In 1994, Reel/Real’s bass player, Julian Smith, left the group. Grant Nicholas and Jon Lee went ‘back to the drawing board’. They placed an advert in Loot for a new bass player. The advert was answered by Taka Hirose , a Japanese ex-pat working in London as a graphic designer…
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The band was formed in late 1993 by Chris Ballew (bass guitar and lead vocals) and Dave Dederer (guitar and backup vocals), who met at school in Seattle. Ballew had previously been in a punk- busker band called Egg, who wrote many songs that would later be turned into Presidents…
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which they recorded at Triclops Studios in Marietta, Georgia , in October 1993.
In 1993, the band recorded a 9-song demo tape at the 8th Avenue Sound Studio with engineer Kevin Hamilton. Their sound was influenced by contemporary Seattle acts such as Soundgarden , Pearl Jam , Nirvana , and Alice in Chains . The two-day recording session cost $500 Canadian dollars. The…
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A collection of B-sides and unreleased tracks recorded between 1984 and 1993, called Retro Active , was released in October 1993, preceded by the success of the acoustic ballad ” Two Steps Behind ” (from the Arnold Schwarzenegger film Last Action Hero ). The song charted in many countries, reaching…
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Local H played their first show as a duo on September 3, 1993.
On 6 June 1993, Def Leppard performed the first ever rock concert at the Don Valley Stadium in their home city of Sheffield before an audience of over 50,000.
Modern Life Is Rubbish was released in May 1993. The announcement of the album’s release included a press photo which featured Blur, dressed in a mix of mod and skinhead attire, posing alongside a mastiff with the words “British Image 1” spraypainted behind them. At the time, such imagery was…
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The band’s debut album, Diary , released by indie label Sub Pop in 1994, was greeted with numerous positive reviews.Sub Pop had signed the band after Sub Pop co-founder Jonathan Poneman saw them at a May 1993 show in Seattle. That September, the band performed lead single ” Seven ”…
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Garcia left on January 26, 1993, and Lucas and Daniels began looking for a replacement bassist.