Buckcherry is a Grammy The Grammy Awards —or Grammys—are presented annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States for outstanding achievements in the music industry. The awards ceremony features performances by prominent artists, and some of the awards of more popular interest are presented in a widely-viewed televised ceremony-nominated hard rock Hard rock is a loosely defined genre of rock music which has its earliest roots in mid-1960s garage, blues rock and psychedelic rock. It is typified by a heavy use of distorted electric guitars, bass guitar, drums, and sometimes pianos and keyboards band from Los Angeles, California Los Angeles is the second largest city in the United States, and with a population of 3.8 million is the largest city in the state of California and the Western United States. Additionally the city spans over 498.3 square miles (1,290.6 km2) in Southern California and is anchored to the world's 13th largest metropolitan area with 17.7 million, formed in 1995. The band released two albums, Buckcherry Buckcherry is the eponymous debut album by the rock band Buckcherry. It was released on April 6, 1999 by Dreamworks Records. "Lit Up", "For the Movies", "Dead Again", and "Check Your Head" were released as singles. As of September 2006, the album has sold in excess of 750,000 copies, and was certified Gold (1999) and Time Bomb (2001), before dissolving in the summer of 2002. In 2005, lead vocalist Josh Todd Josh Todd is an American musician best known as the lead singer of the hard rock band Buckcherry and lead guitarist Keith Nelson reformed Buckcherry and released a new album on April 16, 2006, 15 15 is Buckcherry's third studio album and the first with a new line-up, released on November 29, 2006 in Japan and April 6, 2006 in North America. The Japanese version features two bonus tracks. "Crazy Bitch" was the first single off the album and enjoyed success on the pop charts. The second single was "Next 2 You" which. It contained Buckcherry's biggest crossover hits to date, "Crazy Bitch", and their first Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday to Tuesday. A new chart is compiled and officially top ten hit, "Sorry "Sorry" is the fifth single taken by the hard rock band Buckcherry's third studio album, 15. It was not originally planned to be a single, but after increasing popularity on Mainstream radio, the band made a video and officially released the song". Their fourth album, Black Butterfly Black Butterfly is the fourth studio album by American hard rock band Buckcherry. It had been in production since late 2007. Band manager Josh Klemme allegedly leaked the first single "Too Drunk..." to the internet, only to later claim in a press release that it had been pirated, was released in September 2008. Their fifth album, All Night Long, will be released on August 3, 2010.
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Band history
Formation and commercial success: 1995-2002
Buckcherry was formed after lead vocalist Josh Todd Josh Todd is an American musician best known as the lead singer of the hard rock band Buckcherry met lead guitarist Keith Nelson through their tattoo artist after discovering a common love of AC/DC AC/DC are an Australian rock band formed in 1973 by brothers Malcolm and Angus Young. Although the band are commonly classified as hard rock and are considered a pioneer of heavy metal, they have always classified their music as rock and roll. The duo made a few demos before being joined by bassist Jonathan Brightman and drummer Devon Glenn, calling themselves Sparrow. Sparrow began performing around the Hollywood club scene, receiving a strong, local following due to their old school rock and roll Rock and roll is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s, primarily from a combination of the blues, country music and gospel music. Though elements of rock and roll can be heard in country records of the 1930s, and in blues records from the 1920s, rock and roll did not vibe, and were signed to DreamWorks Records DreamWorks Records was an American record label. Founded in 1996 by David Geffen, Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg as a subsidiary of DreamWorks SKG, the label operated until 2005 when it was shut down. The label itself also featured a Nashville, Tennessee based subsidiary, DreamWorks Nashville, which specialized in country music and was shortly after. The group changed its name to Buckcherry after receiving a cease-and-desist letter from a record label called Sparrow. Although Buckcherry is a spoonerism A spoonerism is an error in speech or deliberate play on words in which corresponding consonants, vowels, or morphemes are switched . It is named after the Reverend William Archibald Spooner (1844–1930), Warden of New College, Oxford, who was notoriously prone to this tendency. It is also known as a marrowsky, after a Polish count who suffered of Chuck Berry Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter, and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music. With songs such as "Maybellene" (1955), "Roll Over Beethoven" (1956), "Rock and Roll Music" (1957) and "Johnny B. Goode" (1958), Chuck Berry refined and developed, the group said it was inspired by a drag queen acquaintance of theirs named Buck Cherry. The band released its self-titled debut Buckcherry is the eponymous debut album by the rock band Buckcherry. It was released on April 6, 1999 by Dreamworks Records. "Lit Up", "For the Movies", "Dead Again", and "Check Your Head" were released as singles. As of September 2006, the album has sold in excess of 750,000 copies, and was certified Gold in 1999 to critical praise and certified gold sales. The album, produced by Terry Date Terry Date is an American record producer and engineer, specializing in the rock and metal genres. He is best known for his work with Deftones, Dark Angel, Dream Theater, White Zombie, Soundgarden, Limp Bizkit and Pantera (Soundgarden Soundgarden is an American rock band formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1984 by lead singer and drummer Chris Cornell, lead guitarist Kim Thayil, and bassist Hiro Yamamoto. Matt Cameron became the band's permanent drummer in 1986 while bassist Ben Shepherd became a permanent replacement for Yamamoto in 1990/Mother Love Bone Mother Love Bone was an American rock band that formed in Seattle, Washington in 1988. The band was active from 1988 to 1990. Frontman Andrew Wood's personality and compositions helped to catapult the group to the top of the burgeoning late 1980s/early 1990s Seattle music scene. Wood died only days before the scheduled release of the band's debut/Pantera Pantera was an American heavy metal band from Arlington, Texas, formed by the Abbott brothers, Vinnie Paul and Dimebag Darrell (guitar) in 1981. Bassist Rex Brown would join in late 1981 with vocalist Terry Glaze. In 1987 Phil Anselmo would become the group's lead vocalist. After disbanding in 2003, any hope of a reunion was lost in 2004, when/Steve Jones Stephen Philip Jones is an English rock guitarist and singer, best known for his highly influential work as guitarist and founding member of the punk band Sex Pistols), included three modern rock chart hits in "Lit Up "Lit Up" is a song by Buckcherry, released as the group's first single, taken from their debut album, Buckcherry. It is about cocaine addiction. The song reached the #1 spot in mid-1999 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks for three weeks and #33 on the Modern Rock Tracks. Despite its rock success, it failed to chart on the Billboard Hot 100", "For the Movies "For the Movies" is a song by Buckcherry, and the second single from their album Buckcherry. The song was a minor hit in the United States, charting only in Modern Rock and Mainstream Rock charts", and "Check Your Head "Check Your Head" is a song by Buckcherry, and the Fourth single from their debut album, Buckcherry. The song reached #29 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks and it failed to chart on the Billboard Hot 100".
After adding rhythm guitarist Yogi Lonich to the lineup in 1999, Buckcherry toured nonstop in support of the debut album, including opening for Lenny Kravitz Leonard Albert "Lenny" Kravitz is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, and arranger whose "retro" style incorporates elements of rock, soul, funk, reggae, hard rock, psychedelic, folk and ballads on his Freedom Tour (1999), before going back into the studio in 2000 to work on a follow-up, Time Bomb (2001). The second album was considered a disappointment by many critics,[1] and it didn't fare as well on the charts. Allmusic Allmusic is a service of music guide, owned by All Media Guide. Allmusic was founded in 1991 by popular-culture archivist Michael Erlewine as a guide for consumers. Its first reference book was published the following year. AMG on the Internet predates the World Wide Web and was first available as a Gopher site noted that "For a second record, it's surprising how jaded and nihilistic Nihilism is the philosophical doctrine suggesting the negation of one or more meaningful aspects of life. Most commonly, nihilism is presented in the form of existential nihilism which argues that life is without objective meaning, purpose, or intrinsic value. Moral nihilists assert that morality does not inherently exist, and that any established they are already.[1] Buckcherry performed opening dates for AC/DC AC/DC are an Australian rock band formed in 1973 by brothers Malcolm and Angus Young. Although the band are commonly classified as hard rock and are considered a pioneer of heavy metal, they have always classified their music as rock and roll in the spring 2000.[2] In August 2001 after tension over the musical direction started to set in, Jonathan Brightman, Yogi Lonich, and Devon Glenn each successively left Buckcherry. However, Josh Todd and Keith Nelson planned to continue Buckcherry, and even began the writing process for a third album. It was during those sessions that Josh Todd unexpectedly left the band in July 2002, seemingly leading to Buckcherry's demise.[3]
