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Sugartooth
Sugartooth is an alternative rock band that was formed in the early 1990s. Timothy Michael Gruse (guitar), Josh Blum (bass), Dave Fortman (guitar) and Joey Castillo (drums) formed the group after meeting each other in the Southern California band circuit while playing in separate groups. After the departure of their original singer, Marc Hutner joined the band as the singer. But it wasn't until Dave Fortman left Sugartooth to join Ugly Kid Joe that Marc was able to play guitar in addition to singing. The band's self-titled debut was released in 1994 on DGC Records. "Sold My Fortune", one of the singles from that record, gained popularity after appearing on an episode of Beavis and Butt-head. The group regularly opened shows for Slayer, Supersuckers, Stone Temple Pilots, and Soundgarden. During one of the tours, Timothy Gruse left the band and Dave Kushner was hired to finish the tour. As the band was starting to work on their second album, The Sounds of Solid, Joey Castillo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sugartooth (album)
''Sugartooth'' is the first album by alternative rock band Sugartooth. It was released on 12 April 1994. The song ''Sold My Fortune'' became a minor hit having aired on an episode of Beavis and Butt-head. - on Youtube This album features drummer Joey Castillo, later of Danzig and Queens Of The Stone Age. Track listing # Sold My Fortune # Barrel # Cracks in the Pavement # Tuesday Morning # In Need # Leave My Soul to Rest # Third-Day-to-Forever # Black Queen # Between the Illness # Shine Boy # Sheffield Milestone # Gather Me/Ode # Sound of Her Laughter Personnel *Marc Hutner - vocals, guitar *Timothy Michael Gruse - guitar *Joey Castillo - drums *Josh Blum - bass References External links Sugartoothat Allmusic AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online database, online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on Musical artist, musicians and Mus ... Sugartooth (Offic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sounds Of Solid
''The Sounds of Solid'' is the second studio album by the American rock band Sugartooth, released in September 1996. The album was recorded with production team The Dust Brothers."Sugartooth's Sweet (and Sampled) Sound of Success", ''The State'', July 11, 1997, p. 3 (Weekend section) The album received a two and a half star rating from the ''Los Angeles Times''.Scribner, Sara (1997) "Sugartooth, 'The Sounds of Solid'", ''Los Angeles Times'', August 3, 1997, p. 64 (Calendar section) Track listing #Club Foot - 3:06 #Booty Street - 3:14 #Spiral - 3:17 #All for Me - 1:53 #Otra Vez - 3:14 #Come on In - 3:37 #Toothless - 3:32 #Harajuana - 2:00 #Solid - 4:02 #Seven & Seven - 2:34 #Frisbee - 2:50 #We'd - 3:32 Personnel *Marc Hutner - vocals, guitar *Timothy Michael Gruse - guitar *Josh Blum - bass * Dusty Watson - drums References External linksThe Sounds of Solidat Allmusic AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online database, online music data ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joey Castillo
Joseph William Castillo (born March 30, 1966) is an American musician. He is best known for being the drummer of the hard rock band Queens of the Stone Age from 2002 to 2012. He is currently a member of Circle Jerks, The Bronx, DOOM Regulator, Zakk Sabbath and Sugartooth, with former bands including Danzig, Wasted Youth, California Breed, Zilch, and Scott Weiland and the Wildabouts. From 1994 to 2002, Castillo was the drummer of Danzig, recording three studio albums with the band before joining Queens of the Stone Age in 2002 to tour in support of their breakthrough album, '' Songs for the Deaf''. He recorded two albums, '' Lullabies to Paralyze'' (2005), '' Era Vulgaris'' (2007), and half of '' ...Like Clockwork'' (2013) before being fired by founding member Josh Homme during the process. Since leaving Queens of the Stone Age and Homme side project Eagles of Death Metal in 2012, Castillo joined California Breed, replacing founding member Jason Bonham, joined Scott W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dave Kushner
