Bentframe

Members
Chris Crawford and Brian Leonard with Scott Thaxton, Andy Doyle, Tony Macias, Jason Brannon, John Prugh aka Shortfuse, and Matt Yablonowski all at various times with guests such as Courtney Kaiser and Paul Mahern to name a few.
About

Bentframe was formed with Crawford, Leonard, Thaxton, Brannon, and Yablonowski doing some music with a Tascam cassette 8 track and a phono sampler. After doing stuff like an early version of the song Plump Chicken, Chris got a K2000 with the sampling feature and the beginnings of the Fresh Farm Demo were fleshed out. In the wake of Invisible Jet's demise the project took center stage. Shortfuse joined us in B-town from time to time until we moved to Elkhart, IN and joined him there. After a year of playing and recording in the COE (City of Elkhart,) along with purchasing a computer around 97-98 to record with instead of the Yamaha MD8, Crawford, Brannon and Leonard joined Yablonowski in Chicago, where they stayed and worked on music and comedy such as "Star Wars Gangsta Rap".  Later, a live lineup was reestablished when Thaxton moved to Chicago and "2004" was recorded with some singing help from Janell Cox.  Shortly after the "2004" Demo, which was recorded @ 2001, Doyle joined the band and stayed on as bass player until Bentframe broke up the day the Assimilate EP arrived at our doorstep.  With Doyle we proceeded to make another demo in the Wicker Park coach house and one before the last EP in his coach house as a sort of pre-production for Assimilate. Tony Macias took over for Thaxton on drums some time after the first Echo Park recording.  Along the way we made a few bucks, friends, and enemies online at sites such as MP3.com and Newgrounds.com. We also played various gigs and venues such as The Hemp Festival in Michigan and the Cubby Bear in Chicago.

Albums

Assimilate

4 songs

Assimilate
3:44
Do Your Thing
2:21
I Don't Need You
2:54
Some Other Way
4:26

Look At You

2 songs

It's Bent
3:12
Fantasy
3:25

Look At You, Two

1 songs

Two Million
3:01

Self Titled - Pop

3 songs

Killing You
3:19
Fool
3:26
Fronting
3:48

COE (City Of Elkhart) 1

1 songs

Not The Same - Elkhart Version of Fool
5:39

2004 Demo EP

5 songs

Digital Slavery
3:39
As The World Burns
4:08
2004
4:46
Fool
3:42
Once Upon A Time
4:07

First AD Demo

1 songs

It Don't Matter
4:25

Christmas 2002

1 songs

Bentframe Christmas 2002
0:50