ON”, produced by Cameron Webb (Lit, Tenacious D, Park, Dynamite Boy) available in Fall 2002. Between this album and the one before it, a new facet of the band is revealed. The songs for “ON” are works of a higher outlook – powerful, complex, transporting.

This excerpt was taken from the Lobster Records website in 2002.