Cop shoot cop

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Cop shoot cop
General information
origin New York (United States)
Genre (s) Noise rock
founding 1987
resolution 1996
Website copshootcop.com
Founding members
Death A.
David Ouimet
Phil Puleo
Last occupation
Vocals, bass
 Death "death A." Ashley
Keyboards, piano , samples
 Jim Coleman aka "Cripple Jim" filer
bass
 Chris "Jack" Natz aka Nantz
Drums, percussion
 Phil Puleo
guitar
 Steven McMillen

Cop Shoot Cop was an American rock band.

Band history

The band was formed in 1987 in New York City by Tod Ashley, David Ouimet and Phil Puleo. Ashley and Puleo had previously played together in the noise band Dig Dat Hole. Drawing inspiration from the no wave movement of the early 1980s, the band recorded their first EP in this formation, Headkick Facsimile .

There are different versions of how the band name came about. According to Phil Puleo, the name is said to come from a newspaper headline of the same or similar name after a failed police raid. At the beginning of their career, the trio attracted attention and discussion in the New York area by putting up posters with the imprint "CopShootCop".

When Jack Natz, who was the bass player in the horror punk band The Undead in the early 1980s , joined the band, Ashley initially switched to his role as a singer. However, since the sound of Ashley's bass game was missing, the band decided to use both bassists in the future, which should become the characteristic feature of the band. Cop Shoot Cop are stylistically often assigned to the industrial metal genre.

David Ouimet, who left the band several times, rejoined the band in 1989 to record the PieceMan EP , to which Jim Coleman now also belonged. With this line-up, the first studio album Consumer Revolt was created in 1990 with producer Martin Bisi, known among other things for his work with Sonic Youth in the 1980s, who was also responsible for the production of the following releases White Noise and Ask Questions Later . After the first album and subsequent tour, Ouimet finally left the band, founded Motherhead Bug and only appeared occasionally as a guest musician on Cop Shoot Cop.

Despite their unconventional, not very commercial sound and their aversion to major labels, Cop Shoot Cop landed a record deal with Interscope Records in the early 1990s , where bands like Nine Inch Nails and Helmet were also under contract at the time. In 1993, their most accessible album, Ask Questions Later , was released, two of the band's better-known songs with the singles "Room 429" and "$ 10 Bill", the latter supported by the Motherhead Horns, a three-man brass group led by trombonist David Ouimet contains. The band's popularity also grew thanks to the dark, black-and-white music video for “Room 429”, for which the New York underground director and photographer Richard Kern was responsible, and the music video for “$ 10 Bill”, which was made with the help of numerous short people “Both of which have been featured on MTV on shows like 120 Minutes and Alternative Nation . Cop Shoot Cop toured Europe. On the album Release , published in 1994 and produced by Dave Sardy , Steve McMillen was the first guitarist in the band's line-up. In 1995, Cop Shoot Cop contributed the title "3 AM Incident" to the soundtrack of Vernetzt - Johnny Mnemonic with Keanu Reeves in the title role. In 1994, Two at a Time , a single from the album release , was used in the film 36 Days of Terror ( SFW / So Fucking What? ).

The release was Cop Shoot Cop's last record, the band disbanded in 1996 during the recording of their fifth studio album. Despite touring with Iggy Pop and airplay on college radio stations, the band had little mainstream success. After the breakup of Cop Shoot Cop, Ashley founded the band Firewater , with David Ouimet occasionally appearing as a guest musician. Jim Coleman published music as Phylr and Here , among others . Phil Puleo plays with the Swans . Coleman and Puleo in particular have worked together on several projects, most recently at The Children .

The Canadian industrial / death metal band Strapping Young Lad covered “Room 429” on their album City in 1997 . In 2005, the track “Migration” from Ask Questions Later was used to support a commercial for the sporting goods supplier Nike .

Discography

  • 1989: Headkick Facsimile 12 ″ (Supernatural Organization)
  • 1989: PieceMan EP (Vertical)
  • 1990: Consumer Revolt (Circuit)
  • 1991: White Noise (Big Cat)
  • 1992: Suck City EP (Interscope)
  • 1993: Ask Questions Later (Interscope)
  • 1994: Release (Interscope)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DerStandard.at: Soaked up diversity. Retrieved August 10, 2019 .
  2. ↑ "For Warriors" Nike Commercial on YouTube