Kris Roe, a man with a talent for song writing, playing guitar, and much much more. Kris Roe one day went to a Vandals concert with a demo tape he had made. He met Joe Escalante there, the founder of the Vandals. Kris gave Escalante the demo, and Escalante was very surprised. He had loved the demo, and he asked Kris to create a band and sign with the Kung-fu Records Label. Kris Roe went to California trying to get a band together. The first addition was guitarist Jasin Thomason. They were soon able to find a bass player by the name Marko 72. Still in search of a drummer, Kris, Jasin, and Marko gave the demo to Kung-fu Records to have them find a drummer. The drummer that accepted the offer after hearing the demo was Derrick Plourdre. So the band got together and everything was like this, Kris Roe (Guitar/Vocals), Jasin Thomason (Guitar/back-up vocals), Marko 72 (Bass), and Derrick Plourdre (Drums). They all thought long and hard on their name and somehow came up with THE ATARIS!!! The Ataris Signed with Kung-fu Records, and they began working on their first album. They finished recording the album in less than a week. In mid-1997, The Ataris released their first full-length album entitled "ANYWHERE BUT HERE". The album featured 20 short pop-punk songs that were very popular, and somewhat humorous. Over the years, however, the album began to sell more and more copies, and today you can't find it anywhere, because it has gone 4X platinum. But after the release of Anywhere but Here, The entire band that Kris Roe put together, had fallen apart. Every member except for Kris, had left, so Kris was On his own again, but it did not take long for him to get another band together, because after hearing Anywhere But here, guitarist Patrick Riley, Drummer Chris Knapp, and bass player Mike Davenport, decided to join The Ataris. In 1998, The ataris released a small EP entitled "LOOK FORWARD TO FAILURE", which had sold more than 100,000 copies. In 1999, The Ataris released another full-length album entitled "BLUE SKIES, BROKEN HEARTS... NEXT 12 EXITS". This album had gone multi-platinum, and featured two singles, San Dimas High School Footbal Rules, and Your Boyfriend Sucks. Right after the release of Blue Skies, Broken Hearts... Next 12 Exits, Guitarist Patrick Riley had left the band. In late 1999, The Ataris luckily found a new guitarist that goes by the name, Marco Pena. In Early 2001, The Ataris released their heaviest, and most popular album entitled "END IS FOREVER", which featured singles that people were dying to hear, like Giving Up On Love, Summer Wind Was Always Our Song, and Teenage Riot. A few months after the release of End is Forever, Kris Roe had a reunioun with the former members Derrick Plourdre, Marko 72, and Jasin Thomason. They remastered Anywhere But Here so it would sound much better, and released a new enhanced version in mid-2002, and it included a new track called Anderson. As soon as that was over, The Ataris went to do their live concert for End is Forever. After the show, The Ataris parted with Guitarist Marco Pena, but in less than two weeks, they found a new guitarist, named John Collura. In early 2003, The Ataris released their most serious album yet, entitled SO LONG ASTORIA. So Long Astoria, went platinum really fast. So Long Astoria featured 3 singles, which were In This diary, The Saddest Song, and the re-make of Don Henley's song, The Boys of Summer. The Ataris are a very successful band that has gone through a lot of changes, but they will always be one of our favorite pop-punk bands!!!
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