Connection (EP)

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Connection
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EP (split)by Home Grown and Limbeck
Released 2000
Genre Punk rock, Pop punk, Alternative rock
Length18:16
Label Utility Records
Producer Craig Nepp, Home Grown, Limbeck
Home Grown chronology
EP Phone Home
(1999)
Connection
(2000)
Kings of Pop
(2002)
Limbeck chronology
Connection
(2000)

Connection is a split EP by the Orange County, California, rock bands Home Grown and Limbeck, released in 2000 by Utility Records. It resulted from a tour the previous year on which the two bands played together and became friends.

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Contents

The EP was Home Grown's final recording with guitarist Justin Poyser and drummer Bob Herco, who both left the band in 2000.

Track listing

  1. Home Grown - "Promise Breaker"
  2. Limbeck - "29 Times"
  3. Home Grown - "Single All the Way"
  4. Limbeck - "Invisible"
  5. Home Grown - "She Don't Care"
  6. Limbeck - "Rush Hour in Logtown"

Personnel

Home Grown:

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References

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