The Presidents also wrote the theme song for the 1998 TV movie My Date with the President’s Daughter . They also performed a cover of the George of the Jungle theme song for the 1997 film adaptation . This performance is not available on any of their albums.
In 1998, the band started working on Time with Monroe Jones as the producer. Time was nominated for a Grammy Award and won another Dove Award for the band. Some of the songs that were recorded for possible inclusion in the album, but left out during production, are on the…
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Dude Ranch shipped gold by 1998,
was nominated for Best Metal Performance at the 1998 Grammy Awards .
Hoobastank started playing at Cobalt Cafe in Los Angeles with Incubus and Linkin Park . They recorded their first full-length, self-released album in 1998, They Sure Don’t Make Basketball Shorts Like They Used To , which features a saxophone section headed by Jeremy Wasser, who recorded the “Summer Romance” saxophone…
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Strung Out took them on their first U.S./Canada tour which followed the buzz created by appearance of the band’s instant classic “Titty Twister”, on the Fat Wreck Chords compilation Survival of the Fattest . Their second album, Venus Envy (1998), marked the departure of drummer and original member, Mike Schaus.…
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In late 1998, Farner left the band after disagreements with Brewer and Schacher and returned to his solo career. And after a two-year hiatus, when Brewer and Schacher once again approached Farner about reuniting, he turned them down after they refused to honor his desire to be paid fifty percent,…
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The band’s hit song “My Own Prison” was featured as a live performance on the charity album Live in the X Lounge in 1998.
Griffin, Drummond and McNabb spent 18 months working on Closer , their follow-up album to 1998’s How Does Your Garden Grow? and their first new material since being dropped by Elektra Records. The album was recorded in New Orleans in the band’s own studio, which allowed the members to focus…
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What was to be their third and final effort, New Sheets , was released in 1998. During the process, the band enlisted the help of longtime friend and guitarist Matt Devine, and the production of The Cars singer-songwriter Ric Ocasek , who found clarity in a clean and sober Zabrecky.…
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