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.

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