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185:(drums), Elijah Thomson (bass), Phil Bennett (organ), Bob Schiveley (guitar), Masaki Liu (guitar), Jason White (additional drums), Ethan Luck (guitar), and many additional vocalists. Some of the songs on the album were originally written for Guerilla Rodeo. One of the online forums spawned by this group is the Roper Board in which many fans of both Roper and Reese's previous band Five Iron Frenzy congregate. 192:
What happened to Roper? Is it dead? - Yes. Roper was a project put together by 5minutewalk records. We had a falling out with them, and are too lazy to start over again. Everyone has real jobs now, and although we miss seeing you all, we are just going to let it die. Unless you are a record company
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that the probability of making another album was "somewhere around 3%." The Roper project sold close to 30,000 albums in total, about the same as Brave Saint Saturn and other Five Iron related side projects. He also stated that, in retrospect, the project was "doomed from the beginning," but that
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When the Guerilla Rodeo project came to an end, Reese reformed the band under his own name, Roper. Roper's full-length album,
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executive that wants to give us an enormous signing bonus and not make us tour.
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Roper issued a statement regarding the status of the band in 2006:
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Newton, Adam (March–April 2009). "Brave Saint Saturn".
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Index

Denver
Pop punk
Five Minute Walk
Reese Roper
Christian
pop-punk
Denver, Colorado
Reese Roper
Five Iron Frenzy
Reese Roper
Ethan Luck
John Warne
Letters to Cleo
Guerrilla Radio
Brace Yourself for the Mediocre
Five Minute Walk Records
Masaki Liu
Ethan Luck
Frank Lenz
HM
Reese Roper
Billboard

Brace Yourself for the Mediocre
"Exclusive Interview with Roper"
"Five Iron Sucks"



HM Magazine

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