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Run By: Brittany
Since: March 2005

The First Page

Indulge me, dear reader. Let’s play a guessing game.

Think of a band. Think of a rock band. Think of a rock band from the south end of the USA, with openly Christian values and a female vocalist.

You’re thinking of Evanescence, aren’t you?

Well, if you’re up on current events, you could also be thinking of Flyleaf. But don’t feel bad if you weren’t. Pretty much every music journalist that Flyleaf guitarist Sameer Bhattacharya has ever spoken to has cast up Amy Lee’s outfit at some point in the conversation.

“Yeah, comparisons to them… I think we’ve heard them so much that we just don’t hear them anymore. It’s kinda like your mom telling you to clean your room. After a while all you hear is ‘bwah bwah bwah bwah’,” he says, perhaps slightly wearied.

Flyleaf has existed, in one form or another, for the last four years, but they didn’t always go by that moniker.

“We’ve been through a few band names,” Bhattacharya laughs. “We’re on our third. Well, our first band name just wasn’t any good, so I’m not gonna mention it at all. We only had that one a couple of weeks. We didn’t really have any big shows, we played parking lots or whatever.

“Then, after that, our name was Passerby – which we thought was a great name. I guess someone else thought it was a great name too, because it was taken! So they were trying to sue us for a little bit. So we ended up as Flyleaf.

“A flyleaf is a blank page in a book. To us, what it represented was the clarity before the story began and after it ends and you have the story in the middle.”

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