The Receiving End of Sirens (abbreviated TREOS ) was an American rock band from Belchertown, Massachusetts , United States. Formed in 2003, the band broke up in 2008 then briefly reunited in 2010; a 2020 reunion tour was canceled.
69-420: Treos or TREOS may refer to: The Receiving End of Sirens (TREOS), an American rock band from Belchertown, Massachusetts Palm Treo , a line of smartphones from the 2000s Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Treos . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
138-501: A DVD may be officially announced shortly. On June 6, 2009, the first news pointing towards a closer release date was found at Absolute Punk, where TREOS asked for fans to send in pictures of them with the band. The rumors of a DVD were confirmed when the latest video was posted on the official Skatefest website, in which members of TREOS discussed the DVD. After the breakup of The Receiving End of Sirens, Brian Southall began working on
207-469: A Friend , Saves the Day , Senses Fail , Thrice , and New Found Glory . The band's first headlining tour, "The New Hope Tour," began on March 31, 2006. About a week before the start of the tour, guitarist and vocalist Alex Bars fell down a flight of stairs, breaking his scapula and two ribs and puncturing a lung; a question of whether or not he would be able to perform arose, yet he pulled through. Some of
276-740: A MySpace bulletin, he wrote that all of the members still had a passion for music and love for their fans. The band played two of their last three last shows at Lupo's in Providence, Rhode Island, on May 2, supported by Envy on the Coast and Therefore I Am , and at The Bamboozle Festival in East Rutherford, New Jersey on May 4. On May 5, a final farewell was performed under the pseudonym The Red Eye of Solomon at Harper's Ferry in Allston, Massachusetts. According to drummer Andrew Cook: I
345-441: A Prison Break" twice) – almost every track spanning their three CD discography." The band recorded their farewell show at Lupo's on May 2, 2008; however, there was no announcement stating a release date. Along with concert footage, the DVD will contain never-before-seen interviews, as well as backstage footage from many of the band's tours. The live concert footage will span twenty-two songs and will feature Casey Crescenzo for
414-457: A band, regardless of how well or how poorly the band does from here on out. The last performance under the pseudonym was on May 16, 2012. The band formed in 2003, and their original lineup consisted of Brendan Brown, Alex Bars, Andrew Cook, Nate Patterson, and Ben Potrykus, formerly of Massachusetts pop-punk band Fake-ID. With this lineup, they recorded two demos with a total of five songs, including two versions of "The Race", and gained
483-653: A destructive process of industrialization. Saruman governs the Shire in secret under the name of Sharkey until the events of The Scouring of the Shire ". In that penultimate chapter, Frodo and his companions return and lead a rebellion, defeating the intruders and exposing Saruman's role. Even after Saruman attempts to stab Frodo, Frodo lets him go; but Wormtongue, whom Saruman continues to taunt and physically abuse, finally snaps and murders him. Consistent accounts of Saruman's earlier history appear in Appendix B to The Lord of
552-615: A few months ago." Triple Crown Records later confirmed that they would be re-releasing Between the Heart and the Synapse as a double LP, along with a new song by the band and live videos. The members took time off from their current projects to write and record the new song for the release. John D, creator of The Bamboozle Festival, announced that TREOS would play at the 2012 festival on May 18 in Asbury Park, New Jersey for
621-652: A following throughout New England. After a conflict of interest involving the future of the band and their signing with a record label, Ben left the band. They played their last show with this lineup on November 8, 2003, in Fitchburg, Massachusetts . After almost 6 months on hiatus, the band came back to life with their new member Casey Crescenzo . They played their first show with the new lineup on April 20, 2004, in Amherst, Massachusetts . Their new lineup featured three-tiered vocals split by Crescenzo, Bars, and Brown and
