Chase Long Beach
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Chase Long Beach is an American
United States
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 ska
Ska
Ska |Jamaican]] ) is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s, and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae. Ska combined elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues...

 band from Long Beach
Long Beach, California
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, California
California
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, that formed in 2002 by former bassist/vocalist Patrick Fitzgerald and former lead vocalist Karen Roberts. In 2007, they released their first full-length album, LeBeC, produced by Aaron Barrett
Aaron Barrett
Aaron Asher Barrett is the lead singer, lead guitarist, and primary songwriter for the band Reel Big Fish. Prior to forming with Reel Big Fish, Barrett played trombone in another ska-punk act, The Scholars, along with future Reel Big Fish bandmates Scott Klopfenstein and Grant Barry...

 of Reel Big Fish
Reel Big Fish
Reel Big Fish is an American ska punk band from Huntington Beach, California, best known for the 1997 hit "Sell Out". The band gained mainstream recognition in the mid-to-late 1990s, during the third wave of ska with the release of the gold certified album Turn the Radio Off. Soon after, the band...

. In 2009, Chase Long Beach signed to Victory Records
Victory Records
Victory Records is a Chicago-based record label founded by Tony Brummel. It is a privately held corporation. It also operates a music publishing company called "Another Victory, Inc." and is the distributor of several smaller independent record labels....

, managed by Hardline Entertainment
Hardline Entertainment
Hardline Entertainment is an independent record label created and owned by Ken Seaton. The label started as a management company with 1208 and developed into an independent label...

 and released their second album, Gravity is What You Make It, on June 23, 2009.

EPs

  • Invasion of the Fuzzy Things (2004)
  • Chase Long Beach Hosts a Molotov Cocktail Party (2006)

Current lineup

  • Meagan Christy - Vocals, Trumpet (2005 - Current)
  • Joe Cooper - Lead guitar (2007 - Current)
  • Tristan Dolce - Trumpet (2005 - Current)
  • Drew Pedersen - Trombone (2006 - Current)
  • Jose Rodriguez - Drums (2003–2004, 2008 - Current)
  • Patrick Clancy - Bass (2010 - Current)
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