Later years: 2002-2005
Josh Todd Josh Todd is an American musician best known as the lead singer of the hard rock band Buckcherry and Keith Nelson performed together along with ex-Guns N' Roses Guns N' Roses is an American rock band. The band formed in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California in 1985. The band, led by frontman and co-founder Axl Rose, has gone through numerous line-up changes and controversies since its formation; the current lineup comprises vocalist Rose, guitarists Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal, DJ Ashba and Richard members Slash Saul Hudson , better known by his stage name Slash, is an American musician. Originally from Stoke-on-Trent, England, he moved to Los Angeles, California as a child, where he began his career in the music industry. Slash is best-known as the former lead guitarist of hard rock band Guns N' Roses, with whom he performed and recorded between 1985 and, Duff McKagan Michael Andrew "Duff" McKagan is an American musician , who is best known for his thirteen-year tenure in the hard rock band Guns N' Roses. He is currently the bassist for the hard rock band Velvet Revolver, lead vocalist and guitarist for his own solo punk rock project Duff McKagan's Loaded, and a weekly columnist for SeattleWeekly.com, and Matt Sorum Matthew William Sorum is an American hard rock drummer and percussionist. Sorum is most famous for his 7-year stint in Guns N' Roses (1990-1997). Matt currently is playing drums for supergroup Velvet Revolver (2002-present), which features former GN'R members Duff McKagan (bass) and Slash (lead guitar) (also of The Cult The Cult are an English rock band, formed in 1983. They gained a dedicated following in Britain in the mid 1980s as a post-punk and gothic rock band with singles such as "She Sells Sanctuary", before breaking mainstream in the United States in the late 1980s as a hard rock band with singles such as "Love Removal Machine". The) at the Randy Castillo Randy Castillo was born to a Spanish mother, Margaret, and Mexican American father Frank . He was one of five children, and his sisters, Frances, Marilyn, Phyllis and Christine, all play music. His first band experience was playing trumpet in a band that his father was also a member of called Los Aguilas, which is Spanish for The Eagles. With his tribute concert. Speculation ensued that Josh Todd would become the lead vocalist of the Project headed up by Slash, Duff McKagan, and Matt Sorum. Josh Todd spent a month in the studio, reportedly completing 10 songs, but was abruptly dropped from the project by Slash. Todd was quoted as saying, "It was amazing, the band was slamming, and then Slash just came in one day and just shit-canned the whole thing". In his autobiography, Slash says the reason was because he was displeased with how Todd's voice sounded when they played the material back. Scott Weiland Scott Weiland is an American musician, lyricist, and vocalist, most notable for his work with Grammy Award-winning rock band Stone Temple Pilots. Weiland is also known for his five-year career with Grammy Award-winning supergroup Velvet Revolver and his own solo career. His onstage persona is known as being flamboyant and chaotic; he is also known of the Stone Temple Pilots Stone Temple Pilots, often abbreviated to STP, is an American rock band consisting of Scott Weiland , brothers Robert DeLeo (bass guitar, vocals) and Dean DeLeo (guitar), and Eric Kretz (drums, percussion) was eventually chosen to helm the band that would become known as Velvet Revolver Velvet Revolver is a hard rock supergroup consisting of former Guns N' Roses members Slash, Duff McKagan and Matt Sorum, alongside Dave Kushner formerly of punk band Wasted Youth. Stone Temple Pilots singer Scott Weiland was Velvet Revolver's lead singer since their formation until parting ways with the band in 2008. In 2004, the band achieved. Keith Nelson was given a songwriting credit on Velvet Revolver's track "Dirty Little Thing". Nelson then went on to write and produce on various records including Capitol Records artist Huck Johns single "Oh Yeah" on Huck released in 2006.
