Before the Past - Live from Electrical Audio no-image lovingly referred to as the

lovingly referred to as the "Bullet Bus"

and countless miles logged on the road

while always operating within a general punk ethos

Having taken to the open road as soon as the act was signed into law and consolidated their powers into a focused triune weapon

Before the Past - Live from Electrical Audio no-image lovingly referred to as theMono formed in Tokyo, Japan in the closing winter weeks of December, 1999. They played their first live shows at the top of the new millennium, and released their first album, Under The Pipal Tree, in 2001. Recorded live in one day on a razor thin budget, Pipal Tree was an earnest introduction to the curious magic of a band that would eventually become synonymous with monstrously dynamic, contemporary classical rock music. To commemorate those austere