Scholz headed back to the studio in 1998 to begin work on a fifth album, which eventually turned out to be Corporate America . The title track of “Corporate America” was uploaded by Tom Scholz to MP3.com under the pseudonym of “Downer’s Revenge” in early 2002 to test the album’s…
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Calling All Stations was released in September 1997. It was a commercial and critical success in Europe, where it reached No. 2 in the UK, but the album only reached No. 54 in the US, their lowest charting album there since Selling England by the Pound .
On July 2, 1997, Counting Crows started off a co-headlining tour with the Wallflowers that continued to September. The tour included opening acts by Bettie Serveert , Engine 88 , Gigolo Aunts and That Dog , with each opening band touring for three-weeks. After nine months of near-constant touring in…
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Wilson was announced as the new Genesis singer in June 1997. Though much of the album was already written by the time he joined, Banks was pleased with his contributions to the album, which included writing the lyrics to “Small Talk” and riffs on ” Not About Us ” and…
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The band took a break following the album’s release to work on solo projects, waiting for Perry to make up his mind on if he wanted to tour. Schon released his solo album Electric World in 1997, later creating Abraxas Pool with former Journey member Gregg Rolie, drummer Michael Shrieve,…
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Although the band’s lineup had remained stable from 1997 to 2004, they began to experience personnel changes again in 2004. Rondinelli left in 2004, and was replaced by Jules Radino. Miranda left during the same year to become the bassist for Queen + Paul Rodgers in place of the retired…
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a full-length album titled Whirlygig in 1997
Boston released a compilation album in 1997, titled simply Boston: Greatest Hits . The album featured all of the band’s hit singles except “We’re Ready”, “Can’tcha Say (You Believe In Me)/Still In Love”, and “I Need Your Love”, but included three new songs, “Higher Power”, “Tell Me”, and an instrumental…
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Plans for a subsequent tour ended when Perry, troubled by pain while hiking in Hawaii on a 10-day break in August 1996, discovered he had a degenerative bone condition and could not perform without hip-replacement surgery, which for some time he declined to undergo, later admitting he had other physical…
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The group toured in the summer of 1995 with Cosmo and Delp combining vocals. By that time, drummer Huffman had been replaced by Curly Smith, who was previously with Jo Jo Gunne . Following the conclusion of the Livin’ For You tour in 1995, Scholz announced that a greatest-hits album…
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