The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed -Carl Jung

Assuming Jung is right, the same logic would dictate that the meeting of five personalities would create an equal reaction, five-fold in its power to change.

Such a meeting has taken place. In the nooks and crannies of their disparate lives, five boys from Texas found each other. Accident, inevitability, chance, fate no one will ever be able to explain whatever it is that draws the colors of a rainbow together into one stream of pure white light.

Green River Ordinance was born from this light. Brothers Geoff and Jamey Ice, Josh Jenkins, Joshua Wilkerson and Denton Hunker joined their lives together into one singular dream. The dream of creating music. While most kids their age were worrying about entering high school, they were writing and performing their own music. They recorded their first EP in the basement of their church, a CD that sold out its first pressing in just a few months. They've packed houses across the Country, were the direct support for BON JOVI in 2006 at the sold out American Airlines Center in front of 20,000 people, have toured with the likes of Collective Soul, Hanson, SisterHazel, The Click 5, Blue October, Bowling for Soup, Flickerstick, Eisley, Simple Plan, Mutemath, Matt Wertz, and many other bands already established in the music world.

They were voted in the Fort Worth Weekly Music Awards for Best New Band of 2003 and the Best Live Band in 2004, and swept the awards in 2006 winning "Artist of the YEAR," "Song of the Year," and "Album of the Year." GRO was also chosen by MTV as one of the top 20 college based bands in the USA of 2006. To top the year 2006 off, the british publication Blog Critics (a site that averages 3 million hits a day) named “The Beauty of Letting Go” 4 in Top 10 Albums of 2006 (the only unsigned band to make the Top 10...right behind Snow Patrols & Pink's record) and named Green River Ordinance 1 Independent Band of 2006!! In October of 2007 the band signed a five album major label recording contract with Capitol / Virgin records.

The band is anything but green. They have lived the life, and on stage or in the studio, this fact is obvious. Smooth, polished and professional, their musicianship and stage presence belies their youth. They look like what they are: rock stars. But that's where the similarity ends. You won't find these young men bashing their way through hotel room walls or overdosing on the latest chemical craze on a tour bus.

GRO is not like other bands on the way to the top. Negativity isn't their thing. Positive in the face of all the adversity rock and roll can throw at them, the joy they have with each other, and with their music, shines in their faces. They walk their own walk, and they walk it proudly. They are making their own rules, taking their own place in time, making their own mark on the world.

And they are loving every minute of it.

- David Kilpatrick