Ric Painter (Guitars, Vocals)
Bob R (Bass, Vocals)
Brad C (Drums, Vocals)
Jon S (Keys, Vocals)
Rachelle S (Keys, Vocals)
Influences
10cc; ABC; Adam Ant; Aha; Alan Parsons Project; Alphaville; Asia; B-52s; Bananarama; Bangles; Berlin; Big Audio Dynamite; Big Country; Billy Idol; Billy Squire; Blondie; Bob Welch; Bow Wow Wow; Bryan Adams; Bryan Ferry; Buggles; Cat Stevens; Charlie Sexton; Cheap Trick; Crosby Stills Nash & Young; Crowded House; Culture Club; Cyndi Lauper; Dave Edmunds; David Bowie; Dead Kennedys; Depeche Mode; Devo; Dire Straits; Divinyls; Dragon; Duran Duran; Echo & The Bunnymen; ELO; Elton John; Elvis Costello; English Beat; Eurythmics; Flash in the Pan; Flesh for Lulu; Flock of Seagulls; Gary Numan; Gene Loves Jezebel; General Public; Greg Kihn; Head East; Honeymoon Suite; Hooters; Horslips; Howard Jones; Human League; Husker Du; Huxton Creepers; Icicle Works; INXS; Jesus & Mary Chain; Jesus Jones; Joe Jackson; Joy Division; Julian Cope; Kate Bush; King Missile; Lene Lovich; Lightning Seeds; Lloyd Cole & The Commotions; Love & Rockets; Love Spit Love; Loverboy; Madness; Mamas & Papas; Mark Bolan/T Rex; Men at Work; Men Without Hats; Midnight Oil; Missing Persons; Modern English; Moody Blues; New Order; Nik Kershaw; Off Course; Oingo Boingo; OMD; Outfield; Pat Benatar; Paul McCartney & Wings; Peter Gabriel; Peter Schilling; Pink Floyd; Planet P Project; Plimsouls; Power Station; Psychedelic Furs; Red Rocker; REM; REO Speedwagon; Rick Springfield; Robert Plant; Romeos; Roxy Music; Runaways; Ryuichi Sakamoto; Scandal; Simon & Garfunkel; Sinead O'Connor; Sisters of Mercy; Souixsie & The Banshees; Sparks; Split Enz; Steel Breeze; Steve Miller; Stray Cats; Surf Punks; Sweet; Talk Talk; Talking Heads; Tears for Fears;The Alarm; The Babys; The Beatles; The Cars; The Church; The Clash; The Cure; The Fixx; The Go-Gos; The Kingbees; The Knack; The Monkees; The Police; The Pretenders; The Records; The Romantics; The Smiths; The Specials; The Stabilizers; The Stranglers; The The; The Three O'Clock; The Tubes; The Vapors; Thomas Dolby; Thompson Twins; Til Tuesday; Tim Curry; Timbuk 3; Todd Rundgren; Tom Petty; Tommy Tutone; U2; Wall of Voodoo; Wang Chung; World Party; X; XTC; Yellow Magic Orchestra; Yes
In the early 1980s, Ric (Guitar), Brad (Drums), and Bob (Vocals) met while attending school and formed a band that played around school at several events with Kenny Minster (later of Smart Bomb) on Bass and Gary Fuller (later of Slider) on lead guitar.
In 1985, Ric was introduced to Rachelle and joined her band playing bass. When that band broke up in 1986, Ric and Bob came up with the concept of the band, UHF, with Ric again playing guitar and Bob now on bass. They purchased a drum machine, and prepared four songs for the studio. Rachelle was asked to play keyboards and provide backing vocals. In April, 1986, the three went into AudioVisions studio in Linden, Utah, and recorded the four songs set forth here.
Putting together a live band proved to be more difficult, however. After a couple of months trying out a number of drummers, the trio eventually put the project on hold. Rachelle did some solo work, while Ric and Bob continued to practice to write and practice.
In the summer of 1986, they again ran into Brad, who had recently relocated from Las Vegas to Utah, after he and Kenny Minster had left Smart Bomb. The got together one night just to jam, and they just clicked. Brad introduced them to Jon and UHF became a live band. They first played out in November of 1986, and by January of 1987, had representation (Cover Agency) and were headlining the prestigious Zephyr Club.
The band also enjoyed airplay on a number of radio stations, including X-96 and KBER. In addition to promoting the band on the air, DJ Ray Weaver became friends with the band and ran their sound at live gigs. As 1987 progressed, the band decided to expand in order to achieve a fuller, more lush sound,as well as broaden their ability to cover certain popular modern music artists. Rachelle was invited to join the band and made her debut that summer when the band played at Raging Waters in Salt Lake City.
Through the fall of 1987, UHF returned to AudioVisions to record two more tracks, received airplay, and continued to play gigs. By the end of the year, however, various internal and external musical forces became too difficult to overcome and UHF disbanded and, while the break-up was difficult in many respects, the members went their respective ways on generally amicable terms. Both Jon and Rachelle went on to produce solo efforts, while Brad, Bob, and Ric ultimately reformed, initially as Black on Black with Gary Fuller on lead guitar, and then, after Gary left the band for law school, Ric, Bob, and Brad went three-piece as the highly successful alt-metal band, Drool.
Later, as the Drool era was winding down, Ric and Bob went on to form Psonic Prophet with former True Silence drummer, Spence Dean. Later still, Bob and Brad joined friend and long-time guitarist for The Change, Steve, and formed NumbSkull, who are still playing great punk/rock in Salt Lake City today.
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UHF , I hope all is well. We've been mad busy...Just so you know ahead of the game...you can pre-order the amazing AloneMe album 'Sketch' from
http://www.nettlerecords.com
The first 150 copies are gonna be signed and shipped out to be with you on the actual day of release! That's a lot of stamp lickin! Don't forget, you can order more than one copy if you feel the urge! Thanks in advance for supporting this great band. Nathan
