Static (band)

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Static
General information
origin Woking , England
Genre (s) New Wave of British Heavy Metal , Hard Rock
founding 1978
resolution 1983
Last occupation
Geoff Gillespie
Noel Jones
Electric guitar, keyboard
 Ross Bingham
Kev Baker
Electric guitar
 Andy Simmons
former members
singing
 Gary Frost
Electric guitar
 Tony Dugdale
Electric bass
 Peter Buckler
Drums
 Neil Dowling
Electric bass
 Andy Rose
Electric guitar
 Paddy Chambers
Drums
 Kieran McCleary
Electric guitar
 Paul Roe
Electric bass
 Pete Blanchard

Static was an English hard rock and new wave of British heavy metal band from Woking that was formed in 1978 and split in 1983.

history

The band was founded in 1978 by bassist Peter Buckler, brother of The Jam drummer Rick Buckler. Due to musical differences between the singer Gary Frost and the other band members, he left the group and was replaced by Noel Jones, who also played the electric guitar and keyboard. The other members were guitarist Tony Dugdale and drummer Neil Dowling in the cast. With this line-up, a first demo was recorded in December 1979 , which contains the songs Someone Like You , Too Long Free and Lady Money . In the following year the band played more demo recordings of songs such as Gotta Lose Ya , Last Train , Believe in Me and Silent Angels . These recordings were the last with Tony Dugdale, who was replaced by Paddy Chambers in the spring of 1980. Local appearances and occasional concerts in London followed . In addition, a little later the band was able to hold gigs with bands like Trust , Weapon and Marillion . In early 1981 Buckler and Dowling left the group. Jones and Chambers, who were now mainly responsible for songwriting, added drummer Kieran McCleary and bassist Andy Rose as new members. Plans were made to release a first single on Heavy Metal Records towards the end of the year, but nothing came of it. After the arrival of the two new members, further local performances took place and demo recordings of songs such as Heavy Heart and Voice on the Line were made. The band could also be heard on the local radio. In the summer of 1982 the band was listed in the Armed and Ready category in the Kerrang . Since the hoped-for record deal still failed to materialize, the band decided a few months later to release the self-financed single Voice on the Line with the song Stealin ' as the B-side on the band's own label Eeyo Records. The single sold pretty well. The release was followed by tours and appearances with Dumpy's Rusty Nuts and the Jackie Lynton Band . Since some members were not satisfied with the progress of the band, they separated from it, so that only Noel Jones remained. According to advertisements in the Kerrang , guitarist Andy Simmons, guitarist and keyboardist Ross Bingham, drummer Kev Baker, and bassist Pete Blanchard were found as new members, all of whom had been members of a local but not very successful band called Sphinx. However, Blanchard stayed only briefly in the group, which is why he was replaced by the former Saber bassist Geoff Gillespie. In early 1983, the song was Voice on the Line in the local chart of Kerrang listed. The new line-up only played one gig, together with Seducer , before it was broken up. Gillespie and the three former Sphinx musicians founded Snowblind a little later , while Noel Jones played with White Lightning . In their career, the band also performed with Blind Fury .

style

According to Malc Macmillan in The NWOBHM Encyclopedia , Gary Frost initially tried to align the band towards AOR in the style of Toto and Foreigner , which resulted in his departure. The first demo contains typical rock of the late 1970s, which sounds like a mixture of UFO and Thin Lizzy , but they have already started to listen to themselves more independently. With the recordings of the following year, one more closely approximated Chinatown . After the arrival of McCleary and Rose, more accessible songs like Heavy Heart and Voice were written on the line . The single is comparable to material from Urchin or early Samson , but it is less “heavy” than the demo material recorded at the time. In The International Encyclopedia of Hard Rock and Heavy Metal , the band was assigned to hard rock.

Discography

  • 1979: Demo (demo, self-published)
  • 1982: Voice on the Line (Single, Eeyo Records)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Malc Macmillan: The NWOBHM Encyclopedia . IP Verlag Jeske / Mader GbR, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-931624-16-3 , p. 588 f .
  2. ↑ Biography. rockdetector.com, archived from the original on September 15, 2016 ; accessed on October 29, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Tony Jasper, Derek Oliver: The International Encyclopedia of Hard Rock and Heavy Metal . Facts on File Inc., New York 1983, ISBN 0-8160-1100-1 , pp. 320 .