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The Click Five is a power pop band from Boston, Massachusetts. Formed in 2003, the group consists of five members: Joe Guese, Ben Romans, Ethan Mentzer, Kyle Patrick, and Joey Zehr. Joe, Ben, Ethan, and Joey formed their band while attending Berklee College of Music in Boston (though the band is out of Boston, the men are really from different areas of the U.S.) Then, they enlisted Eric Dill as the band's lead singer. They enjoyed success on the U.S.
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Click Five lead guitarist Joe Guese is from Denver. In the band's press kit, he cites the Byrds and cosmic cowboy Gram Parsons as influences. However, there's not a trace of country rock heard on the record. Guese ... favors the Beatles "because they are the greatest band ever and they had the coolest haircuts." The Click Five's look and sound clearly owes a debt to the Fab Four's early days.
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A week later the Click Five had a bassist and a lead guitarist. They persuaded their keyboardist to come back to Boston. That summer Joey, who was in another student band at the time, was recruited for drum duties, and shortly after that Eric, a childhood friend of Joey's from Indianapolis, was brought in as lead singer and rhythm guitarist.
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Power pop quintet the Click Five formed in Boston in mid-2003. Lead guitarist Joe Guese, bassist Ethan Mentzer, and keyboardist Ben Romans were students at the Berklee School of Music when they captured the attention of svengali manager Wayne Sharp, a longtime jazz promoter whose first attempt at creating a pinup-ready pop combo, Candy (featuring future Guns N' Roses guitarist Gilby Clarke), ended in commercial disaster when the group's hotly tipped 1985 debut, Whatever Happened to Fun, flopped at retail. After signing Guese, Mentzer, and Romans, Sharp added another Berklee student, drummer Joey Zehr, who recommended childhood friend Eric Dill to fill the band's frontman slot. Upon receiving their Sharp-issued matching mod-influenced suits and salon-styled haircuts, the Click Five began honing their chops on the Boston nightclub circuit, and in the spring of 2004 cut their first two-song demo session.
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The Click Five started in Boston, Massachusetts in 2004. Joe Guese, Ben Romans, and Ethan Mentzer were in a band called "Oscar Bravo'" and Joel Zehr was a drummer for a another band called "For reasons Unseen". These two bands eventually broke up and that is when the group joined and formed The Click. They played their first venue at the Kiss 108 FM Hatshell Concert on Charles River in July 2004. They eventually changed their name to The Click Five.
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The Click Five’s power pop is quite different from the hip-popped soul stylings of the superannuated Boys or any of the former Mouseketeers who dominated Top 40 radio at the turn of the new century. Most contemporary pop is a formless extrusion of modern "hit" sounds; the Click Five’s sound, though well scrubbed, has audible links to the Beatles, the Beach Boys, and the Cars. They know how to play their instruments, and the results recall a time when groups with names like the Raspberries and the Sweet poured from transistor radios. The Click Five could even pass for a Posies knockoff carved out of Ivory soap. For people of a certain age, this is welcome — imagine a modern-day Monkees leading a power-pop restoration. But anyone old enough to remember the Sweet or even the Posies does not belong to the demo the Click Five are working to reach.
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