Reformation, 15, and Black Butterfly: 2005-2009
Back on September 11, 2006, another lawsuit had been filed against the band, their current record label, and other related companies on behalf of a sixteen-year-old girl who claimed she was coerced into appearing topless and in various sexual scenarios at a concert while the band was playing a sexually-related song. According to sources, however, all participants in the video had to show proof that they were over eighteen years old and sign a release form further reaffirming their age. Band attorney Skip Miller is quoted in several news stories as stating, "This woman filled out a release form with false information. And once it was determined this woman was underage, the video was removed." [4]
On April 15, 2008, Buckcherry announced they would be touring as part of Mötley Crüe Mötley Crüe is an American rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1981. The band was founded by bass guitarist Nikki Sixx and drummer Tommy Lee, who were later joined by lead guitarist Mick Mars and lead singer Vince Neil. Mötley Crüe has sold more than 80 million album copies worldwide, with 25 million in the U.S's Crüe Fest Crüe Fest was a summer 2008 tour by Mötley Crüe, which commenced on July 1, 2008 and concluded on August 31, 2008. It featured Mötley Crüe themselves, Buckcherry, Papa Roach, Sixx:A.M., and Trapt. Crüe Fest was said to be "The Loudest Show on Earth". The tour earned around $40 million and was the most successful and most popular, along with Papa Roach Papa Roach is a four-piece hard rock band from Vacaville, California. They have released six albums: Old Friends from Young Years , Infest (2000), Lovehatetragedy (2002), Getting Away with Murder (2004), and The Paramour Sessions (2006), and Metamorphosis (2009). Papa Roach has sold more than 10 million albums worldwide.[citation needed], Sixx:A.M. Sixx:A.M. is a hard rock band formed in 2007 by Nikki Sixx, DJ Ashba, and James Michael. It is the side project of Nikki Sixx. The group is best known for their song "Life Is Beautiful". Sixx: A.M. is a combination of all of the member's names , and Trapt Trapt is an American rock band that formed in Los Gatos, California in 1995. The group is composed of lead singer Chris Taylor Brown, lead guitarist Robb Torres, bass guitarist Peter Charell, and drummer Aaron "Monty" Montgomery. They have released three studio albums to date: Trapt , Someone in Control (2005) , Only Through the Pain (200.[5] The tour began July 1, 2008, in West Palm Beach, Florida West Palm Beach, also known as West Palm, is the most populous city in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States. The city is also the oldest incorporated municipality in South Florida. According to 2000 US Census Data and 2008 University of Florida data, West Palm Beach and contiguous Census Designated Places had a population of 134,795. The city.[6]
On September 16, the band released their fourth album, Black Butterfly Black Butterfly is the fourth studio album by American hard rock band Buckcherry. It had been in production since late 2007. Band manager Josh Klemme allegedly leaked the first single "Too Drunk..." to the internet, only to later claim in a press release that it had been pirated, which debuted at number 8 on the top 200 charts. It was the number one rock album that week. That year, Josh Todd Josh Todd is an American musician best known as the lead singer of the hard rock band Buckcherry was featured on the album This War Is Ours by Escape the Fate. He sang co-lead vocals in the song "10 Miles Wide" and backing vocals on "Harder Than You Know". In 2009, he was featured in the music video for "10 Miles Wide".
In May 2009, KISS Kiss is an American hard rock band formed in New York City in January 1973. Easily identified by its members' face paint and flamboyant stage outfits, the group rose to prominence in the mid to late 1970s on the basis of their elaborate live performances, which featured fire breathing, blood spitting, smoking guitars, and pyrotechnics. Kiss has announced that Buckcherry would be the opening band in their 2009/10 US and Canadian tour. On July 30, Buckcherry was featured in the Kerrang! Week Of Rock Tour with The 69 Eyes The 69 Eyes are a Gold selling Finnish rock band. They are currently signed to EMI Finland. The band's albums are now distributed worldwide. The End Records acts as the band's official North American distributor, as Nuclear Blast Records provides distribution in Mainland Europe, Ireland and the UK. Australia will be handled by AmpHead Music. All and Dear Superstar at the HMV Forum in London. Other bands in the Week Of Rock included Limp Bizkit Limp Bizkit is an American rock band from Jacksonville, Florida. The band's lineup consists of Fred Durst , Wes Borland (guitar), Sam Rivers (bass), John Otto (drums) and DJ Lethal. Limp Bizkit has been nominated for three Grammy Awards and have won several other major awards. The band has sold an estimated 35 million albums worldwide, Youmeatsix, and Lacuna Coil Lacuna Coil is an Italian metal band from Milan formed in 1994. Formerly known as Sleep of Right and Ethereal, the band was inspired by the combination of gothic imagery and music, and the members have been known, musically, for composing midtempo songs consisting of prominent guitar lines and contrasting dual female/male vocal harmonies to help. DragonForce was also supposed to play during the Week Of Rock, but pulled out.
On September 29, Buckcherry released their first live album, Live & Loud 2009, which they played some of their biggest songs such as "Sorry", "Lit Up", "Crazy Bitch", and much more. The album was recorded in May 2009 during their Canadian tour in Edmonton, Calgary, and Medicine Hat.
