Tura Satana (band)

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Tura Satana
General information
origin Los Angeles , California , United States
Genre (s) Alternative metal , rap metal , nu metal
founding 1993 as Manhole
resolution 1998
Last occupation
Therese Beth aka "Tairrie B."
Brian Harrah
Rico Villasenor
Marcelo Palomino
former members
Electric guitar
 Scott Ueda
Electric guitar
 Marty Ramirez
Electric bass
 Stephen Klein
Electric bass
 Louiche Mayorga

Tura Satana was an American alternative , rap , and nu-metal band from Los Angeles , California , which was founded in 1993 under the name Manhole and split up in 1998.

history

The front woman Tairrie B. was already active solo before the band was founded and after she had won a record deal with the artist Eazy-E , she released the album The Power of a Woman in 1987 . The B in her name should stand for "Being totally in control, Bitch", her real first name is Therese, her real last name is Beth. In 1990, the singles Swingin 'Wit' T and Murder She Wrote were also released on MCA Records . The second title also entered the British single charts. She was also active in the band Sugartooth . In 1993 she founded the band Manhole, which consisted of guitarist Scott Ueda, bassist Rico Villasenor and drummer Marcelo Palomeno. The band released the album All Is Not Well in 1996 , which was produced by Ross Robinson and recorded at Titan Studio. The release was followed by a European tour with Fear Factory . Here, both bands played among others with drain in Cologne . Beth intrigued against other bands and members also fought with security staff. After a member of the road crew was pushed off the stage by security people a few minutes after the end of the performance during the Fear Factory tour, this member fought back. His wallet was stolen again. Then the bass player Rico Villasenor went with him to get it back. This turned into a fight in which Villasenor broke someone's rib. Villasenor then managed to get back to the tour bus, whose windows were smashed by the security men and whose tires were stabbed. Villasenor was then imprisoned. On another incident, a bystander poured beer on Beth's face. Since she hated beer and her eyes burned and she could hardly see anything, she grabbed a bottle standing behind her and threw it in the direction of the spectator. She realized too late that it was a glass and not a plastic bottle. She then ran backstage and destroyed the shower room. According to her, she has never lost her temper like this. After beating a security member who, in her opinion, had beaten a viewer for no reason, the band was finally removed from the program of the Fear Factory tour. In addition, according to Beth, Dino Cazares tried to have sex with her. However, since this was rejected, he tried to make her life difficult. This was compounded after she entered into a relationship with Burton C. Bell . Beth suspected that he had instigated someone to pour her beer on their faces that she had previously seen him and Cazares talk before the show. In addition, Cazares would have advised bands like Type O Negative , Life of Agony , Machine Head and Biohazard , with whom Manhole and Tura Satana later appeared, not to perform together with the group.

In late 1996, the band also played with Type O Negative and Moonspell in Hamburg . After it became known that a band of the same name from Texas already claimed the band name for themselves, the band name was changed in 1997 to Tura Satana, named after the actress of the same name from the film Die Satansweiber von Tittfield by Russ Meyer . The artists and repertoire staff responsible for the band had led the Californians to believe that they had naming rights for Manhole, which they did not. The Texans did not want to give up the naming rights even if they paid $ 40,000.

The album Relief Through Release appeared under a new name in 1997, which was produced by Michael Vail Blum . It also contained a cover version of Nirvanas Negative Creep . At the end of 1997 the band played in London together with Bullyrag and Human Waste Project . After Ueda preferred to stay with his children in Los Angeles on Halloween 1997 than to go on a European tour with the band, he was permanently replaced by Brian Harrah. Initially, Tarrie B. flew with him during the tour after appearances in England and Spain and before concerts in Milan and Paris from the latter city to Los Angeles. According to Beth, both of them were tired of it and Ueda stayed in the United States because all the reporters, even though Ueda wrote the songs, only ever wanted to interview them. In early 1998 they went on a tour of Great Britain with Will Haven and Psycore , before appearing with Pitchshifter in Europe . Both bands also played in Hamburg . In 1998 the band also played with Sybian in Cologne. In the same year All Is Not Well was re-released under the new band name via FAD Records . In 1998 the band split up. In their career, the band also performed in Los Angeles along with groups such as Rage Against the Machine , Korn and Downset. played. Tura Satana is also personally friends with the last band. On January 18, 2002, members of Tura Satana in Hollywood played a few Tura Satana songs with Beths and her new band My Ruin in honor of her birthday.

