Kara's Flowers

Kara's Flowers was the name of band that came to be Maroon 5. The band consisted of Adam Levine (vocals/guitar), Jesse Carmichael (guitar), Mickey Madden (bass) and Ryan Dusick (drums), which was Maroon 5's original line-up, with the addition of James Valentine. The members of Kara's Flowers had been friends since attending junior high school in Los Angeles at Brentwood School when, in 1995, they formed a grunge rock band named for a girl they sneaked flowers to on her birthday. They played their first gig on September 16, 1995, at the Whisky A Go-Go. The band signed with Reprise Records and released its first and only album, The Fourth World, in the middle of 1997. Despite support slots on tours by Reel Big Fish and Goldfinger, the album failed to take off commercially and in 1999, the band parted company with Reprise Records