Lagwagon

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Lagwagon
Singer Cape at the 2014 Highfield Festival
Singer Cape at the 2014 Highfield Festival
General information
origin Goleta , United States
Genre (s) Punk rock , melodic hardcore
founding 1990
Website www.lagwagon.com
Founding members
Joey Cape
Chris Flippin
guitar
 Shawn Dewey
Jesse Buglione
Derrick Plourde
Current occupation
singing
 Joey Cape
guitar
 Chris Flippin
guitar
 Chris Rest
bass
 Joe Raposo
Drums
 Dave Raun
former members
Drums
 Derrick Plourde
guitar
 Shawn Dewey
guitar
 Ken Stringfellow
Electric bass
 Jesse Buglione

Lagwagon (alternative spelling in early years Lag Wagon ) is an American punk rock band from California, founded in 1990 .

Band history

The band consists of Joey Cape (vocals), Chris Flippin (guitar), Chris Rest (guitar), Jesse Buglione (bass) and Dave Raun (drums).

Lagwagon was founded in 1990 in Goleta , a suburb of Santa Barbara , California. The band was initially called Section VIII, but changed the name to Lagwagon before the first album was released. This name was supposedly the only one from a huge list that all band members could agree on.

With their debut album Duh , which was released in 1992, Lagwagon was the first band alongside NOFX on the Fat Wreck Chords label , owned by NOFX singer Fat Mike . To date, Lagwagon has released all albums there; with the exception of Let's Talk About Leftovers , which first appeared on Joey Cape's own label, My Records. Since the company could not generate enough profit, My Records soon went under and so Let's Talk About Leftovers was finally published by Fat Wreck.

In 1994 they released their second album Trashed . With this album, Lagwagon wanted to try to get rid of their image as "any other band on Fat Wreck Chords ". On this album appeared u. a. a cover of Van Morrison's Brown Eyed Girl .

Lagwagon finally became internationally known with the 1995 album Hoss , on the cover of which the Bonanza Hoss can be seen.

In 1996 guitarist Ken Stringfellow and drummer Dave Raun, both ex-members of the hardcore punk band Rich Kids on LSD , moved to Lagwagon.

The pop-punk hysteria that subsided in the late 1990s did not spare Lagwagon either. The band continued to produce records such as Double Plaidinum (1997) and Let's Talk About Feelings (1998), but they were no longer as popular as the media. Finally, the album Let's Talk About Leftovers followed in 2000 and Blaze in 2003 .

On March 31, 2005, founding member Derrick Plourde , who played drums on the albums Duh , Trashed and Hoss , committed suicide . This was followed by the album Resolve on October 28, 2005 , which dealt with the subject.

Lagwagon contributed significantly to popularizing melodic and fast (hardcore) punk. The band's music is comparable to NOFX , No Use for a Name , Pennywise and Millencolin , although there are stylistic differences.

After eight regular studio albums (with Let's Talk About Leftovers being a collection of sampler contributions, unreleased and new songs) Lagwagon is one of the most successful bands that have not released on a major label .

At the beginning of 2010 bassist Jesse Buglione announced his departure from the band. Buglione gave family and personal reasons as the reason for his exit. In an interview with an Australian fanzine, Joey Cape stated shortly thereafter that Buglione would be replaced by ex-RKL member Joe Raposo.

After a few years off, Lagwagon and No Use for a Name could be seen live again in summer 2010 at several European (including German) festivals.

It wasn't until 2014 and 9 years after Resolve that the band released a new studio album called Hang . Musically it is slower, but at times also significantly harder than previous releases. Similar to Resolve , the lyrics are darker than on previous albums. Joey Cape sings about socially critical issues ( Poison In the Well, Absolute Obsolete ), but also personal experiences such as his long-term attempts to give up his nicotine addiction ( drag ) and the death of his long-time friend, the singer of No Use for a Name, Tony Sly ( One More Song ).

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Blaze
  US 172 04/26/2003 (1 week)
hillside
  DE 80 11/14/2014 (1 week)
  AT 75 11/14/2014 (1 week)
  US 95 11/15/2014 (1 week)
Railer
  DE 40 10/11/2019 (1 week)
  AT 67 October 18, 2019 (1 week)
  CH 88 October 13, 2019 (1 week)

Albums

  • 1992: Duh
  • 1994: Trashed
  • 1995: Hoss
  • 1997: Double Plaidinum
  • 1998: Let's Talk about Feelings
  • 2000: Let's Talk about Leftovers
  • 2003: Blaze
  • 2005: Live in a Dive
  • 2005: Resolve
  • 2014: slope
  • 2019: Railer

EPs

  • 1992: Tragic Vision / Angry Days
  • 1993: Lag Wagon / Jugheads Revenge ( Split-7 ″ )
  • 1999: A Feedbag of Truckstop Poetry
  • 2008: I Think My Older Brother Used to Listen to Lagwagon

Web links

Commons : Lagwagon  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lagwagon News ( Memento from February 9, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) on in-your-face.de
  2. ↑ Chart sources: Germany Austria Switzerland US
  3. ↑ Fat Wreck Chords