welcome

This is the permanent archive of the band that was / is Zinque. There will be some updates with new music occassionally. Please enjoy responsibly.

sounds

The Big Smoke

1. Ireland [2.64 MB]
2. Before the War [3.30 MB]
3. Christine [3.19 MB]
4. Call Me Tomorrow [2.53 MB]
5. Lost Innocence [3.81 MB]
6. Our American Song [2.16 MB]
7. What Would Willie Nelson Say? [1.77 MB]
8. Big Smoke [3.83 MB]
9. Cookie [2.79 MB]
10. Sunshine On the Hilltops [2.44 MB]

Zinque 65.39

1. What Can I Do? [2.00 MB]
2. Foofy Hair [1.48 MB]
3. You Knew It Would [2.37 MB]
4. Nothin' To Do [2.75 MB]
5. Sleepy Song [2.06 MB]
6. Enterprise Blues Rhapsody [2.54 MB]
7. Aneroid [919 KB]
8. Andy's Theme (Your Picture) [2.69 MB]
9. I'll Get Better [2.74 MB]
10. Can't Find the Love [2.28 MB]
11. She's a Dawg [2.11 MB]
12. I Tried [2.08 MB]
13. The Cowboy Song [756 KB]

archived news / timeline

12-25-2003
While we were able to hang out this year, we didn't get a chance to create any beautiful music. Charley returned to Germany for another year.

12-20-2002
Zinque reunites for a laid back jam session in Enterprise and share some new tunes that they have been working on including Charley's song "Everything I Ever Wrote". He also made an interesting b-side about space aliens and cloning.

11-27-2002
Zinque was breifly reunited over Thanksgiving and have plans for a grand return to rock before Charley ships out to Germany for the next three years. We plan to create a third complete album if time allows it.
After which, the future of Zinque is going back to the waiting game. But rock is a strange thing, and the unexpected can happen at any time.

06-03-2002
Some of Zinque's songs are to be featured in a full length independent film by J.T. Bushnell. I'm not sure of the name of the film just yet, but I will find out more soon. All unsigned Oregon bands were used in the film. The Zinque songs to be featured are Nothin' to Do, Big Smoke, Call Me Tomorrow, What Would Willie Nelson Say?, Cookie, and Lost Innocence.

03-31-2002
Zinque is all over the world right now. After a disappointing Christmas in which no grand album was created, the boys returned to their respective areas of the globe.
The one bright spot is the abundance of free music now available. Get it now!

03-30-2000
The Big Smoke is finally completed after months being kicked around on the computer trying to get it "mastered". A very limited number of these were printed (about 50).

07-04-1999
The band reunites and collectively come up with enough material for a new album. They reunite with Brian Jones at Cave Studios in Portland and create their second album, The Big Smoke.

09-1997
Clint and Andy go to Linfield College

07-1997
Charley leaves for West Point in New York

05-1997
Zinque's debut album 65.39 is released! Many were created, few were ever sold.

07-26-1996
Andy returns from Australia, joins the band as singer, eventually becomes the bass player after Greg Gordon leaves the band.

05-1994
Charley breaks his leg on the River Rider (project X). His track and baseball season cut short, resorts to learning the guitar.

biography

The Zinque legacy began in the summer of 1996 when three high school seniors began jamming in their high school band room. Armed with only his guitar, Charley soon became the band's fearless leader. Clint took up the sticks and kept us in time on the drums. Finally, Andy provided the boom on his bass guitar and also did most of the crooning.

After many months of intense practicing and guitar training, the lads decided that they might be good enough to perform for groups of people. They made their debut at their high school in front of over 300 bubble-gum chewing students. As the boys played their first ever live song, "You Knew It Would," probably no one realized that this was just the beginning. Within six months after that performance, Zinque would generate a vast repertoire of original songs, make many more performances, and also two full length CD's.

Their second album, entitled, "The Big Smoke" illustrated the bands changing musical style, yet continued to keep in touch with their bubble gummy self entitled debut album. It was a long distance off from the original "Zinque" album, but was a moderate success.

Although the band currently are in different parts of the world, the Zinque legacy lives on in the music they made. Recently they released a compilation of never before heard songs entitled "Rarities from the Bandroom and Beyond...". Most of these songs should make their way on to this website very soon.

Future albums are always on the horizon. Every two years, Zinque generally busts out the guitars and creates new magic. That means in 2003 perhaps we will see a new incarnation of Zinque.

photos

The Big Smoke Images

Adventures in the Big Smoke	Recording the Big smoke	Working on "Cookie"
"Full Band" in Cave Studio, Portland	Charley in The Band Room	Clint in the Oregon sunshine

random shots

1997 Locker Room Jam

Chaz meets WP

Last bandroom jam