| Bush |
| Background information |
| Also known as |
BushX |
| Origin |
London, England |
| Genre(s) |
Post-Grunge
Alternative rock
Hard
rock |
| Years active |
1992–2002 |
| Label(s) |
Kirtland,
SPV,
Atlantic, Trauma,
Interscope |
| Website |
www.bush-music.com |
| Former members |
Gavin
Rossdale
Nigel Pulsford
Dave Parsons
Robin Goodridge
Chris Traynor
Sacha Puttnam |
Bush was a post-grunge
band from England,
formed in 1992.
Their debut
album was the self-released Sixteen
Stone in 1994 (see 1994
in music).
|
Contents
- 1 Information
- 2 History
- 2.1 Success,
Sixteen Stone
- 2.2 Razorblade
Suitcase
- 2.3 The
Science of Things
- 3 Members
- 4 Discography
- 5 Music
videos
- 6 Equipment
- 7 Trivia
- 8 External
links
|
Information
The name Bush came about because they used to live in Shepherd's
Bush, London.
In Canada,
they were once known as BushX, because the 1970s band Bush,
led by Domenic Troiano, owned the Canadian
rights to the name. In April 1997, it was announced that Troiano had
agreed to let them use the name Bush in Canada without the letter X, in
exchange for donating $20,000 each to the Starlight Children's
Foundation and the Canadian Music Therapy Trust Fund.
Bush rose to fame in the mid-90s after the grunge explosion.
Riding a string of hits from Sixteen
Stone and the death of grunge's flagship
band Nirvana, they quickly became
superstars. Although sales were still strong with Bush's next two
albums they didn't amount to the success of Sixteen Stone.
By the time Golden State
came it was appareing a lucrative deal between the president of
Kirtland (former Deep Blue Something bandmember)
and the president of Trauma Records. The deal included the rights to
Bush's entire discography, as well as the rights to No Doubt's Tragic
Kingdom.
History
Success, Sixteen Stone
The timing was right for Bush. Grunge music did not at the
time have a band whose sales were as big as pop artists, also all the
first wave grunge bands came out of America, leaving music fans East of
the Atlantic only seeing their favorite bands when they released an
album. When Bush came out with Sixteen Stone, the
UK had a grunge band to love, and soon America caught on with hit songs
in the UK like "Machine Head," "Glycerine," "Everything Zen," and
"Comedown," which caught the band attention in the States. Due to an
appearance on Saturday Night Live,
and heavy MTV
rotation Sixteen Stone
eventually went 6X platinum.
In 1995 Bush did some serious touring and America caught began
to see some new faces in the Seattle grunge scene like Foo
Fighters (featuring Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl on guitar and vocals) who have
now released 5 platinum albums and Candlebox who hit big with their self
titled debut featuring the hit "Far Behind" which is still heard on
Alternative radio today. They released two more albums throughout the
late 1990s to limited critical and commercial success.
Razorblade Suitcase
In late 1996
Bush released the first single "Swallowed" from their second album
entitled Razorblade Suitcase
the song spent 7 weeks on top of the Modern
Rock Tracks chart. The album hit number 1 in America and placed high in
many European countries. Razorblade Suitcase did
not match the commercial success of Sixteen Stone
by 2:1, and many people now and then compare(d) the album to Nirvana's
1993 album In Utero, due to the team they hired for
artwork, and the producer Steve Albini, were involved in In
Utero. Some felt that Bush would soon decline in sales due to
Britpop
bands like Oasis, and Blur
replacing grunge band's place for popularity in the UK, however Britpop
never became huge in America. When Razorblade Suitcase
did not feature anymore smash hits Bush released the remix album Deconstructed
in 1997, which charted in the top 40.
The Science of Things
In 1999, Bush released the album The
Science of Things, the album was Bush's first
studio album to not reach the top 10 in America (it hit number 11), its
sales are meager compared to its predeccessors, Sixteen Stone
outsold it 6:1 and Razorblade Suitcase outsold it
3:1. Although it did have the hits "The Chemicals Between Us,"
which reached the top of the modern rock tracks chart for several
weeks, and "Letting the Cables Sleep" which has seen some airplay since
the album's release.
Members
- Gavin Rossdale – vocals,
guitar
- Dave Parsons – bass
(former member of second generation punk band The
Partisans, as well as Transvision Vamp)
- Robin Goodridge – drums, percussion
- Sacha Putnam –
keyboards (left band)
- Chris Traynor – lead guitar on Golden
State tour
- Nigel Pulsford – lead guitar, string
arrangements (left the band to spend more time with his family in 2002)
Rossdale is lead singer of Institute
and Goodridge is drummer with UK rock band Elyss.