690-622: A long time to build up a draw. It's something that every band needs to be conscious of. And for us, we got to thinking, "We haven't played a show in Massachusetts for a long time, kind of purposefully "We need to give ourselves a break and not saturate the market so people don't care about seeing us anymore," you know? And it got to the point where like, "Man, we miss playing hall shows and stuff. Let's just do one," and we talked to Alex [Correia] from Therefore I Am because we love those guys and love playing with them, and worked it out. He set up
759-472: A long-time friend of the band Ross filled in on guitar during their tour with Circa Survive and most notably at radio station WFNX's "Disorientation" free concert in Boston featuring TREOS and Taking Back Sunday. On November 6, 2006, TREOS announced former Boys Night Out drummer Brian Southall was joining the band, playing guitar, keys, and backup vocals. TREOS's second album The Earth Sings Mi Fa Mi
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#1732783794065828-555: A new project titled The Company We Keep. On December 22, 2009, Brian Southall confirmed that TREOS would be reuniting to play Skate Fest 2010 in Worcester, MA. The Skate Fest web page was updated with a previously unreleased video of "The War of All Against All" from the farewell show in Providence. Casey Crescenzo confirmed that he would once again be joining the band on stage at Skate Fest. The band played one more show before Skatefest at Jerkies in Providence, RI. The flyer for
897-418: A noble kind that we should not dare raise our hands against" but decays as the book goes on. Patricia Meyer Spacks calls him "one of the main case histories [in the book] of the gradual destructive effect of willing submission to evil wills". Paul Kocher identifies Saruman's use of a palantír , a seeing-stone, as the immediate cause of his downfall, but also suggests that through his study of "the arts of
966-579: A quest to destroy the One Ring , a powerful and evil talisman created by the Dark Lord Sauron to control the nine rings of men, the remaining rings of the dwarves (originally seven) and the three of the elves, the most powerful, thus furthering Sauron's dominion over Middle-earth . Sauron lost the Ring in battle thousands of years before the beginning of the story, and it is now held in secret in
1035-621: A simple desire for power. Treebeard describes Saruman as having "a mind of metal and wheels". Evil in The Lord of the Rings tends to be associated with machinery, whereas good is usually associated with nature. Both Saruman's stronghold of Isengard and his altered Shire demonstrate the negative effects of industrialization and Isengard is overthrown when the forests, in the shape of the Ents, literally rise against it. Patrick Curry says Tolkien
1104-492: Is hostile to industrialism , linking this to the widespread urban development that took place in the West Midlands where Tolkien grew up in the first decades of the 20th century. He identifies Saruman as one of the key examples given in the book of the evil effects of industrialization, and by extension of imperialism . John R. Holmes writes that there is a philological link between "a perverted will to power with
1173-612: Is 'real change'?" Shippey contrasts this modern speech pattern with the archaic stoicism and directness, the Northern courage , that Tolkien employs for other characters such as the Dwarven King Dáin , which Shippey believes represent Tolkien's view of heroism in the mould of Beowulf . Saruman has been identified by critics as demonstrating the fall of an originally good character who has distinctively modern connections with technology. Tolkien writes that The Lord of
1242-600: Is elsewhere described as having been black when he first arrived in Middle-earth. He is referred to as 'Saruman the White' and is said to have originally worn white robes, but on his first entry in The Fellowship of the Ring they instead appear to be "woven from all colours [, they] shimmered and changed hue so that the eye was bewildered" and he names himself 'Saruman of Many Colours'. The power of Saruman's voice
1311-588: Is noted throughout the book. Jonathan Evans calls the characterisation of Saruman in the chapter The Voice of Saruman a "tour de force". The early critic Roger Sale wrote of the same chapter in 1968 that "Tolkien valiantly tried to do something worth doing which he simply cannot bring off." Tom Shippey writes that "Saruman talks like a politician ... No other character in Middle-earth has Saruman's trick of balancing phrases against each other so that incompatibles are resolved, and none comes out with words as empty as 'deploring', 'ultimate', worst of all, 'real'. What