All Night Long and touring: 2010-present
It was announced on February 22, 2010 that Buckcherry would be a part of Rocklahoma 2010 in Pryor, Oklahoma.
Bassist Jimmy Ashhurst is one of the characters in the book Sex Tips from Rock Stars by Paul Miles to be published by Omnibus Press in July 2010.[7]
Buckcherry will release their fifth studio album, titled All Night Long, on August 3, 2010.[8] The first single from the album, "All Night Long", was originally going to be released to rock radio on May 3, but was pushed back to May 24.[9] It was released as a free download to all fans who posted a pre-defined "tweet" on Twitter or a similar message on Facebook on May 4.
Other projects
In April 2008, Buckcherry founding member Jonathan Brightman entered the studio to record a new record with producer Dave Cobb (Shooter Jennings, Waylon Jennings, Michael Johns), former Buckcherry members Devon Glenn and Yogi Lonich and Detroit singer Huck Johns. Using the name Black Robot, it features tracks written & performed by JB, Devon, Yogi, Dave, Huck and guitarist Andy Andersson. Executive produced by JB, Black Robot blends musical influences from AC/DC, The Black Crowes, and Led Zeppelin. Guitarist's Andersson and Staffan Osterlind as well as former Hot Sauce Johnson drummer Possum Hill round out the current line-up of the band. The first self-titled Black Robot record, featuring the singles "Baddass", "Girls Kissing Girls", "I'm In Love", and a cover of the Eric Clapton/JJ Cale classic "Cocaine", was released independently on May 5, 2009 via Amazon.com and iTunes. The band returned to the studio in November of 2009 and recorded bonus tracks to add to the record which was re-released on June 8, 2010 on Formosa Records/Rocket Science Ventures.
BitTorrent leak controversy
On July 2, 2008, the first single off of the Black Butterfly album "Too Drunk..." was leaked through BitTorrent. Shortly after the track was leaked, the band issued a press release and blamed pirates for the leak saying "Honestly, we hate it when this shit happens, because we want our FANS to have any new songs first."
However, this claim was investigated by the site TorrentFreak. The IP address that was seeding the track had only uploaded one torrent, the track in question. Using WikiScanner they found out that the person uploading the torrent had also edited the Buckcherry wikipedia entry, as well as an entry adding band manager Josh Klemme's name. After emailing Klemme with their findings, they found that his IP-address was the same as the torrent uploader. This led TorrentFreak to the conclusion that the song had been leaked intentionally for publicity purposes.[10]
Band members
Current members
- Josh Todd – lead vocals, occasional guitar, piano (1995–2002, 2005–present)
- Keith Nelson – lead guitar, backing vocals (1995–2002, 2005–present)
- Stevie D. – rhythm guitar, backing vocals (2005–present)
- Jimmy "Two Fingers" Ashhurst – bass guitar, backing vocals (2005–present)
- Xavier Muriel – drums, percussion (2005–present)
Former members
- Yogi Lonich – rhythm guitar, backing vocals (1999–2002)
- Jonathan Brightman – bass guitar, backing vocals (1995–2002)
- Devon Glenn – drums, percussion (1995–2002)
Discography
Main article: Buckcherry discography- Buckcherry (1999)
- Time Bomb (2001)
- 15 (2006)
- Black Butterfly (2008)
- All Night Long (2010)
References
- ^ a b allmusic ((( Time Bomb > Overview )))
- ^ Buckcherry :: Fifteen :: All Access Magazine :: It's All About The Music
- ^ Buckcherry | Music Artist | Videos, News, Photos & Ringtones | MTV
- ^ Labels Sued Over Sexy Video of Minor - Los Angeles Times
- ^ 2 Music Geeks' Podcast 19: Controversial Songs--- Featuring Jimmy Two Fingers Ashhurst of Buckcherry
- ^ Concert Announcement: Cruefest with Motley Crue, STLtoday.com
- ^ http://sextipsfromrockstars.com SexTipsFromRockStars.com
- ^ BLABBERMOUTH.NET - BUCKCHERRY: New Album Release Date Confirmed. Retrieved June 6, 2010.
- ^ http://www.fmqb.com/article.asp?id=16697
- ^ Band Leaks Track to BitTorrent, Blames Pirates
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