Discography
Albums
| Date of release |
Title |
Label |
US Billboard peak |
US sales |
| December 6, 1994 |
Sixteen Stone |
Trauma Records |
#4 |
6 million |
| November 19, 1996 |
Razorblade Suitcase |
Trauma Records |
#1 |
3 million |
| November 11, 1997 |
Deconstructed |
Trauma Records |
#36 |
1 million |
| October 26, 1999 |
The Science of Things |
Trauma Records |
#11 |
2 million |
| October 23, 2001 |
Golden State |
Atlantic Records |
#22 |
380,000 |
| June
14, 2005 |
The Best of: 1994-1999 |
SPV
Records |
- |
N/A |
| November 1, 2005 |
Zen X Four |
Kirtland Records |
- |
N/A |
Singles
| Year |
Title |
Peak chart positions |
Album |
US
Modern
Rock |
US
Mainstream
Rock |
UK
Singles
Chart |
| 1994/1995 |
"Everything
Zen" |
#2 |
#5 |
#99 |
Sixteen
Stone |
| 1995 |
"Little Things" |
#4 |
#6 |
#27 |
Sixteen
Stone |
| 1995 |
"Comedown" |
#1 (2 weeks) |
#2(1 week) |
#19 |
Sixteen
Stone |
| 1995 |
"Glycerine" |
#1 (2 weeks) |
#4 |
- |
Sixteen
Stone |
| 1996 |
"Machinehead" |
#4 |
#4 |
#48 |
Sixteen
Stone |
| 1996 |
"Swallowed" |
#1 (7 weeks) |
#2(2 weeks) |
#7 |
Razorblade
Suitcase |
| 1997 |
"Greedy Fly" |
#3 |
#5 |
#22 |
Razorblade
Suitcase |
| 1997 |
"Bonedriven" |
- |
- |
#49 |
Razorblade
Suitcase |
| 1997 |
"Mouth (The Stingray Mix)" |
#5 |
#28 |
- |
Deconstructed |
| 1997 |
"Cold Contagious" |
#23 |
#18 |
- |
Razorblade
Suitcase |
| 1999 |
"The Chemicals Between Us" |
#1 (5 weeks) |
#3 |
#46 |
The
Science of Things |
| 2000 |
"Warm Machine" |
#38 |
#16 |
#45 |
The
Science of Things |
| 2000 |
"Letting The Cables
Sleep" |
#4 |
#26 |
#51 |
The
Science of Things |
| 2001 |
"Headful of Ghosts" |
#38 |
#34 |
- |
Golden
State |
| 2001 |
"Land of the Living" |
- |
- |
- |
Golden
State |
| 2001 |
"Inflatable" |
- |
- |
- |
Golden
State |
| 2001 |
"The People That We
Love" |
#11 |
#10 |
#81 |
Golden
State |
Music videos
- "Everything Zen"
- "Little Things"
- "Comedown"
- "Glycerine"
- "Machinehead"
- "Swallowed"
- "Greedy Fly"
- "Mouth"
- "Bonedriven"
- "Cold Contagious"
- "Personal Holloway"
- "The Chemicals Between Us"
- "Warm Machine"
- "Letting The Cables Sleep"
- "The People That We Love"
- "Inflatable"
Equipment
Gavin Rossdale played a 1962 Fender Jazzmaster while with Bush
and an Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Overdrive pedal. Rossdale was also
known to play a wide variety of Fender Stratocasters.
Robin Goodridge (drummer) was endorsed by DW drum company
while playing with Bush.
Dave Parsons played Fender basses, Ernie Ball Basses and
strings and Ampeg bass amps.
Rossdale and Pulsford both played Mesa Boogie amps.
Trivia
- "Machinehead" and "Comedown", both from the
album Sixteen Stone, were included in the 1996
movie Fear, starring Reese
Witherspoon and Mark Wahlberg.
- "The People That We Love" from the album Golden
State was included in Need for Speed: Hot
Pursuit 2 soundtracks.
- Apocalyptica has covered
"Letting The Cables Sleep". The N.O.W. remix of the track also appeared
on Cafe del Mar Volume 7.
- "Out of This World" from the album Golden
State was used in Buffy the Vampire Slayer,
in the episode 'Dead Things'.
- "Glycerine" was used in Cold Case,
in the episode 'Rampage'.
- "Mouth" was used in the 1997 film An
American Werewolf in Paris.
- The song "The People That We Love" was
originally titled "Speed Kills" and was quickly changed before the
"Golden State" record was released due to the sensitivity of the
September 11th attacks on the US in the month prior.
- "Glycerine" is featured on the compilation
album Buzz Ballads, a
collection of mainly 90's songs fitting the category of Buzz.
External links
| v • d • e Bush |
| Gavin Rossdale - Nigel
Pulsford - Dave Parsons - Robin Goodridge -Chris
Traynor - Sacha Puttnam |
| Discography |
| Albums: Sixteen
Stone - Razorblade
Suitcase - Deconstructed
- The Science of Things
- Golden State
- The Best of: 1994-1999
- Zen
X Four |
| Singles: "Everything
Zen" - "Little Things" - "Comedown"
- "Glycerine" - "Machinehead"
- "Swallowed" - "The Chemicals Between Us" |
