TSOL

The title of this article is ambiguous. With TSOL an American hardcore band is called. TSOL is the abbreviation for Tramway du sud-ouest lausannois , the light rail in the Swiss city of Lausanne.

TSOL
General information
origin	Huntington Beach (USA)
Genre (s)	Hardcore , anarcho-punk , horror punk , death-rock , hair metal
founding	1979
Founding members
singing	Jack Grisham (1978–1983, since 1999)
guitar	Ron Emory (1978–1987, since 1999)
bass	Mike Roche (1978–1990, since 1999)
Drums	Todd Barnes (1978-1982)
Current occupation
singing	Jack Grisham
guitar	Ron Emory
bass	Mike Roche
Drums	Antonio Val Hernandez (since 2017)
Keyboard	Greg Kuehn (1982–1983, since 2005)
former members
singing	Joe Wood (1983-1990)
Drums	Jay O'Brien (from 1999)
Drums	Todd Scrivener (1982)

TSOL (sometimes also spelled TSOL ) is an American hardcore band that has existed (with interruption) from 1979 until today. The band name is an abbreviation for True Sounds of Liberty ; the band comes from the same scene as Bad Religion , the Circle Jerks and the Adolescents, among others . TSOL went through some significant style changes, for which the many line-up changes are responsible. Individual releases are assigned to the styles Heavy Metal , Art-Punk and Gothic Punk . Bands like Good Riddance , Tiger Army and Blitzkid name TSOL as an influence.

Band history

prehistory

The later founding members of TSOL lived in Huntington Beach in the late 1970s and played in various bands as teenagers, including SS Cult and Johnny Coat Hanger and the Abortions . In 1979 the group Vicious Circle was founded, in which singer Jack Grisham, drummer Todd Barnes, guitarist Steve Houston and bassist Laddy Terrell played. After repeated outbreaks of violence when this band performed and Grisham escaped to Alaska in the course of an escalation , Vicious Circle was at an end.

TSOL

Together with the returning Grisham (who also used the pseudonyms Jack Delauge , Alex Morgan and Jack Greggors ) guitarist Ron Emory, bassist Mike Roche and drummer Todd Barnes formed TSOL . Initially, the band played concerts in the region, often together with groups of friends from the area, but also with The Damned from England and the Dead Kennedys from San Francisco . The performances attracted attention, among other things, through the face painting of the musicians. The song material that the band wrote during this time was found on the first, self-titled EP and on the 1981 debut album Dance With Me , which was produced by Thom Wilson (later producer for DOA and The Offspring, among others ). Already between these two works the group is attested to a first change of style, as they moved away from political content and moved closer to the Misfits through their choice of topic and sound . The next release Weathered Statues appeared on Jello Biafra's label Alternative Tentacles . 1982 appeared with Beneath The Shadows (also produced by Wilson) the first album with keyboardist Greg Kuehn. Todd Scrievener replaced Barnes on drums here.

In 1983 Jack Grisham left the band and was replaced by his brother-in-law Joe Wood . With Kuehn and Wood the style of TSOL changed further towards Gothic Punk and Glam Rock , which led to the fact that the following albums were compared with works by The Cult , AC / DC and Guns N 'Roses . TSOL went on tour with the latter as well as with the Red Hot Chili Peppers ; Emory left the group, leaving Mike Roche only a founding member. However, Roche also left the band in 1990.

The original members had since revived TSOL in the original line-up, which led to conflicts with Wood and the drummer Mitch Dean, who now held the rights to the name. In 1991 a live album by the original line-up was released under the name of the band members. While the "original" TSOL members were prevented from continuing their careers by drug problems, Wood and his musicians lost their record deal.

1999 saw a comeback when the original formation regained the rights to the name and TSOL played the Warped Tour . Todd Barnes had died of a brain aneurysm that year and was replaced by Jay O'Brien. In 2001 and 2003 new albums were released on Nitro Records , and they also toured Europe for the first time, with headlining concerts as well as appearances as part of the Deconstruction tour . In 2006 the band decided to take a break because Rouche and Emory had left California. In 2007, however, concerts were held again within the USA. In January 2009 the band released a free downloadable album produced by David Bianco.

