the pine started in 1998 the original line up was Kurt King on guitar, Josh yates on bass, and me (Roger King) on drums/ vocals. We recorded a demo that had our first 8 songs on it. dont even bother trying to find it. i only know a few people that still have a copy of it. the name "the pine" came from a movie called "blood in blood out" that we were all obsessed with for a couple of years. I think kurt at the time was 14, Josh was 16 and i had just turned 18. the band actually started on accident. my friend was over one day jamming /w kurt on guitar and i came in and jumped on the drums. we decided to record the song we had come up with just for fun. a couple of days later i showed josh and he came up with the idea that we should try and come up with more songs and possibly start a band. and so we did. After about a year and a half "the pine" started to die. i wanted to play guitar. it sucked trying to hear my voice when i was slamming on my drums so we got a new drummer which solved problems for a while, but soon enough this change proved to bring more problems. well, we dumped all the old songs, made a demo and soon after recorded out first self released 7". it got great reviews in heartattack and MRR and sold quickly.
we pressed 500 and have a few left. Soon after the 7" release Josh's career as a fire fighter took off and resulted in him having to be replaced w/kurts long time friend BILL MCCREARY. we taught BILL 7 songs in 2 days so that he could come up north with us to play a couple of shows. I was having thoughts about writing more songs for another release (possibly an LP) but didn't think it would happen till the distant future for financial reasons. i mentioned the idea to this kid named erik devin of Kordova Milkbar REcords in a letter i sent him along with some 7"s for trade. he said he was more then down to release the LP on his label so we got started on writing some new songs for it. soon enough we recorded 5 new songs and threw in 3 older unreleased ones previously recorded from the same recording session as the 7". well we were lead on for months and months that this LP was gonna be released but KMBR never came through....FLAKE?!?! i think so. oh well. no hard feelings. we went on a 2 week west coast tour in summer 2001. in the end it was decided that the pine needed to make a final long awaited constant contimplating change for the good of the band. we needed to find a drummer that we connected w/more on the friendship level. this is when JAMES BLANKENSHIP was brought into the band. James has been longtime friends with kurt and meshed well with the band.
(hey! band practice is fun again!!) At this time my friend spencer rangitsch of Into the Hurricane Records in Burlingame, CA let me know that he would be interested in releasing the LP. i talked it over with spencer and came to the conclusion that we needed to boot the 3 older previously recorded unreleased songs from the possible LP line up, and record 5 more brand new songs w/james . we went in 50/50 with ITH and pressed the LP. about the time of the release of this lp i found myself in constant contact with my new found pen pal ryan mclennan from richmond virginia.after a couple of months of constantly writing eachother back and forth ryan told me that he was thinking of starting a record label and that hed like to put out a record for us. we immediately agreed , recorded , and got the "homeless life" 7" in the works. within a month of recording our 4 newest songs the homeless life 7" was released on ryans new label, OWSLA. putting out this record with ryan was so enjoyable we saw it fit to always be involved with him. a few months later ryan came with the pine on our midwest tour during the summer. it was a lot of fun and i still cant believe how awesome it is to know that he flew across the US to hang out with us and show his support for about 5 weeks.
the day we returned from tour andrew bowman from ALONE RECORDS called us to say that he was into what we are doing and that he'd like to release a cd containing our first 7" and first lp. we agreed and began working on cover ideas etc. during the tour we started planning out early ideas for our newest lp release"lead blocks for feet". a small amount of time after we returned home from tour we immediately went in to record the 10 songs to be used for this record. months later it was released by OWSLA and ALONE RECORDS. about 2 months before the record was released keith from the blue hour contacted me saying that he would like us to go on tour with him and his band. we figured that this would be a great opportunity to get the new lp out there to the public so we quickly agreed.
this brings us to our winter 2003 US tour. it was amazing. about a week or 2 before we left for tour we played a local show and met donavan linear. he had just moved to bakersfield from las vegas. donavan seemed really into what we were doing and had a refreshing attitude as well as a talent in video editing and graphics for his project titled RISE ABOVE. we needed someone to come with us on tour to help out with things and dоcument events and donavan was the perfect pick. for about a month we'were looking for a new drummer and that search came to an end when steven koontz joined the band. amazing. steven is awesome.
we've now had steven in the band for some time and are shows and everything have just been better all around. we went through some twists and turns but finally headed into the studio august 2003 and recorded 19 songs to be released on alot of new things. well, thats the history. the pine at this point will always be roger,kurt,bill, and steven. no new members will ever be added in so this is it as long as the pine is in existance.
discography:
Self-Titled 7" | self-released | 2000
Self-Titled LP | Into The Hurricane Records | 2001
Lead Blocks for Feet LP | Alone/Owsla Records | December, 2002
Self-Titled CD | Alone Records | January, 2003
Wayfarers All Comp LP | Owsla Records | Early 2004
Split 7" w/ The Saddest Landscape | Alone Records | Early 2004
Days Slipping By CD | Heroine Records | May, 2004
Days Slipping By LP | Alone Records | May 21st, 2004
This is Your Life Comp LP | Ape Must Not Kill Ape Records | January 2005?
Split 7" w/ La Quiete | Broken Hearts Club | March 5th, 2005
Don't Need Regret LP | Alone Records | April 29th, 2005
Acoustic Homeless Comp Splits CDR | Self-Released | May, 2005

