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	Park is from ]. They began in 1996 with Justin Valenti, Eric Lipe and Jon Heupel. After three shows as a trio Park played with one of Ladd Mitchell's former bands and Ladd joined Park a week later. Lipe and Heupel left in 2000 to pursue school and were replaced by Miles Logan and Timmy Costello. This current incarnation is the fourth major version of Park. Ladd Mitchell is the only member that has been in all four incarnations of Park.		Park is from ]. They began in 1996 with Justin Valenti, Eric Lipe and Jon Heupel. After three shows as a trio Park played with one of Ladd Mitchell's former bands and Ladd joined Park a week later. Lipe and Heupel left in 2000 to pursue school and were replaced by Miles Logan and Timmy Costello. This current incarnation is the fourth major version of Park. Ladd Mitchell is the only member that has been in all four incarnations of Park.

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	With the release of ''No Signal'', Park embarked on a yearlong non-stop North American tour, three times around. They then went home to write songs and returned to California for the recording of "]", again produced by Cameron Webb, and released in November 2003. Park went on the road again, touring the US three times in 2004. In 2005, frontman Ladd Mitchell released a solo CD under the name ]. They released '']''. in 2006.		With the release of ''No Signal'', Park embarked on a yearlong non-stop North American tour, three times around. They then went home to write songs and returned to California for the recording of "]", again produced by Cameron Webb, and released in November 2003. Park went on the road again, touring the US three times in 2004. In 2005, frontman Ladd Mitchell released a solo CD under the name ]. They released '']'' in 2006 after another round of lineup changes.<ref>. '']'', July 19, 2006.</ref>

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Park
Origin	Springfield, Illinois
Genres	Punk rock, Alternative rock, Emo
Years active	1996–2007
Labels	Lobster Records

Members	Ladd Mitchell Aaron Bickel Alex Haycraft Miles Logan

Park was an American rock band, formed in Springfield, Illinois.

Line-up

Ladd Mitchell: vocals, guitar
Aaron Bickel: guitar
Alex Haycraft: Bass
Miles Logan: drums

Biography

Park is from Springfield, Illinois. They began in 1996 with Justin Valenti, Eric Lipe and Jon Heupel. After three shows as a trio Park played with one of Ladd Mitchell's former bands and Ladd joined Park a week later. Lipe and Heupel left in 2000 to pursue school and were replaced by Miles Logan and Timmy Costello. This current incarnation is the fourth major version of Park. Ladd Mitchell is the only member that has been in all four incarnations of Park.

In October 2001, Lobster Records released the Park album, No Signal. It was produced by Cameron Webb (Lit, Over It, Social Distortion, and later Silverstein).

With the release of No Signal, Park embarked on a yearlong non-stop North American tour, three times around. They then went home to write songs and returned to California for the recording of "It Won't Snow Where You're Going", again produced by Cameron Webb, and released in November 2003. Park went on the road again, touring the US three times in 2004. In 2005, frontman Ladd Mitchell released a solo CD under the name A Times Beach Crush Factor. They released Building a Better in 2006 after another round of lineup changes.

Park recorded a cover version of the Blink-182 song Obvious, which was included in the compilation album A Tribute to Blink 182: Pacific Ridge Records Heroes of Pop-Punk, released by Pacific Ridge Records in 2006.

On February 3, 2007, a blog on the Park myspace revealed that Ladd would be leaving the band due to personal reasons, and the band would be breaking up. In a recent interview with the music blog "Sleeping with Headphones," Mitchell revealed that his intentions for ending the band were to pursue a normal life with his family. Park's DVD, titled Weathering a Summer, premiered at their final hometown show on May 5, 2007, with an official release still pending. The band has also stated that a DVD featuring the final show will be released in the near future.

Tiger Tank

After a very long hiatus front man Ladd Mitchell and Drummer Miles Logan once again team up in new band Tiger Tank.

In an open letter to fans on their Kick Start page Ladd wrote that "Tiger Tank is very reminiscent of Park but has it's own personal edge while staying true to mid-west indie rock scene which I fell in love with while growing up in Springfield, Illinois," that Miles Parkhill will be helping out on drums, and that they are creating demos for an EP consisting of 5 songs that will be released digitally.

The project was funded in December 2011 and band's first EP being released in May of 2012. The EP is 5 tracks long.