Mickey Banks - Singer
Sploote Lead - Lead Guitar
Martin Atherton - Guitar
Steve Soar - Bass
Colin Owens - Drums
影響
The unique Scorpio Risng sound was driven from a diverse set of influences, combining breakbeat driven rythmns, strong pop melodies and funk influenced basslines sandblasted with pychedelic and experimental guitar distortion techniques. Earliest recordings feature heavy use of wah wah pedals and breakbeat/baggy drum patterns contemporary with the early nineties.
Scorpio Risng came to the attention of the UK music press in 1991 with the release of "Watermelon" their first major backed single on Chapter 22 records. For a brief period their combination of infectious breakbeat flavoured drums, swirling distorted rock guitars and "new lad superstar" (NME 1991) frontman Mickey Banks was hailed as a new direction for UK indie / rock music.
At this time the band recorded the 6 track mini album If. If... featured a new rock sound different to the bands comtemporaries, with funk influenced bass lines, soft pychedelic guitars on thew slower tracks and stooges style rock guitars backed with "baggy" rythmns for the first time on the faster tracks. The album was well recieved by the UK music press, leading to sold out headlining dates across the UK and rave reviews of the live shows, which started to feature stage diving by the audiences.
Scorpio Rising then recorded their one and only full length album "Pig Symphony".
Scorpio Rising took the sound of the electric guitar into new territory with the prodigious use of ripped speakers, metal pipe acoustics and vintage film studio recording equipment when recording Breathing Underwater / Zero for Chapter 22 in Eds Garage, (now defunct vintage recording studio in Camden Town, London) in 1992. This session (co-produced by Teo Miller who also produced Daisy Chainsaw led to "Pig Symphony" for Sire / Elektra when the band were signed to the label by the legedary Seymour Stein, who flew from New York to see the band headline the Marquee club in London in 1992.
Pig Symphony was recorded over Christmas 1992 at Rockfield Studios Monmouth, was produced by Teo Miller and Scorpio Rising.
During the 1993 PWEI tour preceding Pig Symphony the band lost bassist Steve Soar, and went into the studio as a four piece. Steve Soar appears on "Breathing Underwater" and "Fountain Of You" both recorded during the Breathing Underwater sessions at Ed’s Garage.
Scorpio Rising returned to the studio to record the follow up for Sire, Titled "Brutal Deluxe", the new album was produced by Steve Osborne of Perfecto, producer of Happy Mondays Thrills Pills and Bellyaches and U2. Recorded and mixed in 1993 at Orinoco and Battery Studio’s in London, Brutal Deluxe took Scorpio Rising in a new direction, and included the totally unique thrash / trance track "Bugcatcher" which was later remixed by Steve Osborne and included in Paul Oakenfold’s legendary Goa trance sets for Radio 1.
The album was never released by Sire.
風格近似
Nirvana, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Stone Roses, Rolling Stones, The Stooges.
The group’s first live performances took place in small clubs in Liverpool, with several shows at Liverpool Planet X and Cosmos Clubs in late 1989.
Scorpio Risng’s difinitive line up and sound was created when the band were joined by Parliament / Funkadelic influenced bass player Steve Soar in 1990.
WIKIPEDIA PAGE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorpio_Rising%2C_Sonic_Liverpool_Rock_Band_1990-1994e
Scorpio Rising signed to Chapter 22 Records (UK)and Sire / Elektra (USA).
Scorpio Rising toured the UK with Smashing Pumpkins, PWEI, Neds Atomic Dustbin, Eat, Senseless Things and other contemporary
bands of the early 1990s, culminating with apperances at Finsbury
Park and Reading festival in 1992.
Discography
Singles:
The Strangest Things Turn You On / Burn Out / Bliss
Watermelon / Beautiful People / Malicious
Breathing Underwater / Zero (unreleased)
Saturnalia / Disturbance / Peace Frog
Silver Surfing / Zero
Evelyn / Brutal Deluxe / Its Obvious
Albums:
IF..
Freedom No5
Bliss
Rage On
Freedom 13
Honeykill
Disturbance
Pig Symphony
Talking Backwards
Breathing Underwater
Oceanside
Watermelon
Beautiful People
Little Pieces
Silver Surfing
Evelyn
Goofball
Sleeping Sickness
Fountain of You
Zodiac Killers (USA Compilation)
Brutal Deluxe (unreleased)
Bugcatcher
Monsters Exist
Hollow Star
Some Friend
King of Freaks
Touching myself
Brutal Deluxe
Sister Mercury
Zero
12" white label single: to radio only: Bugcatcher / Dubcatcher
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Alright chaps. I remember you at 'Planet X' with your whitesuits on in 89'. Can you put up 'Burn Out' or 'Bliss'(original version' from 'Strangest EP'. I had my first acid tab to those records and rate them as 2 of the best psychedelic rock records ever.
Also. I think:-
'Nothing comes close to the way I feel' and 'I want you to experience me' would sound brilliant as soundbites sampled and looped as 'samples onto full on dance tunes.(maybe sung by some black diva).
ah now thats better, i bloody hate facebook. i listen to brutal deluxe album quite often, great tunes. big dave now lives in roswell new mexico, fitting eh, talk to ya soon greg
THX from ROCK CITY Duisburg
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