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| The very beginnings of the band ICE began back in late 2000, in Miss Pellegrini's Television class, where Rich "Ice" Torok, Q-Money, and Toth were classmates. For a few of their video projects for the class they would incorporate Vanilla Ice and various white rap themes,such as using the Ice Ice Baby lyrics for an anti-smoking Public Service Announcement, and even penning their own four line rhyme for the graduating class of 2001. However, the true beginnings of the band to become know as ICE started with Toth began speaking to Big Len about performing Ice Ice Baby in the talent show for kicks. In late 2001, he found just the right person to spit the rhymes, Rich "ICE" Torok. Acquiring Q-Money on bass, the first grouping of ICE had come together. At the beginning, it was meant to be a one-time thing, but as the time drew nearer, the quartet became more and more enthusiastic about it, and decided they would continue with ICE. But first, in February 2002, the band known as ICE performed an amazing cover of Vanilla Ice's Ice Ice Baby at Sayreville War Memorial High School's Twelfh Annual Variety Show. ICE had the crowd going absolutely nuts by the line, "turn off the lights and I'll glow", when ICE did just that, with help from a pair of blacklights on stage. After stealing the show, ICE decided to ask Pat "Johnny America" Chan to join them as lead guitarist, because it wasn't going to be a one-night-only deal. In the weeks following, Toth and Q-Money collaborated and began to piece together their very first rhyme which became known as I-C-E, and was a hit amont the people they showed it to and around the school. In the following months, ICE began to play together almost every day and put together a few more songs, such as Untouchable, The 70s Squad, and King of Flow. One day out of nowhwere, Toth broke into No TV, and the band performed it flawlessly as if they had been playing it constantly. The band would get the chance to perform as a school sponsored barbecue in May2002, where they played their own I-C-E plus a short rhyme over James Brown's I Feel Good as a dedication to the school principal, Mr. James Brown, the Godfather of Soul. Also, the quintet performed few other covers such as Metallica's Fade to Black, MC Hammers's U Can't Touch This, Sir Mix-a-Lot's Baby Got Back, and the Sugarhill Gang's Rapper's Delight. Chan would soon be dubbed Johnny America as the band began to piece together more and more songs to prepare for their first real show. In late July 2002, the band finally got their music recorded, in the legendary Basement. They recorded a six-song demo which they started to sell friends and random people around town. The following week, ICE, Q-Money and Toth attended Club KROME's Summerslam, featuring Trace of Shadows, for whom Q-Money's older brother played guitar. While there, they met with KROME's booker and booked their own show for August 14, 2002. August 14 came, and ICE was definitely prepared to rock. They played a 45-minute set which included most of their songs plus a few necessary covers as well as an encore of their song "Untouchable." The crowd was very into the music and as ICE wrapped up their set, an envelope containing tickets for another show, the Stone Pony the next week. The following Tuesday, August 20, ICE played the Stone Pony in Asbury Park. Playing basically the same set with a few variation in another 45-minute time slot, ICE rocked the place. Little did they know, this would be the last time Pat and Len would play as official members of ICE... |
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| HISTORY PART I |
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