Inside of six months, Livingston-based rock band Going Dark has gone from playing the famed Bamboozle Festival and playing before 9,000 while opening for Big Time Rush this past summer to two upcoming dream projects drummer and Livingston High School sophomore Alex Fogg continually called "crazy" and "surreal."
Later today, Going Dark -- which features Fogg, 14; Livingston-based guitarist L.J. Militello, 13; and vocalist/bassist Oliver Shaw, 11, of Essex Fells -- will enter Dover's Showplace Recording Studios to begin work on their first full-length album, "Play Your Game" which is set to be released this coming January. They will record in the same studio where guitar legends Eric Clapton and Keith Richards, popular singer Sheryl Crow and seminal Seattle grunge band Nirvana have laid down tracks through the years.
And as if that were not heady enough, Going Dark will play their first-ever New York City gig opening for rock superstar Sebastian Bach, the former front band for former New Jersey-based MTV staples Skid Row, on Nov. 10 at Irving Plaza. (Tickets are available through the band's web store.)
“It's been an awesome year,” Fogg said. “I had no idea we were going to get where we were so fast. We really worked really hard for this.”
“You wonder how you do it in a year,” Militello said. “Some of these things takes bands maybe two years to do.”
Before opening for Bach, Going Dark will spend 15 days recording and mixing their first CD, which the members anticipate containing 11 songs that take listeners on a sonic journey across the rock-and-roll map. Their upcoming title track, “Play Your Game”, contains Militello's crunchy guitar and a sturdy backbeat from Fogg paired with powerful lyrics and vocals from Shaw that belie his age.
Another song available on the Going Dark website, “Stand Up”, features an agile guitar solo from Militello around lyrics that encourage self-belief.
“Lots of our songs are very different types,” Shaw explained. “There'll be a song that's sort of slower, some have jamming, some reggae. They're all mainly based around rock.”
Going Dark will take a quick breather after recording before heading across the Hudson River to open for Bach – a gig they learned about while doing a photo shoot for “Play Your Game.” None of the band members have been to Irving Plaza yet, but they are buzzing about taking the stage Nov. 10 as the opening act at the official record-release show for his upcoming CD “Kicking and Screaming.”
“I'm very excited that my first show at Irving Plaza, I'll be playing,” Shaw said.
It will be the latest highlight of a six-month ride that started with playing Bamboozle.
“No words can describe it,” Fogg said. “It's insane.”
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