Dana's Fast

    Look, there's not much that's original in rock music.  Bands incorporate their influences and build upon them.  The task for most young bands is to take those self-apparent influences and mix them into a hybrid sound they can call their own.  Plano's Dana's Fast is a band that wears its influences on its sleeves, to its detriment.
    The band has 3 songs on its website, "Sneaky," "Not a Chance," and an instrumental demo called "Fissure."  To begin with, lead vocalist Pnut- dude, you really need to use your own name or come up with something better, this sounds like a Fred Durst alter-ego- anyway, he sounds like a dimmer version of Jim Morrison or Tool's Maynard James Keenan.  There's not much range here.  Moreover some of the lyrics are almost direct lifts from the Doors, for example the line "my old compatible friend" from "Sneaky" recalls "The End."   "Not a Chance" begins with the laughable line "the voices in my head have an affinity to kill you all right now."  Wow... heavy... well not really.  
    The band's rhythym section,  John Minnet & Justin Foster hold down a solid tight crunch.  But the guitar work of Pnut & Kevin Mains seems to be lifted from well, just about every Smashing Pumpkins song you can think of!  Look, this is a young band that hopefully will grow.  But it seems the band hasn't taken the time to develop its own uniqueness.