PM (band)
| PM | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Genre (s) | pop |
| founding | 1979 |
| resolution | 1980/1981 |
| Last occupation | |
| Todd Cochran | |
| Barry Finnerty | |
| John Nitzinger | |
| Carl Palmer | |
| Eric Scott | |
PM is an English-American rock band that existed from 1979 to 1980 and whose drummer was Carl Palmer , previously with Emerson, Lake & Palmer .
history
After Emerson, Lake & Palmer fell apart in 1979 due to musical differences, especially between keyboardist Keith Emerson and singer / bassist Greg Lake , Carl Palmer retired to Tenerife , where he built a hacienda . In the summer he then traveled to Los Angeles to look for musicians for a new band project. Palmer organized an audition and found the musicians Todd Cochran (from Automatic Man , keyboards, vocals) John Nitzinger (guitar, vocals), Eric Scott (bass, vocals) and Barry Finnerty (lead guitar, vocals). Since Palmer did not want to see the new band as a solo project, he called them PM and urged the individual musicians to write songs for a first album. Palmer also wanted stylistically in a completely different direction than the one he had represented at ELP ( jazz-rock , fusion and classical music )
The band recorded their first album in December 1979 in Munich .
Album 1: PM
1: PM was released in March 1980 by the German record company Ariola . It has only appeared in Europe. Of the ten songs on the debut album, two are by Finnerty, three by Nitzinger and five by Cochran, Palmer did not take part in the songwriting. The style of the album is close to New Wave and is comparable to that of the bands The Police , The Cars or Joe Jacksons . Compared to Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Palmer had simplified his drum style significantly and put it at the service of the group.
The songs of 1: PM were not outstanding despite intelligent arrangements, so that the general public hardly took notice of the record, and the difference to ELP was too big for the fans of Palmer's old band to befriend the new material. A planned tour or even a second album did not materialize and in the winter of 1980/1981 the band broke up.
After the dissolution
After PM ended, Palmer worked for a while with Mike Oldfield , who also lived in Tenerife. Together they wrote the piece Mount Teide (about a volcanic mountain on Tenerife) and Palmer can be heard on Oldfield's album Five Miles out .
Since 1980 there have also been several attempts to found a supergroup , mediated by various managers and record companies , mostly around the guitarist and singer Trevor Rabin . A possible lineup that did not materialize, however, included Rabin and former Yes keyboardist Rick Wakeman , former King Crimson , Uriah Heep and UK member John Wetton and Carl Palmer. At the suggestion of former Yes manager Brian Lane, Wetton teamed up with guitarist Steve Howe , who had just ended his engagement with Yes. Lane then brought together a team to Wetton and Howe consisting David Geffen (who later became co-founder of DreamWorks -Filmstudios, who was just his own record label Geffen Records had founded), Geffen A & R -man John Kalodner , and the Queen -Produzenten Mike Stone was . Together they looked for more musicians to start a new band. Carl Palmer and the former Buggles and Yes keyboardist Geoffrey Downes completed the quartet, which was then called Asia .
Band name
The band's name, "PM", stands for post meridiem (Latin for 'afternoon'), the time between 12:00 and 23:59. The abbreviation is used in English-speaking countries (also as "pm" or "p. M.") After the time (example: "13:00" is written as: "1:00 pm"). The band's first album was called 1: PM , so a second might have been called 2: PM .
Discography
- 1: PM (Ariola, 1980)
literature
- Edward Macan: Endless Enigma. A musical biography of Emerson, Lake and Palmer. Chicago, Illinois 2006. ISBN 0-8126-9596-8 .
- Forrester, George / Martyn Hanson / Frank Askew: Emerson, Lake & Palmer. The show that never ends. A musical biography. London 2001. ISBN 1-900924-17-X .