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  • The Advantage
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  • Musical groups established in 1998
  • Musical groups from Sacramento, California
  • Nintendocore musical groups
  • Video game music cover bands
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  • The Advantage is an American rock band, based in Sacramento, California. They specialize in math rock covers of 8-bit video game music from the Nintendo Entertainment System. The band formed in 1998 in Nevada City, CA and originally consisted of Nick Rogers (2) and Forrest Harding (both of whom are no longer in the band). Cassie Stewart played bass briefly and Spencer Seim joined on drums. At the time the band called themselves Generic.The band re-formed into its current quartet of Robby Moncrieff on guitar, Ben Milner (2) on guitar, Carson McWhirter on bass and Spencer Seim remaining on drums. Remonikered and refreshed, they released their self-titled, debut album: [r=728744] in 2004 on 5 Rue Christine.
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  • The Advantage is an American rock band from Sacramento, California that formed in 1998 and specializes in doing covers of music from old NES games. The band is considered to be one of the original pioneers of the Nintendocore genre and widely praised for bringing video game music into the spotlight. Named after the Nintendo controller of the same name, the Advantage offers their own style and blend of video game rock. The band consists of Robby Moncrieff (guitar), Ben Milner (guitar), Carson McWhirter (bass) and Spencer Seim (drums). Former Nevada Union High School students Nick Rogers (guitar & bass) and Forrest Harding (guitar) are the two original members who started the band. Cassie Stewart was occasionally featured on bass as well.
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  • rock band specialising in covers of Nintendo tunes
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  • The Advantage
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