Today we’d like to introduce you to Harrison Brown
Alright, so thank you so much for sharing your story and insight with our readers. To kick things off, can you tell us a bit about how you got started?
Ever since I was a kid i wasn’t amused or interested in doing what everybody else did, I was sort of picked on for a while for not quite getting it or understanding what was cool at the time until I was shown by my father, the great’s of all metal! Slayer Metallica motley Crue, and to top all that off he showed me how much fun it was to stand and watch cars take a left at 170 miles an hour at Daytona every year. This, as you can imagine, created some weird, personality traits, and some downright annoying ones if you ask me, but it created the foundation of what my project became and how it all started essentially a story of a fat, ugly & overlooked kid in a redneck tourist Carney town that can’t let his words go unheard.
I’ve always been obsessed with music. I’ve always been obsessed with the crazy ones and I’ve always been obsessed with the people that stayed and never stopped doing what they love. It all started when I got my first drum set and I was a kid and I would sit in my bedroom after School till my mom would pull her last hair out of her head. I played drums forever. Then as I got older, I got into the whole DJ vinyl thing and I would DJ all the house parties in the Longwood area as a kid and then I moved on to getting booked at somewhat legitimate events that would throw me some cash or something small to reimbursed me And I did every event you can imagine that somebody could push me, for we used to do bike events and I even did my high school prom and got paid for it which was pretty sick and was the most amount of money I was ever given at that time and then, by that time my parents were split and I was about 17 or 18 leaving high school and I didn’t know what the fuck I was going to do and I ended up moving into this apartment and things went downhill pretty quick with my addictions and that’s essentially when I kind of realized that the whole DJ BS was bullshit and I ended up getting a job at HARD ROCK LIVE and it was my first real job I ever had and I was a trash person and a ticket usher but they called it a roadie so I thought I was going to pushing cases but I was actually pushing annoying Karen’s into their seat but then ended up meeting the right people and worked my way back there and I did a bunch of shifts working with the back of house crew there, and realized what my real dream was and that was working on concerts and live entertainment and that’s when I started to really fall in love with making a show and entertaining people.
At the time I was 19 years old at the HARD ROCK LIVE so not too many people took me too seriously so I ended up going to a place that I actually started at and that was this venue called Backbooth, and at the time when I went in, they were transitioning into a new venue, called Soundbar with a whole new staff and a whole new mindset on a legendary venue and that’s when I was brought on board. I then continued to run every show and help orchestrate the success of each one until the announcement of Soundbar’s close on December 1, 2021. But even though that venue closed, it brought me so many connections, and everybody that played at that venue had to meet me, and was probably the leading reason on the success of my current project just solely on connections alone, and as I look back on that section in my life, it was rough and tough, and not very pretty but I cannot think those people that were with me at that time enough for what they taught me in life and with this job, but as that came to an end, my band, Bodybox flourished and people from all around the world started finding it after footage of our show at Soundbar surfaced on the Internet and people started sharing our music. When I started, noticing the traction that the music was getting it purely shocked me, and was not believable, and I kind of thought wasn’t real, but then We were contacted by some of my biggest heroes, sending their good job thumbs up on the idea, and that’s when we were than hit up by trivium to play their Orlando show and then after that, we then we’re offered the opportunity to go tour the states with a band called spite that tremendously helped our career blossom and showed people that we were a real band and I was capable of doing this even though I may not have did it the right way or the best way, and to be honest with you probably was the darkest I’ve ever gotten. The touring in the music kept coming once that tour ended and we then hopped on another tour and another tour, and another tour and another tour and this essentially went on through the span of two years constantly traveling constantly making and constantly meeting new people and I then realized by the end of last year I didn’t have anything anymore other than this band and it was my whole life now and all of a sudden we got offered some of the biggest shows and tours of our career and we’ve only released I believe not even an hour of music Publicly.
So now with this year wrapping up, this will be our third year working on this project and we are ready to release our first LP called “3” and we’re ready to see how far this one takes us
We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
It has been the farthest thing from a smooth road. Some people may call it a smooth road because I think how fast our success hit, but at the same time as fast as the success was hitting, the problems were hitting. Double may be triple at the same time I’ve dealt with everything from a popped tire on the side of the road to riding in an ambulance tripping balls on shrooms thru ny city.
I feel like people totally look at bands on the road and they just go out. Wow look at those grown adults or kids just have no responsibilities and nothing to worry about other than just playing a show but man oh man I wish that they could understand really what it’s like riding in that van with all that gear in the trailer driving at night taking shifts sleeping at gas stations or random peoples houses. Any band that says our touring easy is a liar. You miss holidays you experience death and you experience what it’s like to be broke and share everything. between the five of you. I’ve had people quit the band day of show and had a fan step in and play. I’ve been broken down on the side of the road too many times to count. I’ve had the trailer fly off the van we’ve hit Deers and we’ve been in just downright dangerous crazy places that you wouldn’t ever go to or ever see unless you turned on your TV, just to play music for 30 minutes maybe.
As you know, we’re big fans of you and your work. For our readers who might not be as familiar what can you tell them about what you do?
Bodybox is essentially my childhood dream project. Ever since I was a kid, I grew up, listening to Pantera and Metallica and bands just be loud scary and just downright crazy on and off the stage. With Bodybox that’s essentially what I wanted. I wanted to bring a level of danger back into music, but sort of like a fun danger not so negative and even if it is negative, it’s shined always and kind of a it’s gonna be all right type of light. All of the music is based upon things that we love. Drugs, beer, and having a good time.
I was always really big in the horror movies and this band called ministry growing up, and I’ve always taken huge inspiration from him and Cannibal Corpse with our imagery and the way I sing in all the music and what I write about. Then we have our Merch. Our merch is honestly the biggest part of being a band nowadays, and is the only way that a band concurrently survive in today’s economy. Our Murch is where I go crazy and has been one of our biggest parts of our imagery with our band. We’ve made everything from a Bodybox shirt to bodybox tech decks.
Can you talk to us a bit about the role of luck?
i think luck is everything and i also believe everyone is lucky its just a matter of place and time and definitely not giving up.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://linktr.ee/bodyboxfl/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bodyboxfldm/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/p/Bodyboxfldm-100090435306923/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/bodyboxfl
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BpRzSB8ezc
