North Florida Music Hall of Fame

In 1997, these Douglas Anderson high-school students recorded their first album, Midget Tossing, at Michael Fitzgerald’s Music Factory in Jacksonville Beach. After replacing original singer Ben Dobson with Ryan Key from Modern Amusement, they relocated to California in 2000, where they signed a one-off deal with Santa Barbara-based Lobster Records. After a second signing, an EP on Gainesville-based Fueled by Ramen Records (an indie label owned by punk-ska band Less than Jake), Yellowcard signed with Capitol. The band’s major-label debut, Ocean Avenue, wound up selling more than 2 million units. The group’s second Capitol album, Lights and Sounds, went gold (at least 500,000) units, and its third, Paper Walls, came in at 358,000. By 2005, two of the band’s founding members, guitarist Ben Harper and bassist Warren Cooke had left the group. Yellowcard announced in April 2008 that it was taking an “indefinite hiatus.” Harper and Cooke, along with original singer Ben Dobson, have since performed under the name Where We Stand (also the title of Yellowcard’s second album). Drummer Longineau Parsons Jr. is the son of jazz trumpeter Longineau Parsons. Bassist Pete Moseley is a founding member of Jacksonville punk-rockers Inspection 12.