style

Jason Ankeny from Allmusic assigned the music of Tura Satana to alternative metal. According to Holger Stratmann in the Rock Hard Encyclopedia , Beth comes from the environment of gangsta rap and hip hop greats like Dr. Dre , The DOC , House of Pain, and Eazy-E. All Is Not Well offers a mixture of rap metal and hardcore punk . On the album, the group addresses the weaknesses of US society. Until his departure, Scott Ueda was the main songwriter. According to Markus Kavka from Metal Hammer , the lyrics are written by Beth, with most of them talking about love and pain. In an interview with Kavka, she also stated that lyrically she is not only influenced by things like bandmates, love, death, religion, alcohol, poems, violence, tears, rock stars, dreams, revenge and anger. So she read Dante's Inferno while recording Relief Through Release . The song Storage is about Joey Castillo from Sugartooth, who had a failed relationship with Beth and still keeps things from her in his garage and does not want to give them out. Matthias Mineur from Metal Hammer described Beth as a rapper in his review of All Is Not Well . The songs aggressively address rape and racism. According to Martin Popoff in his book The Collector's Guide of Heavy Metal Volume 3: The Nineties , the band plays on All Is Not Well gangsta rap metal, which is very political, aggressive and comparable to the music of Rage Against the Machine, Downset. and be biohazard. On Relief Through Release 'll both rapped and geshoutet . Because of this and the fact that this is done by a woman, the music is comparable to that of Kittie, although Tura Satana has a literary claim. The music is a kind of groundbreaking Nu Metal. In addition, the music can be classified between scratching post and crisis . The Nirvana cover is punk and rough.

Discography

as a manhole
  • 1994: Los Angeles (demo, self-release)
  • 1994: Victim (EP, Noise Records )
  • 1996: All Is Not Well (Album, Noise Records)
as Tura Satana
  • 1997: 3 song sampler (demo, self-release)
  • 1997: Relief Through Release (Album, FAD Records )
  • 1997: Scavenger Hunt / Piece of My Heart (Single, Noise Records)
  • 1998: Venus Diablo (single, Noise Records)
  • 1998: All Is Not Well (Album, FAD Records)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Holger Stratmann: Rock Hard Encyclopedia . ROCK HARD GmbH, 1998, ISBN 3-9805171-0-1 , p. 231 .
  2. ↑ a b c Wolf Kohl: Tura Satana . Tic Tac Toe. In: Metal Hammer . September 1997, p. 109 .
  3. ^ A b Wolf-Rüdiger Mühlmann: Tura Satana, Pitchshifter . Hamburg, logo. In: Rock Hard . No. 133 , June 1998, Live Reviews, pp. 147 .
  4. ↑ Interview with Tairrie B (My Ruin). (No longer available online.) Love-it-loud.com, archived from the original on October 30, 2014 ; Retrieved November 3, 2014 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / love-it-loud.com
  5. ↑ Oliver Recker, Chris Ducreè: Fear Factory Drain Manhole . Cologne Live Music Hall. In: Metal Hammer . July 1996, p. 129 .
  6. ^ Markus Kavka : Tura Satana . The satan woman? In: Metal Hammer . November 1997, p. 40 f .
  7. ^ Matthias Mineur: Type O Negative Moonspell Manhole . Hamburg docks. In: Metal Hammer . February 1997, p. 126 .
  8. ↑ a b c Markus Kavka: Supervixes . Tura Satana. In: Metal Hammer . October 1997, p. 46 f .
  9. ^ Björn Friedetzky: Tura Satana + Bullyrag + Human Waste Project . London: The Garage. In: Metal Hammer . January 1998, p. 125 .
  10. ↑ Tura Satana . Scott Ueda is out! In: Metal Hammer . January 1998, p. 12 .
  11. ↑ Biography. (No longer available online.) Rockdetector.com, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved November 2, 2014 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rockdetector.com
  12. ^ Christof Leim: Tura Satana + Sybian . Cologne: Underground. In: Metal Hammer . June 1998, p. 128 .
  13. ↑ Tura Satana - All Is Not Well. Discogs , accessed November 2, 2014 .
  14. ↑ Tura Satana Split Up. (No longer available online.) Myruin.com, archived from the original on March 29, 2002 ; Retrieved November 3, 2014 .
  15. ↑ Markus Kavka: Bleeding noses . Manhole. In: Metal Hammer . May 1996, p. 34 f .
  16. ↑ News / Facts About My Ruin. angelfire.com, accessed November 2, 2014 .
  17. ↑ Jason Ankeny: Tura Satana. Allmusic , accessed November 2, 2014 .
  18. ^ Matthias Mineur: Manhole . All is not well. In: Metal Hammer . May 1996, p. 61 .
  19. ↑ Martin Popoff : The Collector's Guide of Heavy Metal Volume 3: The Nineties . Collectors Guide Ltd, Burlington, Ontario, Canada 2007, ISBN 978-1-894959-62-9 , pp. 262 .
  20. ↑ Martin Popoff: The Collector's Guide of Heavy Metal Volume 3: The Nineties . Collectors Guide Ltd, Burlington, Ontario, Canada 2007, ISBN 978-1-894959-62-9 , pp. 460 .