Matt Wachter Biography

Wachter was born in Pottsville, Pennsylvania. As a child, he spent most of his time with his family in New Jersey and Boston. An active child, Matt participated in baseball and soccer, taking up swimming as well, he also went to Space Camp, along with Space Academy. His interest in music bloomed when he was around five years old, and between the ages of five and eight, Matt experimented with various instruments, focusing primarily on the piano and drums.

Matt reached the peak of his musical interest around high school and spent most of his time playing in bands. He picked up the bass, he stated, because he "wanted to play in a band, and the band needed a bass player." Matt had no previous experience with the bass, the closest being experimenting with the guitar. He credited former Metallica bassist, the late Cliff Burton, as his inspiration for wanting to play the bass guitar.

Wachter was rumored to have worked in a slaughter house, but confessed in an interview that he and his bandmates made up the story to stir up an otherwise dull interview. 

 

Ryan Sinn Biography

Ryan Sinn (born 23 April 1979 in Fremont, California, USA) was the bassist for rock band Angels and Airwaves. He is also an ex-bassist of punk group The Distillers.

Sinn joined The Distillers when they formed in 1998. At the time he only played guitar, but the group was so desperate for a bassist that he learned to play that instrument in four days. He appeared on the group’s second and third albums. The band experienced some turmoil in 2005 and Sinn announced that he had left the band on his MySpace page in August of that year.

After leaving The Distillers, Sinn was recruited by blink-182 member Tom DeLonge to join his new project Angels and Airwaves. He played bass on the bands 2006 release We Don’t Need To Whisper.

Sinn is also part of two other bands, called The Shithouse Rats and The Dead Life.

Sinn confirmed the rumours by posting a message on the group’s fansite thearmyofangels.com. He says, “I received a phone call the evening of April 19th that concluded my relationship with Angels And Airwaves.”

“I could go into an entire novel about my opinions of the whole matter and why I was given the axe, but to me, throwing dirt just seems desperate and tabloidial.” Sinn added.

“All I’ll say as to why I was kicked out, the reasons I was given weren’t at all honest, and severely hypocritical to the point of abhorrent disgust.”

Although no replacement has been announced, it’s thought amongst fans that Matt Wachter (ex 30 Seconds To Mars member) will be drafted in.

Ryan Sinn No Longer with AVA

 Music to me has always been a very very dear thing. An outlet of creation, frustration, desire, love, pain, and expression of all kind. It's art. It's an extension of the individual making it. It's something that I feel you should do your best at. You should practice and push yourself to always do better than you are. It's the only way I can communicate to myself and learn more about who I am, or who I really am underneath all the distractions and fabrications of who we think we are.

Individualism is also something I take to heart. I've never really understood the need to belong to something so bad that changing who you are becomes unimportant. The desire to be part of the herd doesn't make sense to me. Being who you are and not who someone else wants you to be can take a lot courage, although it seems rediculous that it should. it should be first nature. To just be who you are. Love what you Love and love that you are different, in your own unique ways

With that being said, and without me lamenting on that for paragraph after paragraph as i will do when philosophies are brought up. And sinse for reasons unknown to me, the band nor their management have decided not to inform any of you anything beyond what contribute to their success, i have come to say goodbye.

I recieved a phone call the evening of April 19th that concluded my relationship with Angels And Airwaves. I could go into an entire novel about my opinions of the whole matter and why I was given the axe, but to me, throwing dirt just seems desperate and tabloidial.

All I'll say as to why I was kicked out, the reasons I was given weren't at all honest, and severely hippocritical to the point of abhorrent disgust.

I've gotten wind of a few of the rumors floating around the virtual lifesource, and I'll say that I would never leave a band because of a clash of ideas, or control. To me a band is a clash of ideas and control. How can you push your artwork in a band to be better withouth having clashings of ideas and control?

But that doesn't really matter, none of it does. What matters to me now is freedom. Freedom to express myself and the freedom to be exactly who I am.

As for the fanclub, I tried to shape this place up, I'm sorry that none of the ideas you and I had were ever implemented. Maybe someday they will. I hope for all of you who paid your money that they use some of them.

Some of you here have a good sense about what this fan club really is, and the rest of you have been really awesome about taking it upon yourselves to improve things here. If any of you want to spend an additional $30 for nothing, email me and I'll give you an address to send a check

i appologise that it's been near a month sinse this went down and you've all been in the dark as rumors have made their rounds. But perhaps following a message blindly and praising the meaning of do as I say not as I do is the exclamation point of the issue.

See you again somewhere, sometime

Ryan Sinn

Angels & Airwaves' Prog Rock 'Love' Album, Film To Be Released For Free Angels & Airwaves' Prog Rock 'Love' Album, Film To Be Released For Free

Even as he prepares for blink-182's summer reunion tour, guitarist Tom DeLonge is deeply ensconced in the next project by his other band, Angels & Airwaves -- an album and film project called "Love" that should be out before the end of the year.

