Guitarist Logan Mader (ex-Machine Head) left Soulfly in January 1999. He recorded a 3-track demo and asked Whitfield Crane (ex-Ugly Kid Joe), who had just left Life Of Agony, to sing a song on it. In May 1999, Crane officially joined Mader's band, together with guitarist Blunt (ex-Adayinthelife). Bassist Robert Trujillo (Ozzy Osbourne, Suicidal Tendencies, Infectious Grooves) was asked to come over to lend the band a bass to lay down tracks on the music they were writing, but when he heard some of the songs, he wanted to join the band. Temporary drummer was Brooks Wackerman (Suicidal Tendencies), but when Roy Mayorga suddenly left Soulfly in the summer of 1999, he joined the yet un-named band.
The LA based band played their first low-key gig in November 1999, under the tentative name Pale Demons. The show attracted a couple of hundred of their friends. Early 2000 they changed their name to Medication (Mader: 'Music is my life, music is my medication.'), and played their second show in the Whisky, LA on January 10.
Mader describes the music that Medication plays as 'hard hitting from start to finish and very dynamic and hypnotic through to the end. It's really heavy.' Songs include Clouded, Something New, Underwater, I Am The Same, Chosen, Number 8 and Xanax. All songs are really heavy and Whit Crane sings with amazing melodies. In April 2000, Roy Mayorga and Robert Trujillo left Medication to play on the Ozzfest with Ozzy Osbourne's band. However, when drummer Roy Mayorga was ejected from that band without reason, he immediately returned to Medication. Trujillo played on and off, but finally decided not to join Medication.
In July 2000 the band recorded some more songs with Black Sabbath producer Bob Marlette, but it took until April 2001 before the band got management and booking, that had them play several gigs in LA. At the time, a full length album had been recorded, but they were waiting for a record deal to give them funding to mix the album or rerecord it. In September 2001, when Kyle Sanders joined the band on bass, they announced the release of a 5-track EP, and booked their first overseas tour in the UK for November.
The band broke up in early 2003 following the cancellation of a European tour and a split with their record label Locomotive Music. Mader went on to form Stereo Black while Crane was said to have started a new band with former Faith No More guitarist Jon Hudson.
Former members
Roy Mayorga
1999-2002
Drums
See also Ozzy Osbourne
Kyle Sanders
-2001-2003
Bass
Blunt
1999-2003
Guitars
Logan Mader
1999-2003
Guitars
See also Machine Head, Soulfly
Whitfield Crane
1999-2003
Vocals
See also Life Of Agony, Ugly Kid Joe
Brooks Wackerman
1999-1999
Drums
See also Bad Religion, Infectious Grooves, Suicidal Tendencies
Robert Trujillo
1999-2000
Bass
See also Black Label Society, Cantrell, Jerry, Infectious Grooves, Metallica, Ozzy Osbourne, Suicidal Tendencies
Session musicians
Chris Hamilton
Drums
On European tour 2002. See also Crowbar, Saint Caine
Jason Loree
Drums
On US tour 2002.
Josh Freese
Drums
On Prince Valium. See also A Perfect Circle, Guns N..' Roses, Infectious Grooves, Offspring, The, Suicidal Tendencies, Vandals,
MEDICATION- R.I.P/// THANK YOU...CHRIS HAMILTON, ROY MAYORGA, ROBERT TRUJILLO, SHANNON LARKIN, JOSH FREESE, CRAZY JAYSON......AND THE SWISS TAG TEAM FOR PLAYING WITH US!!!!!!!!!AND A BIG THANX TO DARREN FOR /REDEFININGSIN.COM/ ROCK ON!!!!
Guitarist Logan Mader and vocalist Whitfield Crane first met while Mader was in Machine Head. They became friends in 1998 on what vocalist Crane calls 'the greatest Ozzfest of them all' when Life Of Agony and Soulfly were on the bill. "I hit it off with Logan immediately," recalls Crane. "We were thick as thieves and that was it for me. I thought, wow, I'll probably jam with that guy one day. We'd hang out and do whatever, get into trouble. Steal golf carts, fuck around, support each other musically. We didn't really know at that time we were going to be jammin'. You connect with people. Sometimes you don't. But there was an absolute connection as friends, basically toxic twins."
