Better known as Matt, but there’s too many Matt’s here so we just call him Fletch.

Fletch likes to party and recently just got back from Rosarito for Spring Break where he drank the mysterious rattlesnake tequila:

Says he…

“it’s a diffrent kind of drunk, like you’ve been poisiond, and then you realize you have. my shot had a scale in it. It tasted like old meat”

What’d you do after?

“ran around like we were on fire, tried to talk to some girls, but I think they were 12. So we went to a taco stand and drank a 5 dollar beer”

Aside from partying in Rosarito, Fletch also likes to host spoon parties, dress in suits that are too snug, and make random songs about ham (?).

I think it’s safe to say we found someone crazy enough to rock the groundhog suit for next year’s groundhog day crawl. It’s going to be tough to top me, though…

Known mainly as being the drummer for every band in Chico for awhile, Jake Sprecher starting interning at the Synthesis for shits and giggles after realizing that if you play in more than one band in Chico you are legally obligated to work at either Woodstock’s Pizza or the Synthesis, or in his case, both. After proving his mettle by taking on all the lame interviews that no one else wanted to do, like Pete Best and Five Finger Death Punch, we felt really bad for him after his Pinback interview for Issue 9 of the Synthesis Digital got rescheduled like 234 times and decided that we would actually start paying him to do all the shit that no one else wanted to do. So now he’s here most days of the week stacking ultimate fame, while his nights are spent fronting the fucking bad ass Candy Apple who will be on tour next month.  Check them out on the Space or in one of the following cities and tell Jake to hurry back, because there’s always a bunch of shitty bands that need so coverage BRO!

When we found Video Matt aka Matt Wilson at the local troubled teen shelter [actually it was Butte College, but close enough] he had been on the grind for a minute, setting up interviews with bands and filming live footage totally guerrilla style, working with bands like Paramore and Dance Gavin Dance and repping Gridley, CA like a motherfucker. Since no one else at Synthesis even knew how to turn on a video camera, let alone had the balls to stand in front of it, we immediately hired Matt to be our guru of all things video, allowing him to slay 234 times more tang on YouTube and in the process, giving him a chance to work with most of his all time favorite bands, including New Found Glory, Cartel, Jacks Mannequin and Danger Radio to name a few; get super hammered at SXSW before even turning 21, and learn all about industry rule #4080. Check out our YouTube page for all sorts of Video Matt madness and be sure to hit your boy up on the comments, maybe he’ll holla next time he’s kicking it at The Boardwalk, nahmean?

Since the theme of this blog lately seems to be recurring features ( see Band of the Day, The Next, et al )I figured I’d add to the fray with one of my very own: MEET THE SYNTHESIS, will introduce you, the loyal blog reader, to some of the great minds behind the words and images you see on this stupid web site, and some of the rad things they do outside of their roles at the unstoppable internet juggernaut that is SYNTHESIS.

We’ve worked with a lot of badass photographers over the years here at ol’ Synthesis. But Harland Spinks is definitely one of the most BA. Besides just taking amazing pictures of bands and totally croosh local dance parties, he also is very adept at taking pictures of his own statuesque figure and stern-yet-inviting countenance. Check out his shit over at Flickr and holler at him to shoot your shitty band when you come through NorCal.