nipper! - The Band

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Everyone wants to know who we are, where we come from, why we are here... Until we find the answers to those questions, we will tell you a bit about ourselves...

Chris Gardella

(guitar/vocals)

Currently studying at the University of Michigan's school of art, Chris is a funloving guy, who enjoys candlelit dinners. As a child, he used to draw sick and deranged cartoons in his school notebooks, which provided a form of release for his creative side. Eventually, in addition to his art, he got his start in the music scene as the singer for fellow Great Neck veterans, Local Girl My Ass. He eventually learned to play the guitar, subsequently how to detune the guitar, and the rest is history. Like the rest of the members, he is eighteen years old.

Donna Lichaw

(bass guitar)

Donna has has lived most of her adolescent life in Great Neck, NY - good/bad?...she may never know. Fed up with petty middle school antics, she took up the guitar in eighth grade, studying such classics as On Top Of Old Smokey and Oh Suzanna!. After her first band, The Peter Rabbits broke up, she took up the bass, and began playing with slackers who called themselves, Aqua Velvet and sung about girls and boogers. Soon after she joined nipper! blah, blah. In her free time, she plays guitar for the Ska band, Skazel Tov!, and is very proud of her lack of knowlege of ska. Also studying at the University of Michigan, Donna often wonders what she is doing in the middle of nowhere.

Andy Sarroff

(drums)

Andy began playing precussion in the Lakeville Elementary School Band, and eventually went on to the Great Neck South High and Middle School Bands. After a failed attempt to learn guitar, he went back to his roots, buying a drum kit, and studying with Frank, who lives in Manhattan and is a really cool guy. During nipper!'s first six months, he also played for Local Girl My Ass eventually getting fed up with them, and waited for them to break up. Andy is currently studying Javaneese Gamalon and learning other practical skills at Wesleyan University, surrounded by hippies galore.

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