Buckcherry

Buckcherry

Buckcherry is a Grammy-nominated Los Angeles, California hard rock band formed in 1995. The band released two albums (1999's eponymous debut and 2001's "Time Bomb") before dissolving in summer 2002. In 2005, Josh Todd (lead vocals) and Keith Nelson (guitar) put together a new band using the Buckcherry moniker and released a new album in April 2006 called 15, and it spawned Buckcherry's biggest crossover hits to date, "Crazy Bitch" and the band's first Hot 100 top ten hit, "Sorry".

History

Buckcherry was formed after vocalist Josh Todd (formerly of Slamhound) met guitarist Keith Nelson through their tattoo artist after discovering a common love of AC/DC. The duo made a few demos before being joined by bassist Jonathan Brightman and drummer Devon Glenn, calling themselves Sparrow. Sparrow began performing around the Hollywood club scene, receiving a strong, local following due to their old school Rock N' Roll vibe, and they were signed to DreamWorks Records shortly after. The group changed its name to "Buckcherry" after receiving a cease-and-desist letter from a record label called Sparrow, with Buckcherry created by taking the first letters in Chuck Berry and rearranging them. (Initially, however, the group said it was inspired by a drag queen acquaintance of theirs named Buck Cherry.) The band released its self titled debut in 1999 to critical praise and certified gold sales. The album, produced by Terry Date (Soundgarden, Mother Love Bone, Pantera, ex-Sex Pistols Steve Jones), included three modern rock chart hits in "Lit Up", "Check Your Head", and "For The Movies".

After adding second guitarist Yogi to the lineup, Buckcherry toured non-stop in support of the debut album, including opening for Lenny Kravitz on his Freedom Tour (1999), before going back into the studio in 2000 to work on a follow-up, 2001's Time Bomb. The second album was considered a disappointment by many critics , and it didn't fare as well on the charts. Allmusic noted that "For a second record, it's surprising how jaded and nihilistic they are already. Time Bomb is a firm favourite among Buckcherry fans however, combining the rawness of the debut with better production and most focused song writing, in particular on the single "Ridin'", the ballad "You", and the sleazy "Porno Star".

Buckcherry performed opening dates for AC/DC in the spring 2000. In August of 2001, Brightman left the band. Yogi and Glenn also departed the band in the following months. However, Todd and Nelson planned to continue Buckcherry, and even began the writing process for the third album. It was during those sessions that Josh Todd unexpectedly left the band in July 2002, seemingly leading to Buckcherry's demise .

Josh Todd and Keith Nelson did perform together along with ex-Guns N' Roses members Slash, Duff McKagan, and Matt Sorum (also of The Cult) at the Randy Castillo tribute concert. Speculation ensued that Todd would become the lead singer of the "Project" headed up by Slash, McKagan, and Sorum. Todd spent a month in the studio, reportedly completing 10 songs, but was abruptly dropped from the project by Slash. Todd was quoted as saying, "It was amazing, the band was slamming, and then Slash just came in one day and just shit-canned the whole thing." Scott Weiland of the Stone Temple Pilots was eventually chosen to helm the band that would become known as Velvet Revolver. Nelson was given a songwriting credit on Velvet Revolver's track "Dirty Little Thing." Keith Nelson then went on to write and produce on various records including Capitol records artist "Huck Johns" single "Ohyeah" on "Huck" released in 2006.

In 2003, Josh Todd partnered with Todd Meagher, created TODD Entertainment,LLC and released the album You Made Me. This partnership was the origination and the first of what is now known as the "360 deal" in the music business where the artists owns a piece of the business that develops, manages and distributes their music, merchandise, brand and all prodcuts and services related to their musical career.

On September 11, 2006, A lawsuit has been filed against the band, their current record label and other related companies on behalf of a 16 year old girl who claims she was coerced into appearing topless and in various sexual scenarios at a concert while the band was playing a sexually-related song. According to sources, however, all participants in the video had to show proof that they were over 18 years old and sign a release form further reaffirming their age. Band attorney Skip Miller is quoted in several news stories as stating, "This woman filled out a release form with false information. And once it was determined this woman was underage, the video was removed."

Fourth studio album (Black Butterfly)

On April 15, 2008, Buckcherry announced they would be touring as part of Motley Crue's Crue Fest Tour, along with Papa Roach, Sixx:A.M. and Trapt. The tour is set to begin July 1 in West Palm Beach, Florida.

