


pavement with Florida's own Dashboard Confessional for a spring-summer tour. Lead singer-songwriter Stephan Jenkins lives in San Francisco, where the band is known to be from, but the group is spread out across the country, from California to Vegas and D.C. "I'm a simple man," the L.A.-based drummer reveals. Hargreaves isn’t involved in any other bands these days, but he still works on music at home and spends time surfing. With his right hand drumming, his left messes with a sampler, and Hargreaves' jazz improv roots take over. "I wanted a creative outlet of my own that I could control and not have other people rely on me to be there." His DJ-drumming side project JustBrad has since faded in its purest form, but it is being revived during improvised solos at Third Eye Blind concerts. He was being pulled in two directions with Third Eye gigs taking precedence over Year Long Disaster. Then somewhere around Pittsburgh, he came up with an idea for his own act. Third Eye Blind's longtime drummer Brad Hargreaves remembers an odd time between the band's third and fourth albums, when he was on the road with another band, Year Long Disaster, touring in a tiny van and struggling.