Self-Titled CD | Alone Records | January, 2003
1000 Made | Contains 1st LP and 1st 7" songs

tracklist:
01. Cubicle
02. Ten Years Old
03. Slug
04. Your the Only One I Hate
05. Wearing Thin
06. Face Drawings
07. My Two Feet
08. Windmills
09. Shovelglove
10. Charred
11. Running on Empty
12. Forced Gratitude
13. Hangnail
14. Numb

year:2000/2001 (reissued 2003)
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tracklist:
01. Homeless Life
02. Sore Eye Lids
03. Jigsaw
04. Untitled

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Lead Blocks for Feet LP | Alone/Owsla Records | December, 2002
700 Black | 230 w/ Black ink | 470 w/ Brown ink | 70 Fabric Tour covers | 100 Fabric Tour cdrs

tracklist:
01. Monocles
02. A Sad Old Man
03. Boarded Room
04. Sinking
05. Follow You Home
06. Young Bird
07. Loner
08. Beggin for Food
09. Letters
10. In the Breeze

year:2002
http://vk.com/doc-27782338_154258490?ha … 6436442d89

Split 7" w/ The Saddest Landscape | Alone Records | Early 2004
700 Black

tracklist:
01. The Pine - Rainclouds
02. The Pine - Down Below
03. The Saddest Landscape - Weighing Out the Desirables

year:2004

http://www.mediafire.com/download/u0m5ytvvv4b8uo9/TP - TSL (split).zip
http://vk.com/doc-27782338_154270858?ha … 3924e62888

Days Slipping By CD | Heroine Records | May, 2004
1000 Made | 80 Tour Cases
Days Slipping By LP | Alone Records | May 21st, 2004
700 Black

tracklist:
01. No Tommorrow
02. Doing the Best He Can
03. Days Slipping By
04. Growing Calm Together
05. Child Gone
06. It Tears Me Apart
07. I Am Mending
08. Where Are You?
09. Sunchild
10. Handfull of Coal

year:2004
http://vk.com/doc-27782338_154258746?ha … 0a4076fe74

Split 7" w/ La Quiete | Broken Hearts Club | March 5th, 2005
470 Regular | 80 Pre-order Cloth Covers | 25 Mailorder Alternate Covers | 25 White Vinyl

tracklist:
01. The Pine - Junkyard
02. La Quiete - Greyskull
03. La Quiete - Theme for a Secret Garden

year:2005
http://www.mediafire.com/?n2g8fwnpqzc5bk0
http://vk.com/doc-27782338_154273454?ha … 9632c9bf5b

Don't Need Regret LP | Alone Records | April 29th, 2005
800 Black | 100 White | 100 Clear

tracklist:
01. don't need regret
02. friend
03. no you
04. strings
05. holding onto life
06. xboytreex
07. bridge
08. living off a lie
09. crumbled
10. dead boat

year:2005
http://vk.com/doc-27782338_154256168?ha … 535aceaf86

Acoustic Homeless Comp Splits CDR | Self-Released | May, 2005

tracklist:
01. talking at the beginning of the show
02. still talking
03. Cubicle
04. Sore Eyelids, Slug, Monocles, A Sad Old Man
05. You're the Only One I Hate
06. talking between songs
07. talking between songs...again
08. Shovelglove
09. Windmills
10. Jigsaw
11. Dancing Song (Three Shades of Dirty cover)

http://vk.com/doc-27782338_154276222?ha … 4d75e30ce6
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Wayfarers All Comp LP | Owsla Records | Early 2004
700 Black

tracklist:
01. Life At These Speeds - You Know To Say Yes
02. The Pine - Desperate And Lonely
03. True Feadback Story - Solution Set
04. Liza Kate - A Terrible Beast And A God
05. La Quiete - Lettere Che Avevo Intenzione Di S
06. Sinaloa - Dent Instruments
07. Wilderness Medicine - The Fisherman
08. The Shivering - Look Away
09. Reactionary 3 - Since I Quit My Job
10. Hit Self Destruct - Like Water For Absinthe
11. Stop It!! - Not Mentioned On Maps
12. Big Little Torso - Outro

year:2004
quality:VBR kbps
http://vk.com/doc-27782338_154345109?ha … 573ffb5c8a