In 1991 they contracted with major label Pony Canyon and released their debut single, “Ame ni Utaeba”, in May and their first full-length record Moon Gold in June.
The band embarked on a European tour in the fall of 1991 supporting Mudhoney .
For touring purposes, Mascis first added Van Conner , and then Mike Johnson on bass. Together they embarked on several tours to support Green Mind , with support acts that included Nirvana . In 1991, Sire Records released an EP titled Whatever’s Cool with Me that featured old B-sides coupled…
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After hearing Matthews’s demo, Beauford agreed to spend some time playing the drums, both inside and outside the studio. Matthews also approached LeRoi Moore , another local jazz musician who often performed with the John D’earth Quintet, to join them. The trio began working on Matthews’s songs in 1991. Matthews…
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The tour finished with 14 consecutive shows at the Grand Rex Theatre in Buenos Aires. With a 3,300 person capacity, this was a noticeable achievement at the time. Some of the Grand Rex shows would appear on the live EP Rex Mix (1991), which included remixed versions of a new…
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After the release of Uncle Anesthesia Van Conner went on hiatus from the band, choosing to tour as bass player for Dinosaur Jr. instead, with Donna Dresch filling in for him during Screaming Trees performances. Late in 1991, Nirvana’s Nevermind became an unexpected commercial success, opening the gates for the…
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Cake was formed in 1991 when John McCrea, a Sacramento, California native who had moved to Los Angeles with a band only to see it “quickly crumble around him”, returned to Sacramento.
In 1991, the Depeche Mode contribution “Death’s Door” was released on the soundtrack album for the film Until the End of the World . Film director Wim Wenders had challenged musical artists to write music the way they imagined they would in the year 2000, the setting of the movie.
After leaving the Non Blondes in 1991, Day continued drumming with Malibu Barbi, and then Bad Dog Play Dead. In late 1992, an accident crushed her legs and broke her back; this made drumming very painful. Day moved out of San Francisco in 1995; she spent some time in Arizona…
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The band experienced some hardships leading up to the recording of their second album. In 1991 Rough Trade Records went bankrupt, which caused the band to sign with Parlophone Records in the UK. Their debut went out of print in the UK and would stay that way until 1996. Constant…
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