MAD TEMPLE

NEWS

HIGH OCTANE ROCK N ROLL

Intro:

Mad Temple’s goal is to play louder, longer and harder, featuring lengthy instrumental improvisation killer riffs and bone shattering chords. To make it a fan friendly experience and a mine blowing ride! Just when it seemed the limits have been reached - there are no limits. Mad Temple

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MAD TEMPLE BIO

Rock and Roll is alive in LA again and in no small parts the High Octane band Mad Temple is to thank for that. Though young, lead vox, Eli James, Andrew “Stone Hand” Benjamin who plays lead guitar, vox, Bryant Joel on rhythm guitar, Sal Flores on drums, and Mike Brownstone on bass, are full of TALENT, TRAINING, and HIGH OCTAINE ROCK N’ ROLL that they are ready to bring to the masses, using their well honed skills, charisma, and fan friendly rock vibes. They are the future of rock coming your way, right now! Now using everything they have learned, they are bringing that energy, and charisma to packed houses all around LA to their fans called TEMPLE HEADS to venues including; The Whiskey a GoGo, House of Blues, Club Vodka, The Roxy, BB Kings The Gig and about a dozen others and bringing their astronomical, floor pounding act to these clubs since the youthful age of 15 and 16, and packing these clubs to full capacity. In just a few short years, and still unable to sit at the bar after a long set, they just keep bringing their own Genre of Rock and Roll to these clubs. Using their musicality and magnetism, the crowds are lapping it up, making them one of the most demanded and respected acts in LA right now. This High Octane Rock band is just waiting to release their Mad Temple style of rock and roll on the rest of the country, and eventually the rest of the world. With their debut Cd out right now named Mad Temple California and doing well, and another in the works, they know the billowing skies above the Hollywood sign of LA are within reach. The last time that LA bred bands were kings of the LA nightclub scene was 20 years ago. Leading the pack back then where elite rock bands like Guns n’ Roses, Buck Cherry, Velvet Revolver, Stone Temple Pilots and others. Twenty years later the LA born and bred bands are reclaiming their spot on the pedestal and on top of it is Mad Temple, Out playing, energizing the locals, and bringing LA rock home where it should be. Mad Temple called the Temple heads are the group’s best spokeswomen for them, and they wear their love for the band on their body, in the form of T-shirts, and self made body art at shows and on the street. Mad Temple owns the pride in the fact that they are fan friendly. They know it is the fans who butters their bread, and the adoration is a two way street. For every fan that reaches out to them, the band members reach out to them, and tries not to leave any fan unrecognized or feeling left out. It is clear that the fans keep Mad Temple in check, and it is for the fans that they make sure that the quality of their shows, and music is always top notch. One listen to these guys from LA and you’ll be a fan too. As they gain a fan base in LA, they are also starting to garner attention from the LA based media. In the February/March 2008 issue of All Access Magazine are called one of the bands on the verge on success in the column Back Stage at My Space written by Christi. In it she says “Mad Temple has the ability to work as a team, which is what makes this an appealing band and a band that has a great shot at making it big sometime in the not so distance future.” she continues by saying, “They play great music that can take them from the LA club scene to arenas wherever they wish to play”. They have been seen in Rock City News as well; where one of the members of the famous groupies the Plastics declared that MAD TEMPLE was her favorite bands. These guys from LA had a dream; they are living it now, using their aggressive, HIGH OCTAINE genre of rock to bring the glory days of rock back to LA. If you have a chance to see them do it, it’s well worth the trip to see these guys perform, their well written and composed tunes for you, whether you’re an old school rocker or new school rocker, they reach out to all!

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News

UPDATE 03/01/08

ALL ACCESS MAGAZINE RIGHT UP

Mad Temple/ LA, CA/ High Octane/Rock
www.myspace.com/madtemple
This LA band is high energy, young, and cannot be described as anything but High Octane Rock N' Roll. Conceived as a band in Jr. High, now between 17 and 19, they are blowing the LA club scene apart, they have already made and released their first Cd; California. Their second Cd will be coming out in the next year. If you where to read a list of their credits of clubs they have played in LA last 3 years, it would read like a bio of bands who have been playing for five times as long, including; The Troubadour, The Whiskey, BB Kings, HOB, Club Vodka, The ally, The Knitting factory and many more multiple times, but it is their talent, professionalism, charisma on stage and off, fans who call themselves Templeheads. Mad Temple has the ability to work as a team, which is what makes this an appealing band and a band that has a great shot at making it big sometime in the not so distance future. They use their youth and energy to their advantage and it shows, putting on electrifying shows that are non-stop. The Music and Lyrics never stop flowing either, they love to perform, write and arrange music. But at this age, they have so many ideas so many dreams that they are unstoppable, know what they want, and will not stop until they get there. They want the world to know they are serious musicians, and if you listen to any of their songs you will know right away that they are serious musicians. Songs like California Livin, the perfectly sleazy Sunday Girlz, and Lost Situation about being faced with a needle and a spoon in a shady Hollywood motel; all showcase this bands talent perfectly. They play great music that can take them from the LA club scene to arenas wherever they wish to play.

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Band Influences

GUNS N' ROSES, STEVIE RAY VAUGHN, GARY HOWEY,

STONE TEMPLE PILOTS, LED ZEPPELIN, EAGLES, SLASH'S SNAKEPIT,
BLACK SABBATH, CREAM, TEMPLE OF THE DOG,

RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE, JIMI HENDRIX, ALICE IN CHAINS,
THE ALLMAN BROTHERS,SANTANA, AC/DC, AEROSMITH, TED NUGENT,
GODSMACK, VELVET REVOLVER and many more...

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