Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

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Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club live at Rock am Ring 2019
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club live at Rock am Ring 2019
General information
origin San Francisco , United States
Genre (s) Alternative rock
founding 1998
Website www.blackrebelmotorcycleclub.com
Current occupation
Peter Hayes
Vocals, bass, guitar
 Robert Levon Been
Drums
 Leah Shapiro (since 2008)
former members
Nick Jago (until 2008)
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
  DE 49 02/04/2002 (7 weeks)
  UK 25th 
gold
gold
01/26/2002 (17 weeks)
Take Them On, on Your Own
  DE 27 09/08/2003 (4 weeks)
  AT 33 07.09.2003 (4 weeks)
  CH 46 07.09.2003 (2 weeks)
  UK 3 
gold
gold
09/06/2003 (4 weeks)
  US 47 09/20/2003 (4 weeks)
Howl
  DE 33 05.09.2005 (4 weeks)
  AT 45 09/04/2005 (4 weeks)
  CH 50 09/04/2005 (4 weeks)
  UK 14th 
silver
silver
09/03/2005 (4 weeks)
  US 90 09/10/2005 (3 weeks)
Baby 81
  DE 58 05/11/2007 (2 weeks)
  AT 71 05/11/2007 (2 weeks)
  CH 50 05/13/2007 (2 weeks)
  UK 15th 05/12/2007 (2 weeks)
  US 46 05/19/2007 (4 weeks)
Beat the Devil's Tattoo
  DE 60 03/26/2010 (1 week)
  AT 49 03/26/2010 (1 week)
  CH 44 03/28/2010 (2 weeks)
  UK 58 03/20/2010 (1 week)
  US 58 03/27/2010 (2 weeks)
Specter at the Feast
  DE 67 04/05/2013 (1 week)
  AT 39 04/05/2013 (1 week)
  CH 32 03/31/2013 (2 weeks)
  UK 31 03/30/2013 (1 week)
  US 35 04/06/2013 (2 weeks)
Wrong Creatures
  DE 22nd 01/19/2018 (1 week)
  AT 17th 01/26/2018 (2 weeks)
  CH 8th 01/21/2018 (3 weeks)
  UK 35 01/25/2018 (1 week)
Singles
Love Burns
  UK 37 02/02/2002 (2 weeks)
Spread your love
  UK 27 06/01/2002 (2 weeks)
Whatever Happened to My Rock and Roll
  UK 46 09/28/2002 (2 weeks)
stop
  UK 19th 08/30/2003 (3 weeks)
We're all in love
  UK 45 11/29/2003 (1 week)
Ain't no easy way
  UK 21st 08/27/2005 (2 weeks)
Weapon of Choice
  UK 35 04/28/2007 (2 weeks)

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club is a rock band from San Francisco , California .

Band history

In 1998 the two school friends Robert Levon Been (bass, vocals, guitar) and Peter Hayes (guitar, vocals, harmonica) founded the band The Elements . They had both attended high school in San Francisco and started writing and playing pieces of music together early on. While looking for a drummer , they met Nick Jago from Devon , England , who had moved to California with his parents.

After discovering that some other bands were already calling themselves The Elements , they changed their name to Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, the motorcycle gang from the 1953 film The Wild One , in which Marlon Brando played the lead role. Since Robert Levon Been initially did not want to be associated with his father Michael Been , who played in the band The Call , he performed under the pseudonym Robert Turner until the release of the album Howl .

After making a name for themselves in the San Francisco music scene, they moved to Los Angeles in 1999 and, after several record companies had advertised them unsuccessfully, signed a contract with Virgin Records America that guaranteed them absolute artistic freedom. After that, the three set to work on their self-titled debut album, which they both produced and mixed themselves . The first single Whatever Happened to My Rock'n'Roll was very successful (especially in England). In 2002, at the invitation of Noel Gallagher , an avowed BRMC fan, they opened up for Oasis at the Royal Albert Hall .

After a tour in 2002/2003 the band began to record their follow-up album in the London Fortress Studio. The reason for this was the drummer's visa problems, who were no longer allowed to enter the USA after leaving the country. But after the active support of Bono and other celebrities, this problem was solved and the band moved back to LA. During the subsequent world tour, they separated from their record label Virgin in spring 2004. After the tour ended, Jago dropped out due to drug problems, and Been and Hayes began work on their third album.

