Biography

l-r: Charlie Bullock, Christopher Casuga, Sean Porter, Scott Hernandez-Jason

Feeling Gravity’s Pull:

  • is a four-piece independent rock band hailing from Merced, CA; right smack dab in the middle of the state’s Central Valley.
  • is a song by the popular rock band REM.
  • uses solid-state amplification equipment because it’s cheap and can be coaxed to sound good.
    Well, good enough. 
  • invented the game of Bocce Beer, where unopened cans of Coors Light take the place of the standard balls.
  • has a frontman whose guitar has the unfortunate tendency of uncoupling, a guitarist who is at least five years older than the next-oldest member, a bassist who hides beer and sandwiches in his friends’ houses for later consumption, and a drummer who’s too young to be in bars (UPDATE: No longer true as of November 2012).
  • is influenced by bands like The Who and Neil Young and Joy Division and Mission of Burma and an assorted, eclectic pantheon of bands (depending on the member) but ends up sounding kinda like Superchunk.
  • can’t stop, won’t stop, but so help me if you don’t shut up I will turn this car around and no more Disneyland for you, young man.
  • rocks.

Christopher Casuga
lead vocals, guitar
Likes: Songs with bridges in them, Silkworm, angular chords
Dislikes: The Big Bang Theory, wisdom teeth, when his bandmates forbid him from eating Fruit Gushers


Scott Hernandez-Jason
guitar, backing vocals
Likes: Bourbon, Wilco, Raising the maturity index of the entire band by virtue of being a part of it
Dislikes: Songs with bridges in them, when dubstep artists are placed nearby the acoustic tent at festivals, The Eagles

Charlie Bullock
drums
Likes: Guitars that go “whoosh”, Dinosaur Jr., Taco Bell
Dislikes: People who can’t commit to a regular date to play Dungeons and Dragons, the popular rapper Lil B., whenever Christopher says something purposefully depressing

Sean Porter
bass guitar, backing vocals
Likes: The Replacements, the Shake Weight for Men, writing poetry
Dislikes: Jokes about or mainly involving the inclusion of the male genitalia (esp. when made by Christopher), that scene in Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo when everyone is dancing in the hospital, stomach flu

Line-up, circa Early 2010-2011. l-r: Scott Hernandez-Jason, Sean Porter, Peter Brynjegard, Christopher Casuga

FGP ALUMNI:

Adam Trelatsky
bass guitar late-2012, guitar early-2013
Likes: German Prog-Metal bands, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Puns worse than anything Christopher could begin to imagine
Dislikes: Coldplay, Coldplay, Coldplay 



Peter Gerard Brynjegard 
drums
Likes: 60s folk songwriters, R.E.M., yelling about U.S. history
Dislikes: Members of the National Socialist German Workers Party