1380-531: Is offered. The name Saruman ( pronounced [ˈsɑrumɑn] ) means "man of skill or cunning" in the Mercian dialect of Anglo-Saxon ; he serves as an example of technology and modernity being overthrown by forces more in tune with nature . Saruman was portrayed by Christopher Lee in Peter Jackson 's The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit film trilogies. The Lord of the Rings describes
1449-424: Is one example of the consistent theme of nothingness as the fate of evil throughout The Lord of the Rings . Saruman has appeared in film, radio, stage and video game adaptations of The Lord of the Rings . BBC Radio produced the first adaptation in 1955 , in which Saruman was played by Robert Farquharson , and which has not survived. Tolkien was disappointed by it. BBC Radio's second adaptation of The Lord of
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#17327837940651518-574: Is ruined when the Riders of Rohan defeat his army and Merry and Pippin prompt the Ents to destroy Isengard. Saruman himself is not directly involved, and only appears again in chapter 10, "The Voice of Saruman", by which time he is trapped in Orthanc. He fails in his attempt to negotiate with the Rohirrim and with Gandalf, and rejects Gandalf's conditional offer to let him go free. Gandalf casts him out of
1587-524: The Elven -smiths. Shortly afterwards, Gandalf breaks an arrangement to meet Frodo and guide him out of the Shire to Rivendell to keep the Ring safe from Sauron's agents. Frodo and Gandalf are reunited at Rivendell midway through The Fellowship of the Ring . The wizard explains why he failed to join Frodo: he had been summoned to consult with Saruman but had been held captive. Saruman initially had proposed that
1656-469: The Ents , protectors of the trees, who are outraged at the widespread felling of trees by Saruman's Orcs. Meanwhile, Saruman prepares to invade the kingdom of Rohan , which has lain exposed ever since he had his servant Gríma Wormtongue render Théoden , Rohan's king, weak and defenceless with "subtle poisons". Gandalf frees Théoden from Wormtongue's control just as Saruman's army is about to invade. Saruman
1725-493: The Mercian dialect of Old English used by Tolkien to represent the Language of Rohan in the book, the word saru means "clever", "skilful" or "ingenious". This has associations with both technology and treachery that are fitting for Tolkien's portrayal of Saruman, the "cunning man". He also writes of Saruman's distinctively modern association with Communism in the way the Shire is run under his control in " The Scouring of
1794-599: The Fellowship at Parth Galen , and in carrying off two of the hobbits initiate a series of incidents that lead to his ruin. In turn this frees the Rohirrim to intervene at the Battle of the Pelennor Fields and then together with the men of Gondor to assault Sauron's stronghold of Mordor and distract him from Frodo's final effort to destroy the Ring. Shippey says that this demonstrates the value of persistence in
1863-557: The King begins roughly where Bakshi's film ends but does not include Saruman's character. Saruman is played by Matti Pellonpää in the 1993 television miniseries Hobitit produced and aired by Finnish broadcaster Yle . In Peter Jackson 's film trilogy (2001–2003), Saruman is significantly more active in the first two films than in the corresponding books, and he appears in several scenes that are not depicted in Tolkien's work. He
1932-483: The Ring and part of The Two Towers , Saruman is voiced by Fraser Kerr . He has only one major scene—his attempt to persuade Gandalf to join him. He appears again briefly before the Battle of Helm's Deep , speaking to his army. The character is dressed in red and is called 'Saruman' and 'Aruman' at different points. Smith and Matthews suggest that the use of 'Aruman' was intended to avoid confusion with 'Sauron'. The 1980 Rankin/Bass TV animated version of The Return of
2001-532: The Ring directly for himself and therefore could not hope to truly rival Sauron. Shortly after arriving in Rivendell, Gandalf informs the Council of Elrond about Saruman's betrayal. In The Two Towers , the second volume of the story, Orcs from Saruman's army attack Frodo and his companions, and carry off two of Frodo's closest friends, Merry and Pippin . The two escape into Fangorn Forest , where they meet
2070-406: The Rings , from 1981, presents Saruman much as in the books. Smith and Matthews report Peter Howell 's performance as Saruman as "brilliantly ambiguous ..., drifting from mellifluous to almost bestially savage from moment to moment without either mood seeming to contradict the other". In Ralph Bakshi 's 1978 animated adaptation of The Lord of the Rings , which corresponds to The Fellowship of
