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| Birth Name(s) : Black Rebel Motorcycle Club |
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Full Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Biography
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (BRMC for short) is an American garage rock band from San Francisco, California, now based in Los Angeles. The band comprises Peter Hayes (guitar, bass, vocals); Robert Levon Been (guitar, bass, vocals) and Nick Jago (drums/percussion). BRMC is known for its catchy brand of garage rock, blues, folk revival and often religiously inspired lyrics, and its influences are groups and musicians such as The Verve, Led Zeppelin and The Jesus and Mary Chain.
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club formed in 1998, taking its name from Marlon Brando's motorcycle gang in the 1953 film The Wild One.
The band's first two records were indebted to classic hard rock influenced by Led Zeppelin and also encompassed slower paced psychedelic rock and space rock influences from bands such as The Verve and The Jesus And Mary Chain. Recently, with their fourth record Baby 81, they developed a more concrete sound and style; encompassing blues, folk, and rock, while remaining angst-ridden in theme.
The vocals are shared between Robert Levon Been (Bass) and Peter Hayes (guitar). Been and Hayes met at high school in the San Francisco suburb of Lafayette and quickly formed a band, Hayes having recently left the Brian Jonestown Massacre. Looking for a drummer, they met Nick Jago, from Devon, England, who had moved to California to be with his parents after spending some time at Winchester School of Art, where he was studying fine art. Been used the pseudonym 'Robert Turner' on the first two records, in an attempt to not be linked to his famous father (Michael Been of The Call.) He later dropped this identity when promoting Howl.
The band was originally called The Elements, but after discovering that another band had the same name, it changed the name to Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. Its second album Take Them On, On Your Own has several songs such as "Generation" and "US Government" that are critical of the United States government and were echoed by punk band Green Day the next year.
After conflict with the label, the band was dropped by Virgin Records in 2004, with Nick Jago leaving the band at the end of their summer tour of the same year due to 'internal conflict' (later revealed to be a drug addiction and drinking problem). Hayes and Been then recorded their third album.
In 2005 the band signed to Echo in the UK, and RCA in the U.S. Their third album Howl was released to widespread critical acclaim. Several of the songs on Howl are said to have been written long before the idea of BRMC was conceived. Jago returned after most of the album was recorded but plays on track 7, "Promise". On tour for this album the band also employed a temporary fourth member, guitarist Spike Keating, on stage during performances.
Possible influences of the band include the beat poet generation, notably of the Denver scene, and particularly in Allen Ginsberg. This is evident in the title of its third album: Howl is the name of Ginsberg's most celebrated work.
On June 6, 2007, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club performed in a concert that was streamed live via MSN Music.
During 2005, Nick Jago was estranged from the band, reportedly due to his drug problems that had become apparent, firstly when he accepted an NME Award in 2003 and remained on stage for a full nine minutes completely silent, and a year later at the 2004 V Festival where he notoriously walked out when asked to sign an inflatable penis. Things reached a head in Scotland when after a tense gig, Jago and Hayes came to blows, resulting in Jago walking out. As such, Jago did not join when the band started the Howl sessions, instead, he went through various rehab attempts, eventually rejoining the band in time to record one track on Howl, a ballad called "Promise". It is thought that the lack of Jago's presence, and the encompassing drug problems the band had faced, were part of the reason Howl became a stripped down American folk record, and departed so much from the traditional B.R.M.C. sound.
Singles: "Red Eyes and Tears" | "Rifles" | "Screaming Gun" | "Whatever Happened to My Rock 'n' Roll (Punk Song)" | "Love Burns" | "Spread Your Love" | "Stop" | "We're All in Love" | "Ain't No Easy Way" | "Weight of the World" | "Weapon of Choice" | "Berlin" |
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