Travis is a strange guy but I love his music…with the old band back and him not being a druggy, I’m happy they’re working on a new album & touring.
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It’s a new day for one of the hit-making bands of the 1990s, as the classic lineup of Days of the New has reunited for a series of summer shows.
The band broke on the scene in 1997 with their platinum-selling self-titled debut. But shortly after the band’s 1998 tour with [url “http://loudwire.com/tags/metallica/”]Metallica and [url “http://loudwire.com/tags/jerry-cantrell/”]Jerry Cantrell, bassist Jesse Vest, guitarist Todd Whitener and drummer Matt Taul split, leaving frontman Travis Meeks to continue with new musicians under the Days of the New moniker, while the exiting trio went on to found Tantric.
These new dates signify the first shows the foursome have played together since October 1998, making it just shy of 16 years since they last took the stage as a band. The trek, which they’re dubbing the ‘Full Circle’ tour, kicks off Friday, June 27, at the Home Bar in Arlington Heights, Ill.
The band’s standout debut disc yielded the radio favorites ‘Touch, Peel and Stand,’ ‘The Down Town’ and ‘Shelf in the Room,’ with ‘Touch, Peel and Stand’ spending 17 weeks at No. 1 on Billboard’s Rock Chart, setting a record for the longest run on that chart at the time.
Vest says of the reunion, “I’ve experienced plenty of success in other projects, but nothing ever felt like Days did. This band was never easy, but the music was always magical.” Meeks adds, “There will be some very exciting and different things planned for each show.”
And yes, for those wondering, the band is working on an EP with new material that will surface this fall, with some of the tracks spilling over into the band’s summer tour dates. See the full itinerary below. Days of the New 2014 Summer Tour:
6/27 — Arlington Heights, Ill. — Home Bar Chicago
6/28 — Sterling Heights, Mich. — Stars and Stripes Festival / Freedom Hill Amphitheatre
7/17 — Bristol, Ct. — Bleachers
7/18 — Lawrence, Mass. — Claddagh Pub
7/19 — Pennellville, N.Y. — Monirae’s
7/24 — Sellersville, Pa. — Sellersville Theatre
7/25 — Poughkeepsie, N.Y. — The Chance
7/31 — Fayetteville, Ark. — Rib House
8/1 — Houston, Texas — Scout Bar
8/2 — Oklahoma City, Okla. — Chameleon Room
8/29 — New Albany, Ind. — Befuddled Festival
10/4 — Newport, Ky. — Thompson House
Arent these the guys that sound like AliceJam while taking a dump in the garden and saw a pilot fly above, just saying. I remember seeing this guy on some intervention program in the early 2000’s complaining about being addicted to Meth or something.
Yeah, that’s them. Not my cup of tea, but there are plenty here who like Soundgarden and Alice in Chains and Pearl jam and whatever other Seattle Buttrock of the 90’s jibber jabber, so maybe someone else is into them.
I will admit that since reading this post I have their one hit stuck in my head . . . . Always worse when there’s only like 2 and a half lines that I even know.
“Well I finally found a reason I don’t need to something something I got this blah blah blah blah I got no way to blah blah.”
No worse than any of the other grungy bands in my opinion.
They totally missed the grunge phase and showed up after the party was over. They wanted to be Alice In Chains unplugged so bad they could taste it. Bleck!!
They totally missed the grunge phase and showed up after the party was over. They wanted to be Alice In Chains unplugged so bad they could taste it. Bleck!!
Says the prongs resident music afficianado.
[laugh]
Imagine taking advice on music from this jackass!!!
He must be high on something (Or drunk. right, Olsen?) high on the good stuff, you know real drugs, no crack like those poor people. He still thinks he has an army behind him. Adorable. [:)]
Is Olsen gonna defend these low-rent Soundgardeners now that Grumpy has disowned them?
I’m just amazed dickweed here doesn’t have pictures of bands like Gays Of The Nude and Silverchair and The Presidents Of The United States and Creed and Nickelback plastered all over his bedroom wall.
I mean, this kind of putrid shit IS aimed at mainstream morons like him…
[reply]Is Olsen gonna defend these low-rent Soundgardeners now that Grumpy has disowned them?
I’m just amazed dickweed here doesn’t have pictures of bands like Gays Of The Nude and Silverchair and The Presidents Of The United States and Creed and Nickelback plastered all over his bedroom wall.
I mean, this kind of putrid shit IS aimed at mainstream morons like him…[/reply]
you know nothing about me, moron.
You don’t like me because you’re used to throwing your money around and bullying the underclassmen into whatever it is you want, and I won’t have it. You come in here cramming your opinion down everybody’s throat, especially about music, and all you get from me is a poke in the eye. Deal with it.
[reply]You don’t like me because you’re used to throwing your money around and bullying the underclassmen into whatever it is you want
Since you know so much, please give me ONE example in real life where I bullied the “underclassman”.
Just one.[/quote]
“I’d love to rub my inheritance into my math teachers face.” your many rants on why the working people of Australia suck. Just stop pretending you ass.
In “real life” I couldn’t be more accommodating.
Sure, sure. I believe you tell yourself that.
You think that NOT having money makes you some kind of saint?
Oh, i have enough money I just don’t throw it in people faces like you.
Funny how the BIGGEST BULLY hands down on Prongs is whingeing and whining about unfair treatment.
I’m not whining I’m merely pointing out why you keep getting poked in the eye. I don’t give a fuck that you like crap music and and I don’t know why it’s so important to you that I or anyone else does.
I hate bullying, that’s why I stand up to loud mouthed aggressive jerks like you.
No, you think you are standing up to me but your just cementing your place as a bully even more, Moron!
That was the most put on, fabricated plastic shit imaginable. A corporate marketing manager’s approximation of what “the kids of today will fall for”. That has about as much in common with the “alternative explosion” of the early 90’s as Bieber has with Scott Walker.
I think Mark Arm of Mudhoney summed it up best when he spoke in an interview about the “post grunge” explosion of the late 90’s:
M.A - “…and If I’m in some way responsible for those bands and their sound…fucking kill me please”.
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