Rock On The Range- KICKING OFF ROCK ON THE RANGE THIS YEAR WAS THE YOUNGEST GROUP OF THE TWO DAY FESTIVAL; DRIVE A. RANGING IN AGES BETWEEN 15-20 IT WOULD BE INTERESTING TO SEE HOW THEY WOULD REACT TO THE LARGE CROWD THAT GATHERED AND HOW THAT CROWD WOULD REACT TO THEM. COMING ON STAGE ONE BY ONE ARMS RAISED IN THE AIR AND READY TO PLAY YOU ALREADY GAINED A GREAT VIBE FROM THESE BOYS. IT WAS A GREAT RELIEF TO KNOW THAT AS YOUNG AS THEY MAY BE THERE SOUND IS INCREDIBLE. BRUNO THE GROUPS LEAD VOCALIST COMES ACROSS LOUD AND WITH PASSION. YOU COULD TELL THIS GROUP HAD MANY INFLUENCES OF MANY STYLES BY THE WAY EVERY SONG THEY PLAYED WAS DIFFERENT FROM THEIR LAST. "BLINK 182 GOT A LOT OF US TO WANT TO GET INTO MUSIC BUT WE ALSO LIKE A LOT OF OTHER BANDS AS WELL" PROCLAIMS DRUMMER TERRY. " WE HAVE A LOT OF NEWER BANDS AS INFLUENCES AND AT THE SAME TIME A LOT OF OLDER BANDS AS WELL LIKE THE BEATLES AND LED ZEPPELIN" ADDS FRONT MAN BRUNO. EVEN WITH ALL THAT WE STILL SEE A CREATIVENESS AND ORIGINALITY THAT IS SO HARD TO FIND IN TODAYS ROCK MUSIC LET ALONE A GROUP THAT IS THAT YOUNG. MAYBE PERHAPS THAT IS WHAT WAS NEEDED AS MORE AND MORE IN TODAYS AGE YOUNG ADULTS HAVE SUCH A SENSE OF CREATIVITY THAT RUNS THROUGH THERE MINDS. THE CROWD WAS WELL PLEASED BY THE TIME THERE SET WAS THROUGH. DRIVE A HAD GAINED A GREAT NUMBER OF FANS FROM JUST THAT ONE SET AND ARE WELL ON THEIR WAY TO BECOMING JUST LIKE THOSE GROUPS THEY IDOLIZED GROWING UP. IT WILL BE GREAT TO WATCH THE PROGRESS THIS GROUP MAKES THROUGH OUT THE YEARS AND FROM THIS DAY FORWARD SHOULD NO LONGER BE DESCRIBED AS BOYS, FOR THEY HAVE EARNED THEIR PLACE AMONG THE MEN OF ROCK!