Love is Chemicals was formed (in spirit, if not quite yet in name) in 2000 in San Francisco when singer/guitarist Nate Grover, tired of being in bands that kept breaking up all the time, convinced his wife Courtney to pick up a bass and formed a band with her called The Chemistry Set. After a few months of practicing and playing out, Nate and Courtney joined forces with a couple of friends— guitarist Greg Neil, who had just moved to San Francisco from Utah, and drummer Steve Galbraith, whose previous band Nate had helped record— and rechristened themselves Love is Chemicals.

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