Koresh's Angels
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| Koresh's Angels | ||
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| Background information | ||
| Origin |  Granbury, Texas, United States |
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| Genre(s) | Punk rock | |
| Years active | 2000–2005 | |
Koresh's Angels was an alt-punk band from Granbury, Texas. Originally formed in the summer of 2000 the group had a rotating roster that varied due to work schedules and family travel plans. The original members were Daniel Prince on lead guitar, Tyler Broussard on bass, Adam "Sausage" Davis on drums and Joel Back on vocals/guitar. Miles Comeau stood in on guitar from time to time and Alex Peters joined as backing vocals when needed. The group mainly played covers of punk rock songs and renditions of whatever classic rock songs Daniel had recently learned. The band played one show that summer at Tommie Harris's End of Summer Bash at his lake house before school started again and the group was unable to schedule regular practices and performances during the following school year.
Beginning in the fall of 2002 the band began to rehearse bi-monthly in Denton, Texas where Tyler and Daniel were students at the University of North Texas. Still acting as a cover group, they were unable to schedule any shows until that summer when they performed on the anniversary of Tommie Harris's party in 2000. Friends and family attended the show where it was announced it would be the final public performance of the group due to distance and lack of regularly scheduled rehearsals.
In the spring of 2003 Daniel, Tyler, Joel and friend Matthew LaMarca formed the experimental group Koke Donkey after a weekend together in Arlington, Texas where LaMarca was a student. The group relied mainly on effects and recording manipulations, achieving what they believed to be interesting covers of classic songs with modern technology influences. The group continued to send ideas and samples back and forth over the internet until 2005 when the band broke up for good after arguments about the band's song selection.
The bands name was a reference to David Koresh, the Branch Davidian leader, who had died in the Waco standoff. The name was neither in praise or disdain of Koresh but was more a comment on how big of a deal the event had become and how often it continued to be brought up in the media year after year. The band in fact never made reference to Koresh or his followers in their songs or artwork and only chose the name because it was still slightly offensive at the time. The name choice was actually a jab towards some parents in Granbury who had requested that the band Fat Saunders and the Fabulous Cellulite Boys change their name because it was assumed to be negative towards overweight people.
