It’s damn easy for artists to become dormant in small, middle-of-nowhere towns. For the members of Casper WY’s System Restore, this dormancy could have been their legacies. According to bass player and Wyoming punk vet Dan O’Hara, that’s where he was headed. “I was going on the occasional Lillingtons trip with my brother [Lillingtons drummer Tim O’Hara] as a merch guy or stage tech. I thought, ‘this might be fun to try again. But maybe later.” However, following the death of local legend and Teenage Bottlerocket drummer Brandon Carlisle, O’Hara realized that life is too short to postpone one’s dreams. With guitarist/friend Brent Phillips, O’Hara started System Restore. The two soon began writing melodic punk songs a la Penny...
