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new video on my channel.The other day i was
listening to howard stern on sirius xm and
I’m not as big of a fan as i used to be
especially when listening to the horrible
celebrity interviews. I’ll usually cycle
between Howard Stern’s channel and lithium,,
and ozzy’s boneyard, andmaybe hair nation
and octane, but he was talking briefly about
the spin doctors and hanging out with frontman
Scott Barron at a strip club in the early
90’s and it got me thinking oh yeah those
guys the spin doctors. They had some huge
hits in the 90’s but whatever happened to
the band. Stay tuned to find out.
Lead singer of the Spin Doctors chris barron
would move to new york city with $100 and
a guitar And would soon set his sights on
becoming a successful musician. The spin doctors
become massively popular for a few years in
the early 90’s before leaving the spotlight.
But did you know the the band stayed together
long after that and recorded an album as recently
as 2013? A few members of the classic lineup
had already come together in a earlier band
called formed in the late 80’s in New York
City called Trucking Company which featured
musicians chris baron, and bassist mark white
as well as guitarist Eric Schenkman. The band
also featured harmonicist John Popper who
would eventually leave the group to join another
huge band which was blues traveller. Trucking
company would add a new member which was Aaron
Comess on drums . And they would rename themselves
the spin doctors by the spring of 1989. And
2 years later in 1991 the spin doctors finally
got a record deal with epic records and sony
music and that same year they released their
debut EP titled up for grabs live which was
recorded at a venue called the wetlands preserve
or the wetlands for short, which was located
in lower manhattan. The venue was unique because
bands had the freedom to play all night long
which led to many late night jam sessions.
The venue also donated a portion of all ticket
sales to eco charities donating upwards of
1 million dollars during their twelve year
run in 1989 to 2001. And the same year the
band also released their debut record A Pocket
Full of kryptonite. In the summer of 1992
the spin doctors would reconnect with John
Popper as Blues Traveller had put together
a music festival that would be inspired by
Lollapalooza which debuted the previous year.
The tour would be known as the HORDE festival
which stood for horizons of rock developing
everywhere other groups on the bill include
Phish, Widespread Panic, The Samples and Aquarium
Rescue Unit. And HORDE would prove to be a
success and would carry on for the next seven
years and it would also gave the spin doctors
a massive publicity boost. The band’s big
break though came when MTV would play two
tracks off their debut record including Two
princes and litle miss can’t be wrong. That
fall the band would be also be featured on
saturday night live and a number of their
other tracks would get the video treatment
When all was said and done their debut record
went triple platinum and sold 10 million copies
in the US and abroad and the band even made
the cover of rolling stone to much acclaim.
The magazine said the following about the
band their popularity is based on universal
rock n’ roll virtues. The Doctors aren’t
trying to blaze new trails They know we’ve
been this way with the Stones and Curtis Mayfield
and a few other touch stones, but the proof
plenty of it is in the party. The Track Two
Princes would be nominated for a grammy and
become the #1 rock single of 1993 outpacing
other tracks by other mega artists including
Aerosmith’s Livin on the Edge, Duran Duran’s
Come Undone and Nirvana’s Heart Saped Box.
Chris Barron became known for his clever lyrics
telling AXS Online in a 2018 interview I work
really hard on the lyrics. I slave over them
I practice the way a runner would run. It
doesn’t have to be clever necessarily. it
just has to be right. I always point at the
song Louie Louie. Nobody knows what the f
that guy is singing but it doesn’t matter
whatever he’s singing we know it’s the
right thing for him to be saying on that song.
In addition to MTV heavily playing the band
hollywood came knocking as well. Their cover
of the song that’s the way i like it was
licensed for the space jam movie in 1995 and
there song Two Princes was widely licensed
even being featured in an episode of south
park in season 21 and the tv showsesame street.
Both two princes and little miss can’t be
wrong would also show up on the rock band
video game franchise as well . The band even
contributed theme songs for seasons 2 and
3 of the TV Show spin city. But Their sophomore
record turn it upside down would be released
in 1994 and it was a modest success selling
around a million copies. The track you let
your heart go too fast was the hit of the
album reaching #42 on the US pop charts. And
the band would tour the album at woodstock
94 and the glastonbury festival. But the stress
of pushing hard over the last couple years
would cause friction in the group. In the
middle of a live performance in berkley california,
original guitarist Eric Schenkman walked off
stage he would leave the band and was replaced
by Anthony Krizan who left the band less than
2 years later after their 1996 tour. The group’s
third album you’ve gotta believe in something
would sell even less than its predecessor
and the band was quickly dropped by their
label Epic records. This was a challenging
time for the band with plenty of highs and
lows. In a 2002 interview with MIT’s newspaper
the Tech online Barron talked about where
the band was at in this point in time saying
it’s more of a matter of getting back into
where we came from rather than developing.
We started out as this bar band this nightclub
type of band with this meteoric rise. i think
right now were sort of getting back to rocking
audiences as hard as possible but he would
also admit in the same interview that he still
loves singing the band’s biggest hit Two
Princes saying. I never get tired of singing
that tune i know it probably sounds really
corny it would probably be more cool to be
really jaded and say i wish i had never written
that song and i’m so bored of singing it.
I’ve sung it a thousand million times but
you know I really love that tune I like the
melody its a got a really upbeat tune he’d
say. By the late 90’s guitarist Eran Tabib
would join the group and theygot a new deal
with Universal but Chris Barron would lose
his voice due to a rare form of vocal chord
paralysis during the recording of their 4th
record here comes the bride. The vocal chord
paralysis was so severe he was given a 50/50
chance of being able to speak again let along
singing. Keyboard Ivan Nevile would take over
singing duties for a few months But there
1999 tour would end up being scrapped anyways.
Barron’s voice would return in 2000 and
he spent his time without his voice writing
new songs with his old friends from Blues
Traveller. And the spin doctors would take
a year off but the news that the wetlands
was closing to make room for a condo development
brought them back together This was the place
where they recorded their first EP together
and they played a successful show on September
7, 2001 during the last week the club was
open.. The band would get a bit of a boost
when their 5th album nice talking to me got
radio play with the tracks can’t kick the
habit which was also featured on the movie
soundtrack for Grandma’s boy and the tracks
margarita and nice talking to me . From 2008
onwards the band resurfaced to play one off
live shows and the members explored other
projects.
Drummer Aaron Comess released an instrumental
record of all his own composition called Catskills
Cry, While vocalist baron released the solo
records Pancho and the Kid and the EP songs
from the summer of sangrai from his band the
time bandits as well as pursued a solo career
in 2017. And Chris Baron has also been politically
outspoken and has been quoted in the media
on a number of occasions around a number of
different issues. . In 2011 the band geared
up for a & UK & US tour to celebrate the 20th
anniversary of their debut record. And Sony
legacy released bonus material on an anniversary
album. In 2013 they released their latest
and 6th studio album If the River Was Whisky.
A few years ago rolling stone magazine would
publish a readers poll of the worst 90’s
bands and the Spin Doctors took the number
8 spot, but surprisingly nirvana was also
on that list. Do you guys agree? Let me know
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