"The Washdown were a five piece rock band formed to play rock and roll music in 2001. Whether or not they achieved this has can be argued, but it is certain that they plugged in their amps and turned them on. They officially stopped being a band in 2005. In the late 90's to the early 2000's, Ryan Hess and Michael Waksman discussed doing a rock band that somehow would embody the sensibility of Otis Redding and Sam Cooke.

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