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Этот джангловый проект из Северной Каролины был основан весной 1984 года. Возглавили группу братья Коннеллы – Майк (гитара) и Дэвид (бас), назвавшие ее своей фамилией, "The Connells". В первоначальный состав также вошли вокалист Дуг Макмиллан и барабанщик Джон Шульц. Последний, правда, недолго пробыл в коллективе и вскоре был заменен бывшим перкуссионистом Джонни Квеста Пилом Уимберли. К концу 1984-го квартет записал свою первую демку из четырех треков. Одна из этих песенок, "Darker Days" попала на сборник "More Mondo", выпущенный местным лейблом.
Спустя некоторое время команда пополнилась еще одним музыкантом, Джорджем Хантли (гитара, клавишные, вокал), чей дебют состоялся на мартовских сессиях 1985 года. Тогда ребята под руководством продюсера Дона Диксона как раз записывали свою вторую демку. С помощью друга "Connells" Эда Моргана пленку удалось пропихнуть на английский лейбл "Demon".
Фирма согласилась выпустить полнометражный альбом "Connells", если ребята допишут должное количество треков. Таким образом "Darker Days" появился в европейских магазинах уже во второй половине 1985 года. По возвращении в Штаты Морган организовал свой лейбл "Black Park" и издал на нем альбом в Америке. Пластинка была доброжелательно встречена музыкальной прессой, а композиции с нее зазвучали в радиоэфире на молодежных станциях. На песни "Seven" и "Hats Off" были сняты видеоклипы, попавшие на MTV. Благодаря этому группой заинтересовался лейбл TVT, предложивший музыкантам долгосрочный контракт.
Фирма выделила "Connells" продюсера Митча Эстера и отправила их в студию "Drive-In". Альбом "Boylan Heights" получился более уверенным и благодаря умным, душевным композициям с нео-фолковыми гармониями и гипнотическими гитарными партиями вывел группу на уровень " R.E.M.". Самой популярной вещицей с этого диска стала изданная синглом "Scotty's Lament".
Следующий альбом, "Fun and Games", попал в хит-парады многих журналов, посвященных "альтернативе", а также три месяца провел в чартах "Billboard". В 1990-м "Connells" записали еще одну прекрасную работу, "One Simple Word", сопровождавшуюся хитовым синглом "Stone Cold Yesterday". Следующие три года группа провела на гастролях, причем в 1991-м в ее составе появился клавишник Стив Потак. В 1993-м "Connells" возвратились к студийной работе, выбросив на рынок "Ring". Две песни, "Slackjawed" и "74-75" сразу же стали популярными в Америке. Европа отреагировала на это событие двумя годами позднее, когда "74-75" возглавила хит-парады многих стран. Затем вновь наступила трехлетняя пауза, осложненная на этот раз внутренними неурядицами.
Однако парни преодолели разногласия и выпустили в свет "Weird Food and Devastation", вышедший почти что в одно время с первым сольником Хантли. Однако пластинка получилась не очень удачной и "Connols" удалось полностью реабилитироваться лишь с появлением "Still life".
Состав:
Mike Connell - гитара
David Connell - бас
Doug McMillan - вокал
Peele Wimberley - ударные
George Huntley - гитара, вокал
Steve Potak - клавишные
Дискография:
Darker Days - 1985
Boylan Heights - 1987
Fun & Games - 1989
One Simple Word - 1990
Ring - 1993
Weird Food & Devastation - 1996
Still Life - 1998
Old School Dropouts - 2001 Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
Спустя некоторое время команда пополнилась еще одним музыкантом, Джорджем Хантли (гитара, клавишные, вокал), чей дебют состоялся на мартовских сессиях 1985 года. Тогда ребята под руководством продюсера Дона Диксона как раз записывали свою вторую демку. С помощью друга "Connells" Эда Моргана пленку удалось пропихнуть на английский лейбл "Demon".
Фирма согласилась выпустить полнометражный альбом "Connells", если ребята допишут должное количество треков. Таким образом "Darker Days" появился в европейских магазинах уже во второй половине 1985 года. По возвращении в Штаты Морган организовал свой лейбл "Black Park" и издал на нем альбом в Америке. Пластинка была доброжелательно встречена музыкальной прессой, а композиции с нее зазвучали в радиоэфире на молодежных станциях. На песни "Seven" и "Hats Off" были сняты видеоклипы, попавшие на MTV. Благодаря этому группой заинтересовался лейбл TVT, предложивший музыкантам долгосрочный контракт.