2139-611: The Rings was often criticized for portraying all characters as either good or bad, with no shades of grey, a point to which he responds by proposing Saruman, along with Denethor and Boromir , as examples of characters with more nuanced loyalties. Marjorie Burns writes that while Saruman is an "imitative and lesser" double of Sauron, reinforcing the Dark Lord's character type, he is also a contrasting double of Gandalf, who becomes Saruman as he "should have been", after Saruman fails in his original purpose. Saruman "was great once, of
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2208-568: The Rings , first published in The Return of the King , and in the posthumously published The Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales . All were written in the mid-1950s. Saruman, like Gandalf and Radagast the Brown , is one of five 'wizards', known as the Istari , who begin to arrive in Middle-earth some two thousand years before the beginning of The Lord of the Rings . They are Maiar , envoys of
2277-461: The Rings , that describe Saruman's attempts to frustrate Sauron's chief servants, the Nazgûl , in their search for the Ring during the early part of The Fellowship of the Ring ; in one version he considers throwing himself on Gandalf's mercy. There is also a description of how Saruman becomes involved with the Shire and of how he gradually becomes jealous of Gandalf. Another brief account describes how
2346-557: The Shire by the hobbit Bilbo Baggins , who passes it on to Frodo Baggins , one of the story's protagonists. Early in the first volume, The Fellowship of the Ring , the wizard Gandalf describes Saruman as "the chief of my order" and head of the White Council that forced Sauron from Mirkwood at the end of Tolkien's earlier book The Hobbit . He notes Saruman's great knowledge of the Rings of Power created by Sauron and by
2415-476: The Shire ": goods are taken "for fair distribution" which, since they are mainly never seen again, Shippey terms an unusually modern piece of hypocrisy in the way evil presents itself in Middle-earth. Saruman is in part the architect of his own downfall. Kocher, Randel Helms and Shippey write that Saruman's actions in the first half of The Two Towers , although intended to further his own interests, in fact lead to his defeat and that of Sauron: his orcs help split
2484-529: The White , later Saruman of Many Colours , is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien 's fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings . He is the leader of the Istari , wizards sent to Middle-earth in human form by the godlike Valar to challenge Sauron , the main antagonist of the novel. He comes to desire Sauron's power for himself, so he betrays the Istari and tries to take over Middle-earth by force from his base at Isengard . His schemes feature prominently in
2553-545: The White Council and the order of the wizards, and breaks Saruman's staff . Saruman makes his final appearance at the end of the last volume, The Return of the King (1955), after Sauron's defeat. After persuading the Ents to release him from Orthanc, he travels north on foot, apparently reduced to begging. He is accompanied by Wormtongue, whom he beats and curses. When they reach the Shire, Saruman's agents—both Hobbits and Men —have already taken it over and started
2622-471: The White" or "Saramund the Grey", who has fallen under the influence of Sauron, lures Gandalf to his stronghold and traps him. The full story of Saruman's betrayal was later added to the existing chapters. Several of Saruman's other appearances in the book emerged in the process of writing. Christopher Tolkien believes that the old man seen by Aragorn , Legolas and Gimli at the edge of Fangorn forest near
2691-571: The addition of keyboards and synth. At this time they also released their self-titled five-song EP. In April 2005 their full-length album Between the Heart and the Synapse was released. To support the album, the band toured with Acceptance , Panic! At the Disco , Cartel , and Augustana . After a year of touring, Casey Crescenzo left the band in May 2006 and started pursuing his side project, The Dear Hunter , full-time. After Crescenzo's departure,
