| Green on Red | |
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| Origin | Tucson, Arizona |
| Genre(s) | Cowpunk Country rock |
| Years active | 1980s |
| Label(s) | Enigma, Mercury |
| Website | greenonred.net |
| Members | |
| Dan Stuart Jack Waterson Chris Cacavas Chuck Prophet Jim Bogios |
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| Former members | |
| Van Christian Alex MacNicol Keith Mitchell |
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Green on Red were an American rock band, formed in the Tucson, Arizona punk scene, but based for most of its career in Los Angeles, California, where it was loosely associated with the Paisley Underground. Tucson (ˈtuːsɒn is the seat of Pima County Arizona, United States, located 118 miles (188 km) southeast A music genre is a categorical and typological construct that identifies musical sounds as belonging to a particular category and type of music that can be distinguished from other Cowpunk or Country punk is a subgenre of Punk rock that began in Southern California in the 1980s especially Los Angeles. For the geological term see Country rock (geology. Country rock is a Musical Genre formed from the fusion of rock In the Music industry, a record label can be a Brand and a Trademark associated with the Marketing of music recordings and Music Tucson (ˈtuːsɒn is the seat of Pima County Arizona, United States, located 118 miles (188 km) southeast Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West Paisley Underground is a term used to describe a genre of Rock music, based primarily in Los Angeles California, which was at its most popular in the mid-1980s Earlier records have the wide-screen psychedelic sound of first-wave desert rock, with occasional impulses toward pop mitigated by the limitations of shambolic vocalist Dan Stuart. Later records suggest a kind of broke-down American Rolling Stones with touches of Country Rock and the "cow punk" scene in Los Angeles. For the geological term see Country rock (geology. Country rock is a Musical Genre formed from the fusion of rock Cowpunk or Country punk is a subgenre of Punk rock that began in Southern California in the 1980s especially Los Angeles. Others have called them the bastard children of Neil Young. Neil Percival Young OM (born November 12, 1945, Toronto Ontario) is a Canadian Singer-songwriter, Musician
History
The band began in 1979 as The Serfers, a four-piece made up of Stuart, Jack Waterson (bass), Van Christian (drums, later of Naked Prey) and Sean Nagore (organ), quickly replaced by Chris Cacavas. Naked Prey was a rock band from Tucson Arizona. The band was formed in 1981 by drummer Van Christian. In the summer of 1980, the Serfers relocated to Los Angeles, where they changed their name to Green on Red (after the title of one of their songs) to avoid confusion with the local "surf punk" scene. Surf rock is a style of music that originated in the USA that mixes elements of Surf music and Rock music, and partially due to the number of Mexican Christian returned to Tucson and was replaced by Lydia Lunch sideman Alex MacNicol. Lydia Lunch (born Lydia Koch on June 2, 1959 in Rochester New York) is an American Singer, Poet,
The band issued a self-released red vinyl EP, sometimes called Two Bibles, though its first widely available record was an EP issued in 1982 by Dream Syndicate leader Steve Wynn on his own Down There label. see Theater of Eternal Music for the 1960s experimental music group sometimes also called the Dream Syndicate. Steve Wynn (born February 21, 1960) is a Songwriter based in New York (born in California) Green on Red followed the Dream Syndicate onto Slash Records, which released the album Gravity Talks in the fall of 1983. Slash Records is a Record label in Los Angeles, originally specializing in local and Punk rock bands San Francisco-based guitarist Chuck Prophet joined for the 1985 Gas Food Lodging (Enigma), after which MacNicol was replaced on drums by Keith Mitchell (later of Mazzy Star). Chuck Prophet is an American singer songwriter and guitarist A Californian Prophet first achieved notice in the American rock group Green on Red, with whom he Mazzy Star was an American Dream pop band They formed in 1989 from the band Opal, a collaboration of guitarist David Roback and bassist In 2006 'Gas' was performed live in its entirety as part of the All Tomorrow's Parties-curated Don't Look Back series. All Tomorrow's Parties is a Music festival which takes place in England at Camber Sands holiday camp in East Sussex and Butlin's holiday Don't Look Back is a yearly series of concerts in which London based promoters All Tomorrow's Parties ask artists and bands to play one of their seminal albums live in its entirety Also in 1985, Stuart collaborated with Steve Wynn as "Danny and Dusty" on the album The Lost Weekend (A&M). A&M Records is an American Record label owned by Universal Music Group which operates through the Interscope-Geffen-A&M division
A major-label deal with Phonogram/Mercury followed, with the EP No Free Lunch and the album The Killer Inside Me, produced by Jim Dickinson at Ardent Studios in Memphis. Mercury Records is a Record label operating as a standalone company in the UK and as part of the Island Def Jam Music Group in the US and are both subsidiaries of Jim Dickinson is an American Record producer, pianist and singer Ardent Studios is a professional recording studio located in Memphis Tennessee. The band split up afterwards; Cacavas began recording albums under his own name. When Stuart returned to recording, with the 1989 Here Comes the Snakes, it was essentially as a duo with Prophet, using hired backing. Three more albums were released before the pair called it quits, after the 1992 Too Much Fun. Stuart essentially quit music afterwards; Prophet maintains a career as a solo artist and semi-celebrity sideman.
However, in September 2005, the band reformed in "golden era" line-up, Stuart, Cacavas, Prophet and Waterson, with Jim Bogios filling in for Alex McNicol (who died in the meantime) to play a one-off show as part of the celebrations for the 20th anniversary of the Hotel Congress in Tucson. This was followed up by a show in London on 10 January 2006 (ostensibly to complete their aborted 1987 European tour), with more shows promised later in the year (and a second "Danny and Dusty" album rumoured to be in production).
Discography
- Two Bibles (EP, Green on Red, 1981)
- Green on Red (EP, Down There, 1982)
- Gravity Talks (Slash, 1983)
- Gas Food Lodging (Enigma, 1985)
- No Free Lunch (EP, Mercury, 1985)
- The Killer Inside Me (Mercury, 1987)
- Here Come the Snakes (Mercury, 1989)
- This Time Around (Mercury, 1989)
- Scapegoats (China, 1991)
- Too Much Fun (Off Beat, 1992)
External links
- Green on Red official website
- High and Dry: Where the Desert Meets Rock and Roll - documentary about the Tucson Music Scene feat. Dan Stuart and Green on Red
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