Love Bang was an early 1990's power pop project that never got off the ground.
We recorded this in Memphis around 1992.
Flannel shirts, Seattle, Jam Bands, and hits of ecstasy put us out of business.
Eric joined Jellyfish and Scott, Brother Cane. Me and Tony, well, we did nothing, for a while, but now we are writing again. Eric has a project called Sextus and Scott is touring with Eliot Morris. Me and Tony, and Jeff are working on new material.
So, after a short wait here it is.
Hope you like it, we still do.
Tony Brock - Lead Vocals
Chris Baker - Guitars - Bass - Backgrounds
Eric Dover - Guitars - Bass - Backgrounds
Scott Collier - Drums - Percussion
Eddie Usher - Some Bass
Jeff Adkins - Additional Guitars on Squeeze The Trigger
Produced by Chris Baker and Tony Brock
Recorded at Ardent Studios - Memphis
Re-Recording, overdubs, and editing at Studio C - Birmingham
Mastered by Nix Mastering, Memphis
Released by Big Hit Songs, a division of CABCO MEDIA
Not Lame Recordings Review
JELLYFISH ALERT!! Love Bang is the unreleased project that Eric Dover of Jellyfish finished before joining J-fish. Jelly fans will notice many elements of the future sounds of Jellyfish`s "Bellybutton" here(play Song #1 and #3 below for good examples). What "The Rule Of 72" most reminds of bsides the obvious is classic, great Crowded House with more balls, more guitar bite. That sound permeates almost all the digital grooves of this album making it not only a keeper beyond its pedigree.
In fact, this album was meant probably to be an album that fit with the then-breaking big Crowded House. Recorded at Ardent Studios at great expense, major labels made offers `substantial ones` but, for whatever reasons, they were not accepted. In fact, one offer to Charisma Records, soon to be the home of Jellyfish, was rejected because their A&R man said they had just signed a band with a very similar sound. File Under "Small World". Anyway,. Love Band is filled with oodles of talent. Lead Singer Tony Brock`s got some serious ability to really hit the high, difficult notes this material demands, while guitarists Eric Dover and Chris Baker play with overwhelming amounts of confidence and chops session players of the time would have been envious of.
Few bands, frankly, were good enough to attack creating and playing material of this type in the early 90s. At the time this was recorded, there was The Odds, Jellyfish, Crowded House, Michael Penn and The Grays. Add Love Bang to the mix of that striking group of talent. Bottom Line: Major Find for not only Jellyfish and Crowded House fans, but fans of well written post-Beatley commercial pop.
Bruce Brodeen
Not Lame Recordings
Love Bang Story
Love Bang was an early 1990's power pop project that never got off the ground. Never above 3,000 feet anyway. You see we never got to fly in an airplane because Phil Walden only sprung for lunch. (inside joke)
Love Bang was comprised of Chris Baker, Tony Brock, Scott Collier of Brother Cane, and Eric Dover of Jellyfish.
We recorded this in Memphis around 1992 and shopped till we dropped, literally....we dropped and were dropped and, or turned down by everyone.
Flannel shirts, Seattle, Jam Bands, and hits of ecstasy put us out of business. Right Place Wrong Time. Dr. John, God bless you.
Eric joined Jellyfish and Scott, Brother Cane. Me and Tony, well, we did nothing, for a while, but now we are writing again and determined to get some material out and this Love Bang Project is part of that process. Eric has a project called Sextus and Scott is touring with Eliot Morris, and me and Tony, and Jeff are working on new material and with new artists in our Birmingham studio.
After 18 years we finally overdubbed and edited the tracks at Studio C in Birmingham, then had the songs mastered at Ardent with Nix Mastering in Memphis.
So, after a short wait (is 18 years really that long) here it is.
Hope you like it, we still do.
Tony Brock - Lead Vocals
Chris Baker - Guitars - Bass - Backgrounds
Eric Dover - Guitars - Bass - Backgrounds
Scott Collier - Drums - Percussion
Eddie Usher - Some Bass
Jeff Adkins - Additional Guitars on Squeeze The Trigger
Produced by Chris Baker and Tony Brock
Recorded at Ardent Studios - Memphis
Re-Recording, overdubs, and editing at Studio C - Birmingham
Mastered by Nix Mastering, Memphis
Released by Big Hit Songs, a division of CABCO MEDIA