2760-414: The band headlined its farewell show at Lupo's in Providence, Rhode Island, with Envy on the Coast and Therefore I Am. Former singer Casey Crescenzo made a return halfway through the set; TREOS performed virtually all of their tracks, forcing them to repeat "Planning a Prison Break" as their encore . Absolute Punk wrote that "They played 21 songs (technically 22 because the crowd got them to play "Planning
2829-613: The bands who supported TREOS on their first headlining tour were As Tall as Lions , A Thorn for Every Heart , Hit the Lights , and I Am the Avalanche . On March 18, 2008, the band announced that it would "no longer exist in the way it has for the past 5 years" on their MySpace page. The main reason for the breakup was the fact that Brendan Brown had a child in January 2008, and he decided he needed to reassess his priorities. In
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2898-411: The beginning of The Two Towers is in the original drafts intended to be Gandalf. In the finished version he is Saruman. Similarly, in the first drafts of the chapter The Scouring of the Shire , Sharkey is successively a ruffian met by the hobbits, and then that man's unseen boss. It is only in the second draft of the chapter that, as Christopher Tolkien puts it, his father "perceive[d]" that Sharkey
2967-646: The character of Saruman to that of Satan in John Milton 's Paradise Lost in his use of rhetoric and in this final refusal of redemption, "conquered by pride and hatred". In the end, the diminished Saruman is murdered, his throat cut, and Shippey notes that when he dies his spirit "dissolved into nothing". He identifies Saruman as the best example in the book of "wraithing", a distinctive 20th-century view of evil that he attributes to Tolkien in which individuals are "'eaten up inside' by devotion to some abstraction". Referring to Saruman's demise, Kocher says that he
3036-408: The early stages of the creation of The Lord of the Rings proceeded in a series of waves, and that having produced the first half of The Fellowship of the Ring , Tolkien rewrote the tale from the start three times. Saruman first appeared during a fourth phase of writing in a rough narrative outline dated August 1940. Intended to account for Gandalf's absence, it describes how a wizard titled "Saramond
3105-408: The enemy", Saruman was drawn into imitation of Sauron. According to Jonathan Evans and Spacks, Saruman succumbs to the lust for power , while Shippey identifies Saruman's devotion to goals of knowledge, organization and control as his weakness. Tolkien writes that the Istari's chief temptation (and that to which Saruman fell) is impatience, leading to a desire to force others to do good, and then to
3174-418: The face of despair, even if a way out cannot be seen; Kocher and Helms write that it is part of a pattern of providential events and of the reversed effects of evil intentions throughout the book. After the defeat of his armies, having been caught in the betrayal of Sauron, Saruman is offered refuge by Gandalf, in return for his aid, but having chosen his path, is unable to turn from it. Evans has compared
3243-580: The festival's 10th anniversary. TREOS (under the pseudonym "The Red Eye of Solomon") played The Middle East night club in Cambridge, MA on May 16, 2012. On February 17, 2020, the band's official Twitter page announced a tour with Envy on the Coast ; it was later called off due to the COVID-19 pandemic . Andrew Cook is currently a full-time touring drummer for country act Dan + Shay . Saruman Saruman , also called Saruman
3312-507: The first two films, the scenes involving Saruman that were shot for use in the third film, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King , were not used in the cinematic release, a decision which "shocked" Lee. Jackson reasoned that it would be anticlimactic to show Saruman's fate in the second movie (after the Battle of Helm's Deep ) and too retrospective for the third one. The cut scenes end with Saruman falling to his death from
3381-467: The five Istari were chosen by the Valar for their mission. Tolkien had been writing The Lord of the Rings for several years when Saruman came into existence as the solution to a long-unresolved plot development, and his role and characteristics continued to emerge in the course of writing. Tolkien started work on the book in late 1937 but was initially unsure of how the story would develop. Unlike some of
