By the summer of 1991, they were playing at Eastern Standard with Charles Newman as their manager for a brief time. They also continued to play at fraternity functions; the last such show was at UVa at the DKE house on September 11, 1992. Thereafter the band began playing a…
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In mid-1991, the band began to get the attention of the major labels. The first to court them was Maverick — a Warner subsidiary founded by Madonna and music executive Freddy DeMann . Love, however, was uninterested: “[They] would have me riding on elephants. They don’t know what I am.…
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Watt returned to Baron Lesh and was replaced by Blackie Onassis (real name: John Rowan) on the next album The Supersonic Storybook , which was named by Material Issue ‘s Jim Ellison and was released in 1991.
At the 1991 ARIA Awards ceremony, Midnight Oil won ‘ Best Group ‘ and an ‘Outstanding Achievement Award’ and ‘ Best Cover Artist ‘, ‘Best Video’ and ‘ Album of the Year ‘ for Blue Sky Mining . Morris, accepting awards for Midnight Oil, was criticised for a speech lasting…
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The band played at campus events, usually as the crowd started to leave. They initially had little success playing covers, and they decided to write their own material which soon earned them a cult following. One song, ” Pare Ko “, became popular for its explicit lyrics. They later met…
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The band independently released two cassette demo EPs in 1991 and 1992.
Vertical Horizon was formed in 1991 by Georgetown University undergraduate students Matt Scannell and Keith Kane. In 1992 after graduating, the duo relocated to Boston to record and self-release their debut album There and Back Again . Scannell and Kane toured as a duo for the next few years, mostly…
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Their fourteenth studio album, Innuendo , was released in early 1991 with ” Innuendo ” and other charting singles released later in the year.
A second album, Travelers and Thieves , followed in 1991.
The band played a handful of local concerts in 1991, but largely took a break from touring and Merchant spent most of the year working with homeless youth in Harlem . Merchant then revealed to the other members that she would be leaving 10,000 Maniacs for a solo career in…
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