Dallas Green (musician)

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Dallas Green, aka
Background information
Birth name	Dallas Green
Born	September 29, 1980 in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
Genre(s)	Acoustic Post-Hardcore
Occupation(s)	Vocalist, Songwriter, Musician
Instrument(s)	Vocals, Guitar
Label(s)	Dine Alone Records
Associated acts	Alexisonfire City and Colour
Website	http://www.cityandcolour.ca/

Dallas Green is one of the guitarists and vocalists in the Canadian post-hardcore band Alexisonfire. He is highly praised by critics for his piercing vocals and melodic voice, present in nearly all of Alexisonfire's songs. One of his most striking features, besides his voice, is the number of tattoos that adorn his body. He has full arm sleeves as well as tattoos on his torso and back. In addition to his work with Alexisonfire, Green also has a solo project named City and Colour, which revolves around songs of an acoustic variety.

Contents 1 Career 2 Awards and Nominations 3 Upcoming Works 4 Discography 4.1 Solo Albums 4.2 Solo Singles 4.3 Other Dallas Green songs 5 Solo videography 6 Equipment 7 Trivia 8 External links

[edit] Career

Green's band, City and Colour's first music video, "Save Your Scissors", from the now gold-rated album Sometimes, was released on January 17, 2006, featuring some of his best friends, and favourite places in his hometown, St. Catharines, Ontario. The second video, "Comin' Home", went number one on Much More Music's video countdown. Dallas Green appears on Neverending White Lights' collaborative album Act 1: Goodbye Friends of the Heavenly Bodies (which was released in 2005), contributing vocals to the song "The Grace".

[edit] Awards and Nominations

• City and Colour was nominated for three awards at the 2006 MuchMusic Video Awards: Best Pop Video, Best Independent Video and a Peoples' Choice Award for Favourite Canadian Artist; winning the Peoples' Choice Award for Favorite Canadian artist.
• Dallas Green was named artist of the year in December 2006 by Chart Magazine.
• The album Sometimes has was nominated and won for the category Alternative Album of the Year at the 2007 Juno Awards

[edit] Upcoming Works

City and Colour Live CD/DVD was released on March 27th, 2007, with a second full-length release to follow in Mid-Summer '07.

[edit] Discography

[edit] Solo Albums

Album Cover	Date of Release	Title	Label
	2004	The Death of Me	Dine Alone Records
	2005	Missing EP	Dine Alone Records
	2005	Sometimes	Dine Alone Records
	2007	Live	Dine Alone Records

[edit] Solo Singles

"Save Your Scissors" (Video Premiered December 2005)

"Comin' Home" (Video Premiered August 2006)

[edit] Other Dallas Green songs

• "So Low"
• "Urgency"
• "The Sleeping Sickness"
• "When She"
• "This Sudden Injury"
• "How Come Your Arms Are Not Around Me (Kristofer Åström Cover)"
• "Love Don't Live Here Anymore (Rose Royce Cover)" (featuring Jully Black)
• "For a Better Day"
• "Happiness by the Kilowatt (Alexisonfire Cover)" (Live)
• "Side Walk When She Walks (originally an Alexisonfire song from their second album "Watch Out!" and then covered by City and Colour)" (Live)
• "Confessions"
• "My Sensible Heart" (Live)
• "Forgive Me"
• "Soon Enough (Constantines Cover)"
• "The Grace" (by Neverending White Lights featuring Dallas Green)
• "Tony Danza Is The Boss" (by Straight Reads The Line featuring Dallas Green)
• "Wake Up My Love" (By Jude The Obscure featuring Dallas Green and George Pettit)
• "Wasting Time" (Ron Sexsmith Cover featured on his myspace)

[edit] Solo videography

• "Save Your Scissors" from Sometimes; directed by Marc Ricciardelli
• "Comin' Home" from Sometimes; directed by Chris Sargent

[edit] Equipment

• Schecter Tempest Custom
• Fender Telecaster
• Gibson ES-135 1965
• Gibson SG
• Gibson ES-335 Unfinished
• Norman B20 CW Acoustic-Electric
• Marshall "30th Anniversary" head
• Mesa 4x12 cab
• BOSS chorus pedal
• BOSS digital delay reverb pedal
• BOSS chromatic tuner
• DigiTech DigiDelay Pedal
• 12-52 gauge strings.

[edit] Trivia

• The song Missing was written about a former religion teacher of Green's, named Ralph Serravalle, who died of cancer. One track CDs of this song were sold at his early shows and all proceeds went to the Denis Morris High School Starvathon that Serravalle had started, and continuously supported. Serravalle played a large part in teaching Dallas to believe in himself as a musician.^{[citation needed]}

• Green has one sister named Jordin.

• Before joining Alexisonfire, Green was in a band called Helicon Blue which produced many songs before breaking up. The three piece band featured Dallas Green on guitar and vocal, Marce Lanteinge on bass and vocal, and Nicholas Osczypko on drums. Early on, the band recorded a self-titled release consisting of five songs; Great Escape, Machinery Faintly Purred, Ballad in Blue, Things you find & And the words came Easily. Later the band met with Greg Below from Distort, who recorded a second record which included; My Last Breath, Sunder, Greater Victory & Perpetual Healing.

• As well as singing and playing guitar, Green is a keen skateboarder and has been skating since he was a teenager.

• According to Green's MySpace profile, Green broke his nose when he was younger while skateboarding.

• Green has many pairs of Hi-Top Nike Classic shoes in various colours.

• Green is an avid basketball fan.

• Green worked at a Famous Players movie theatre that is now Empire Theatres, located at the Pen Centre for a number of years, he also worked at the Famous Players Lincoln Mall Cinemas, which is now gone. He worked at West 49, also located in the Pen Centre, for some time as well.

• Green does guest vocals on the song "Tony Danza Is The Boss" by Straight Reads The Line, a hardcore band from Stoney Creek, Ontario

• Green's song "Sam Malone" is sampled in DL Incognito's song "Fight This".

• The song "In the Water, I am beautiful" is from the preface of "Welcome to the Monkey House" by Kurt Vonnegut.

• Dallas can be seen sporting a Finish Strong shirt on the cover of this month's Chart Magazine, Artist of the Year edition, or on his 2006 MMVA performance. Finish Strong is described as a brotherhood, a family of people dedicated to spreading a 'positive message out to those that choose to listen.' While Dallas is a member and proponent of the organization and what the message encompasses, he did not found it with Matthew Scapillati, despite the many rumors.

[edit] External links

• Official City and Colour website
• Dallas Green's MySpace profile
• Dine Alone Records

Alexisonfire
George Pettit | Dallas Green | Wade MacNeil | Chris Steele | Jordan "Ratbeard" Hastings Jesse Ingelevics
Discography
Studio Albums: Alexisonfire | Watch Out! | Crisis
EPs: Math Sheet Demos | Pink Heart Skull Sampler | Brown Heart Skull Sampler | The Switcheroo Series: Alexisonfire vs. Moneen
Singles: "Pulmonary Archery" | "Counterparts and Number Them" | "Waterwings (And Other Poolside Fashion Faux Pas)" | "Accidents" | "No Transitory" | "Hey, It's Your Funeral Mama" | "This Could Be Anywhere in the World" | "Boiled Frogs"
Related content
Side projects: City and Colour | The Black Lungs Record Labels: Defiance | Dine Alone | Distort | Equal Vision | Shock | Sore Point | Vagrant
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