Halfway to Gone is an American

United States

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 rock band from New Jersey

New Jersey

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. The band formed in 1999 when bassist and founding member of Solarized, Lou Gorra got together with Lee Stuart (Solarized's touring guitarist), and drummer Danny Gollin. Chuck Dukehart from Sixty Watt Shaman

Sixty Watt Shaman

Sixty Watt Shaman is an American heavy metal band originally based out of Baltimore, Maryland. The genre of music they are often associated with is stoner rock or stoner metal. They formed in 1996 and recorded and released their first studio album in 1998. The band last recorded in 2002 and last...

 played drums in the band for a year before being replaced by Kenny Wagner

Kenny Wagner

William Kenneth Wagner more commonly known as Kenny Wagner was a bootlegger in the U.S. state of Mississippi, who murdered several people, including two sheriff's deputies...

, also of Sixty Watt Shaman

Sixty Watt Shaman

Sixty Watt Shaman is an American heavy metal band originally based out of Baltimore, Maryland. The genre of music they are often associated with is stoner rock or stoner metal. They formed in 1996 and recorded and released their first studio album in 1998. The band last recorded in 2002 and last...

 & Honky

Honky

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, who toured with them and played on "Second Season". The band did U.S. tours & played shows with Clutch

Clutch (band)

Clutch is an American rock band from Germantown, Maryland, formed in 1990. The band's first release was an EP entitled Pitchfork, which debuted in October 1990. Their first studio album, Transnational Speedway League, was released three years later in 1993. To date, Clutch has released nine studio...

, Nashville Pussy

Nashville Pussy

Nashville Pussy is an American hard rock band from Atlanta, Georgia. Their musical style mixes boogie rock, Southern metal and psychobilly. Much of the band's lyrical themes mostly revolve around sex, drugs, drinking, fighting, and rock 'n' roll...

, Nebula

Nebula (band)

Nebula was a psychedelic stoner rock band, formed by guitarist Eddie Glass and drummer Ruben Romano after departing from Fu Manchu in 1997. Rob Oswald later replaced Ruben Romano on drums in 2007....

, CKY

CKY (band)

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, Suplecs, and many others. The band's style has been described as a mixture of Stoner rock

Stoner rock

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, Southern rock

Southern rock

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 and Heavy metal

Heavy metal music

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, inspired by Lynyrd Skynyrd

Lynyrd Skynyrd

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 and Black Sabbath

Black Sabbath

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, among others. They released an album with Alabama Thunderpussy

Alabama Thunderpussy

Alabama Thunderpussy was a Stoner metal band from Richmond, Virginia. It was founded by Bryan Cox, Erik Larson and Asechiah Bogdan in 1996.-History:...

 in 2000 and their own debut early the next year. They have released two more albums since. They went on extended hiatus in 2004 but are rumored to be doing another album in 2011 with original line up of Stu, Danny, & Lou on Smallstone Records.

Discography

• Split w/Alabama Thunderpussy (2000 Underdogma/Game Two Records)
• High Five (2001, Small Stone)
• Second Season (2002, Small Stone)
• Halfway to Gone (2004, Small Stone)

Filmography

Their song "Escape From Earth" was feaured in the cult film, "The Sasquatch (Dumpling) Gang.

External links

• Halfway to Gone at MySpace
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