Bush (band)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article or section does not cite its references or sources.
You can help Wikipedia by introducing appropriate citations. This article has been tagged since October 2006.

<tr><th>Origin</th><td>London, England</td></tr><tr><th>Years active</th><td>1992 — 2002 (on hiatus)</td></tr><tr><th>Genres</th><td>Post-Grunge</td></tr><tr><th>Labels</th><td>Kirtland Records
SPV Records
Atlantic Records
Trauma Records
Interscope Records</td></tr><tr><th>Website(s)</th><td>www.bush-music.com</td></tr>

Bush

Bush were an English Post-Grunge band formed in 1992. Their debut album was the self-released Sixteen Stone (1994).

1 History
2 Members
3 Discography
- 3.1 Singles
4 Equipment
5 Trivia
6 External links

[edit] History

The name Bush came about because they used to live in Shepherd's Bush, London. In Canada, they were once known as BushX, because the 1970s band Bush, led by Domenic Troiano, owned the Canadian rights to the name. In April 1997, it was announced that Troiano had agreed to let them use the name Bush in Canada without the letter X, in exchange for donating $20,000 each to the Starlight Children's Foundation and the Canadian Music Therapy Trust Fund.

Frustrated by the disappointing sales of their fifth album, Golden State (2001), and the lack of support the band was receiving from Atlantic, the band decided to split up. Band members went to work on various other musical projects, most notably Gavin Rossdale, who formed a new band, Institute. In recent interviews, Rossdale said he hasn't ruled out the possibility of Bush getting back together, but says it is on the back burner at the moment.

In 2005, Bush released The Best of: 1994-1999, a greatest hits compilation, and Zen X Four, a CD and DVD which features the band's music videos. Zen X Four was released on Kirtland Records and has its own website.

[edit] Members

Gavin Rossdale - Vocals, guitar, lyrics
Dave Parsons - Bass (former member of second generation punk band The Partisans, as well as Transvision Vamp)
Robin Goodridge - Percussion
Sacha Putnam - Keyboards (left band)
Chris Traynor - Lead guitar on Golden State Tour
Nigel Pulsford - Lead guitar, string arrangements (left the band to spend more time with his family in 2002)

Rossdale is lead singer of Institute and Goodridge is drummer with UK rock band Elyss.

[edit] Discography

Album Cover	Date of Release	Title	Label	US Billboard Peak	US Sales
	December 6, 1994	Sixteen Stone	Trauma Records	#4	_6 million
	November 19, 1996	Razorblade Suitcase	Trauma Records	#1	3 million_
	November 11, 1997	Deconstructed	Trauma Records	#36	_
Image:Bush-The Science of Things.jpg	October 26, 1999	The Science of Things	Trauma Records	#11	_1 million
Image:Bush-Golden State.jpg	October 23, 2001	Golden State	Atlantic Records	#22	_
Image:Bush - The Best of 1994-1999.jpg	June 14, 2005	The Best of: 1994-1999	SPV Records	_	_
Image:Bush - Zen X Four.jpg	November 1, 2005	Zen X Four	Kirtland Records		_

[edit] Singles

Year	Title	Peak Chart positions			Album
Year	Title	US Modern Rock	US Mainstream Rock	UK Singles Chart	Album
1994/1995	"Everything Zen"	#2	#5	#99	Sixteen Stone
1995	"Little Things"	#4	#6	#27	Sixteen Stone
1995	"Comedown"	#1 (2 weeks) <ref>[1] </ref>	#2(1 week)	#19	Sixteen Stone
1995	"Glycerine"	#1 (2 weeks) <ref>[2] </ref>	#4		Sixteen Stone
1996	"Machinehead"	#4	#4	#48	Sixteen Stone
1996	"Swallowed	#1 (7 weeks) <ref>[3] </ref>	#2(2 weeks)	#7	Razorblade Suitcase
1997	"Greedy Fly"	#3	#5	#22	Razorblade Suitcase
1997	"Bone Driven"			#49	Razorblade Suitcase
1997	"Mouth (The Stingray Mix)"	#5	#28	-	Deconstructed
1997	"Cold Contageous"	#23	#18		Razorblade Suitcase
1999	"The Chemicals Between Us"	#1 (5 weeks) <ref>[4] </ref>	#3	#46	The Science of Things
2000	"Warm Machine"	#38	#16	#45	The Science of Things
2000	"Letting The Cables Sleep"	#4	#26	#51	The Science of Things
2001	"Headful of Ghosts"	#38	#34	-	Golden State
2001	"Land of the Living"	-	-	-	Golden State
2001	"Inflatable"	-	-	-	Golden State
2001	"Speed Kills", retitled "The People That We Love"	#11	#10	#81	Golden State

[edit] Equipment

Gavin Rossdale played a 1962 Fender Jaguar while with Bush and an Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Overdrive pedal. Rossdale was also known to play a wide variety of Fender Stratocasters.

Robin Goodridge (drummer) was endorsed by DW drum company while playing with Bush.

[edit] Trivia

Machinehead and Comedown, both from the album Sixteen Stone, were included in the 1996 movie Fear, starring Reese Witherspoon and Mark Wahlberg.
The People That We Love from album Golden State was included in Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 soundtracks.
Apocalyptica has covered "Letting The Cables Sleep". The N.O.W. remix of the track also appeared on Cafe del Mar Volume 7.
"Everything Zen" contains the line "Should I fly Los Angeles, find my asshole brother." The word is not censored by most radio stations. At the time, standards of acceptable profanity were being lowered. For example, NYPD Blue was using "asshole" during prime time. [5]
Out Of This World from album Golden State was used in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, episode 'Dead Things'.