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The Sights are a rock and roll band from Detroit, Michigan, formed in 1998. The band has toured in the United States, Canada, and the UK.[1][2]

This article uses bare URLs, which are uninformative and vulnerable to link rot. (August 2022)

Members

Current

• Eddie Baranek: Vocals, Guitar
• Jarrod Champion: Keyboard, Vocals
• Skip Denomme: Drums
• Roderick Jones: Saxophone
• Liz Mackinder: Vocals
• Chrissy Morgan: Vocals
• Kyle Schanta: Bass Guitar, Vocals

Former

• Nate Cavalieri (2002-2003): Organ, Vocals
• Bobby Emmett (2004-2007): Organ, Piano Bass, Vocals
• Keith Fox (2006-2007): Drums
• Matt Hatch (2003-2004): Bass Guitar
• Dave Knepp (1998-1999): Drums
• Dave Lawson (2009-2011): Bass Guitar, Vocals
• Mark Leahey (1998-2002): Bass Guitar
• David Shettler (2001-2005): Drums, Vocals
• Gordon Smith (2009-2011): Keyboard, Vocals
• Eugene Strobe (1999-2001): Drums
• Dean Tartaglia (2011-2012): Saxophone, Backing Vocals
• Mike Trombley (1998, 2005–2006): Drums

Achievements

• In 2012, The Sights toured the United States and Europe with Tenacious D.[3][4]
• In 2014, the band's published tour diary, "Taken Alive: The Sights' Rock and Roll Tour Diary," was recognized as one of twenty 2014 Michigan Notable Books by The Library of Michigan.[5] The book includes entries and photographs written and taken for The Detroit Metro Times.

In Popular Culture

• "Left Over Right" was featured in Someone Marry Barry in 2014.
• "Not as Pretty" was featured in The Newsroom in 2013.
• "Just Got Robbed" was featured in National Lampoon in 2009.
• "Just Got Robbed" was featured in Reaper in 2009.
• "Just Got Robbed" was featured in America's Funniest Home Videos in 2008.
• "Circus" was featured in The Shield in 2008.
• "Good Way to Die" was featured in Fast, Inc. in 2006.
• "Waiting on a Friend" was featured in Just Friends in 2005.
• "Circus" was featured in Wedding Crashers in 2005.
• "Sick and Tired" was featured in The Last Chancers in 2002.

Discography

Studio albums

• Are You Green? (1999, Spectator Records; reissued on Fall of Rome Records)
• Got What We Want (2002, Fall of Rome Records)
• The Sights (2005, New Line Records)
• Most of What Follows Is True (2010, Alive Records)
• Left Over Right (2012, Hiros Rise Music)

EPs

• Silver/Gold 12" EP (2009, Lower Peninsula Records)

Compilations

• Twelve In The Bar (2011, Fountain Records)

References

External links

• Official Website
• Facebook

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