Spin Doctors
The Spin Doctors are a rock band with influences from funk, jazz, grunge, 70s rock and folk, whose best-known hits Two Princes, Jimmy Olsen 's Blues and Little Miss Can not Be Wrong are.
Band History
The band was founded in 1988 in New York City in 1990 received a recording contract with Epic Records. It was followed by the recording and release of a live album from the local live club Wetlands Preserve. Her first studio album Pocket Full of Kryptonite was, thanks to MTV, a success.
The next albums were less successful Turn It Upside Down ( 1994), You've Got to Believe in Something ( 1996) and Here Comes the Bride ( 1999).
After singer Chris Barron not to speak shortly after the release of the CD Here Comes The Bride by a rare vocal cord disease has been able, or sing, the band was put on ice in summer 1999.
On 7 September 2001 it came to the reunion of the band in the original line. At the closure of the Wetlands Preserve in New York City Spin Doctors were once again on. By the reunion for one night the band came back together. Since 2002 they tour regularly. On September 13, 2005 released their new album Nice Talking to Me, which has been classified by many critics as the best of the band since Pocket Full Of Kryptonite in the USA.
In 2006 and 2007, the band gave concerts irregular, the individual members have been focusing more on solo projects. So published drummer Aaron Comess the instrumental album " Catskills Cry", while singer Chris Barron called on 31 October 2006, the new band " Chris Barron & The Time Bandits " to life, to his second solo album " Pancho And The Kid" (2006) to presenting concerts.
2008 was the band on tour again intense than in the previous year, as well as Chris Barron's solo album finally appeared in May 2008 officially. Spin Doctors were also in appearance as a musician and interviewees in the DVD release " Wetlands Preserved - Story Of An Activist Rock Club ".
In 2009, the band played occasional live concerts, Chris Barron focused more than ever on the " Time Bandits ", with which he, inter alia, in August 2009 also in Iraq U.S. military bases occurred ( " Iraq'n'Roll Tour" ) and songs for a new album wrote. Aaron Comess mainly worked as a session musician in New York City and the live bands of Marius Müller -Westernhagen and singer Joan Osborne.
In 2011, for the first time again followed a more extensive tour of the band, with the special edition was advertised for the 20th anniversary of the release of the hit album " Pocket Full Of Kryptonite ". The anniversary edition consisted of a remastered version of the album and a bonus CD with demo recordings from the early days of the band and previously unreleased live tracks. During the tour, the band in addition blocks reactivated old self-penned blues pieces with which her career in New York blues bars began in the late eighties that no longer belonged to but for many years the active live repertoire. Encouraged by the euphoric reaction of the fans, this resulted in 2013 the sixth studio album by the band, which is completely made up on two new compositions from the Blue Material of the early band days: the release of " If The River What whiskey " was the longest tour spin Doctors accompanied since 2005.
By 2014, another studio album is planned, which, like " If The River What Whiskey" should appear on the German blue label Ruf Records.
Discography
Singles
1Billboard Hot 100 2Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks
Albums
3 Billboard 200 albums