As of June 2007, according to blabbermouth.net, a new album is in the works and as of December 2007, the album was in the mixing stage. As of December 2007, 15 has been certified platinum.

On June 9, 2008, Josh Todd, as a guest on Rockline, said that Buckcherry's fourth studio album will be released in September 2008.

The album is provisionaly due for a release in the US on September 23, In the UK and Europe on September 22 and in Japan on August 27.

It has been announced that the album will be titled Black Butterfly.

A song from the upcoming Black Butterfly leaked on the Internet on July 2nd. The song is being called "Too Drunk To Fuck" by fans because it says that in the song numerous times, but the band has said that is not the title of the song and they refer to the song as "Too Drunk...".

A video has recently been released for it featuring the band playing the song on stage in the middle of a party.

BitTorrent "leak" controversy

After the track Blabbermouth was leaked, the band issued a press release and blamed pirates for the leak saying "Honestly, we hate it when this shit happens, because we want our FANS to have any new songs first.”

However, this claim was investigated by the site TorrentFreak. The ip-adress that was seeding the track had only uploaded one torrent, the track. Using the Wiki-scanner they found out that the person in question had edited the BuckCherry wikipedia entry, and added the name of the band manager to another page. After emailing Josh Klemme with these queries, and found that his IP-address was the same as the torrent uploader, which lead TorrentFreak to the conclusion that the song had been leaked purposely for publicity purposes.

Former Members Reunite

In April 2008, Buckcherry founding member Jonathan Brightman entered the studio to record a new record with producer Dave Cobb (Shooter Jennings, The Strays, The Tender Idols) and former Buckcherry members Devon Glenn and Yogi. Using the name Black Robot, it features tracks written & performed by Jonathan Brightman, Devon Glenn, Yogi, Dave Cobb & Huck Johns. Executive produced by JB, Black Robot blends musical influences from AC/DC, The Black Crowes and Led Zeppelin. The first Black Robot record is expected in the Summer of 2008.

Band Members

Current members

• Josh Todd - lead vocals (1995-2002, 2005-present)
  
• Keith Nelson - guitar (1995-2002, 2005-present)
  
• Stevie D. - guitar (2005-present)
  
• Xavier Muriel - drums, percussion (2005-present)
  
• Jimmy Ashhurst - bass guitar (2005-present)
  

Former Members

• Jonathan Brightman - bass guitar (1995-2002)
  
• Devon Glenn - drums (1995-2002)
  
• Yogi - guitar (1999-2002)

Discography

Albums

Year	Album	Chart Positions			Certification
		US 200	US Indie	US Heat
1999	Buckcherry	74	-	1	Gold
2001	Time Bomb	64	-	-	-
2006	15 A	39	2	-	Platinum
2008	Black Butterfly	-	-	-

• ^A Also reached #48 on the US Top Internet Albums.

Singles

Year	Single	Chart Positions									Album
		US Hot 100	US Main. Rock	US Mod. Rock	US Digital	US Pop 100	US Adult Top 40	CAN	NZ	WW
1999	"Lit Up"A	-	1	33	-	-	-	-	-	-	Buckcherry
	"For the Movies"	-	25	24	-	-	-	-	-	-
	"Dead Again"	-	38	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2000	"Check Your Head"	-	29	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2001	"Ridin'"	-	9	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Time Bomb
2006	"Crazy Bitch"B	59	3	13	37	52	-	-	-	-	15
	"Next 2 You"	-	18	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2007	"Everything"	117	6	23	-	-	-	50	-	-
	"Broken Glass"	-	28	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	"Sorry"	9	32	31	6	8	2	7	15	22
2008	"Out of Line"	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	"Too Drunk..." C	-	35	39	-	-	-	-	-	-	Black Butterfly

• ^A "Lit Up" spent 3 weeks at #1 on the Mainstream Rock chart.
• ^B Also reached #2 on the Hot Ringtones chart.
• ^C Future single.

External links

• Buckcherry Website
• Buckcherry at LyricWiki
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• Buckcherry at SputnikMusic
• Buckcherry Info
• Keith Nelson talks about the US release of 15!
• 2006 Interview with Keith Nelson
• Buckcherry.mp3 Buckcherry podcast interview from Juliland.com
• Website for Everything Buckcherry and Josh Todd
• Interview with Buckcherry guitarist Keith Nelson
• Buckcherry at EDBD 14 Concert Gallery
• Buckcherry Interview from Las Vegas 12/16/07
• Lead Singer Josh Todd's website
• Lead Singer Josh Todd's MySpace Page

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