In 1989 Kenji Ueda , bassist for Kenzi & the Trips, left the band with former Kenzi’s drummer Shinichiro Sato and invited the Coin Locker Babies vocalist Sawao Yamanaka to form a new band. Yoshiaki Manabe , the guitarist of the hair metal band Persia, joined them. The Pillows were…
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On September 5, 1989, the band released its debut major-label album, Louder Than Love
Here Today, Tomorrow Next Week! , the band’s second album, was released in September 1989. The greater vocal contribution by Einar Örn on the record was criticized in many of the record’s reviews, which were noticeably weaker than those for Life’s Too Good . Not all critics agreed that it…
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They released their first demo tape, “Lunacy”, on August 9, with all one hundred copies sold out.
The Daddies recorded their first demo cassette 4 From On High in July 1989, which included four tracks of funk rock and punk-influenced swing. The cassette sold over 1,000 copies in the Eugene and Portland areas, enabling the band to self-produce their debut LP Ferociously Stoned , released the following…
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Mosley was replaced with singer Mike Patton in 1988. Patton, who was singing with his high school band, Mr. Bungle , was recruited at Martin’s suggestion after he heard Mr. Bungle’s first demo tape, The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny . According to Patton, he first met the band…
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Bleach was released in June 1989, and became a favorite of college radio stations.
The finalized lineup of Lunacy made their debut on stage at the 100-seat capacity Play House in Machida, Tokyo on May 29, 1989.
However, in his autobiography, J recalls that vocalist Yasuhiro “Yasu” Imai, one of his closest friends, suddenly told him one day that he wanted to quit. He speculated that Yasu might have become uncomfortable because, like any band, the members grew at different rates, differences in direction became apparent, and…
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10,000 Maniacs’ next album, 1989’s Blind Man’s Zoo , hit No. 13 and went gold, further increasing the group’s following. In May 1989, the British music magazine NME reported that 10,000 Maniacs had won the songwriter category prize at the New York Music Awards. In 1990, with the help of…
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