The New Meanies- Highways

Here's a great little Canadian band that has now split up ( i think). I first saw them open for Alice Cooper in 1999 at Massey Hall and was blown away from the raw guitar sounds they had on stage. This is their second effort. I don't know what happened to this band, because I think they really had some talent. But the state of the recording biz, back in the late 90's, may have had something to do with it. Need I remind you of these freakin names - Ricky Martin, Backstreet Boys, Marc Anthony. The only heavy hit back then (and it wasn't THAT heavy) was "Scar Tissue". And that only reached NO. 34 on Billboard. So I guess these guys never really stood a chance. Rock was dead. D-E-A-D!...... in walmartworld!

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The New Meanies, originally called the Blue Meanies, are a 4 piece rock band from Winnipeg, Manitoba who formed around 1990. High school friends Damon Mitchell (lead vocals, guitar, harmonica), Jeff Hondubura (guitar, vocals), Sky Onosson (bass, vocals, keyboards) and Jason Kane (drums, percussion) started playing blues-influenced rock


After releasing two independent albums, "Experience is Lost" and "The Blue Meanies", they toured extensively throughout Western Canada in the early 1990s. In 1996 the band signed with Virgin Records. The band changed its name to the New Meanies due to the existence of another Blue Meanies based in Chicago, and recorded a new album "Three Seeds" in the Los Angeles area with producer Howard Benson. The album was released in 1998, and the single "Letting Time Pass" achieved major airplay on radio and television.
[edit]Current status

In 2000, the band went indie again and released a new album, "Highways", in 2001. The New Meanies are currently performing sporadically while working towards a new release.


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American Minor - Live @ Smith Bar Atlanta, GA

This has to one of the best sounding grass roots live recordings I've ever herd. Live off the stage, while the band played at Smith Bar, Atlanta,GA. I don't have the date, but this band is just good ol' plain ROCK! Play loud at your next wine and reefer party. Great sound. Great Band. Don't miss it. Thanx Teeder and Bryan T over at Real Rock Pro for this turn on.

American Minor is a five-piece Southern rock band from Huntington, West Virginia. The band first performed live in 2002 and remained unsigned until they contracted with pop and hip-hop label Jive Records two years later. Prior to signing with Jive the band performed opening acts for notorious rock icons such as David Lee Roth at NASCAR events, and George Thorogood at Gruene Hall.
To date the band has recorded two CDs, the five-song Buffalo Creek EP and an eleven-song, self-titled, full-length CD. The EP featured keyboardist Benmont Tench of Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers fame while the self-titled CD was mixed by the illustrious Rob Schnapf and produced by Christopher Thorn and Brad Smith of Blind Melon
Although the band is referred to as "alt-country" on their website, many critics have placed them in the "hard rock" or "Southern rock" genre. Critics have compared their sound with that of The Black Crowes, MC5, or a combination of John Lennon and The Rolling Stones. Despite these comparisons, the band has also been praised for its originality and exuberance in magazines such as Transworld Skateboarding, indicating that American Minor can maintain appeal well beyond the bounds of the retro-rock crowd.
[edit]Members

Robert McCutcheon, Vocals
Bud Carroll, Lead Guitar
Josh Gragg, Rhythm Guitar
Bruno, Bass Guitar
Josh Knox, Drums

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Screaming Trees - Sweet Oblivion (1992)

Screaming Trees - Sweet Oblivion (1992)

Screaming Trees was a musical group considered part of the grunge music movement of the late 1980s and early 1990s. Founded in Ellensburg, Washington in 1985, their sound was a mixture of arty '60s psychedelia and west-coast punk rock. Though critically regarded, they never achieved the superstardom of other grunge acts such as Nirvana and Soundgarden

Brothers Van Conner and Gary Lee Conner formed Screaming Trees with Mark Lanegan in the mid-'80s. Lanegan and the Conners grew up in Ellensburg, WA, a small college-town some 90 miles from Seattle. The trio were the only people in their high school who listened to punk, garage rock, and independent music, so they eventually gravitated toward each other. By the end of 1990, the band had signed a major-label contract with Epic Records. Screaming Trees reconvened to record their Epic debut, Uncle Anesthesia, with Chris Cornell of Soundgarden and Terry Date as producers. Before they began work on their follow-up to Uncle Anesthesia, Pickerel left the group and was replaced by Barrett Martin. Once Martin joined, the band finished "Nearly Lost You," their contribution to the Singles soundtrack, and their 1992 album Sweet Oblivion. "Nearly Lost You" became a MTV and alternative radio hit in the fall of 1992, thanks to the momentum of the Singles soundtrack. The single carried Sweet Oblivion -- which had received more press attention than any previous Screaming Trees album -- to the group's strongest sales, peaking at over 300,000 copies. The band supported Sweet Oblivion with a year-long tour, during which they fought frequently. After the tour was finished, the group decided to take an extended hiatus. During that time, Lanegan recorded his second solo album, Whiskey for the Holy Ghost, which was released in 1994.

All members have moved on to other musical projects. Lanegan has released several highly acclaimed solo recordings, and was a part-time member of Queens of the Stone Age. Lanegan released "Bubblegum," his latest solo album in August of 2004, and is working with former The Afghan Whigs leader Greg Dulli in a new project named The Gutter Twins. In 2006, he released a collaboration with former Belle and Sebastian cellist Isobel Campbell entitled Ballad Of The Broken Seas to great critical acclaim.

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