Gob formed in 1993 consisting of Tom Thacker as lead guitarist and vocalist, Theo Goutzinakis as rhythm/co-lead guitarist and vocalist, Patrick “Wolfman Pat” Paszana on drums, and Kelly Macauley on bass guitar. Thacker and Goutzinakis often switched between lead vocals with Goutzinakis playing the occasional lead guitar line.
Following the failed effort to record a new studio album, the Police effectively disbanded. In the liner notes to the Police’s box set Message in a Box: The Complete Recordings (1993), Summers explains: “The attempt to record a new album was doomed from the outset. The night before we went…
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Now at their commercial peak, Suicidal Tendencies released Still Cyco After All These Years in 1993. The album was a re-recording of Suicidal Tendencies’s self-titled debut album with three additional songs (two re-recordings of Join the Army tracks, and the B-side to the 1990 single “Send Me Your Money”). It…
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In 1993, King met violin player Bridget Regan, guitarist Ted Hutt , bassist Jeff Peters and drummer Paul Crowder , and put together a rock band with a Celtic music influence. They began to play a mix of Irish traditional and rock music. Putting King’s poetic lyrics to rocking melodies,…
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In January 1993, the band bootlegged their early recordings for EMI and released a 7″ single under the name of Ramraiders ITA.
During the early days of the band, Tom usually kept his place as lead guitar while Theo had more vocal duties and focused on rhythm guitar. They recorded their self-titled Gob in 1993 and released it in 1994 on Landspeed Records with the odd numbered tracks sung by Theo and…
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In 1993, with their new label RCA, Attaque released Todo Está al Revés to some success in Argentina, touring the country in support of the album.
With alternative rock and grunge breaking into the mainstream, Bad Religion signed to Atlantic Records in 1993 and quickly re-released their seventh full-length studio album Recipe for Hate on the label that same year. Despite receiving mixed reviews from music critics, the album finally broke Bad Religion into mainstream audiences…
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In 1993, Scabies tried starting a new band with guitarist Kris Dollimore (formerly of the Godfathers ). They could not find a singer, and instead decided to work with Vanian as a new incarnation of The Damned. This lineup also featured guitarist Alan Lee Shaw and bassist Moose Harris (formerly…
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Following a brief 1993 reunion (in which three of their older tracks were rerecorded), UK Decay resumed activity in the early 2000s, launching a website and reissuing A Night for Celebration in 2005 in an expanded deluxe edition titled Nights for Celebration . 2007 saw the release of compilation Death,…
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