Feeder spent most of 2000 writing and recording for their next album. They previewed new material at festivals around the country, including V2000 and Glastonbury . They would end the year promoting ” Buck Rogers “, their first single since November 1999 and then playing a mini-tour at the end…
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Nic, on lead vocals and guitar, decided to form a garage rock band, in 2001, with Muncey on lead guitar and vocals, before Chris joined on drums and vocals. Bass guitarist Doug Armstrong, who completed the line-up, had met the Cesters while working at their father’s spice factory. The quartet…
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In early 2001 Ginger announced that he was reforming the Earth vs the Wildhearts lineup of the band for a tour later that year. This lineup (consisting of Ginger and CJ on guitars and vocals, Danny McCormack on bass and vocals, and Stidi on drums) soon ran into difficulty due…
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Between 2001 and 2002, Comes with the Fall was both the opening act on Cantrell’s tour for his second solo album, Degradation Trip , and also his backing band, with DuVall singing Staley’s parts at the concerts.
recordings of these shows were released in 2001, as a triple live album, Bootleg Series Volume 1: The Quine Tapes , which included the line up of Reed, Yule, Morrison and Tucker.
On November 12, 2000, the band’s touring van skidded out of control on ice and flipped onto its roof. Though the accident left the band shaken, none of the members sustained serious injury; Hajjar and Bixler-Zavala were taken to the hospital for minor injuries but released soon after. In January…
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During the 2001 Rock in Rio show, bassist Nick Oliveri was arrested after performing on stage naked, with only his bass guitar covering his genitals. Oliveri apologized to officials, saying that he did not know it was a crime in Brazil.
In 2001, Sony/Columbia’s reissue arm, Legacy Records issued expanded versions of the first four Blue Öyster Cult studio albums, including some previously unreleased demos and outtakes from album sessions, live recordings (from the Live 72 EP), and post- St. Cecilia tunes from the Stalk-Forrest Group era.
The band reunited to record a cover of the Kinks ‘ “Better Things” for the tribute album, This Is Where I Belong: Songs of Ray Davies and the Kinks , in 2001, and began to discuss plans for a new album.
A European tour with AC/DC in support of The World Needs a Hero began in mid-2001