Stir was founded in 1994 as a three-piece band at the University of Missouri , and consisted of lead vocalist and guitarist Andy Schmidt, bassist Kevin Gagnepain, and drummer Brad Booker. Schmidt, Gagnepain, and Booker had been in another band previously to Stir named “The Choice” and decided to form…
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That year, however, Raynor’s family relocated to Reno, Nevada , and he was briefly replaced by musician Mike Krull.
Q magazine described the 1993 Devotional Tour as “The Most Debauched Rock ‘n’ Roll Tour Ever”. According to The Independent , the “smack-blasted” Gahan “required cortisone shots just to perform, borderline alcoholic Gore suffered two stress-induced seizures, and Andrew Fletcher’s deepening depression resulted, in the summer of 1994, in a…
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Roger Rocha joined after the completion of the album and stayed with the band until early 1994, when he was fired due to personal conflicts with the rest of the band. With Concrete Blonde being on hiatus, 4 Non Blondes enlisted their guitarist James Mankey , who recorded with them…
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Authority Zero was started in 1994 and consisted of two guitarists Bill Marcks, Jerry Douglas (also performing vocals) and drummer J.W. Gordon, all from Westwood High School . This trio put a few songs together without lyrics or basslines until the summer of 1995. When that summer rolled around, Douglas…
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Upon the album’s release, Corgan told CNN that he should have “been given credit [for writing the entire album]”. Erlandson responded to Corgan’s statements in a Rolling Stone interview, commenting: “We were working on all the stuff that Courtney and I had already written. Billy really facilitated things, in a…
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In 1994, after culling both new songs and reams of archival recordings from GBV’s history, Pollard delivered the indie landmark Bee Thousand via Scat Records , with a distribution deal through indie label Matador Records . Soon, the band officially signed with Matador, concurrent with Pollard and his bandmates finally…
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Singer and pianist Amy Lee and guitarist Ben Moody met in 1994 in Little Rock, Arkansas at ages 13 and 14, when the two were at a Christian youth camp where Lee played piano during sport activities and Moody played acoustic guitar and she thought they could play music together.…
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However, it would not appear on an album until the 1994 compilation The Best of New Order .
In mid-1994, Supergrass issued their debut single ” Caught by the Fuzz ” on the small independent local label Backbeat Records. The song recounts lead singer and guitarist Gaz Coombes ‘s experience of being arrested by the police for possession of cannabis . The limited release of vinyl copies sold…
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