Tony Sly

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Tony Sly at the Rhine Culture Festival in Bonn.

Anthony James Sly (born November 4, 1970 in Mountain View , California - † July 31, 2012 ) was an American singer, songwriter, guitarist and frontman of the punk band No Use for a Name . He has also released four acoustic albums, two as a solo project and two as split projects with Lagwagon front man Joey Cape .

Career

Tony Sly joined No Use for a Name in 1989 at the age of 18. He was a singer and lead guitarist. The first album Incognito was released in 1990 on the New Red Archives label and embodied a hard but melodic hardcore punk sound. The second album Don't Miss the Train was released in 1992.

Seven more studio albums followed, accompanied by Sly as the frontman of No Use For A Name . Most recently, The Feel Good Record of the Year was published in 2008 . Since 2010 there has been information that the band is working intensively on a new album.

Apart from No Use For A Name , Sly released a split CD together with Joey Cape from Lagwagon in 2004 , on which each of the two musicians recorded songs from the respective band. In addition, each artist contributed a new song to the album.

In early 2010, Sly released his first real solo album, 12 Song Program , the creation of which dates back to 2008 when he announced that he would like to realize his own solo project. His second solo album Sad Bear followed in October 2011 , for the creation of which Sly postponed work on the new album with his band.

Also from 2011 Tony Sly was part of the side project Scorpios, where he again worked with Joey Cape (Lagwagon) as well as with Jon Snodgrass (Drag the River) and Brian Wahlstrom.

Sly's last release was Acoustic Vol. 2 , again a split CD with Joey Cape, which was released on Fat Wreck Chords in June 2012 and again contains twelve songs, of which each of the two artists recorded six.

On August 1, 2012, his label Fat Wreck Chords announced that Tony Sly had passed away the day before. On August 7th, the label released a statement saying Sly "died peacefully in his sleep". His last show was on July 29, 2012 with Joey Cape in Gainesville, Florida. His last show with No Use for a Name was at D-Toxic Rockfest in Montebello, Quebec on June 15, 2012.

Tony Sly left behind his wife Brigitte and their two daughters Fiona (2004) and Keira (2008). As part of his work, he dedicated a song to each of his two daughters, For Fiona with No Use For A Name in 2005, and Keira on his solo album 12 Song Program 2010.

On October 29, 2013 the album The Songs of Tony Sly: a Tribute was released , on which various artists and bands such as Rise Against , Bad Religion , Alkaline Trio , Yellowcard , Snuff and Karina Denike reinterpreted songs by Tony Sly. Proceeds from the sale of the album will benefit the Tony Sly Memorial Fund . Several musical companions have published songs in the years after Sly's death that were written in memory of him, such as Lagwagon ( One More Song ), NoFX ( I'm So Sorry, Tony ) or the singer of Useless ID Yotam Ben-Horin ( Tony Sly ).

Discography

No Use for a Name (studio albums)

solo

Scorpios

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Punk rock singer Tony Sly dies at the age of 41 - Frankfurter Rundschau, August 2, 2012 ( Memento from June 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Death report of the label from August 1, 2012
  3. ↑ http://www.fatwreck.com/news/detail/499
  4. ↑ Background information on Tony Sly on the official homepage
  5. ↑ http://www.fatwreck.com/record/detail/915
personal data
SURNAME Sly, Tony
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sly, Anthony James
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American rock musician
DATE OF BIRTH 4th November 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Mountain View
DATE OF DEATH July 31, 2012