Dealership

Dealership - the Official StoryDealership began, in a sense, as a music project conceived by Chris Groves in 1995 as he was studying composition at U.C. Berkeley. To augment his classical studies, he began to think of ways he could explore pop music on his own. When he met Chris Groves, also a student and musician, an idea took root: namely, Chris W. thought it would be cool to start a band with Chris G. His new-found whimsy impelled him to visit Guitar Center one afternoon and blow his student loan check on band gear. Then he called up Chris G. and asked him for help getting the stuff back to his garage. Luckily, Chris G. already had a bass - as Chris W. had "forgotten" to get one.Then came a few months of drum 'n' bass work, which didn't go anywhere except to convince the Chrises that they needed at least one guitarist. They begged everyone they knew to be in the and with them, until finally, sucker that she was, Jane agreed to learn to play the guitar.In the fall of 1998 they released their first EP, Secret American Livingroom, which they recorded in Menlo Park with Guy Higbey. It was sheer luck that they found a great recording engineer who was patient, willing to teach, and willing to play around with some of the pop trio's more outlandish ideas. Loaded with pop hooks and pretty vocals, it became favorite of local college DJs and indie scenesters. On the strength of this debut, they played Noisepop 1999 with Imperial Teen, and later that year, CMJ in New York.After a year and a half of excitement and discovery, the time came for the three to start recording their second album. While they were able to release a 7 inch in 2000, the long-anticipated full-length album was slow in coming. Chris G. explains, "It seemed like a more difficult album to create than the last one, because what we had to deal with was trying to create something that we could be proud of, but that was different from what we had done before. I think that led to the exploration of new things, some of which worked - and some of which you won't hear on this album!"

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