Rock/rap group Papa Roach will perform at Remington’s Hunt Club on Feb. 12 with Bad Charism opening for the group.
Coby Dick, Jerry Horton, Dave Buckner and Tobin Esperance make up the alt-hardcore group Papa Roach, which formed while the members were still in high school in Vacaville, Calif.
One change of a band member (roadie Tobin Esperance took Will James’ place after James left) and six years of hard work later, their dedication finally paid off. The band gained success in their hometown area and eventually landed a record deal with DreamWorks records and released their 2000 debut Infest.
Infest debued at No. 48 on Billboard’s chart and sold 29,500 albums the first week it hit stores. Papa Roach started performing small, like most bands, at bars and community centers before graduating to places like arenas and concert halls.
The band was named after Dick’s grandfather, and in a press release, Dick said the name has become symbolic through the years. He explained that a cockroach can live with its head cut off until it starves to death.
“A cockroach can survive anything: earthquake, nuclear holocaust. They come in small numbers, and then they infest. We want to
infest the world,” Dick said in a press release.
From their hit release “Last Resort,” a song about a friend of Dick’s who tried to commit suicide but survived, found God and became a Jehovah’s Witness, to the strong lyrics of “Binge,” Roach attempted to show the world their style of rock/rap music, heard in other groups like Saliva, Linkin Park and Limp Biskit.
On Lovehatetragedy, the band moves a bit away from the rock-rap hybrid of their first CD to a straighter hard rock sound. The CD has 13 tracks–a good mix of fast and slower songs—-all with heavy, grungy guitar, powerful drums and strong vocals.
The group kicked off their first headlining tour in January. For more information about the concert, call 323-