From the Desk of Bren Mead:

I thought of the name Vetran in 1994. I liked the simplicity of it and the honest irony (I had only been writing songs for about a year but I had already been in ten or more bands, most of them with my best friend and future Masters of the Hemisphere co-frontman Sean Rawls). I’m also sure the fact that my father is a veteran of the Gulf War influenced the decision to use the name. By the time I realized that I had misspelled “veteran”, it was too late. I had already designed, laid-out, and printed the tape sleeves for the first Vetran cassette. Considering that color copies cost about two to three dollars per page in 1994, there was no choice but to move forward with and embrace the misspelled name. READ MORE

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