The Story of Forced Down….. Forced Down was a band that started, essentially out of members of many other bands It became an idea, the idea became a sound, the sound had a look and identity… And it was all built out of what was not happening in our local scene… It never wanted a Label, it never wanted a scene, it wanted to be for everyone… This, at the very time the "scene" was becoming more and more cliquish…. we would not…from our artwork to our recordings and our interviews….. we were only to be, a band called forced down…. The band started in motion by Mike Down and Joey Piro…Mike was singing in local H/C heros "Amenity" who were based out of the south of San Diego in Chula Vista, (all thou he lived in Pacific Beach) and Joey was playing drums in SD Legends PitchFork… Led by John Reese, but based round, and practicing in the North County region of Encinitas…Mike would drive up with John and attend practices, tape recording their songs… He and Joey would talk about similar interests in music which led to them jamming out with a couple bass players