Logan quit Soulfly in January 1999, recorded a 3-track demo and then Whit, who had just left Life Of Agony, called and said 'Dude, What's the deal?' and Mader, who had already heard the news about LOA, happily replied 'It looks like we're in a band.' The natural evolution continued with guitarist Blunt, who met Mader when his band Adayinthelife were opening for Soulfly, and the two plotted a future side-project.
Crane's next step was the time honoured tradition of moving the band into a house in Hollywood where they all lived and worked together for the next 18 months, creating the songs that would define their self-titled debut EP, due for release on 8th April on Locomotive through Cargo, and album, 'Prince Valium', due to be unleashed on June 24th. The pure, heavy rock flowed, not filled with anger, but with searching and questioning ripped from the depths of Crane's soul.
The band decided on Medication as their moniker, (Mader; 'Music is my life, music is my medication'), recruited Kyle Sanders on bass along with ex-Soulfly drummer Ray Mayorga and began honing new songs down live on the gig circuit in LA. In April 2001 the band secured management and booking deals and recorded the 5 tracks that comprise their self titled debut EP. In November 2001 the group played a series of low key dates in Europe, which led to their new record deal early in 2002.
Medication are the first US signing to Locomotive Music, the international heavy rock label and distributor based in Spain. Both the group's EP and debut album 'Prince Valium' were produced by Medication and Bill Kennedy (Nine Inch Nails, Monster Magnet, Sepultura, Alice In Chains, Jackoff Jill) and rock like bastards!
Forceful and heavy yet consistently melodic, Medication is a Los Angeles-based alternative rock combo that includes ex-members of Soulfly, Machine Head, dayinthelife, Skrew, Life of Agony, and Ugly Kid Joe. For all its intensity and aggression, the band is never without a strong sense of melody. Medication isn't the sort of alterna-rock outfit that believes in bombast for the sake of bombast; their songs tend to be hard-driving yet intricate. All five members of Medication, which formed in L.A. in the late '90s, have belonged to other alternative rock and/or alternative metal bands. Lead singer Whitfield Crane was with Life of Agony and Ugly Kid Joe, while guitarist B-Blunt is a graduate of dayinthelife and bassist Kyle Sanders is a former member of Piece Dog and Skrew. Guitarist Logan Mader and drummer Roy "Rata" Mayorga have both been with Soulfly; Mader is also a graduate of Machine Head and Mayorga belonged to a band called Thorn before he joined Soulfly in 1996. The ones who first got the ball rolling for Medication were Crane and Mader, who became friends in 1998 at Ozzy Osbourne's Ozzfest. At that point, Crane was still with Life of Agony, which, like Soulfly, was among the bands on the 1998 Ozzfest bill. When Crane's role as Life of Agony's lead singer ended in early 1999, he was ready to start a new band with Mader. Later that year, Crane and Mader joined forces with B-Blunt and Mayorga; with that four-man lineup in place, Medication (which was originally called the Pale Demons) played its first show at the Gig, a club on Hollywood's trendy Melrose Avenue. The thing that Medication lacked during its early months was a full-time bassist, but the band solved that problem after hiring Sanders at the recommendation of drummer Dan Richardson. Crane knew Richardson from Life of Agony, although the drummer had been with Pro-Pain before that. Sanders was still living in Atlanta when Richardson informed him that Medication was looking for a bassist; when Medication decided that Sanders was the man for the job, he moved to L.A. After playing the L.A./Hollywood club scene consistently in 2000, Medication went on a national tour in 2001. And in early 2002, the band signed with Spain's Locomotive Music, which had decided to open an L.A. office. Medication was Locomotive's first American signing; before Medication, the label was known for European acts such as Spain's Tierra Santa, the Netherlands' Elegy, and Finland's Lost in Tears. Locomotive released Medication's self-titled debut EP in the U.S. in early April 2002.////////// ~ Alex Henderson
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