Chris Conley
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Christopher Lane Conley (born on February 29, 1980), usually known as Chris Conley, is an American musician and songwriter, a member of the punk band Saves the Day. He was born and raised in Princeton, New Jersey, and began playing the guitar when he was thirteen years old. He says that listening to Led Zeppelin and Aerosmith as a child made him interested in writing and playing music. He also said that the first song he ever learned on guitar was Stairway to Heaven.
Immediately after learning how to play the guitar, he formed a band with classmates titled Seffler. As the band began recording, it changed its name to Saves the Day. They had already signed a record contract and had released their first full-length recording by the time he was a senior in high school.
He is known for his poetic and sometimes morbid lyrics on CDs such as Can't Slow Down, Through Being Cool, Stay What You Are, and Sound the Alarm. Earlier albums were fast and dark. In 2001, Saves the Day released Stay What You Are, which showed a change in Conley. Most of the songs were slower but more full sounding, which is the result of incorporating different chord voicings instead of power chords. This is admittedly due in large part to the influence of The Beatles.
This continued into their next album, In Reverie which was released in 2003. It was full of jazz chords and hypnotizing dream-like chord progressions.
