The Website for ANTHEM (1985-200X)
Anthem started off as a Rush Tribute band in 1980's in rhode islandthe first real appearence was at warwick veterns memorial high school , where we played a few of our tunes : "The Trees" , "Anthem" and "Xanadu" to a friendly reception of hardrock teenagers - even though the "moog" synth fell off key inbetween tunes , the crowd loved the quality that we pulled off - scott looked and sounded just like geddy lee , so ANTHEM was born
members (left to right):
tim sullivan (guitars), scott king (bass,vocals) , hollis higgins (drums)
after that practiced our butts off to show off what we had - we could be seen back then in many clubs and rooms in and around RI , including The Living Room , G-FLags , American Cafe , Rhode island college, URI , faces , the Mad Hatter etc etc
ANTHEM (lineup #2)
members: scott king (bass,vocals), tim sullivan (guitars) , mike andrews (drums)
after playing and learning many facets of song-writing , we built up our courage , we decided to write, perform and record our own tunes and continue to explore how writing original music was far more rewarding than playing someone elses , even with how much attention we recieved by playing rush tunes like La Villa with the same integrity that rush themselves could produce , we'd still throw in rush tunes , but it was performed inbetween and around OUR OWN material
picture at right (left to right): tim sullivan, roadie mark williams , scott king, road manager dave padula, road tech dave vanbost , mike andrews (drums) - photo taken at our coventry ri practice place
