Danko Jones

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Danko Jones
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Danko Jones at Wacken Open Air 2015
Danko Jones at Wacken Open Air 2015
General information
origin Toronto , Canada
Genre (s) Garage rock , blues rock , hard rock , heavy metal , punk rock
founding 1996
Website www.dankojones.com
Current occupation
Danko Jones
John Calabrese
Rich Knox
former members
Drums
 Atom Willard
Drums
 Dan Cornelius
Drums
 Damon Richardson

Danko Jones is a Canadian garage blues rock band around the Canadian singer and guitarist with the same stage name. Other band members are bassist John Calabrese and drummer Rich Knox. Former members include drummers Atom Willard , Dan Cornelius, and Damon Richardson.

history

Danko Jones have been touring since 1996. They achieved their first public success with their single Bounce from the EP My Love Is Bold , with which they were nominated in 2000 for a Juno Award. In 2001 the band signed with Bad Taste Records from Sweden, the compilation I'm Alive and on Fire with older recordings and demos was released. This was followed by a five-week European tour in the support program of the Backyard Babies . In 2002 their first full studio album was released.

In 2004 Danko Jones were nominated again for the Juno Award , followed by an extensive tour through Australia and to major festivals such as Rock am Ring and Rock im Park . The album Sleep Is the Enemy followed . After the first tour through Canada in four years in spring 2006 and repeated appearances at major festivals, Danko Jones returned to the studio. The single Code of the Road was released on their MySpace page in December 2007, along with the announcement of the new album Never Too Loud , which was released on February 28, 2008 in Europe. In 2009, B-sides and contributions to compilations, such as the Ramones cover version The Return of Jacky and Judy , were released on the album B-Sides . In 2010 a new studio album called Below the Belt came on the market, on the cover of which Danko poses with a lion and the porn actress Riley Steele . After an EP called Mouth to Mouth , which is only available as an online download, the new album Rock and Roll Is Black and Blue followed in 2012 , on which the new drummer Atom Willard could be heard for the first time. Willard left the band in 2013 and was replaced by Rich Knox. After the usual tour activities of recent years and participation in the motorboat cruise, the new album Fire Music was announced for the beginning of 2015 and the teaser song Gonna Be a Fight Tonight was put online. The album Fire Music was released on February 6, 2015. Following the tour of the album, the live album Live at Wacken will be released on February 29, 2016 as CD + DVD, CD + Blu-ray and 2 LP. The DVD or Blu-ray contains Danko Jones Spoken Word Performance from the Wacken Festival 2012 as a bonus.

Bassist John Calabrese on November 16, 2006 in Milan

Danko Jones has been writing an ironic-pathetic column about rock music and the lifestyle that goes with it in the German metal magazine Rock Hard since 2005 . The band has been established in the rock scene for several years. In 2012, the English book Too Much Trouble: A Very Oral History of Danko Jones by Stuart Berman was published, which illuminates the history of the band through quotes from current and former band members, friends and companions as well as many illustrations. Furthermore, the front man Danko Jones has been active as a radio host since 2003. At Rocket FM in Stockholm he moderates a rock show at irregular intervals, in which he lives out his passion as a music fan.

style

Danko Jones' music is similar to the music of bands like KISS , AC / DC or Thin Lizzy . They are stylistically to be settled in hard rock , blues and punk . Characteristic of their music are the choppy guitar power chord and singleton riffs in the style of AC / DC and the heavily distorted bass playing, which is similar to that of Lemmy Kilmister .

Live performances

Danko Jones' live performances are above all powerful and energetic and characterized by the self-deprecating and vulgar nature of the frontman. This includes obscene "turning on" viewers and his wild tongue play. The ironic and satirical character of Jones' stage alter ego is always recognizable. The band is also known for their spoken word performances , in which Jones tells something while Rich Knox and John Calabrese play a simple basic rhythm.

  • @ Hellfest 2013

  • Atom Willard

  • Atom Willard & Danko Jones

  • John Calabrese

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Sleep is the enemy
  DE 56 03/03/2006 (2 weeks)
  CH 72 03/05/2006 (1 week)
Never Too Loud
  DE 35 03/14/2008 (1 week)
  AT 73 03/14/2008 (1 week)
  CH 55 03/16/2008 (2 weeks)
Below the Belt
  DE 28 05/28/2010 (3 weeks)
  AT 43 05/28/2010 (1 week)
  CH 39 05/30/2010 (2 weeks)
Rock and Roll is Black and Blue
  DE 43 05.10.2012 (1 week)
  AT 52 05.10.2012 (1 week)
  CH 70 07.10.2012 (1 week)
Fire Music
  DE 21st 02/20/2015 (2 weeks)
  AT 36 02/20/2015 (1 week)
  CH 48 02/15/2015 (1 week)
Wild cat
  DE 14th 03/10/2017 (3 weeks)
  AT 39 03/17/2017 (1 week)
  CH 26th 03/12/2017 (2 weeks)
A rock supreme
  DE 21st 05/03/2019 (2 weeks)
  CH 34 05/05/2019 (1 week)

Studio albums

  • Sugar Chocolate 7 (1998)
  • Danko Jones EP (1998)
  • My Love Is Bold (1999)
  • I'm Alive and on Fire (2001)
  • Born a Lion (2002)
  • We Sweat Blood (2003)
  • Sleep Is the Enemy (2006)
  • Never Too Loud (2008)
  • Below the Belt (2010)
  • Rock and Roll Is Black and Blue (2012)
  • Fire Music (2015)
  • Live at Wacken (2016)
  • Wild Cat (2017)
  • A Rock Supreme (2019)

Other albums

  • The Magical Word of Rock (2004, Spoken Word Performance)
  • B-Sides (2009, B-Sides and Sampler Contributions)
  • Mouth to Mouth (2011, download EP)
  • Garage rock! A Collection of Lost Songs From 1996-1998 (2014, old demo and live recordings)
  • Live at Gröna Lund (2014, live album, only released via Spotify)

Video albums

  • Sleep Is the Enemy Live in Stockholm (2006)
  • Bring on the Mountain (2012)
  • Live at Wacken (2016)

Trivia

  • Danko Jones worked in a sex shop in Toronto during the early band years .
  • The singer and guitarist Danko Jones has a guest appearance on the album Metal by the thrash metal band Annihilator , where he sings the song Couple Suicide together with Angela Gossow from Arch Enemy .
  • John Garcia (ex Kyuss ) has a guest appearance on the song Invisible .
  • Dregen , guitarist for the Backyard Babies, is guest vocalist on the song Strut .
  • Danko Jones is a native of Native American / Canadian descent.
  • Danko Jones worked metal band Groove 2011 with the Hungarian Ektomorf in the song The One together
  • In the US television series Californication , the protagonist Hank Moody works as a writer on the fictional television series Santa Monica Cop , whose main character is Danko Jones.
  • Jones is also active as a featured artist, for example. B. in the 2016 published song Black Rose by the Danish band Volbeat and plays it every now and then with Volbeat on stage as a guest singer. Phil Campbell (ex- Motörhead ) released the title Walk the Talk on the 2019 album Old Lions Still Roar together with Jones .

swell

  1. ↑ http://www.musik-base.de/news/D/Danko-Jones/Danko-Jones-im-Interview/05557/
  2. ↑ Chart sources: Germany - Austria - Switzerland

Web links

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