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| We Shot The Moon | |
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| Origin | San Diego, California, United States |
| Genres | Rock, indie rock |
| Years active | 2007–present |
| Labels | The Militia Group, Afternoon |
| Associated acts | Waking Ashland |
| Website | weshotthemoon |
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We Shot the Moon, formerly known as The Honor Roll, is a band from San Diego, California featuring Jonathan Jones the singer of Waking Ashland, and originally, Dan Koch, and Joe Greenetz both from the band Sherwood.
The band formed as The Honor Roll when Jonathan Jones' band, Waking Ashland, broke up. On July 21, 2007, the band put up four demo songs on their MySpace page. In August 2007 the group changed its name to We Shot the Moon.
Their first ever show as a band was a benefit concert, Water for Choche, which helped bring water to people in Choche, Ethiopia. It was held on September 15, 2007 at Point Loma Nazarene University in southern California. They have released three full-length albums and have completed 10+ national tours since their formation in 2007. Jones is the only consistent member of the group since the original line up.
They entered the studio on August 22, 2007, to record a full-length album, Fear and Love. The band embarked on its first U.S. Tour in September 2007 with an original lineup of Jonathan Jones, Trevor Faris, Paul Wheatley, Matthew J Doughty and Nathan Scott. Waking Ashland had broken in Japan, and the We Shot the Moon album was originally to be released there as a posthumous Waking Ashland B-sides collection before the group decided to make it their primary project.
Jason De La Torre became an official guitarist in the band in July 2008 along with Adam Lovell on bass guitar. In August 2008, it was announced that original lead guitarist Paul Wheatley had left the band for personal reasons. His role on the tour was temporarily filled by Nate Miller.
The band entered the studio again in January 2009 to begin work on their second album to be produced by Mike Green. Though the group had a Japanese label contract, they had left The Militia Group early in 2009 and nearly self-released their second full-length domestically after finding little interest from American record labels. The band eventually signed with Minneapolis, Minnesota-based indie label Afternoon Records in June 2009 and released their second full-length album, A Silver Lining, on October 13, 2009.
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