MOCK ORANGE
In 2002 Zach Grace got the call to play bass for Mock Orange. He had to trade in some of his guitars to purchase a bass. He's also been quoted for accepting the job with, "Yeah I'll play bass, it's only got four strings on it". The next decade saw Mock Orange playing 4 more sold-out tours in Japan with Japanese label mates The Band Apart, broadcasting a live televised performance from MTV's Times Square Studios in NYC, embarking on an invitational Western European tour spanning five countries, and winning the International Songwriting Competition (ISC) award for Best Rock Song. ('Song in D' from Captain Love, Wednesday Records 2007) .
The band became weary of extensive touring across the three continents. Their live performances began to subside as the band decided to focus it's efforts on publishing its catalog to film and television. Their songs can be heard on a long list of big name movies and hit TV series. Without touring, the band continued to record albums. It was during this stage Zach took on the role as primary recording/mixing engineer for Mock Orange, co-producing with band leader, Ryan Grisham.
NASHVILLE
Moving his studio to Nashville in 2011, Grace teamed up with the Art-Pop group Heypenny to do several tours playing guitar and keyboards. He also started working as a production-tech at the Nashville Schermerhorn Symphony Hall and immediately found himself working for such artists as Al Green, Styx, Chris Isaak, Taylor Swift, The 4 Tops, Huey Lewis and the News, Brandi Carlile, The O'Jays, Lady Antebellum, and Foreigner to name a few.
SHUT UP
In 2012 Grace began playing drums in the power rock trio Shut Up. "I really just wanted to have fun and play drums again. The couple times I played drums in bands was in a dirty, super fast-punk band in like '96 or '97. And around 2006 in a folk rock band. But I was introduced to a married couple (Nathan Spears and Megan Light) who had half an album's worth of demos I really liked, and we were all on the same page sonically, looking towards blending something new, like Cocteau Twins meets Queens of the Stone Age. We went on to co-write the rest of the songs and we were into how it was taking us into this darker, harder-rocking place. They told me that they wanted me to produce it and that was that. It became the first Shut Up album." -zg
SELF HELP
Self Help is Zach Grace's solo project between touring and recording.
With enough back-catalog for several releases, Zach Grace's first solo album, "The Miracle" was released in 2010. The solo album showcases a unique blend of pop, janky rock and experimental sounds, much like the ones offered by The Flaming Lips, The Shins, or Wilco. The material for the album was recorded in Zach's studio in southern Indiana, Safe iN Sound, with him performing 98% of the instrumentation. "I just wanted to record and release the songs that were what I hoped to be, traditional and modern at the same time...I wanted the album to be diverse, to go from here to there and let me find out what might be in between." -zg
The list of live band members for Zach Grace over the years Includes:
Matt Braun, Heath Metzger, Aaron Distler, Sabyn Grisham, Troy Daugherty, Paul Blake, Nathan Spears, Megan Light, Jeremy Abbott, Erik Larsson
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