Tally Hall

Founded: December 2002

Headquarters: Ann Arbor, Michigan

Website Link(s):

Official Tally Hall Website

Label(s)[]

Quack!Music
Atlantic Records

Genre[]

Wonky rock (invented by Tally Hall)
Fabloo (invented by Tally Hall, designed to keep their music from being restrained to genres)

Band Members[]

Andrew Horowitz (keyboard)
Ross Federman (drums)
Joe Hawley (guitar)
Rob Cantor (guitar)
Zubin Sedghi (bass)

Band Biography[]

Tally Hall is an alternative rock band formed in Ann Arbor, Michigan in december 2002 while the members where attending University of Michigan. Originally, they described their genre as "wonky rock", but because people were trying to define what wonky rock was, they started calling it "fabloo".

Each member wears a colorful tie, Joe Hawley being red, Rob Cantor being yellow, Zubin sedghi blue, Andrew Horowitz: green and Ross Federman silver. Originally, their drummer was Steve Gallagher, who also wore a silver tie, but in 2004 he quit and Ross joined.

Ross[]

Ross was born and raised in a suburb of Detroit known as Bloomfield hills, where he attended Lahser high school. While there, he took part in a large variety of musical endeavors, including but not limited to band.

WHAT HE DOES: among other things, drumming and percussion

FAVORITE COLOR: green (somehow I got stuck with silver)

FAVORITE BANDS: Led Zeppelin, Ben Folds (Five), The Beatles, Radiohead, etc.

FAVORITE ICE CREAM FLAVOR: mint chocolate chip

FAVORITE PIXEL ON HIS COMPUTER SCREEN: 297 from left, 192 from bottom

MAJOR IN SCHOOL: Cell and Molecular Biology (premed)

STICK CHOICE: Vater Fusions

DRUMSET: Pearl Session series

Joe[]

Joe is the Tally Hall movie-smith.

Rob[]

rob is the one in the yellow tie. he hails from the rough-n-tumble streets of suburban Detroit, where people constantly get into "beat it"-style knife-fights. he went to high school with Zubin. after graduation, rob moved to Ann Arbor to begin studying for the MCats. meanwhile, an elusive and echo-y voice constantly urged him to form a band. he did. when not tallying (meaning counting - these activities are unrelated to the band), rob contemplates molecular and cellular biology. he may be a doctor one day. rob's songs are specially designed for romantic comedies starring hugh grant. here are some other things about rob: 1. a large baby, rob broke his mom's coccyx during labor. 2. rob is an eagle scout. 3. rob is english for "to steal" 4. rob likes kurt vonnegut, barack obama, and aaron sorkin. 7. npr is the greatest, says rob. 8. rob owns but has never read the following books: 8a. "the federalist papers" 8b. "the tao of pooh" 8c. "the social transformation of american medicine" (a pulitzer prize winner!) 8d. "8d: a study in sub-division" 9. rob isn't a palindrome, but do you know what is? if so, good for you. if not, better luck next time, friend. you'll need it. 10. rob loves you.

thanks for reading rob's bio. i'll tell him you stopped by; he'll be so glad to hear you're doing well. well, then. take care of yourself out there, my good sir.

sincerely, thomas jefferson.

Andrew[]

andrew hails from the wonderful state of new jersey. he began playing piano at five and composing at eight.

EYE COLOR: brown

HEIGHT: 5'10 (give or take an inch)

MUSICAL OBSESSIONS: brian wilson, sly and the family stone, mahler, gil evans, uri caine, everything. he is obsessed.

LITERATURE/POETRY OBSESSIONS: e.e.cummings, john irving, edward gorey, robert crumb, lots of other stuff.

OTHER MUSIC VENTURES:

- toy orchestra (www.toyorchestra.com) - baker bros (www.myspace.com/thebakerbros)

STUDIED COMPOSITION WITH: susan botti, evan chambers, michel merlot, curtis curtis-smith, michael daugherty, karen tanaka, william bolcom.

STUFF HE'S WON: 2 hopwood awards for fiction and poetry, 2004 john lennon scholarship for "good day," performed and recorded by tally hall.

Zubin[]

Zubin? you could be thinking: what kind of a name is that? or hey, that's the second zubin i know. or sheesh man, my name is zach and our names both start with a z. either way, you should know a few things about zubin.

he is helpful, caring, laid back, involved, and sarcastic. he is persian.

here is a list of zubin's favorites:

CEREAL: cracklin' oat bran BAND MEMBER: horowitz ZIPPER FLY COMPANY: ykk KANYE WEST: kanye west APPENDAGE: left arm NES GAME: super mario brothers 3 STAGE OF MITOSIS: telophase RUDIMENTARY SHAPE: circle

now, we move on a list of analogies:

detroit pistons : new jersey nets as johnny depp : mathew modine

and finally,

it is done.

wait.

ok.

now, it's done.

-phew

Discography[]

Albums[]

Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum
Good & Evil

Singles[]

2004

Good Day