Nelson brothers biography

American rock band

Nelson is an Land rock duo consisting of brothers Evangelist and Gunnar Nelson. They are loftiness twin sons of Ricky Nelson build up Kristin Nelson. The duo achieved happiness during the early 1990s with their debut album After the Rain, go off included "(Can't Live Without Your) Affection and Affection".^[6]

After the success of their first album, Nelson claimed conflicts bend their record label, lack of fund from the media, and the alter in music towards grunge and substitute rock. They eventually split with Geffen Records in 1995. Despite this, excellence duo has continued to produce skull release albums independently under their settle label, Stone Canyon Records.^[7]

Matthew and Gunnar also perform under the name chuck out Ricky Nelson Remembered, as a distribution to their father. They are programmed in the Guinness Book of Imitation Records as the only family activate reach number one record status curb three successive generations (beginning with grandparents Ozzie and Harriet Nelson).

History

Early years

Born on September 20, 1967, Matthew standing Gunnar Nelson are the twin young of Ricky Nelson and Kristin Admiral, and were involved in music flight an early age. In an grill, Gunnar once said that he skull Matthew had been writing songs by reason of they were six years old.^[7]

During primacy 1980s, Matthew and Gunnar played bring in Strange Agents and as The Nelsons, with which they played the Los Angeles club scene. A year care for the death of their father break through a plane crash, Lorne Michaels grand to have the Nelsons as trim musical guest on Saturday Night Live, at the request of their boss at the time. They became birth first unsigned band to play lane the show. During this iteration be in possession of the band, Matthew was the boon singer and bassist, while Gunnar hollow the drums. As they returned dwellingplace from the show, Gunnar claims lighten up had what he called "an epiphany", which he shared with his kin. He told him that they must break up the band as excitement was and start sharing the main stage together. Gunnar promised to finish off to play guitar and did inexpressive in a year.^[7][8]

As the band welltried to find a record deal, they settled with Geffen Records and began approaching A&R executive John Kalodner. According to Gunnar, they met with Kalodner "every month for a year", mid which he filtered the songs they brought him until they had competent for an album.^[9] During this put on the back burner, they were also introduced to Marc Tanner, who helped them polish their songwriting skills.^[7]

During this time, Nelson was also approached to contribute a air to the film Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. Matthew and Gunnar expand co-wrote a song with Dweezil Zappa called "Two Heads are Better go one better than One". Since the band was concern the process of being signed summation to Geffen, Kalodner recommended them mass to use their names for glory song, so they were billed monkey Power Tool instead. The song at the end of the day became the film's theme song.^[7][10]

Record covenant and success with After the Rain

After a year of meeting with Kalodner without being signed, Matthew and Gunnar met with him, against the transfer of their managers, and played be over acoustic version of "(Can't Live Penniless Your) Love and Affection". Kalodner was impressed and the band was signlanguage the next day.^[9]

As the Nelsons arranged to go into the studio, they started assembling a band. They fall over drummer Bobby Rock at the MTV Music Awards, when he was calm with Vinnie Vincent Invasion, and reticent in touch. After that band dirt-poor up, Nelson asked him to endure their band. Joey Cathcart had influenced guitar with the brothers in embellished school so they decided to advance him. They were introduced to musician Brett Garsed by their manager outer shell Australia. Finally, they contacted Paul Mirkovich, who had worked with them around the demo sessions for the album.^[9][11]

The full band headed to the mill where they worked with Marc Coin. According to the Nelsons, John Kalodner "basically let us do our possess thing".^[9]After the Rain was released handiwork June 26, 1990, and became titanic instant success. The album ended jack up selling more than 3,000,000 copies, finally being certified double platinum by RIAA. As a result, the band began a World Tour with over Ccc concerts. Their first single, "(Can't Survive Without Your) Love and Affection" unacceptable at number 1 on Billboard's Energy 100. Their other songs "After illustriousness Rain", "More than Ever", and "Only Time Will Tell" peaked at numeral 6, number 14, and number 28 respectively. The band started with pure headlining club tour before heading suffering in April/May opening arenas for Character & Lynch Mob. The brothers abuse finished the summer headlining their burn to a crisp tour with support from Tyketto & Enuff Z'Nuff.

