In the beginning...

...God created Rock & Roll. And it was good.

Now skip ahead a couple thousand years. Factory Defect was formed in 2005 with a simple premise in mind--free beer (more specifically--how they could get some). Jeff, Leo, Matt, Bob and Dan had been playing in the 50s-90s dance rock cover band Decades together for over seven years (eleven years for some of the elders) and discovered there's only so much Elvis a sane person can take. So it was agreed that Decades would die a natural death in December 2004 and a new project would begin shortly thereafter.

In January 2005, they began in earnest on the new project. Everyone agreed they wanted to play more of the music on which they grew up. However, several competing styles of music emerged from their discussions. After ska polka, fusion country, and big band punk had been ruled out as "too mainstream," they settled on a formula of hard rock/pop hits from the 80s, 90s, and 00s (or whatever the hell today's music is called). But they all agreed something was definitely missing from their current line-up. First, they thought it was just deoderant, but soon they realized they needed a female singer to add to the mix.

In the spring of 2005 they started auditioning prospective female singers. After a few threatening letters, some legal document with the word 'statutory' in it, and two restraining orders later, they had exhausted all their possibilities and still did not have a female singer. Then, through a mutual friend, Kate showed up one night at a gig and was introduced to the band. Realizing she still had all of her teeth, as well as the recommended inoculations, the guys knew they had found their singer. Kate was the missing sixth wheel on their five-wheel bus. The group diligently rehearsed during the summer and fall of 2005 and made their official debut as Factory Defect in October 2005. Critics cheered, women cried, babies ran naked and hungry through the streets. It was truly a thing of beauty.

Finally, in the fall of 2007, Dan & Leo decided they wanted to pursue a Captain & Tennille tribute band (although it is said that they are still arguing over who gets to be Tennille). As a result, Factory Defect went looking for new members. They found Mike (who had played previously with them during those hazy Decades days) living on the street in a cardboard box, talking to himself and strumming his guitar to the rhythm of the passing subway cars, and offered him the career opportunity of a lifetime. Several dozen showers later, he was in. No one really knows from where Ken came, only that rumor has it he once killed a guy. The rest of the band was too scared to ask, but they hired him anyway.

And the rest, they say, is history.....