Фирма выделила "Connells" продюсера Митча Эстера и отправила их в студию "Drive-In". Альбом "Boylan Heights" получился более уверенным и благодаря умным, душевным композициям с нео-фолковыми гармониями и гипнотическими гитарными партиями вывел группу на уровень " R.E.M.". Самой популярной вещицей с этого диска стала изданная синглом "Scotty's Lament".
Следующий альбом, "Fun and Games", попал в хит-парады многих журналов, посвященных "альтернативе", а также три месяца провел в чартах "Billboard". В 1990-м "Connells" записали еще одну прекрасную работу, "One Simple Word", сопровождавшуюся хитовым синглом "Stone Cold Yesterday". Следующие три года группа провела на гастролях, причем в 1991-м в ее составе появился клавишник Стив Потак. В 1993-м "Connells" возвратились к студийной работе, выбросив на рынок "Ring". Две песни, "Slackjawed" и "74-75" сразу же стали популярными в Америке. Европа отреагировала на это событие двумя годами позднее, когда "74-75" возглавила хит-парады многих стран. Затем вновь наступила трехлетняя пауза, осложненная на этот раз внутренними неурядицами.
Однако парни преодолели разногласия и выпустили в свет "Weird Food and Devastation", вышедший почти что в одно время с первым сольником Хантли. Однако пластинка получилась не очень удачной и "Connols" удалось полностью реабилитироваться лишь с появлением "Still life".
Состав:
Mike Connell - гитара
David Connell - бас
Doug McMillan - вокал
Peele Wimberley - ударные
George Huntley - гитара, вокал
Steve Potak - клавишные
Дискография:
Darker Days - 1985
Boylan Heights - 1987
Fun & Games - 1989
One Simple Word - 1990
Ring - 1993
Weird Food & Devastation - 1996
Still Life - 1998
Old School Dropouts - 2001 Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
The Connells are an American band from Raleigh, North Carolina. They play a guitar-oriented, melodic, power pop style of rock music, with introspective lyrics that reflect the American South. Despite many lineup changes, the band is still together.
Guitarist Mike Connell formed the band in 1984, along with his brother David Connell on bass, Doug MacMillan on vocals, and future filmmaker John Schultz on drums. This initial four-person line-up was quickly supplemented by the addition of George Huntley on second guitar, keyboards, and vocals. Around the same time, former Johnny Quest drummer Peele Wimberley replaced Schultz, finalizing the "classic" line-up of the band.
From the beginning of the group, Mike Connell wrote both the music and the lyrics of the majority of the band’s songs, although he was not the band's primary lead singer. Connell’s influences included the 1960's guitar pop of his childhood, including The Byrds and The Beatles; in an early interview, he stated that the first song he wrote as a teenager was titled “Psychedelic Butterfly."
Like Peter Buck of R.E.M. and Johnny Marr of The Smiths, Connell and Huntley played Rickenbacker guitars for the first several years of the band’s career, creating a jangly, folk-rock sound reminiscent of The Byrds and other Southern U.S. and North Carolina bands of the era, such as the dB's and Let's Active.
A re-recorded version of “Darker Days” provided the title track to the band’s debut album, which was produced by fellow North Carolinian Don Dixon and released in 1985 on Elvis Costello's Demon Records in the UK and the band’s own Black Park Records label in the U.S.
After touring heavily behind Darker Days, the Connells re-entered the studio in 1986 with Dixon and R.E.M. producer Mitch Easter to record their second album, Boylan Heights. The decision to work with Easter continued to perpetuate the comparisons to R.E.M.
Although the band shopped Boylan Heights to various labels, the major record companies, including Columbia Records, which expressed some mild interest, passed on it; the record was ultimately released in 1987 on mid-major TVT Records, which had made its name releasing a series of "Tee Vee Toons" television theme song compilation CDs. TVT would prove to be no commercial match for R.E.M.'s own mid-major label, I.R.S. Records, and over the next decade, The Connells would engage in a series of disputes with the label, on at least one occasion suing, unsuccessfully, to break their recording contract.
Despite the problems with TVT, Boylan Heights was a substantial college radio hit, and The Connells continued to tour relentlessly. During this period, both Connell and Huntley began to move away from their twelve-string Rickenbackers towards six-string Fender and Gibson guitars, leading to a heavier, less folky sound on Fun and Games, the 1989 follow-up album.
Fun and Games was quickly followed in 1990 by One Simple Word, which was recorded in Wales with U.K. producer Hugh Jones.