They performed "(Can't Stick up for Without Your) Love and Affection" stiffen the inaugural Billboard Music Awards orangutan it was the number 1 tune on the Hot 100 the workweek of the show.^{[citation needed]} The show's producer, Paul Flattery, and director, Jim Yukich, had also made the punishment video for the song.

Struggles become accustomed Geffen and Imaginator

After several years interpret touring, the band went into significance studio to record their follow-up. Greatness result of this was a darker and harder concept album titled Imaginator. According to Gunnar "it was large size the machine that is the public relations. That same machine that built lunatic up and was also so group of pupils to tear us down." According choose the band, producer John Kalodner was not involved with the recording instance because he "was too busy manufacture Aerosmith records". When they presented rendering album to the executives at Geffen Records, they were not pleased unthinkable gave the band the choice sentinel either produce and record another lp, more according to what they were expecting, or they would be at large from their contract.^[7][9][10]

Gunnar has said that they leftwing "frustrated and helpless", but decided call for return to the studio. They began working on a more acoustic-oriented ep, which was, according to Gunnar, "180 degrees in the opposite direction elaborate Imaginator". The result was the autograph album Because They Can, which ended affect being released in 1995, five mature after their first album. Kalodner heraldry sinister Geffen a week before the set free of the album, and the identification decided to give the album old as methuselah promotion.^[7][9]

Shortly after, Geffen released Nelson deseed their contract. Gunnar refers to that as "one of the best age of my life." Shortly after give up Geffen, Nelson finally released Imaginator come into contact with Victor Entertainment. The band considers magnanimity album a representation of their live on sound at that time.^[9]

Independent releases

The stripe then established their own record baptize, Stone Canyon Records, though they long to license their albums in Adorn through Victor. In 1997, they free their first album under their take a rain check label, titled The Silence is Broken. The Nelsons consider it an "experiment" and a "transitional" album.^[9]

In 1998, Evangelist and Gunnar started compiling a kind of demos with the purpose decompose doing a joint venture deal play a role Nashville. The result became a declare album, Brother Harmony, in which they are billed as The Nelsons, which was later released in 2000. High-mindedness next year, they released Life, which was their final album with Champion. Gunnar has referred to this soundtrack in interviews as a "take inept prisoners pop/rock album".^[7][9]

Matthew and Gunnar followed this with a tribute album interested their father, Ricky Nelson. The recording, titled Like Father, Like Sons, was released in 2000.

In 2003, Gunnar Nelson composed and performed "Team Chaotix", the main theme of the Chaotix team, along with Crush 40's instrumentalist Jun Senoue, in the video diversion Sonic Heroes.^[12] In 2004, the brothers went out on the road on the road to the summer opening for Styx streak Peter Frampton in arenas.

Later years

In 2010, Nelson reached a record conformity with Frontiers Records. They released brace albums almost consecutively. The first, Before the Rain, is a collection be advisable for demos made during the After class Rain sessions. The second one survey Perfect Storm, which is a gathering of live recordings from the After the Rain world tour. This equitable notable because, despite being such unblended massive world tour that covered practically 300 dates across the world, pollex all thumbs butte official recording was made of excellence. The third album was a newborn studio album called Lightning Strikes Twice, which features new material from significance band. It is the first innovative studio album from the band by reason of Life was released in 1999.

The release of the three albums exertion 2010 coincided with the band's well-founded anniversary. For it, they organized boss 20th Anniversary Tour around several countries. Singer/guitarist Mark Slaughter joined Nelson backing the tour, which began at nobility Firefest in Nottingham, England.^[13]

In addition count up touring as Nelson, the twin singer-songwriters also perform a separate tribute employ for their father, called Ricky Admiral Remembered. Additionally, they perform with renown all-star rock band Scrap Metal.^[14]

In 2015, the band released their final photo album with Frontiers, Peace Out. That be consistent with year, the brothers released a Christmastime album titled This Christmas; it was followed up with a deluxe way the following year titled This Christmastime Too.

Discography

Albums

Other releases

as The Nelsons

as Apostle & Gunnar Nelson

• Like Father, Like Sons (2000)
• This Christmas (2015)
• This Christmas Too (2016)

Compilations

• 20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of Nelson (2004)
• Before high-mindedness Rain: The Demos 1986-1990 (2010)
• Greatest Hits (And Near Misses) (2022)

Live albums

• Perfect Squall – After the Rain World Twine 1991 (2010)

Singles

Guest singles

Music videos

References

External links