The Mustard Seeds

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The Mustard Seeds
General information
origin Glendale , California , United States
Genre (s) skirt
founding 1993, 2007
resolution 1999, 2008
Website www.themustardseeds.com
Founding members
Matt Bissonette
Drums , vocals
 Gregg Bissonette
Guitar , vocals
 George Bernhardt
Guitar, vocals
 Doug Bossi
Current occupation
Bass, vocals
 Matt Bissonette
Drums, vocals
 Gregg Bissonette
Guitar, vocals
 George Bernhardt
Guitar, vocals
 Doug Bossi
former members
Drums, vocals
 Jorge Palacios (1995–1999, 2007 associate member)
Guitar, vocals
 Mike Wallace (1998-1999)

The Mustard Seeds ( dt. For "mustard seeds") is an American rock band that was founded in 1993 and disbanded in 1999, but briefly reformed in 2007/2008.

history

The Bissonette brothers Matt and Gregg , who had worked for David Lee Roth and Joe Satriani as the rhythm section , decided in 1993, tired of the wage work for others, to form their own band. Since they liked the sound of two guitars, they weren't looking for a singer and a guitarist, but specifically for two gifted guitarists. They hired George Bernhardt from Toronto , who had played in metal bands like Lee Aaron's and Beau Nasty, and Doug Bossi from Austin, Texas . They agreed on the name "The Grateful Dudes", which soon became "Acid Rain" and again - since 1994 began - was changed to "The Mustard Seeds". They were alluding to the Bible parable of the mustard seed . But they didn't want to preach, nor did they want to be seen as a Christian band. They just wanted to oppose the tearfulness of grunge with an optimism .

After living in a garage, they first ventured into small live sheds, where they mainly played cover versions . In June 1994 the first record was tackled and first of all they wrote other songs of their own. In 1995 they went into the studio with the ideas they had worked out. The album, recorded without any major production effort and then self-titled, was released in January 1996 by Entourage Records. The well-known music manager Doc McGhee from McGhee Entertainment ( Mötley Crüe , Kiss , Bon Jovi ) took on the group. Through his acquaintance with the German manager colleague Uwe Block , he brought her to Germany, where she was represented by Block and thus the production of her album was revised and the band was booked for festival appearances. Gregg Bissonette had already left the band in the first half of 1995 to take the well-paid drummer job on Toto's four-month European tour. Jorge Palacios had come for him and was now enjoying the trip to Germany. The promotion machine initiated by Block started up and, in addition to the festival bookings mentioned, included interview appointments, showcases, a club tour, television appearances, with a 45-minute special on VIVA marking the climax, as well as the use of the song Quicksand in Mustang jeans - TV - and - Cinema advertising . For Quicksand as well as was Cats & Dogs is a video clip produced which was well received at the music television channels.

Back in the US, the band opened shows for Joe Satriani and Dishwalla . Floating on the wave of success, in 1997 they took the liberty of recording an enormous number (the band's homepage says 100) of newly written songs with many different producers, from which the ten best were selected for the album Red . The album was released in 1998 in the US on Radio Mafia Records and in August 2000 in Europe on Ear Candy Records. After an engagement as a backing band in Japan in early 1998 and the support of Gregg Bissonette on his first solo album , Bossi left the band and was replaced by Mike Wallace, who took part in the pre-production of new songs in early 1999. However, for reasons unknown, the band broke up later in the year. For the individual Mustard Seeds musicians, busy years began with their own projects, session jobs, producer activities and songwriting activities.

In January 2007, Matt and Gregg Bissonette agreed to involve Bossi and Bernhardt in the mind game of a reunion of the original line-up. The idea was put into action. Even the not really necessary drummer Jorge Palacios was invited. Within a week, the five main characters in Mustard Seeds' history had a dozen new pieces together that were suitable for another album. The work, simply entitled III , was published in parallel as a download and CD in online sales. From June 2008 the musicians went their separate ways again.

style

music

The promotion paper, commonly referred to as a laundry slip , sees the Beatles as a role model for harmonies and King’s X for grooves . The result, it says there, is "an extraordinary versatility [...] somewhere between the Beatles, Foo Fighters and Jellyfish ". The industry magazine MusikWoche wrote: "The Mustard Seeds focus on contemporary rock, which combines traditional elements with modern grunge and subtle crossover sounds on the guitars."

In 1998 it was stated in the Musikexpress that the band's music lies in the field of tension between Nine Inch Nails , Weezer , Alice in Chains and Blues Traveler . In 2000 was of "power pop" with Beatles harmonies and Byrds -Gitarrenklang leading to a sometimes Metal - reef could swell the speech. In 1996 the Rolling Stone assigned a musical godfather to the band for each decade. In the 1960s it would have been the Beatles, in the 1970s Boston , in the 1980s Hüsker Dü and in the 1990s The Offspring . Describing the music, it was added that there was a pleasing spread “[z] wipe the smooth harmonies and the brisk grunge outbreaks”. Four years later, similarities with Jellyfish and The Offspring were identified and "Alternative Pop" was found as the style name. Another year later, the style was "alternative rock in love with harmony".