After a three-year recording hiatus, which included more legal jousting with TVT Records, a rejuvenated Connells released Ring in 1993. While European music fans made Ring a platinum record outside the United States, such high level success in America remained elusive. 1996's Weird Food and Devastation failed to build on the momentum established by its predecessor.
In 1998, the band released Still Life, which marked their final album for TVT. The band released Old School Dropouts on the revived Black Park Records label in 2000. The band recorded the record themselves and promoted it sparingly in the American South.
Peele Wimberley and George Huntley have since left the band. Wimberley briefly played with another band called Parklife, and then moved to Los Angeles to pursue interests in Hollywood and in electronic music. He is currently a member of the Los Angeles band, The Lamps.
Huntley is now selling real estate and working part time at the University of North Carolina music department.
Peele Wimberley was replaced on drums by Steve Ritter; after several years Ritter was soon replaced by Chris Stevenson on drums, and Mike Ayers took George's place on lead guitar. The new lineup recorded the album Old School Dropouts.
The band will release its 10th album in 2007.
Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
Guitarist Mike Connell formed the band in 1984, along with his brother David Connell on bass, Doug MacMillan on vocals, and future filmmaker John Schultz on drums. This initial four-person line-up was quickly supplemented by the addition of George Huntley on second guitar, keyboards, and vocals. Around the same time, former Johnny Quest drummer Peele Wimberley replaced Schultz, finalizing the "classic" line-up of the band.
From the beginning of the group, Mike Connell wrote both the music and the lyrics of the majority of the band’s songs, although he was not the band's primary lead singer. Connell’s influences included the 1960's guitar pop of his childhood, including The Byrds and The Beatles; in an early interview, he stated that the first song he wrote as a teenager was titled “Psychedelic Butterfly."
Like Peter Buck of R.E.M. and Johnny Marr of The Smiths, Connell and Huntley played Rickenbacker guitars for the first several years of the band’s career, creating a jangly, folk-rock sound reminiscent of The Byrds and other Southern U.S. and North Carolina bands of the era, such as the dB's and Let's Active.
A re-recorded version of “Darker Days” provided the title track to the band’s debut album, which was produced by fellow North Carolinian Don Dixon and released in 1985 on Elvis Costello's Demon Records in the UK and the band’s own Black Park Records label in the U.S.
After touring heavily behind Darker Days, the Connells re-entered the studio in 1986 with Dixon and R.E.M. producer Mitch Easter to record their second album, Boylan Heights. The decision to work with Easter continued to perpetuate the comparisons to R.E.M.
Although the band shopped Boylan Heights to various labels, the major record companies, including Columbia Records, which expressed some mild interest, passed on it; the record was ultimately released in 1987 on mid-major TVT Records, which had made its name releasing a series of "Tee Vee Toons" television theme song compilation CDs. TVT would prove to be no commercial match for R.E.M.'s own mid-major label, I.R.S. Records, and over the next decade, The Connells would engage in a series of disputes with the label, on at least one occasion suing, unsuccessfully, to break their recording contract.
Despite the problems with TVT, Boylan Heights was a substantial college radio hit, and The Connells continued to tour relentlessly. During this period, both Connell and Huntley began to move away from their twelve-string Rickenbackers towards six-string Fender and Gibson guitars, leading to a heavier, less folky sound on Fun and Games, the 1989 follow-up album.
Fun and Games was quickly followed in 1990 by One Simple Word, which was recorded in Wales with U.K. producer Hugh Jones.
After a three-year recording hiatus, which included more legal jousting with TVT Records, a rejuvenated Connells released Ring in 1993. While European music fans made Ring a platinum record outside the United States, such high level success in America remained elusive. 1996's Weird Food and Devastation failed to build on the momentum established by its predecessor.
In 1998, the band released Still Life, which marked their final album for TVT. The band released Old School Dropouts on the revived Black Park Records label in 2000. The band recorded the record themselves and promoted it sparingly in the American South.
Peele Wimberley and George Huntley have since left the band. Wimberley briefly played with another band called Parklife, and then moved to Los Angeles to pursue interests in Hollywood and in electronic music. He is currently a member of the Los Angeles band, The Lamps.
Huntley is now selling real estate and working part time at the University of North Carolina music department.
Peele Wimberley was replaced on drums by Steve Ritter; after several years Ritter was soon replaced by Chris Stevenson on drums, and Mike Ayers took George's place on lead guitar. The new lineup recorded the album Old School Dropouts.
The band will release its 10th album in 2007.
Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
