Union (band)
| union | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Genre (s) | skirt |
| founding | 1997 |
| Current occupation | |
| John Corabi | |
| Bruce Kulick | |
| Jamie Hunting | |
| Brent Fitz | |
Union is an American hard rock band founded by guitarist Bruce Kulick and singer John Corabi .
history
Corabi and Kulick were already known to each other when they decided in 1997 to start a joint project. Kulick had lost his job as a guitarist at Kiss 6 months earlier , Corabi had been replaced at Mötley Crüe. Both were therefore in similar life situations. They wrote some songs together and saw that it worked well, so they went ahead and did some demo recordings. They were supported by Curt Cuomo, who had previously worked with Kiss on the Carnival of Souls album . They completed the group with drummer Brent Fitz and bassist Jamie Hunting, and the group set about recording their first album, which was released in 1999 and was simply called Union . With the album in their luggage, the band made their way through clubs around the world, with Japan being particularly successful.
The second release, the live album Live in the Galaxy (1999), contained seven Union songs as well as Man in the Moon by The Scream , Corabi's first band with a record deal, a cover version of Cheap Tricks Surrender , Power to the Music , which Mötley Crüe recorded in 1994 with Corabi as vocalist, Jungle by Kiss, and the studio recorded You've Got to Hide Your Love Away by the Beatles .
The third and (for the time being) last Union album The Blue Room (2000) was recorded a bit more “radio-compatible” than the first studio CD.
Union was not very successful commercially. The group probably recruited its supporters mainly from the Kiss and Mötley Crüe fan camps.
In 2005, a DVD produced by Bruce Kulick and Jack Edward Sawyers with two concert recordings of the group was released.
Union was never officially dissolved. In an interview in June 2011, Kulick hinted that there might be an interesting announcement later that year about something he and John Corabi would do under the Union name. So far, however, there has not been such an event, but Kulick contributed guitar tracks for two songs of the November 2012 solo album by John Corabi.
Discography
Albums
- Union (1998)
- Live in the Galaxy (1999)
- The Blue Room (1999)
DVD
- Do Your Own Thing Live! (2005)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ John Corabi interview for Inner City Rocks Podcast (episode 56), published June 25, 2010
- ↑ John Corabi interview for Inner City Rocks Podcast (episode 56), published June 25, 2010
- ↑ Spitfire Records SPITCD015 GAS 0000015 SPR 553.0015.20
- ↑ Do Your Own Thing live! , Creative Worx Entertainment
- ↑ rockmusicstar.com; Interview with Bruce Kulick, June 12, 2011 ( Memento of the original from June 16, 2011 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.
