Formed in 2008 by Nick Walmer and Derek Cox, originally under the moniker The Chrome Leeches, shorty after line up changes the band became The Electric Grapevine, off the top of Nick and Derek's heads. After Jake Woodard left the band , as well as Jeremy Christman and Matt Winningham, the group split into different directions. The progressive jam band elements went on with Jeremy and Matt while Nick left to pursuit solo material and eventually reform the group as Stealing from Thieves with Trevor Smith on bass and guitar and with some of his own songs thrown onto the EP's.  Bassist Cody Davis approached nick in early 2009 after the recording of Oh Well, Red Heart , which was completely written, produced, recorded, engineered, by Nick Walmer, with help mastering by Eric Green under Nick's supervision and guidance.  He is now in a band with Rily and Ben.  The band's second EP was marked with some time off in which Nick recorded an album mixed in with acoustic barebone songs featuring minimal percussion if any and experimental pop songs using Reason, as well as classical pieces. The card game oblique strategies was often used as well as influence of chance when writing the lyrics. Often times words that contradicted each other would be panned into different places in the stereo spectrum at simultaneous times to disorientate the listener. The band's second EP , Hard to Digest What You See, incorporated the eclectic nature of writing that Nick had experimented with in his recent solo outings, but also featured the cohesive structure of the previous EP, all be it less compressed and featuring lower fidelity. Dynamic Changes also bring a stark contrast between the first and secondary EP. Originally planned to be a trilogy of EP's , with the first about loss, the second about hope and searching for love, the third about finding all the wrong things and the protagonist finding himself facing insanity or saving music from being controlled by machines. The idea was abandoned and the experimental outings of the third EP blended into the original pop structures of the second EP songs and the third EP songs will later be released as a concept album after Nick finishes his next solo album.  The band called it quits in March of 2010 and are still on good terms with one another.  

Trevor is working on Post Curtain Travesty, or Summer Salt

Nick is working on SGT Freedom and solo material , as well as a Space Jazz Band.

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