Tuesday Blues!! Grant Lee Buffalo - Jupiter & Teardrop
Grant Lee Buffalo - Jupiter & Teardrop (1993)
1993 was a great year for music. Pearl Jam, Counting Crows, Smashing Pumpkins, The Lemonheads, Nirvana, the list goes on and on, but one band really grabbed me, They were Grant Lee Buffalo. A three piece from Los Angeles, they released four albums between 1993 & 1998. I adored their debut 'Fuzzy', songs like 'The Shining Hour','Fuzzy' and 'Jupiter and Teardrop' - you should pick it up if you can!
It wasn't just the songs that appealed to me - it was their 'sound' - as in many ways they were the band that I wanted to be in. Step back 20 years and I was in bands, playing gigs in small clubs, Universities and trying to be the next "Manics" in the South Wales music scene. We were always looking for the next sound - which meant copying the latest bands from the NME. (Ironically this meant you were actually one step behind.)
I loved how singer Grant Lee Phillips played his 12 string acoustic guitar through a overdrive distortion pedal, and we wrote a number of songs that would utilise this technique. We recorded a few demo's and played a few record company sessions but unfortunately they saw right through us and a deal was never struck. We eventually disbanded and all went on to get day jobs and suppressed our rock star fantasies - I've only recently given up skinny jeans. Nevertheless being part of this scene did allow us to meet a few other bands, one of which did get the magical record deal - one being a band from Cwmaman called "The Tragic Love Company" they signed with V2 and ended up calling themselves the Stereophonics.
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1993 was a great year for music. Pearl Jam, Counting Crows, Smashing Pumpkins, The Lemonheads, Nirvana, the list goes on and on, but one band really grabbed me, They were Grant Lee Buffalo. A three piece from Los Angeles, they released four albums between 1993 & 1998. I adored their debut 'Fuzzy', songs like 'The Shining Hour','Fuzzy' and 'Jupiter and Teardrop' - you should pick it up if you can!
I loved how singer Grant Lee Phillips played his 12 string acoustic guitar through a overdrive distortion pedal, and we wrote a number of songs that would utilise this technique. We recorded a few demo's and played a few record company sessions but unfortunately they saw right through us and a deal was never struck. We eventually disbanded and all went on to get day jobs and suppressed our rock star fantasies - I've only recently given up skinny jeans. Nevertheless being part of this scene did allow us to meet a few other bands, one of which did get the magical record deal - one being a band from Cwmaman called "The Tragic Love Company" they signed with V2 and ended up calling themselves the Stereophonics.
Dreams can come true - if you've got talent!
Checkout some more talent and subscribe to our Spotify Playlist
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