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Kelley Deal (2008)

Kelley Deal (born June 10, 1961 in Dayton , Ohio , USA ) is an American rock musician . In addition to the great success of the band The Breeders , which she founded together with her twin sister Kim Deal and in which she took on the role of lead guitarist , she can also boast success as a solo artist.

biography

Childhood and youth

Kelley Deal was born on June 10, 1961. She and her identical twin sister Kim spent their childhood in Huber Heights , a suburb of Dayton in the US state of Ohio. The sisters discovered their passion for music as adolescents. During their high school days, they played in local clubs in Dayton, swapped cassettes with friends and thus gained access to a wide variety of music styles long before the Internet existed.

In the 1980s, both got the chance to join the Pixies group. Kim pursued her career as an indie rock musician while Kelley initially left the music business and stayed in Dayton to work as a technical analyst.

Start of career as a musician

Kim Deal and Tanya Donelly ( lead guitarist of Throwing Muses ) founded the next generation of Breeders in 1989 along with bassist Josephine Wiggs and Britt Walford, drums. They recorded the record Pod in 1990 , and when Kelley heard it she was so intrigued by it that she wanted to play in the band too. Two years later she got the opportunity to join the band when they went to New York to record the new album Safari ( EP ) .

The Breeders

In 1992, Kelley Deal took on the role of the Breeders' third female guitarist . Although she had little experience on this instrument, Kim taught her all of the basic riffs of the current songs. The Safari EP was the first record that Kelley took part in.

After guitarist Tanya Donelly left the Breeders to start her own band Belly , Jim MacPherson was added to the band as a new drummer from Dayton. In a new constellation and with Kelley on lead guitar, the album Last Splash was released in 1993 , with which The Breeders then went on tour.

With this album they made their breakthrough, but with growing success, Kelley fell into drugs.

Imprisonment and drug withdrawal

Kelley has been drawn to addictive substances (such as alcohol, hashish) since her youth and quickly became addicted. So it was only a matter of time before her heroin use became public. In the fall of 1994, after the intense tour of Last Splash , she was arrested for drug possession and 1995 in a rehab clinic in Minnesota admitted that the activity of the band The Breeders brought to a halt for the time being. Kelley struggled not to get addicted again. However, when she relapsed briefly in 2001, she voluntarily and successfully went to a rehab clinic.

Other music projects

During her drug withdrawal , Kelley began writing her own songs. After her rehabilitation , she wanted to start her own project, The Kelley Deal 6000 . The band released two albums under the Deal's Nice Records label (“Kelley's own label”), Go To The Sugar Altar (1996) Boom! Boom! Boom! (1997) and paused when The Breeders found each other again.

Kelley Deal also joined The Last Hard Men , which consisted of Skid Row vocalist Sebastian Bach , Smashing Pumpkins drummer Jimmy Chamberlin and Jimmy Flemion of The Frogs . She played bass and together they recorded an album in 1997. It was released in Deal's own record company in a very small number of copies and in 2001 also on Spitfire Records .

Return to the Breeders

Nine years after the hit album Last Splash (1993) was released and some disagreement, Kelley and her sister reunited and began recording new demos for The Breeders . With a completely new line-up, they released the album Title TK in 2002 , which contains three songs from 1999 in which the sisters play all instruments alone. In April 2008 The Breeders release the record Mountain Battles , from which they extracted the EP Fate to Fatal .

other projects

In order not to get addicted to drugs again and to use her time wisely, Kelley Deal learned to knit . Her talent was to knit handbags, which she successfully sold on her website. After even appearing on the show Knitty Gritty , she published a book about her knit bag patterns, Bags That Rock: Knitting on the Road with Kelley Deal. There she describes u. a. the basics of felting , how to make an embossing print , simply crocheting and embroidering embellishments.

Kelley gained further musical experience in songwriting, playing guitar and singing with Magnetophone, Kris Kristofferson and the Supersuckers ( Must've Been High ).

Current projects

In 2012 she teamed up with Mike Montgomery from the band Ampline and formed a new band called R. Ring . In spring and summer 2012 they toured a small part of the USA. At the end of October 2012 a new CD was released with the two songs Fallout and Fire and SEE (Label: Misra Records ) and in March 2013 the band is going on a European tour.

Publications

Discography

With the breeders :

  • Safari (EP) (1992)
  • Last Splash (1993)
  • Title TK (2002)
  • Mountain Battles (2008)

With The Kelley Deal 6000 :

  • Go to the Sugar Altar (1996)
  • Boom! Boom! Boom! (1997)

With With Last Hard Men :

  • The Last Hard Men (1998/2001)

With R. Ring :

  • Fallout and Fire (2012)
  • SEE (2012)

Other publications

Web links

Commons : Kelley Deal  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Spin (music magazine), April 1992
  2. ↑ Spin (music magazine), April 2008, p. 72
  3. ↑ Spin (music journal) June 2002, pp. 83–84
  4. ↑ Spin (music magazine) June 2002, p.84
  5. ^ CMJ (music magazine), Peter Buckley, p. 136
  6. ↑ Spin (music magazine) June 2002, p.84
  7. ↑ Spin (music magazine), April 2008, p. 71
  8. ↑ Online article from THE AGE
  9. ^ Billboard (music magazine), November 13, 1999, p. 16
  10. ^ CMJ (music magazine), Peter Buckley, p. 136
  11. ↑ Spin (music magazine) June 2002, p.84
  12. ↑ Kelley Deal: Bags That Rock: Knitting on the Road with Kelley Deal . Sterling, 2008, ISBN 978-1-60059-158-7 .
  13. ↑ Home R.Ring
personal data
SURNAME Deal, Kelley
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American rock musician
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Dayton