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The Waiting began in late spring of 2005, when Andy Ferris and Josh Weidemann were introduced through a mutual friend, our hero of the story Coco. From there, they traveled across vast deserts to the land of Josh Weidemann, in hopes of achieving a fun and glorious band practice. (Groupies present.) With Coco on drums, it was quite the catastrophe, but after 5 minutes behind the skins, was booted. Enter Austin Helgeson. Austin had been a friend of Josh's for quite sometime, and had randomly appeared at this "practice." With him at drums, Andy's ears were blown, and sure thing, Austin was in.

Time follows, and within the first three weeks, the band was playing their first show at a battle of the bands. They lost of course, but they left half of the opposing bands in the dust, nevertheless.

That summer, the band's adventures continued in that little town of Washburn. By the middle of June, they added Ali McDuffee on guitar, but by their last show, their friend Shawn Hoffman was filling in. Many bars, emo teen hangouts, and skate parks later, Andy called it quits all too soon, in mid-August. The band in all reality, really accomplished nothing, with only 9 shows under their belt in less than a 2 month span, and no recording to show for it. A mere $90 was earned.

That fall, they all screwed around and wasted time with things less important to the cause of The Waiting. Andy tried doing his solo acoustic shows yet again, Austin briefly joined Brother John, and Josh was Josh. By the end of October, they knew their calling lie in The Waiting, yet again. Only problem was Austin was slave to a hockey team, so with the exclusion of random unexpected practices the band got nothing done yet again, one song recorded on a computer was the only thing to show for it.

The band has now entered a new stage. In April of 2006, they released their debut EP, "Haze Of Distortion," (recorded by Chris Brown) on Shawn Hoffman's Bunny Records. Stay tuned for more shows, merch, and other things.

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Nov 20, 12:28 AM

The Waiting (CCM) is an incredibly creative band. They have a lot of REM in their DNA, and Lyrically they are strong. I saw them at Cornerstone a long time ago... maybe 1994-95? They did a cover of Knock Knock Knocking on heavens door.... Loved it.
Sep 14, 08:11 PM

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May 13, 12:54 PM

I love the CCM band The Waiting!...I recently found my favorite album of theirs, "Blue Belly Sky" and had fun listening to it on a road trip!! Unfortunately most of those songs from that album aren't available on iTunes/facebook (?!?!)
Sep 30 2008, 05:38 PM

That is not them! I hope they fix that because these are their songs...weird
Aug 19 2008, 10:15 AM

THIS is a DIFFERENT band than the CCM artist The Waiting, with lead singer Brad. But the iLike people mixed the REAL Waiting [CCM] with this indi random band...confusing.. I thought you couldn't have the same name as an existing band...
Aug 15 2008, 11:33 AM

They are an amazing band that has blessed me with great inspirational music for years.
Mar 12 2008, 09:11 PM

They're simply wonderful.
Dec 24 2007, 02:47 PM

One of my all time favorite bands...too bad I didn't realize it until it was too late...

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