Teenage Schizoid is the spawn of lead singer and bassist Jon-E-Boy's desire to start an awesome punk band with his best pal and drummer Ricky Rogers. Sometime in late 2011, after numerous attempts at a much younger age, Jon-E finally decided to take initiative and spent an entire winter cooped up in a basement re-teaching himself to play bass at a much higher level and writing the lyrics to what would eventually become the first wave of songs by Teenage Schizoid. At this point Ricky and Jon had not played together since their old band, Half Brain, had disbanded sometime in 2008. Jon-E tried to learn from the bands fatal mistakes and hoped to use it as fuel for the next one. This was the main reason he spent an entire winter working on the music before the band even materialized, he wanted there to be a foundation in place so that this band could thrive and eventually become something he was proud to call his own. After the winter, he and Ricky finally started piecing songs together and got back into the groove of things, as one might put it. Initially they started in Ricky's parent's basement where the two of them worked on the songs that would eventually become "Self-Titled" and "Exile And Abuse". At this point there was no certainty of who the guitarist would be, previously they had tried starting a band with a friend Dan (a.k.a. Danny Warbux) in which Ricky would have been on guitar and Dan played drums. It was deemed a failure after only a couple of meetings. Around this time the 3 of them were attending a party at Ricky's girlfriend's place (Ironically, soon to be lead guitarist Charlie was also here) and Jon-E found Dan in a room tuning a 12 string guitar by ear and singing along with it. "Why the fuck haven't we tried you on guitar and Ricky on drums!?" he immediately exclaimed. And so it was. They soon gathered in the garage of Jon-E's parents, forming a power trio, and writing the rest of the band's current material. Months went by as the band played through an excruciating winter in Chicago, most of the time they did not have any source of heat (they later were able to acquire space heathers to lessen the frigid environment) but in their eyes this proved the dedication it would take to have a successful band. On January 26th, 2013, Teenage Schizoid made it's debut, playing a basement show with local Chicago Punk/Hardcore bands. Within 2 weeks they had seen the need for and recruited a lead guitarist to solidify their sound. The aforementioned Charlie Diefenthaler was the final piece to the puzzle and, voila, the current lineup was born. Since then they have been hitting the Midwest hard and are set to record in the studio for the first time July 21st, 2013. To hear some live recording you can visit the bands band camp page http://teenageschizoid.bandcamp.com or website www.teenageschizoid.com. Teenage Schizoid is a punk band from Chicago, Illinois.