Both Tore Wijnfurth and Jörg Staude took up the comparison with the Beatles and King's X in Metal Hammer , while their colleague Andreas Schöwe ​​used the term “college rock” in a festival report. Sabine Weisser wrote, also in Metal Hammer , about Red : “While the Mustard Seeds shine on the one hand with a great variety of styles, they also show us how much you can achieve with reduced resources [sic]. And in addition to songs to think about, there are also some catchy tunes . ”Michael Rensen commented on the same album in Rock Hard that it was“ Relax-Rock ”. The two poles between which the band moves are clearly the Foo Fighters and King's X boss Ty Tabor. The recordings were a bit older, but the brothers Bissonette and Ty Tabor were forming the band Jughead at the time (together with the ex- Dream-Theater- keyboarder Derek Sherinian ) .

In Visions, Oliver Kube associated the generally cited Beatles and King's X with the grunge inventor Nirvana . For the website The Phantom Tollbooth, The Mustard Seeds sound like King's X, the Christian band PFR from Nashville and the funk metal band Extreme from Boston . Taken together, this results in alternative rock .

Texts

The Phantom Tollbooth , among others, stated that the lyrics are not intrusive . The word “God” only occurs once.

In the press release for the Red release, the intention behind the song lyrics was reproduced in the original language : “Abuses [sic] attract our attention, but we are looking for a happy ending. The impression of our music may differ from the statements of our lyrics. Our songs are stories about people, and most of them are searching for themselves. They are all learning to make decisions. Sometimes we say what our solution would have been, sometimes we don't. ”Matt Bissonette told MusikWoche:“ We tell of people who are sometimes in difficult situations but who then try to take matters into their own hands and to find a solution or alleviation of their problems instead of complaining all the time. ”Those who have studied the texts praise the ideas and the implementation.

Discography

  • 1996: The Mustard Seeds (album, Entourage Records, revised version: Marlboro Music)
  • 1996: Cats & Dogs (single, Marlboro Music)
  • 1996: Life Goes On (Single, Marlboro Music)
  • 1996: Quicksand (single, Marlboro Music)
  • 1996: The Mustard Seeds (Limited EP , Marlboro Music)
  • 1997: Rosemarie (single, Marlboro Music)
  • 1998: Red (album, Radio Mafia Records, 2000 in Europe: Ear Candy Records)
  • 2008: III (download or online distribution via CD Baby Music)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Mustard Seeds Bio. In: themustardseeds.com. Retrieved September 27, 2015 .
  2. ↑ a b c d [Phili] p Ro [ser]: Mustard Seeds. Four musicians share everything brotherly . In: MusikWoche . The news magazine for the music industry. No. 20/1996 , May 13, 1996, scene, p. 8 (Author information: (pro)).
  3. ↑ a b George Bernhardt. Professional guitar player. In: linkedin.com. Retrieved September 27, 2015 .
  4. ↑ a b Joachim Hentschel: No more sad. With Christian texts and positive thinking, the three believers of Mustard Seeds try to finally take world pain away from alternative rock . In: Rolling Stone . No. 75 , January 2001, p. 28 .
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g h The Mustard Seeds . (Laundry slip for the publication of Red without any indication of origin).
  6. ↑ Gregg Bissonette has become known as one of the most versatile drummers in the business ... Bio. In: greggbissonette.com. Retrieved September 27, 2015 .
  7. ^ In the Hamburg " Hafenklang Studios [...]" In: MusikWoche . The news magazine for the music industry. No. 14/1996 , April 1, 1996, Music People, pp. 11 .
  8. ↑ Randy Allar: Interview: Gregg Bissonette. In: guitar9.com. December 1999, accessed September 27, 2015 .
  9. ↑ III. CD, 2008 from The Mustard Seeds. In: musik-sammler.de. Retrieved September 27, 2015 .
  10. ↑ Tasty. The Mustard Seeds aim to appeal to all of the senses . In: Musikexpress / Sounds . No. 511 , August 1998, Die CD im ME, p. 20 .
  11. ↑ (pf): The Mustard Seeds. Red . In: Musikexpress . No. 536 , September 2000, New CDs from A - Z, p. 78 .
  12. ↑ a b Mustard Seeds. Trio Infernal . In: Rolling Stone . No. February 16 , 1996, New Voices. The CD in Rolling Stone, S. 37 .
  13. ↑ Alternative Pop . In: Rolling Stone . No. 71 , September 2000, New Voices vol. 38. The CD in Rolling Stone, p. 34 .
  14. ↑ gates Wijnfurth: The Mustard Seeds. The Mustard Seeds . In: Metal Hammer . May 1996, Reviews. Wood and plastic, p. 55 .
  15. ^ Jörg Staude: The Mustard Seeds, Placebo. Munich, Rockclub Pur . In: Metal Hammer . December 1996, Live, p. 131 .
  16. ^ Andreas Schöwe: Festivals. SWF 3 Open Air '96 Balingen, exhibition grounds . In: Metal Hammer . September 1996, Service, p. 134 f .
  17. ↑ Sabine Weisser: Mustard Seeds. Red . In: Metal Hammer . September 2000, Reviews, p. 87 .
  18. ↑ Michael Rensen: The Mustard Seeds. Red . In: Rock Hard . No. 160 , September 2000, p. 94 .
  19. ↑ Oliver Kube: Mustard Seeds - Red. In: visions.de. Retrieved September 27, 2015 (from issue No. 90).
  20. ↑ a b c Mark Aylor: The Mustard Seeds. In: tollbooth.org. Retrieved September 27, 2015 .