Seven Seconds To Midnight

Seven Seconds To Midnight is:

JC Simonsen

Guitar, Vox

JC is a lifelong devotee to culturally significant music from many genres excluding "mindless pop". As a self-taught musician with an eclectic taste and a penchant to prefer raw sounds and often improvised styles, his melodic repetoire has roots in mainstream rock and blues but is peppered with other influences including folk, punk, funk, jazz, metal, alternative, grunge, among others. Overall his style and tone has been called "lush and buzzy". It is unusual to find a music lover who is simultaneously a fan of the Indigo Girls, Metallica, Bob Dylan, Primus, Sting, Cracker, Jim Croce, Guns 'n' Roses, Dashboard Confessional, Jimi Hendrix, Alice in Chains, Bon Jovi, Kenny Rogers, Van Morrison, the Beatles, Public Enemy, Rage Against the Machine, Blind Melon, BB King, Sarah McLachlan.... the list could go on forever. JC is a fan of all of those and more. With a long history of writing and performing music in various bands, JC also has a decades-long and still active solo project Polly PUt the Kettle On (Website).

You may also have heard JC perform as a guitarist with local band American Rooster, a band with a Rock/Americana/Country/Folk vibe.
JC Says:

• Music is fundamentally "Cathartic" -- meaning through the expression of human emotion through song, we find a shared outlet for our joy, fear, love, anger, etc.

Tony Kohler

Bass, Backing Vox

Tony is a talented guitarist and bassist that has worked in many garage bands including Osiris, Summerfrost, etc. Tony has a diverse musical background that includes some music theory training and is equally at home on the guitar, bass, or keyboards, and he brings to 7S2M a strong songwriting ability and devotion to the craft that is really key to the 7S2M sound. Tony is an active fan of many kinds of music including various forms of rock, blues, and jazz and brings this wide-ranging musical sensibility to every project.

Rob Willardson

Drums, Backing Vox

Rob is an extremely capable drummer who has loved music and drums for many years. He started college as a music major on a drum scholarship and has played in pep bands, jazz bands, and rock bands. Rob also has considerable knowledge of music theory and functional ability as a guitarist and keyboardist, as well as a vocalist and songwriter. Rob and JC share a special bond, having played together years prior in an early version of Polly PUt the Kettle On before it transformed into a solo project. Rob is a fan of many forms of music that have "meaning" and enjoys the process of creating and performing lively art-rock music.