LOCAL PUNK BAND

For pop-punk band All Time Low, Maryland State Fair performance will be a homecoming

By Abigail Gruskin, Baltimore Sun

When Alex Gaskarth, Zack Merrick, Rian Dawson and Jack Barakat first came together in 2003 to start Maryland pop-punk band All Time Low, they didn’t have big expectations.

The four teens were attending Baltimore County high schools, three at Dulaney High School and Merrick, the band’s bassist, at Towson High School.

“It was a weekend thing, because we were very much still in school,” said lead singer Gaskarth, 35, still a Baltimore County resident. “I don’t think we really knew what we were doing, or even had lofty aspirations to be a real band.”

They started toying around with covers of Green Day and Blink-182 songs, and soon enough were playing shows at local venues like The Recher FINISH READING HERE

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