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30_Life_Code playing for the fun -- and the fans
By Jeremy
Wilkins
March 23, 2005 | LOGAN -- After
a year and a half and more than 20 shows, 30_Life_Code
say it's all for the fans, the music and the fun.
Band members Jesse Crowley (vocals and guitar),
Dusty Wickham (vocals and bass guitar) and Sean
Morris (drums), all students of USU, agree the
band is a creative outlet that allows them to
have fun in the midst of their busy schedules.
"My favorite part is to look out and see
friends fist-pumping and singing our songs. I
like to look out and see people rocking out to
what we do, to what we've made, something that
we've put together and come up with ourselves,"
Morris said.
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SING ALONG: Dusty
Wickham, left, and fans sing together at a recent
performance. / Photo by Jeremy Wilkins |
Wickham added, "Seeing people get excited about
it is so satisfying, it really makes it worthwhile because
it's a lot of work a lot of the time, but that's the
tradeoff."
Crowley and Wickham formed 30_Life_Code (30_L_C) when
they decided they wanted to continue playing after covering
songs of a 1980s punk band called the Misfits for a
Halloween party.
Musically influenced by bands such as Face To Face,
AFI, Descendents and Misfits, Wickham says 30_L_C has
an "old school punk" sound with a positive
message behind their music.
"When I write lyrics, I want to have some sort
of positive message because if you're going to
bring something to the world you might as well do it
positive," said Crowley, who writes most of the
bands lyrics.
30_L_C has seen two drummers come and go. Morris, the
band's third drummer, was found one afternoon near the
end of last summer. Morris said he was at his apartment
on campus, next to USU's Frisbee golf course, playing
the drums with his window open when Jason Cone, lead
vocals for Hassenpfeffer and the Bombdiggity, another
local college band, came to the window when he heard
the drums and asked if Sean would like to play for his
friend's band. Cone got Sean's number and gave it to
Wickham. Crowley and Wickham chose Sean to fill the
empty spot after playing one song with them.
Since Morris joined, 30_L_C says they try to play two
or three shows a month and if they get a chance to play
outside of the valley, "We're there," Crowley
says.
Wickham expressed frustration about the difficulty
the band had with getting opportunities to play shows
when they first started.
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"I feel like it took forever
for anybody to even care that we're a band, aside
from our friends," he said.
After getting a few shows behind them Wickham
said people started to notice them more. He said
the music scene in Logan is good, but has a lot
more potential. Morris said one of the main problems
he has noticed is many people don't know about
the shows. To help, USU clubs like the Independent
Music Club, make strong efforts to inform people
about shows and are making more people aware of
local music said Wickham.
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HOT TIMES: Jesse
Crowley belts out a tune. / Photo by Jeremy
Wilkins |
Crowley, Wickham and Morris all agree the future of
30_L_C is uncertain.
Wickham is graduating in May in architectural rendering,
an interdisciplinary studies major, and says he isn't
sure whether he will attend graduate school at USU.
Crowley says he is about junior status and majoring
in art with a graphic design emphasis. Morris is a percussion
education major and says he still has around five years
of schooling left.
Morris says the future of the band is up to Wickham
and whether he stays in Logan for graduate school, but
Wickham says if he does leave he wants Crowley and Morris
to find another bass guitar player to keep playing.
No matter what the future holds, 30_L_C is focused
on the now. The band members are just in it to make
music and have a good time doing it, Wickham said.
He said, "It's more of something to do, not something
to be. It's something fun and creative."
You can contact 30_Life_Code at: www.30lifecode.tk
or email the Independent Music Club newsletter at: jshores@cc.usu.edu.
ONE, TWO: Sean
Morris, a percussion education major, practices what
he also studies. / Photo by Jeremy Wilkins
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