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All-American Rejects

Tyson Ritter (vocals/bass) and Nick Wheeler (guitar/programming) were in junior high school when music started to influence them. Both were stuck in the ho-hum life of small-town America. Stillwater, Oklahoma, wasn't exactly the most exciting place in the world, so naturally the boys turned to music.

While Ritter was staying up late, watching music videos and rocking out to AC/DC, Wheeler was on the other side of town raiding his sister's music collection of Def Leppard, Poison, and Bon Jovi records. Wheeler soon picked up a guitar, and later mastered the drums and piano. By high school, both were music freaks and in their own little cliques.

At a party, Ritter spotted Wheeler. It's safe to say that the spiky rock fun of the All-American Rejects was...
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