3450-461: The godlike Valar sent to challenge Sauron (who was regaining his strength following his defeat at the end of the second age) during the third age by inspiring the people of Middle-earth rather than by direct conflict. Tolkien regarded them as being somewhat like incarnate angels . Saruman initially travels in the east; he is later appointed head of the White Council and eventually settles at Gondor 's outpost of Isengard. However, studying Sauron and
3519-464: The latter half of the performance. The band also played The Bamboozle on May 4, 2008 and performed their final show as The Red Eye of Solomon in Allston, MA on May 5, 2008, where they played all of Between the Heart and the Synapse in order from start to finish with Casey, followed by an encore set. On November 25, 2008, the band posted a video of "Planning a Prison Break" life from their final May 2 show. This hinted that
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#17327837940653588-530: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Treos&oldid=1250028323 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages The Receiving End of Sirens The band played on the 2005 Warped Tour and toured with such acts as Gatsbys American Dream , A Wilhelm Scream , Thirty Seconds to Mars , Funeral for
3657-485: The lore of the Rings of Power makes him desire to possess the ring for himself, eventually leading to his betrayal. Fifty years before The Lord of the Rings , after his studies reveal that the One Ring might be found in the river Anduin near Sauron's stronghold at Dol Guldur , he helps the White Council drive out Sauron in order to facilitate his search. Unfinished Tales contains drafts, not included in The Lord of
3726-577: The love of machines we see in Isengard". The etymologies of English "magic", Latinized Greek magia , "the power of causing physical change in the real world", and English "machine", Greek mekhane or makhana "device", are both from Old Persian maghush "sorcerer", from Proto-Indo-European *magh , "to have power". Thus, Holmes writes, Tolkien was following an ancient cultural connection in making Saruman think in this way, using magic . Shippey notes that Saruman's name repeats this view of technology: in
3795-480: The other characters in the book, Saruman had not appeared in Tolkien's 1937 novel, The Hobbit , or in his then-unpublished Quenta Silmarillion and related mythology, which date back to 1917. When he wrote of Gandalf's failure to meet Frodo, Tolkien did not know what had caused it and later said: "Most disquieting of all, Saruman had never been revealed to me, and I was as concerned as Frodo at Gandalf's failure to appear." Tolkien's son, Christopher , has said that
3864-447: The pseudonym The Red Eye of Soromon [ sic ], also abbreviated TREOS. Cook explained the name change in an interview for www.drivenfaroff.com: Sometimes we just feel like playing a show near home and not announcing it as a TREOS show, just keeping it small and intimate and stuff. And you know, when you play a lot of shows you have to worry about your draw, and a lot of bands will purposefully not play their hometown area for
3933-411: The scene shows similarities to the death of the 2000-year-old sorceress Ayesha in H. Rider Haggard 's 1887 novel She: A History of Adventure . "[His voice was] low and melodious, its very sound an enchantment [...] it was a delight to hear the voice speaking, all that it said seemed wise and reasonable, and desire woke in them by swift agreement to seem wise themselves ... for those whom it conquered
4002-425: The second volume, The Two Towers ; he appears briefly at the end of the third volume, The Return of the King . His earlier history is summarised in the posthumously published The Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales . Saruman is one of several characters in the book who illustrate the corruption of power . His desire for knowledge and order leads to his fall, and he rejects the chance of redemption when it
4071-569: The show and it just worked out great. People have caught on and every time they see The Red Eye of Solomon they’re going to know it's us, but it’s just something to do to be fun, you know, just be goofy about it, show people that we don't take ourselves too seriously and that we still love playing shows like this. Playing big shows is great, and playing big clubs is great, but it loses something at that level, you know? And it's not as intimate and off-the-cuff and random as shows like these, and we love doing it, so we're going to keep doing it as long as we're
