Following Alice in Chains’ extensive 1993 world tour, Staley said the band “just wanted to go into the studio for a few days with our acoustic guitars and see what happened.” “We never really planned on the music we made at that time to be released. But the record label…
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With the tour complete, the band set to work on another album, the early sessions of which would see Turner being forced out. 1993 was going to be Deep Purple’s 25th anniversary year, with Lord, Paice and Glover (and the record company) wanting Gillan back for another Mark II reunion…
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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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Tim Sommer , the band’s A&R representative at Atlantic Records, said Hootie & The Blowfish donated all the proceeds from a Seattle concert in the 1990s to a rape crisis group that had been set up in memory of Mia Zapata , the lead singer of the punk band The…
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During mid-1993, Megadeth performed at a number of shows with Metallica in Europe.
In 1993, the band released a second self-titled album: this Duran Duran album is known as The Wedding Album (for Nick Egan ‘s cover art featuring the wedding photos of the band members’ parents) to distinguish it from the 1981 release, and was produced and recorded with John Jones .…
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The Beastie Boys also published Grand Royal Magazine , which ran for six issues between 1993 and 1997, the first issue featuring a cover story on Bruce Lee , artwork by George Clinton , and interviews with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and A Tribe Called Quest ‘s MC Q-Tip . The 1995…
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Later in 1993, Metallica went on the Nowhere Else to Roam Tour, playing five shows in Mexico City .
In 1993, Primus headlined the alternative rock festival Lollapalooza . They also made an appearance at the Woodstock ’94 music festival. They were pelted with mud while they performed “My Name Is Mud”. About a minute into the song the band stopped playing, and Claypool said, “Well I opened a…
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“We felt ‘Popscene’ was a big departure; a very, very English record”, Albarn told the NME in 1993, “But that annoyed a lot of people … We put ourselves out on a limb to pursue this English ideal and no-one was interested.”