About Us

The Company Line is a band from the Cleveland area that doesn’t recognize any boundaries.

(Wait a minute. That sounds way too rebellious for us.)

The Company Line is a band from the Cleveland area that doesn’t recognize any boundaries.

The Company Line is a band from Cleveland that thinks about artistic integrity first.

(No no no. That isn’t going to work either because we are kinda cheesy sometimes.)

The Company Line is a band from Cleveland that thinks about artistic integrity first.

Alright, I am just going to go with a list of facts.

  • The Company Line is a band from Cleveland
  • The Company Line plays rock and roll, consisting of four people playing two guitars, bass, and drums. One of the guitarists sings.
  • The personnel in the band are Craig Lyndall (Guitar/Vox) – Todd Emery (Guitar) – Kevin Latanich (Bass) – Some Dude Named JohnThe Venerable Bradley Ruff – Mike Gehrisch (Drums)
  • While there has been something of a revolving door on the drum kit in The Company Line, we have never been particularly unhappy with any of our situations with drummers.
  • The songs are largely written by Craig Lyndall.
  • The Company Line has played clubs including (but not limited to) The Phantasy, The Symposium, The Hi Fi Club, The Beachland Tavern, Europe’s Gyros, some bar near the Greyhound station downtown, Peabody’s, Pat’s in the Flats, and the greatest rock club in Cleveland, The Grog Shop.
  • The Company Line’s songs don’t have swear words in them.
  • The Company Line don’t scream (in songs.)
  • The Company Line has a wide variety of bands that they like.
    • Craig Likes : Acid Bath, Pearl Jam, Tool, Counting Crows, Coinmonster, Goo Goo Dolls, Get Up Kids, Jimmy Eat World, Mineral, Christie Front Drive, System of a Down, Coldplay, Death Cab for Cutie, Dismemberment Plan, Maritime, Hed PE, Minus the Bear, Deftones, Filter, NIN, Iron and Wine, Paul Westerberg, Elliott Smith, Soundgarden, Rage Against the Machine, Dying Fetus, Soilwork, Soul Asylum, Natalie Merchant and 10,000 Maniacs, Eisley, The Beautiful Mistake, Mae, Built to Spill, At the Gates, Meshuggah, Slipknot, Lionel Richie / The Commodores, Smokey Robinson, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, and many many more
    • Todd Likes :
    • Kevin Likes : 2Pac, 3-6 Mafia, Yung Jeezy, Barry White, Al Green, Hank Williams, Hank Jr., Alkaline Trio, Anna Nalick, At The Drive In, Sparta, The Mars Volta, Beatles, Black Sabbath, Blink-182, Bob Dylan, The Clash, NOFX, Rancid, Counting Crows, CCR, Jack Johnson, Deathcab for Cutie, Deftones, Dropkick Murphys, Everclear, Strung Out, Jimmy Eat World, Justin Timberlake, Johnny Cash, Lostprophets, Meshuggah, Modest Mouse, Motion City Soundtrack, My Chemical Romance, The Used, Otis Redding, Pennywise, Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine, Ray Charles, Robin Trower, Slipknot, Sublime, Taking Back Sunday, SOAD, The Tempations, Marvin Gaye, Tool, Tom Petty, US Bombs, The Who…
    • Mike Likes : Marillion, 311, Porcupine Tree, Radiohead, Rush, Michael Penn, Smashing Pumpkins, Counting Crows, Blues Traveler, Muse
  • The Company Line uses a wide variety of equipment.
    • Craig Uses :
      • Guitars – Epiphone Dot, Epiphone Les Paul Standard, Crappy Ibanez, Crappy Michael Kelly, Middle of the Road Yamaha Acoustic
      • Amps – Vox AC30, Line 6 Flextone II
      • Effects – Fulldrive Fulltone, Line 6 DL-4, Line 6 Pod XT Live,
      • Recording Gear – M-Audio Project Mix I/O, ProTools LE, Shure SM-57′s, Dell Inspiron 6400 and more…
    • Todd Uses :
    • Kevin Uses : Washburn MB-8
    • Mike Uses : Tama drums, Zildjian Cymbals, Ahead sticks




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