Dave Kushner (born November 16, 1966) is an American musician best known as the rhythm guitarist for the hard rock supergroup Velvet Revolver. Kushner has also been a member of Wasted Youth, Electric Love Hogs, Loaded, Danzig, Jane's Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro's solo band, Sugartooth, Zilch while he has also recorded with Infectious Grooves, Cyco Miko and more recently collaborated with Scars on Broadway guitarist Franky Perez releasing songs under the pseudonym of DKFXP, a combination of the initials of Perez and Kushner, as well as working with Indian singer and actress Shruti Haasan. Kushner has also been writing and composing music for films and television, most notable the theme for FX series ''Sons of Anarchy'', titled " This Life", where he received an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Main Title Theme Music in 2009 while in 2010 he received an ASCAP Award for the theme. He collaborated with composer John O'Brien on the music for the movies '' F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dave Fortman
Dave Fortman (born July 11, 1967) is an American record producer and musician. He is the guitarist for rock band Ugly Kid Joe, and has done production work for bands such as Godsmack, Superjoint Ritual, Snot (band), Snot, Watership Down (band), Atomship, Eyehategod, Mudvayne, Otep, Slipknot (band), Slipknot, and Simple Plan. He also worked on both of Evanescence's multi-platinum selling albums ''The Open Door'' and ''Fallen (Evanescence album), Fallen''. Early years Fortman was born in Orlando, Florida. His mother Marge Ann Singleton Fortman was a kindergarten teacher and his father Jon Richey Fortman a retired biology professor. In Covington, Louisiana, he was a trumpet player in marching band for junior high school. He joined with two other musicians John Licali and John McNeely in 1984 to form the band SX while in high school. In 1990, the band relocated to Los Angeles to search for a record deal leading to Fortman joining the band Sugartooth in the same year. Through Sugart ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ugly Kid Joe
Ugly Kid Joe is an American hard rock band from Isla Vista, California, formed in 1989. The band's name spoofs the glam metal band Pretty Boy Floyd's name. To date, Ugly Kid Joe have released five full-length albums, two compilation albums and two EPs. Their best selling records are '' As Ugly as They Wanna Be'' (1991) and '' America's Least Wanted'' (1992), which were both certified double platinum by the RIAA; the former is notable for being the first EP to go platinum. The band broke up in 1997, but announced a reunion in 2010 and subsequently recommenced activity. History Early history (1989–1991) Childhood friends Whitfield Crane and Klaus Eichstadt took an interest in music while growing up in Palo Alto, California. In 1989 James Lambert and Eichstadt joined Crane's band in Isla Vista, California, and the trio recorded a demo with another Palo Alto native, record producer Eric Valentine. After several band member changes, the band signed with Mercury Records in 199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DGC Records
DGC Records (an initialism for the David Geffen Company) was an American record label that operated as a division of Interscope Geffen A&M Records, which is owned by Universal Music Group. In 1999, after the PolyGram merger into UMG which created the Interscope Geffen A&M unit, DGC was absorbed into Geffen Records, but was later revived in 2007 before being merged into Geffen again in September 2021 following eight years of inactivity. The most famous group they signed was Nirvana. History DGC Records (The 'DGC' portion of the name was then known as the David Geffen Company) was launched in 1990 by David Geffen as a subsidiary label of Geffen Records and was distributed by Warner Bros. Records until 1991, when it was acquired by MCA Music Entertainment Group, a division of MCA Inc. The label was created as a response to the success Geffen had with the harder rock acts on its roster. Though it initially focused on more progressive rock and heavy metal, as the decade progressed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wasted Youth (American Band)
Wasted Youth (also known as LA's Wasted Youth) was an early 1980s hardcore punk band from Los Angeles, California. The band followed in the footsteps of Black Flag and Circle Jerks. It was a prominent and popular act among the Los Angeles punk underground. Other bands active in the early 1980s Los Angeles punk scene were The Adolescents, T.S.O.L., Social Distortion, Bad Religion, Agent Orange, and The Stains. Footage of the original lineup (1981–1983) can be seen in the film ''Slog Movie'', which is a film documenting the Orange County punk scene. History The original members of Wasted Youth were Chett Lehrer, Jeff Long, Allen Stiritz, and Danny Spira. ''Reagan's In'' The band's first album '' Reagan's In'', is in the early West Coast hardcore punk music style. It is known for the Pushead artwork of Ronald Reagan on the front cover. The back of the album features Edward Colver's photograph of an upside down stagediver in midair. Though this album consists of ten trac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goatsnake
