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American Speedway
Biography
American Speedway originated in November 2007, formed by bassist/backing vocalist Bill Angry (born October 6, 1971) bringing onboard drummer Chris Callahan (born July 7 ,1976), guitarist Johnny Griswold (born January 6, 1971), and frontman vocalist /lyricist Michael Thursby (born January 21, 1979) to release, pretty quickly, a debut album on both vinyl and bonus CD entitled Ship of Fools.

Griswold and Angry performed together in a punk rock group, the Griswolds, about ten years prior to American Speedway, bringing Thursby on board to play saxophone about a year later for a different spin behind the band's sound. A year after that Johnny Griswold started another group, Los Griswolds, while Bill Angry stayed with the Griswolds, who changed their name to Redtops and signed to Universal Warning Records. At this point Thursby also moved on to form a punk/pop band called Wormbath. With Los Griswolds on the west coast, Redtops stayed on the east with Wormbath dissolving, leaving Thursby without a band for several years. It was in October of 2006 that Bill Angry decided to exit Redtops and - hooking up via phone withJohnny Griswold, who was in San Diego, Angry described the new band he was putting together as "a band that would be fresh, not original, but something that people will and have latched onto before.
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