SHORT HISTORY 1999-2008

When and how did INNOCENT BYSTANDER begin?
I guess it all started sometime in 1999 in Cedarville/Millville, NJ.
My brother JD and I grew up riding our bikes on dirt jumps in our grandmom's backyard sometime around '96-97 with our neighbors and cousins. We later picked up a "sweet" S-VHS camera and started filming cheesy barspins over bonfires and random nonsense. FBM's "Live Fast, Die" and LITTLE DEVIL's "Seek & Destroy" videos were our inspiration at the time. Our group of friends quickly grew. We later took our bikes into town with pegs and started grinding ledges as street riding progressed. More friends who we met on the streets joined us. Things just got more fun from there. We started throwing shows in our backyard after building a mini ramp behind the garage. We had 6 Jams over the course of 3-4 years with local friends and bands playing each.
On 06/23/03 our friends from Small Brown Bike, The Casket Lottery, and Rocky Votolato
played our 4th Backyard Jam. Definitely a highlight of my life for sure. (read article).
- Rick W.

As time passed, some of us moved out of NJ, to different parts of the country.
Our friends once again grew, leading to IB's representation in 3 states:
New Jersey, Tennessee, and Arizona.

So are you a bike company, clothing company, a band, a terrorist organization?
I think we currently only have one t-shirt design for sale and we all ride bikes and some of us play music, so technically yes, but we mostly just sell DVDs in limited releases. We never really wanted to be a company. That's why we've never added "clothing" or "co." to our name. We're just a group of friends who hangout and document the good times.

... MORE TO COME...

IB! DVD SOUNDTRACKS

DVD	ARTIST	SONG
T.O.B.R.O.D.	1. Explosions in the Sky	Have you passed through this night
[2008]	2. The Toadies	I Burn
	3. Modest Mouse	So much beauty in dirt
	4. Sunset Rubdown	I'll believe in anything, you'll believ in anything
	5. Saul Williams	List of Demands
	6. Unknown	Biggie Beat (Krimzen edit)
	7. Agalloch	Not Unlike the Waves
	8. Sunset Rubdown	Us ones in Between
Menu track:	Chingada	T.O.B.R.O.D. theme
Bonus:
Last Chance Clothing	Limebeck	Bird Problems
Eddie Muscle Vans Session	Walker Texas Ranger	Walker Texas Ranger theme
Florida Trip	The Dead Boys	Ain't It Fun
Matt G. / J.D. split	Donovan	Hurdy Gurdy Man
DEBT'S COMING...	VERSION 1	(in order)
[2007]	Two Gallants	Las Cruces Jail
	mewithoutYou	Nice 'n Blue Pt. 2
	Shipwrecked	Wander, Wonder
	Joy Division	Atmosphere
	The Constantines	Soon Enough
	Rogue Wave	Love's Lost Guarantee
	Lucero	Darby's Song
	O.C.M.S.	Wagon Wheel
	Doomriders	The Long Walk
	Cold War Kids	Hang me up to dry
	Chuck Ragan	The Grove
	Sparta	Breaking the Broken
	Modest Mouse	Spittin' Venom
	New Order	Ceremony (written by: Joy Division)
	Two Gallants	Steady Rollin'
	Against Me!	Wagon Wheel (written by: Old Crow Medicine Show)
Bonus:
(Falls)	Godspeed! You Black Emperor	Antennas to Heaven / Kicking horse on broken hill
	VERSION 2	(in order)
	Godspeed! You Black Emperor	Motherfucker=Redeemer
	Two Gallants	Las Cruces Jail
	Rumbleseat	Chattanoga Bends
	Tapes 'n Tapes	Ohmaha
	Against Me!	Impact
	Godspeed! You Black Emperor	sleep
	Modest Mouse	Bukowski
	Echoes of Harper's Ferry	Rapid Stations
	The White Stripes	Baby Brother
	Wolf Parade	I'll believe in anything
	mewithoutYou	In a sweater poorly knit
	Pinback	Boo
Menu tracks:	Modest Mouse	3 inch horses, 2 faced monsters
	Bob Dylan	Last thoughts on Woody Guthrie