Connection is a split EP

Extended play

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 by the Orange County, California

Orange County, California

Orange County is a county in the U.S. state of California. Its county seat is Santa Ana. As of the 2010 census, its population was 3,010,232, up from 2,846,293 at the 2000 census, making it the third most populous county in California, behind Los Angeles County and San Diego County...

 rock

Rock music

Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...

 bands Home Grown

Home Grown

Home Grown was an American rock band formed in 1994 in Orange County, California. They released three full-length albums and several EPs before disbanding in 2005. Their music is often characterized as pop punk, lyrically favoring humor and silly or satirical subjects.-Formation:Home Grown was...

 and Limbeck

Limbeck

Limbeck was an alternative country band, with pop-punk roots, hailing from Orange County, California.-Background:Originating in Laguna Niguel, California, Limbeck featured Robb MacLean on lead vocals and guitar, Patrick Carrie guitar and backing vocals, Justin Entsminger on bass, and Jon Phillip,...

, released in 2000 by Utility Records. It resulted from a tour the previous year on which the two bands played together and became friends.

The EP was Home Grown's final recording with guitarist Justin Poyser and drummer Bob Herco, who both left the band in 2000. Herco, who had to leave the group in order to undergo surgery and rehabilitation for a brain tumor, was soon replaced by Darren Reynolds. However, the band was unsuccessful in finding a suitable second guitarist over the next two years and eventually decided to continue on as a trio.

Track listing

1. Home Grown - "Promise Breaker"
2. Limbeck - "29 Times"
3. Home Grown - "Single All the Way"
4. Limbeck - "Invisible"
5. Home Grown - "She Don't Care"
6. Limbeck - "Rush Hour in Logtown"

Performers

Home Grown:

• John "John E. Trash" Tran - vocals
  Singing
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  , guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  
• Justin Poyser - guitar, vocals
• Adam Lohrbach - vocals, bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  
• Bob Herco - drums
  Drum kit
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Limbeck:

• Patrick Carrie - guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  , vocals
  Singing
  Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
  
  
• Robb MacLean - guitar, vocals
• Justin Entsminger - bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  
• Matt - drums
  Drum kit
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• David Delfonzo - keyboards
  Keyboard instrument
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Album information

• Record label: Utility Records
• Mixed by Craig Nepp at Frontpage Studios and mastered by Charlie at Mono Phonix, both in Glendale, California
  Glendale, California
  Glendale is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. As of the 2010 Census, the city population is 191,719, down from 194,973 at the 2000 census. making it the third largest city in Los Angeles County and the 22nd largest city in the state of California...
  
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• Tracks 1, 3 & 5 produced and engineered by Craig Nepp and Home Grown at Frontpage Studios.
• Tracks 2, 4 & 6 engineered by Kyle Homme at Pool House Audio and Literary Commissions in Fullerton, California
  Fullerton, California
  Fullerton is a city located in northern Orange County, California. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 135,161.It was founded in 1887 by George and Edward Amerige and named for George H. Fullerton, who secured the land on behalf of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway...
  
   and produced by Limbeck.
• Cover photo and design by Jamie from The Stereo
  The Stereo
  The Stereo is a pop rock/rock and roll band started in 1999 by former ska/punk band frontmen Jamie Woolford and Rory Phillips . The pair were initially brought together on recommendation of their record label Fueled By Ramen. The duo then recorded their first album Three Hundred, released June 1999...
  
  
• Photo of Matt from Limbeck drumming by Dave Rothenberg
• All other photography by Dave Lauridsen
• Layout and art direction by Robb MacLean and Adam Lohrbach