Music
Story formed the group Sylvia with Taylor Hawkins (later of Foo Fighters) and Jon (Juano) Davidson (of YES, and Sky Cries Mary). Sylvia changed its name to Anyone and continued on with various members. Anyone are given credit for developing the sound known as "maximum acid," a blend of heavy, psychedelic, and alternative influences. In 1999 Anyone released Live Acid, a live full length album. The album was a companion piece to the film Togetherment which story was making during that year. The album was well received and led to several labels offering the band recording contracts, one of which was Korn's Elementary label.
Anyone signed to Roadrunner Records in 2000 and recorded their eponymous major label debut, which was co-produced by Story and Rick Parashar. The album received unanimously favorable reviews, and the album Anyone earned the #9 spot on Metal Hammer magazine's Metal Hammer Albums Of 2001 list. Other awards include "best band" Los Angeles Music Awards, 1999.
Several European tours followed including appearances at the Reading, Leeds, Pookelpop, and Lowlands festivals. Subsequent press coverage reflected the bands standout live show. Metal Hammer called the band's Reading performance "the highlight of the festival".. Anyone also toured the America's extensively starting in 2000 through 2004.
Story co-wrote, with Paula Abdul, the theme for Abdul's short-lived NBC show Live to Dance.
On January 30th, 2012 Story's new band, Infinika was launched via a viral promotional clip on YouTube. Infinika features Story, David Silveria (ex-Korn drummer), Rob Paterson (ex-Filter and Korn guitarist) and Miles Martin (ex-Anyone bassist). The promotional clip featured 6 tracks from an upcoming full length which was rumored to be titled Echoes and Traces. The partial songs included in the promotional clip were "Beautiful World", "Runaways", "Over Before it Begins", "Yesterdays Gone", "Crash" and "Traces".
Famous quotes containing the word music:
“The manner in which Americans “consume” music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it as wallpaper for their lifestyles, like the score of a movie—it’s consumed that way without any regard for how and why it’s made.”
—Frank Zappa (1940–1994)
“I’d rather you shot at tin cans in the back yard, but I know you’ll go after birds. Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.... Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”
—Harper Lee (b. 1926)
“Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.”
—Thomas Beecham (1879–1961)