DeLonge tells Billboard.com that "Love" -- which will be released for free thanks to corporate underwriting -- is "the biggest release of my life, the pinnacle of my creativity" and likens it to Pink Floyd's "The Wall" in the scope of its ambition. "It's super conceptual and highbrow in many ways, very artistic, very Stanley Kubrick," he says. "But it's not a rock opera. It's a very modern version of what could happen when you blend the film industry and the music industry together in a very, very arty, kind of cool way with professionals involved all along the path."

DeLonge says the "Love" movie -- which began life as a documentary about Angels & Airwaves recording its 2006 debut album, "We Don't Need to Whisper," and expanded from there  -- "blurs the line between full-fledged live action and documentary with these epic kind of...meditative sequences where the sound design and the music and the picture all bend together to create a sonic experience as much as a visual one." The script, meanwhile, "tells a story of human life and destiny but at the same time really makes usual moments of life extraordinary. It's a circular narrative in many ways, where it kind of sums up the human race in a time capsule."

The music of "Love," DeLonge says, will have a prog-rock kind of flavor. "It's like blending Radiohead and U2 together with these kind of Pink Floyd movements," he explains. "Things happen unpredictably and take you to these epic soundscapes. It's very much in the spirit of Angels & Airwaves, but it sounds way, way more thought-out and way more ambitious."

DeLonge says the group is still figuring out mechanisms for delivering the film and album and are also planning a tour to support the project. All of this, of course, is going on while he rehearses for the blink-182 tour, which begins July 23 in Las Vegas.

"It's gonna be a really busy time -- It's fucking crazy, actually. I don't know what I'm doing," DeLonge says with a laugh. "But I'm totally down and excited to figure out how to make it all happen, 'cause in my life both of these (bands) can be a very necessary thing."
from : http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/angels-airwaves-prog-rock-love-album-film-1003985588.story#/bbcom/news/angels-airwaves-prog-rock-love-album-film-1003985588.story

Angels And Airwaves

           The members of Angels and Airwaves are Tom DeLonge, formerly of Blink-182 (guitars and vocals), David Kennedy former guitarist of Hazen Street and Box Car Racer (guitars), Atom Willard formerly the drummer for The Offspring (drums) and Ryan Sinn former bassist of The Distillers (bass). Angels and Airwaves is one of those side projects that emerged alongside rumors of an established band's demise. When Blink-182 suddenly announced their hiatus from working as a band, AVA was already in the works. DeLonge had formed the band almost six months prior to Blink-182's break, yet the two events are said to be unrelated. Whatever the circumstances, nothing could deter fans from getting interested in Tom DeLonge's new project.

In 2006 Angels and Airwaves released their first album, We Don't Need to Whisper, amidst a different kind of controversy. The first single was going to be 'Valkyrie Missle' until the song 'The Adventure' was leaked out onto the internet prior to the single's release and the album's official release. The band opened its tour playing for sell out crowds in 2006, which makes our Angels and Airwaves tickets hot commodities at the least.

The music on Angels and Airwaves first album is said to be Angelic. It is ambient progressive rock that is fit for stadium sound like no other. Their sound is big, bright and epic. The music of Angels and Airwaves is meant to be heard live in front of a thousand speakers with all the creative guitar work and sound engineering techniques that go along with a live show. Tickets to Angels and Airwaves shows sell fast, so don't delay! Get your Angels and Airwaves tickets here and get great seats for what is sure to be a grand experience.

BREATHE by AvA

A blue-black shade of love sent from above
My hands are tied, two worlds alone, and this I know
Your breath's like wine, and just like clouds, my skin crawls
It's so divine, the sky it glows with fields of light

Did you know that I love you?
Come and lay with me
I love you
And honesty, I love you
You make me feel alive
And I'll love you
Until the end of time

My hands shake clasped with fear, as you come near
To say goodnight, just like a dove, a peaceful sign
To help us by, as you come in, let this begin.
Stars fall like dust, our lips will touch, we speak too much.

Did you know that I love you?
Come and lay with me
I love you
And honesty, I love you
You make me feel alive
And I'll love you
Until the end of time

Did you know that I love you?
Come and lay with me
I love you
And honesty, I love you
You make me feel alive
And I'll love you
Until the end of time

I've got a lot to say, if you will let me
It's always hard when you're around me
But here right now, there's interest in your eyes
So hear me out and hear this the first time

That I... love you (Come and lay with me)
That I... love you (And honesty)
That I... love you (You make me feel alive)
That I... love you
‘Til the end of time