Steven SolesSteven Soles is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, and guitarist. Known also as J. Steven Soles, Bob Dylan asked him to tour with his band on his 1975 "Rolling Thunder Revue" tour. When that tour ended, Soles and two other members of Dylan's band, T-Bone Burnett and David Mansfield, formed The Alpha Band. The band released three albums, The Alpha Band in 1977, Spark In The Dark in 1977, and The Statue Makers of Hollywood in 1978. After the break up of The Alpha Band, Soles released two solo albums, Promise in 1980, and 1982's Walk by Love, and went on to produce or perform on albums by Dylan, Burnett, Peter Case, Elvis Costello, Roger McGuinn, Don McLean, The Monkees, The 77s, Olivia Newton-John, Roy Orbison, Tonio K, Victoria Williams and others. He was part of the highly-acclaimed HBO Showtime special, Roy Orbison and Friends, A Black and White Night. This page about Steven Soles includes information from a Wikipedia article. Additional articles about Steven Soles News stories about Steven Soles External links for Steven Soles Videos for Steven Soles Wikis about Steven Soles Discussion Groups about Steven Soles Blogs about Steven Soles Images of Steven Soles |
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He was part of the highly-acclaimed HBO Showtime special, Roy Orbison and Friends, A Black and White Night. Steven Soles, Bob Dylan asked him to tour with his band on his 1975 "Rolling Thunder Revue" tour. Soundgarden announced its breakup in April 1997. Known also as J. The band's final album was 1996's Down on the Upside. Steven Soles is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, and guitarist. Superunknown was the band's breakout, driven by the single "Black Hole Sun". The film also featured a clip from the demo version of "Spoonman", a song from the band's 1994 album, Superunknown. The song appeared on the soundtrack album, as did a solo Cornell song, "Seasons". The band made an appearance in the "grunge movie", Singles playing "Birth Ritual". The band toured with Guns N' Roses to support the album, and later released the video Motorvision which was filmed on that tour. Though successful, the album was overshadowed by Nirvana's Nevermind. The new line up recorded Badmotorfinger in 1991. He was briefly replaced by Jason Everman, formerly of Nirvana, who appeared on the Louder Than Live video, but Ben Shepherd ended up in the band as a permanent replacement. After the release of the album Yamamoto left to go back to college. In 1989 the band released their first album for a major label, Louder Than Love, released through A&M Records. Though the band were being courted by major labels, in 1988 they signed to SST Records to release their debut album, Ultramega OK, for which they earned a Grammy nomination. A compilation was issued as Screaming Life/Fopp in 1990. The band signed to Sub Pop, releasing the Screaming Life EP in 1987, and the Fopp EP in 1988. In 1986 Sundquist left the band, to be replaced by Matt Cameron, who had been the drummer in Skin Yard. The band recorded two songs which appeared on a compilation for C/Z Records called Deep Six which also featured songs by Green River, Skin Yard, and The Melvins. Cornell originally played drums while singing, but the band enlisted Scott Sundquist to free Cornell up to concentrate on vocals. The band was named after an outdoor art/sound installation called "The Sound Garden" located in Seattle's Magnuson Park which makes eerie sounds when the wind blows. The band was formed in 1984 by Chris Cornell (vocals) and Hiro Yamamoto (bass), who were later joined by Kim Thayil (guitar), who had moved to Seattle from Illinois with Yamamoto and Bruce Pavitt, who would later start Sub Pop Records. Soundgarden was a seminal Seattle rock band instrumental in creating the sound that came to be called grunge. |