LEGENDARY SEATTLE BAND MALFUNKSHUN: BACK IN THE SADDLE NEW SINGLE AND UPCOMING SHOWS (11 August 2014 - Seattle, WA) The name Andrew Wood is synonymous with the term legendary musician. Of this there is absolutely no doubt. With the album Apple in 1990 Mother Love Bone created a rock masterpiece that only fell short of surefire success because of the bands inability to tour due to Andrews passing just before the albums release. Living in the shadows of the Mother Love Bone mystique was Woods preceding band, and one of the bands known as a Godfather of the Seattle Grunge Movement - Malfunkshun. Comprised of Wood on lead vocals and bass guitar, his brother Kevin Wood on guitars and drummer Regan Hagar, Malfunshun would lay the groundwork for the grunge scene with their appearance on the C/Z Records compilation Deep Six and their outrageously powerful live shows alongside Soundgarden, Skin Yard and others. In the meantime, as Mother Love Bone were laying waste to the Pacific Northwest, a bit farther down the West Coast young Bronx native, Tony West was running the streets of Hollywood and finding his musical blueprint - in the form of Andrew Wood. I discovered Mother Love Bone from a girl on the street of Hollywood at a place called Tommys Burgers on Hollywood Blvd which is long gone, says West. It was the soundtrack to my darkness and I lived those songs. Literally. Stardog Champion and Chloe Dancer / Crown of Thorns (off of the Shine Ep) are the songs I connected with the most and it was immediate. You know when you just connect with something powerful and theres no real way to explain it? Thats basically it, weve all been there. In March of 2014 West (also with the band Blacklist Union) joined Malfunkshun onstage at Louie Gs in Tacoma for six songs and the performance went down a storm with fans and band members alike. Shortly after the band played their first official show with West at the helm at Point Casino in Kingston, WA. The place was packed - and Andrews mom was there, relates Tony. I was so frazzled. I just had to think to myself, this isnt happening, your heros mom isnt right there in front of you ... his brother isnt playing on the stage beside you. I actually did Mother Love Bones Chole Dancer acapella that night. In my world it doesnt get any bigger than that. Malfunkshun has upcoming shows on 6 September at Hop Monk in Sebastopol, CA (just north of San Francisco) and The Elbo Room in San Francisco on 29 October. Later this year they will release a new Ep on the WammyBox Records label. Malfunkshun: Tony West - Lead Vocals, Kevin Wood - Guitars, Frank Scimeca - Bass, Miles Freeborn - Drums You can watch a clip of the band performing This Is Shangri-La here. Relevant Links: malfunkshun.org facebook/OfficialMalfunkshun
Posted on: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 14:14:23 +0000
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