Outside of TSOL

Jack Grisham sang shortly after leaving Cathedral of Tears , which only released one EP . This was followed by three albums with Tender Fury before he sang in the group The Joykiller from 1995 , in which Ron Emory was also active. The group released three albums on Epitaph Records . Todd Barnes played with the Vandals for some time . In addition to Beneath The Shadows (1982) and Divided We Stand from 2003, Greg Kuehn also played on albums by Berlin ( Count Three and Pray , 1986) and The Church ( Starfish , 1988).

In 2003, Grisham stood in California in the election to succeed Governor Gray Davis , but lost to Arnold Schwarzenegger with 2200 votes as 37th of 159 candidates . In the election campaign, he had stated that the reason for his candidacy was that he could not afford health insurance.

In 2011, Grisham published An American Demon: A Memoir .

Discography

Albums

• 1981: Dance With Me (Frontier Records)
• 1982: Weathered Statues ( Alternative Tentacles )
• 1982: Beneath The Shadows
• 1984: Change Today? ( Enigma Records )
• 1986: Revenge (Enigma Records)
• 1987: Hit and Run (Enigma Records, US Charts # 184)
• 1990: Strange Love
• 2001: Disappear ( Nitro Records )
• 2003: Divided We Stand (Nitro Records)
• 2009: Life, Liberty & The Pursuit Of Free Downloads
• 2017: The Trigger Complex (Rise Records)

Compilations and live albums

• 1988: Thoughts of Yesterday 1981-1982
• 1991: Live 91
• 1992: Hell & Back Together: 1984-1990
• 2005: Who's Screwin 'Who?
• 2007: Live From Long Beach

DVD

• 2002: Live at OC

Web links

• TSOL at Facebook (English)
• TSOL in the All Music Guide (English)
• TSOL at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ GetAddicted.com: Every record is the same in different. Retrieved November 28, 2016 . 
2. ↑ purerock.de interviews: GOOD RIDDANCE (from September 26, 2001, accessed on February 4, 2008): “ Who influenced you earlier? - Bands from our homeland, California: Black Flag, TSOL, Adolescence, DI [...] "
3. ↑ 4p-fanzine.de, interview from January 23, 2001 ; Geoff Kresge on a joint tour with TSOL: "It was a great experience to be on tour with a band that Nick and I looked up to for a long time" (accessed February 4, 2008)
4. ↑ discover.de, Interview with Blitzkid from April 2004 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Answer to the question "What do you mean by horror punk and what musical influences are there for you?": " [...] Musically, I am into Bad Relig [i] on, TSOL, The Clash, Minor Threat, Sisters of Mercy, The Smiths, Ramones or Social Distortion. "(Accessed on February 4, 2008) 
5. ↑ ^{a b} Vickie Chang: Jack Grisham of TSOL: Bedeviled ( Memento of the original from October 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , OC Weekly, April 28, 2011 
6. ↑ JuiceMagazine.com: Interview with Jack Grisham ( Memento April 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
7. ^ Adam Bregman in a review of Dance With Me , All Music Guide : "[...] TSOL [...] briefly flirted with pseudo radical politics [...]. But that phase of the band didn't last long, as they cast away the politics in favor of horror-movie-inspired, gothy, Misfits-style shtick on their first full-length [...] "(accessed on 4. February 2008)
8. ↑ for example by Victor W. Valdivia in his review of Hit and Run for the All Music Guide (accessed February 4, 2008)
9. ^ Message on visions.de , accessed on January 10, 2009
10. ↑ Mark Prindle: Jack Grisham - 2007 , interview, accessed September 8, 2011
11. ↑ Vote2003.sos.ca.gov: Candidates to succeed Gray Davis as Governor if he is recalled ( Memento from May 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
12. ↑ News from July 30, 2003 on mtv.com : "I can't afford heath insurance, so I figure if I'm governor, at least they have a good health insurance plan," Grisham joked. (accessed on February 4, 2008)