EDMOND — Green Lemon, the Edmond-based electronic experimental rock band, will play an Edmond concert for the first time in three years this weekend.
Drummer Chris Cox said the band has been out on tour for 11-12 months at a time for the past four years. They occasionally stop through to play gigs in Oklahoma City.
“When we started, we were in high school and we had no plans,” Cox said. “Our level of success kind of blows my mind sometimes.”
The upcoming concert will be one of the last gigs the band plays this year before it takes a month off.
Guitarist Steve Schaben said it will be interesting to be back in Edmond where it all started. He said the band will play a couple of new tunes.
The band has been on the road for almost a year with a few weeks off to go home. Schaben said one of the challenges about being on the road is they can’t go home every night.
“There’s no time off,” he said. “When you’re done playing a show you don’t get to go home and sleep in your bed.”
Cox said he sometimes washes dishes when they have friends or hosts invite them to their homes for a night. He said it reminds him of that sense of home they don’t have while on tour.
While most of the band members’ families still live in Edmond, half the band lives in Colorado and half in Edmond. The band originally formed in 1999 while the members still were in high school under the name “Grass.”
“We might break out a “Grass” tune or two,” Cox said.
After high school, the band went its separate ways for a couple of years and then reunited under the name “Green Lemon.”
The band will record its second full-length album in January in the Virgin Islands. Schaben said this second album will consist of shorter, catchier tunes than the band’s first album.
“If you work hard and believe in something, something good will happen,” Cox said.
If you go
What you need to know
Green Lemon’s concert begins at 9:30 p.m. Saturday at Danny Bob’s Hideout, 70 1/2 E. 15th St. Tickets can be purchased for $8 in advance at Flatire Burgers, at 318 E. Ayers, or $10 at the door. For information about Green Lemon, visit www.greenlemonband.com.
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