EVENINGTHESCORE
Adam Blaylock grew up in Mesa, Arizona on a steady diet of Top 40s Hits and Country Music. After living in Northern California for a few years, Blaylock and his family moved back to Mesa in 1996. It was then while reconnecting with some old friends that he was introduced to Grunge and Punk Rock. Bands like Nirvana, Soundgarden, Green Day, Alice in Chains, The Offspring, and Stone Temple Pilots came screaming into his ears and burned in his heart. And after seeing a boy in the school hallway playing a guitar and leading an entire group of teenagers in singing along to some radio hit of the time, his dream of becoming a musician was born. As Adam would later say, “Nirvana got me to pick up a guitar, but Foo Fighters got me writing songs.” The punk and hard rock anthems of “The Colour And The Shape” and the more thoughtful melodies of “There Is Nothing Left To Lose” paved the way for some of the earliest EveningTheScore songs like “Ode” and can be heard influencing songs as far in as “Follow the Bleeder” and “You and Me”.
Although Blaylock spent years in and out of local bands like Curbside High, The Heartless, and The Pine Bluff Variant, EveningTheScore is a solo project with occasional contributions from engineers and drummers like Jeff Tretta and Johnny Lincoln. The single “2020” was a collaboration with local punk rock legend Jim Wilcox (Authority Zero) and marked a delightful new flavor in the overall discography.