Truly (band)
| Truly | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| origin | Seattle , United States |
| Genre (s) | Grunge , psychedelic rock |
| founding | 1989 |
| Website | www.trulysite.com |
| Founding members | |
| Robert Roth (since 1989) | |
| Mark Pickerel (since 1989) | |
Bass , guitar |
Chris Quinn (1989-1991) |
| Current occupation | |
Vocals, guitar, mellotron |
Robert Roth (since 1989) |
bass |
Hiro Yamamoto (1991–1998, since 2008) |
Drums |
Mark Pickerel (since 1989) |
| Terrill Bailie (since 2008) | |
| former members | |
bass |
George Reed-Harmon (2000–?) |
Keyboard |
Brian Northrup (2000-?) |
Truly is a band founded in 1989 that mixes the grunge roots with them with psychedelic experimentation.
history
Truly was founded in November 1989 by singer and guitarist Robert Roth together with drummer Mark Pickerel (Ex- Screaming Trees ). Roth had just received an application to be the second guitarist at Nirvana , while Pickerell drummed alongside two Nirvana members and a former Screaming Trees colleague in the Lithium side project. Chris Quinn, who joined the band shortly afterwards and was originally intended as bassist, switched to guitar, so that Hiro Yamamoto was now hired as bassist . Yamamoto had left his previous band Soundgarden due to the turmoil and worked in a bike shop. Shortly after the release of the first EP Heart and Lungs in 1991, Quinn left the band and they continued as a trio. On June 20, 1995, after some label hesitation and finally rights ceded to Major Capitol Records , Fast Stories ... from Kid Coma, the band's first album, was originally planned as a double LP in addition to the CD format on Capitol Sub-pop label. The album title forms the bracket for the loosely strung together song content that a coma patient could have dreamed of. This was followed by tours of the USA and Europe , which took half a year to complete, but met with great fan interest. Due to ongoing restructuring at Capitol, many bands were blocked in their work. In 1997 the next regular album Feeling You Up followed again on an independent label . Father of two, Hiro Yamamoto soon retired into private life. The album Twilight Curtains , released in 2000, contains new songs as well as some previously unreleased older songs and demo versions . The bassist George Reed-Harmon and the keyboardist Brian Northrup were hired for the recording of the new songs and the planned live performances.
After a long time - u. a. Due to various solo activities, Roth, Pickerel and again Yamamoto reported back in September 2008, supported by keyboardist Terrill Bailie, with their first live appearance in over ten years at the Spanish Azkena Festival. Instead of a planned new album, the single Wheels on Fire was only released in 2013 , which thematically follows the Blue Flame Ford extracted from Fast Stories .
style
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music describes Truly as a little grunge-based band, as they produce longer, more experimental pieces for this style. Truly sounds like a live release from conventional progressive rock bands.
Mike Mettler of Guitar Player Magazine heard the grunge component more clearly in his assessment that it was a rough and pithy band.
Markus Kavka tried to outline the “bizarre” and “puzzling” music of the debut in Metal Hammer like this: “Truly are eccentric Pink Floyd , modern doors , are cyberspace and retro from hell at the same time.” The band with neighboring bands is Pigeonhed , Brad and Satchel comparable.
In a concert review for the online magazine The Sun Break , which sheds light on Seattle's cultural life, Tony Kay said that Truly's mix of psychedelic, Jim Morrison awakening and grunge-pounding was trend-setting.
The website inmusicwetrust.com sees Feeling You Up psychedelic pop melodies of the 1970s paired with the Britpop feeling of the 1990s, which results in spherical music to immerse yourself in film-like dreams.
On the internet platform rockdetector.com the band runs under the unclear genre term “Doom”.
Roth's lyrics "revolve [...] a lot about isolation, broken relationships, dreams and nightmares".
Discography
- 1991: Heart and Lungs ( EP , Sub Pop )
- 1993: Leslie's Coughing Up Blod (Single, Sub Pop)
- 1995: Fast Stories ... from Kid Coma (Album, Capitol Records )
- 1995: Blue Flame Ford (10 "colored vinyl single, Capitol Records)
- 1997: Feeling You Up (Album, Thick Records)
- 2000: Twilight Curtains ( compilation , Sweet Nothing Records)
- 2013: Wheels on Fire (single, Flotation Records)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Truly. Biography. In: thickrecords.com. Accessed February 16, 2015 .
- ^ Greg Prato: Grunge is Dead: The Oral History of Seattle Rock Music . ECW Press, Toronto 2009, ISBN 978-1-55022-877-9 , pp. 298 .
- ↑ a b Colin Larkin (Ed.): The Encyclopedia of Popular Music . 3. Edition. Volume 7 Smith, Leo - Wildchild. Macmillan, London 1998, ISBN 0-333-74134-X , Truly, pp. 5514 .
- ↑ a b David Sprague: Capitol Shows Faith In Seattle's Truly. Label Not Fixating On Group's Rock Star Pedigree . In: Billboard . May 13, 1995, Artists & Music, p. 20 .
- ↑ a b Truly. (No longer available online.) In: rockdetector.com. Archived from the original on February 16, 2015 ; accessed on February 16, 2015 . 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.
- ^ Wheels on Fire by Truly. In: songfacts.com. Accessed February 16, 2015 .
- ↑ Mike Mettler: TRuly. Seattle's 6-String Hurricane . In: Guitar Player Magazine . November 1995, p. 21 .
- ^ Markus Kavka: Truly. Fast Stories ... from Kid Coma . In: Metal Hammer . November 1995, Reviews. Wood and plastic, p. 54 .
- ↑ Tony Kay: The Mission UK Bring Goth and Roll to the Showbox. In: thesunbreak.com. September 18, 2013, accessed February 16, 2015 .
- ↑ Alex Steininger: Truly. Feeling you up. In: inmusicwetrust.com. November 1998, accessed February 16, 2015 .
- ^ Markus Kavka: Truly. Heart to heart . In: Metal Hammer . February 1996, Story, p. 116 f .
