THE PRESIDENTS ARE BACK IN ACTION!!!
After a 5 year break The Presidents of the United States of America are back.The band shot to sudden and massive success in the summer of 1995 with their debut album on Columbia records. The album earned them two grammy niminations, a top 10 hit, 2 top 40 hits and sales of four million copies worldwide.
The Presidents, best known for their hits “Lump”, “Peaches” and “Kitty”, Played for the first time in five years to a packed house at Seattles Crocodile Café on new years eve 2002.
The band has been further reinvigorated by regaining the rights totheir multi-platinum debut album, which they own and had licensed to Sony Music for a seven-year term starting in 1995. The band will re-release the record, with the addition of brand-newsongs, rare songs, videos, documentary footage and a few other added surprises, in late summer of 2003.
A new album is also in the works and the Presidents have already started recording with Conrad Uno at Seattles Egg studios, the same studio where they made their debut record.
“It just sounds fun again,” says Presidents guitarist DaveDederer. “When we started out we weretotally irrelevant. We didn’t fit intoany scene. And then we blew up and werea part of mass-marketed pop culture, and we didn’t really fit in there,either. Now we’re completely irrelevantagain, which is where we’re most comfortable. We’re free to rock.”
Lead singer and bassist Chris Ballew is also enthusiastic about areturn to the stage as a President: “My son started singing “Peaches” and “Lump” in the back seat of the car about a year ago after hearing it on the radio andall of a sudden I got out the 2-string basuitar and it felt like an old friend. Nothing has touched the energy we tapped while we were at our peak and I would love to feel even a hint ofthat again.”
Ballew, Dederer and drummer Jason Finn have all been busy in the last five years collaborating with artists like Sir Mix-A-Lot, Duff McKagan, The Dust Brothers, The Young Fresh Fellows, The Minus Five, the Fastbacks and many others.
Ballew has also been building a business as a composer for commercials, film and television shows on his own as Aurora Elephant Music and with Tad Hutchison, drummer for Northwest legends The Young Fresh Fellows as Chris and Tadco. He has also written the music for a play called “the Big Time” that will run at this years Edinbourough Festival in Scotland.
Look for the Presidents on tour this summer all over the place and watch for both the reissue with added features and a new full length album soon. Ballew sums it all up by saying “We simpliy found the energy to have the fun that made us great all over again!”
Source: http://presidentsrock.com