Goatsnake is an American stoner/doom metal band from Los Angeles. They have released three studio albums, the first being 1999's '' Goatsnake Vol. 1''. History Goatsnake was formed in 1996 after the disbanding of The Obsessed. After The Obsessed's disbanding, the rhythm section consisting of bassist Guy Pinhas (also former of the Dutch Beaver) and drummer Greg Rogers began jamming with guitarist Greg Anderson ( Thorr's Hammer, Burning Witch, Sunn O)))). They soon found a vocalist in Pete Stahl ( Scream, Wool, Earthlings?, The Desert Sessions). Goatsnake recorded and released two 7-inch EPs in 1998 and were featured on several metal compilations. They released their debut full-length, '' 1'', in 1999 on Man's Ruin Records/Rise Above Records. Goatsnake toured Europe in support of their debut album and played with bands such as Unida, Fatso Jetson, and Electric Wizard. They returned in 2000 for a UK tour with Orange Goblin and Sunn O))), another Anderson project. In 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dusty Watson
Dustin "Dusty" Watson is an American drummer who has played with various bands and solo artists. Biography Earning a scholarship to Stan Kenton Band Clinics and joining the Musicians Union at age 17, he formed local California punk band The Press and by the end of the 1970s he was also an original member of Jon and the Nightriders and The Stepmothers. After leaving The Runaways, Lita Ford asked Watson to join her original line up. He recorded her debut album, '' Out for Blood,'' and toured with her from 1980 through 1984. After that he joined the band Legs Diamond, whom he would play with until 1993. During this period, Watson did side work in a number of notable bands, including Concrete Blonde, Channel 3 and talk show host Wally George. After leaving Legs Diamond, he played drums on hip hop group Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E.'s albums ''Metally Disturbed'' and ''Angry Samoans'' and toured Europe. He went on to join Sugartooth, but the band quickly broke up after they were dropped by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dust Brothers
The Dust Brothers are a pair of songwriters and producers consisting of E.Z. Mike ( Michael Simpson) and King Gizmo ( John King). They are famous for the sample-based music they produced in the 1980s and 1990s, and specifically for their work on the albums ''Paul's Boutique'' by Beastie Boys, ''Odelay'', ''Midnite Vultures'' and '' Guero'' by Beck, the soundtrack to ''Fight Club'', and "MMMBop" by Hanson. They are based in Los Angeles, California. History 1980s Michael "E.Z." Simpson and John "Gizmo" King started working together as the Dust Brothers in 1985 at Pomona College radio station, KSPC, hosting a weekly hip-hop show called ''The Big Beat Showcase''. They developed writing and producing skills creating music for their show and DJing and rapping at parties. In 1987, they began writing and producing for the Delicious Vinyl label. There they wrote and produced tracks on Tone Lōc's album, ''Lōc-ed After Dark'', Young MC's debut album '' Stone Cold Rhymin''', and oth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The State (newspaper)
''The State'' is an American newspaper published in Columbia, South Carolina. The newspaper is owned and distributed by The McClatchy Company in the Midlands region of the state. It is by circulation, the second-largest newspaper in South Carolina after ''The Post and Courier''. History The newspaper, first published on February 18, 1891. was founded by two brothers, N.G. Gonzales and A.E. Gonzales. In 1903, N. G. Gonzales was fatally shot by lieutenant governor James H. Tillman, who was later acquitted of murder charges. In 1945, ''The State'' bought its rival, the '' Columbia Record'', with the parent company becoming ''The State-Record Company.'' The paper's owners diversified in 1971 by founding "State Telecasting Company". State Telecasting purchased two television stations in New Mexico and Texas, along with a station in South Carolina. KCBD in Lubbock, Texas, and its full-time satellite KSWS in Roswell, New Mexico, were acquired in 1971 for $6 million from the Joe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