4140-594: The show read "The Real Eve Of Skatefest"(a backronym for TREOS) and included the band's Envy on the Coast, All the Day Holiday, Lions Lions, and a special unannounced guest. In late 2010, several members of the band hinted that they were recording new songs via Twitter. Brian Southall, Brendan Brown, Andrew Cook, and Nate Patterson all replied to each other's tweets, often capitalizing the letters "T-R-E-O-S" in each tweet, such as Southall's post, "tracking guitars, This Really Epic Original Song I wrote with some friends
4209-418: The spell endured while they were far away and ever they heard that soft voice whispering and urging them." The Two Towers Book 3, Chapter 10 "The Voice of Saruman" Tolkien described Saruman at the time of The Lord of the Rings as having a long face and a high forehead, "...he had deep darkling eyes ... His hair and beard were white, but strands of black still showed around his lips and ears." His hair
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#17327837940654278-409: The summit of Orthanc , Gandalf observed that Saruman had industrialized the formerly green valley of Isengard and was creating his own army of Half- Orc /Half- Man fighters and Wargs to rival Sauron. Gandalf's escape from the top of the tower on the back of a Great Eagle left Saruman in a desperate position, as he knew he would now be known as traitor to his former allies, but was unable to procure
4347-502: The top of Orthanc after being stabbed by Wormtongue and include material transposed from the chapter " The Scouring of the Shire ". They are included at the start of the Extended Edition DVD release of the film. In Jackson's film adaptations of The Hobbit , Lee reprises his role as Saruman the White, even though Saruman does not appear in the book. In the first film, Saruman, Gandalf, Galadriel , and Elrond gather at
4416-413: The wizards ally themselves with the rising power of Sauron in order to eventually control him for their own ends, revealing himself as a traitor. Saruman went on to suggest that they could take the Ring for themselves and challenge Sauron. When Gandalf refused both options, the traitorous Saruman imprisoned him in the tower of Orthanc at Isengard , hoping to learn from him the location of the Ring. Whilst on
4485-550: The world, and horrible things that happen to people, it's kind of like "out of sight, out of mind." It's just kind of a sad thing. So it's kind of a commentary on that. It also works on a couple of levels. It can be taken as the Greek mythology example with the Sirens that lure sailors in with their singing, so being on the receiving end of those sirens isn't a great thing. It works both ways. The band has also been known to perform under
4554-471: Was a cook at a place called McCarthy's Pub in Massachusetts. A bunch of police cars and ambulances went screaming by and the name popped into my head. Like, thinking about how people never really think about what's "on the receiving end of sirens," because it's such a common thing just to hear the sirens. Especially if you live in a city, it just becomes this commonplace thing, nobody thinks twice about it anymore. Even though there's so much awful stuff going on in
4623-487: Was in fact Saruman. The name used by Saruman's henchmen for their diminished leader is said in a footnote to the final text to be derived from an Orkish term meaning "old man". Saruman's death scene, in which his body shrivels away to skin and bones revealing "long years of death" and "a pale shrouded figure" rises over the corpse, was not added until Tolkien reviewed the page proofs of the completed book. John D. Rateliff and Jared Lobdell are among those to write that
4692-561: Was portrayed by Christopher Lee . In the films, Saruman is depicted presenting himself outright as a servant of Sauron and a traitor to the White Council. Smith and Matthews suggest that Saruman's role is built up as a substitute for Sauron—the story's main antagonist—who never appears directly in the book, a theory which Jackson confirms in the commentary to the DVD. They also suggest that having secured veteran British horror actor Christopher Lee to play Saruman, it made sense to make greater use of his star status. Despite this increased role in
4761-463: Was released on August 7, 2007. The band had arranged to stream a live concert from Vintage Vinyl Record Store in New Jersey on the new real-time entertainment site www.Yebotv.com on August 9, 2007. On March 18, 2008, Brendan Brown announced via a MySpace bulletin that because of his new priorities (having a baby), the band was coming to an end. On Friday, May 2, 2008
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