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Biography

Douglas Robb – Vocals

Dan Estrin – Guitar

Markku Lappalainen – Bass

Chris Hesse - Drums

From the quiet years of 1994 Dan Estrin (guitar), Douglas Robb (vocals) and Markku Lappalainen (bass) had always been close friends.

The trio began to put a band together with strong influences from bands like Tool, Fishbone, Faith No More, with each individual member putting their musical influences into the band ranging from Guns ‘n’ Roses to Trance music.

It was in Agoura Hills, Southern California their suburban hometown, where all their musical influences would soon come together to create music unlike anything before. The band had thought of many events and occurrences that would be great ideas for songs.

As well as a handful of songs already, the band had developed on many musical melodies.

But what is a melodic grunge band without a drummer?

They searched long and hard for a skilled drummer they could rely on as a trustworthy member of their group.

However, shortly after their desperate searches and constant advertising, Chris Hesse immediately replied to their ad and met up with the group to start work on completing a few of their songs.

With the band complete, Hoobastank began transforming their paper to words as they practised constantly through night and day. After a month of efforts and tiring work, in 1995, Hoobastank performed their first gig at “The Roxy” in Los Angeles where their fine efforts had paid off. They band captivated everyone in the audience as their unusual fusion of post-grunge, punk, alternative metal and musical inspirations had proved them successful.

They played numerous tours in California, and moved on to inject Arizona with their addictive melodies. After gaining a lot of recognition through countless tours, Hoobastank saved up enough money to release their first album, ‘They Sure Don’t Make Basketball Shorts Like They Used To’ in 1998. They were soon recognised throughout the globe, in the United States stretching to countries as far as, Brazil, Russia, Israel and the U.K.

After hooking up with Island/Defjam Records, Hoobastank released their debut self-titled album in November 2001. Their unforgettable hits, ‘Crawling In The Dark’, ‘Running Away’, ‘Pieces’ and ‘Remember’ proved the album to be a great achievement. They were known world wide for their amazing abilities to include so many combinations of music into their melodies. After their positive reaction from thousands of fans across the world, and praises from the media, Hoobastank carried out countless amounts of tours that took them to countries all over the world.

Their popularity pushed them towards headlining shows at gigs and local shows while being lined up for some of the major tours of the century. After a long period of infinite tours and shows, Hoobastank returned to the studio to record their next album. ‘The Reason’ was to be an album unlike anything they’ve done before.

Their approach to a mellower version of their self-titled proved to be a victory when their hit single, ‘The Reason’ which hit the airwaves after the album release in July 2003.

Bio written by: hellz_hunny

Artist Forum


Discussion Topic	Creator
what is your favorite hoobastank song what is your favorite hoobastank song? mine are remember me and just one.	blinksum

Replys	Listener
The Reason, Out of Control, and all the songs off the 1st CD.	offguard
Damn the first cds awesome, and Out of Control and The Reason are fucking great!!	closetrebel05
i LOVED their 1st cd, it kicked AsS, and i love the song "the reason" i just got the cd today!!! :)	spchic8486
i am accually listening to the cd right now!~!!!	spchic8486
ummm.. they have a lot of great songs.. I love Out of Control, Just One, and The Reason off of that cd.. but Running Away is soo good off their first cd	Rock_Babe260
the reason is the best, and i also love never there	hoobastank_2oo7
Yeah.. I also like Never There and What Happened 2 Us!!	Rock_Babe260
i also like 'crawling in the dark' and 'the reason'.	blinksum
the reason that song rocked	jacobs_girl2k1
crawling in the dark, the reason, and never there, dude i love them so much man they kick	LPfan4LYF
too little too late and out of control	mary_jane
Holy Fuck!!!!They are the cool band when i saw them the first time on out of control,it caught my eye!!!!so i downloaded Out of Control and The Reason they are my favorites!!!!!	Rock_Rocks4life
crawling...and the reason!!	i_heart_emo_boys187
THE REASON AND I THINK BLINKSUM ROX !!!!!!	punk_rawker
i have only heard the reason and its brilliant!	whoamiagain
I like OUT OF CONTROL & THE REASON off the 2nd album I like RUNNING AWAYoff the 1st album.	mikeshinoda4life
Running away, tiz their best sng eva	Bloody_Tattoo
Crawling in the Dark, Out of Control, Running Away, and there's a song they've got on the Spiderman 2 soundtrack, i've forgotten which 1, but it's awesome!	Hellz_Hunny
i like jst one and lucky and let it out..and the song on the spiderman 2 soundtrack,its called did you	simpleplangurl3
crawling in the dark and the reason	blackrain13
mines has to be dissapear, yup yuppers...	SuGapLuM1107
That's the one! Thnx i knew it was something like 'Did you' or whatever..thnx again! I can finally get the right one now...	Hellz_Hunny
Peices is the ultimate Hoobastank song i say	SussJockey
crawling in the dark and the reason	cwjfirku9_9
'The Reason' is overplayed.. 'Out Of Control' is better, it's really energetic..	hellz_hunny
I like 'Running Away' and 'The Reason'	pollard88
'Running Away' yeah that's awesome, and 'Crawling In The Dark' another great one..	hellz_hunny
I like 'from the heart' Same direction is on the catwoman soundtrack just one is awesome	tortured_soul
i like the song "we suck"	metalCHAINS
i can't say i have a favorite because i like all their songs.	fairiekisses
Yeah, all their songs are great. Well... maybe not all of them. I'm not really into Out of Control.	Passionate_Blosson