Nick Jago on drums

While working on Howl - inspired by the poem of the same name by Allen Ginsberg - Jago rejoined the band, but on the album he can only be heard on the song Promise . Howl was released in August 2005 on two different record labels ( RCA in the US and Echo in the rest of the world). After the album was released, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club toured until April 2006. In February 2006 the EP Howl Sessions was released with six unreleased songs that were created during the recording of Howl .

The fourth album, Baby 81 , was released on April 27, 2007. By May 2008, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club were again on tour through the USA, Canada, Europe, Israel, Australia and Japan.

On June 8, 2008, Jago announced on the band's website that he had been kicked out of the band. For the 2008 tour he was replaced by Leah Shapiro, who had previously played drums during the Raveonettes tour and the Dead Combo . Shapiro became a permanent member of the band.

In early March 2010, the album Beat The Devil's Tattoo was released , in mid-March 2013 the band's seventh studio album entitled Specter At The Feast . Since the father of Robert Levon Been, Michael Been, had died in 2010, the band covered The Call piece "Let The Day Begin" in his honor .

On October 17, 2014 Leah Shapiro announced on the band's website that she had to undergo brain surgery because of a Chiari malformation that she had diagnosed and that this malformation made it impossible for her to play the drums at the moment; She also announced in advance that the band would not be able to perform as planned at the upcoming Moon Block Festival due to this circumstance . A few days later, on October 22nd, there followed a message from Peter Hayes and Robert Levon Been, in which they presented a new band t-shirt with the imprint "I Want to Beleah" and asked their fans for such t-shirts to acquire, as the proceeds will support Shapiro's surgery and recovery. On October 30, 2014, Shapiro said in a message on the band's website that a fundraising campaign called the GoFundMe Campaign, also launched to help fund their operation , had achieved its goal of $ 33,300. On November 27, 2014, the band announced on their website that Shapiro's operation had been successful and went as planned, and thanked everyone who had supported them.

Peter Hayes (l.) & Robert Been (r.) With Roger Daltrey from The Who (2nd from left) and the promoter Barry Goldsmith

style

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club initially played hard, punk-heavy rock modeled on Iggy Pop and the Stooges , the Ramones , The Doors , the Sex Pistols and English bands such as Spacemen 3 and The Jesus & Mary Chain . The pieces on the Howl album are heavily influenced by folk , gospel , Americana , singer-songwriter and, above all, by influences from the blues and are much quieter than the two previous albums. With baby 81 , the group returned to their musical origins in 2007.

Discography

Albums

  • BRMC (April 2001)
  • Take Them On, On Your Own (August 2003)
  • Howl (August 2005)
  • Baby 81 (April 2007)
  • The Effects of 333 (November 2008) - available as a paid download only
  • Beat the Devil's Tattoo (March 2010)
  • Specter at the Feast (March 2013)
  • Wrong Creatures (January 2018)

EPs

  • Screaming Gun (October 2001)
  • Spread Your Love (May 2002)
  • Howl Session (2006)
  • Napster Live Session (2007)
  • American X: Baby 81 Sessions (December 2007)

Singles

  • Red Eyes and Tears (February 2001)
  • Take My Time / Rifles (March 2001)
  • Spread Your Love (2001)
  • Whatever Happened to My Rock 'N' Roll (Punk Song) (October 2001)
  • Love Burns (January 2002)
  • Stop (August 2003)
  • We're All in Love (November 2003)
  • Ain't No Easy Way (August 2005)
  • Weight of the World (October 2005)
  • Weapon of Choice (April 2007)
  • Berlin (July 2007)
  • Beat the Devil's Tattoo (March 2010)
  • Let the Day Begin (February 2013)
  • Little Thing Gone Wild (September 2017)
  • Haunt (October 2017)
  • Question of Faith (November 2017)
  • King of Bones (November 2017)

Video albums

  • Live (November 2009)
  • Live in London (November 2010)
  • Live in Paris (May 2015)

Web links

Commons : Black Rebel Motorcycle Club  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

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  1. ↑ Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
  2. ↑ Music Sales Awards: UK
  3. ↑ http://www.blackrebelmotorcycleclub.com/news/message-from-nick/( Memento from October 9, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/black-rebel-motorcycle-club-return-from-tragedy-on-new-album-20130107
  5. ↑ http://www.popmonitor.de/black-rebel-motorcycle-club-specter-at-the-feast/
  6. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated November 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / blackrebelmotorcycleclub.com
  7. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated November 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / blackrebelmotorcycleclub.com
  8. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated November 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / blackrebelmotorcycleclub.com
  9. ↑ http://blackrebelmotorcycleclub.com/news/#update-on-leah/?&_suid=141863214903806649884475215024