Editorial Reviews The band may have lasted only two weeks had the LAPD Sound Enforcement Task Force had its way. That's right, two weeks into practice, the noise police showed up at our door, armed with .45's and decibel meters, and told us to shut down or risk massive fines. They also told us that we shouldn't be offended, because they had once shut down The Eagles as well. We had tried to soundproof the garage, but it wasn't working, so off we went to Francisco Studios, a double-warehouse of 75 practice rooms located between the Bandini Fertilizer manufacturing plant and Kellogg's' Pop-Tart baking facility. We practiced every night in our sweaty little box that smelled like Strawberry Cow Shit. The Uninvited cruised along like this for the next few years, practicing, playing, writing and recording endless demos for Big Record Companies. We started developing a strong following. We played in clubs throughout Los Angeles that were shut down and turned into fast food franchises. We hired our first lawyer and first manager. We fired our first lawyer and first manager. Finally, after recording about 6 different "shopping demos," we decided to forget about Giant Record Labels and record our own album. The result was 1992's "Pop This," produced by eternally-cool-guy Jim Wirt. We formed our own record label, Roarshack Records, and distributed the album nationally. Steve and JT spent countless hours at the old day job promoting the album...more hours than our old boss will ever know (until he reads this, and now we can't be busted for it). Though the album did well, selling thousands of copies and gaining airplay, our distributor was sued by another company and declared bankruptcy, taking all of our money with it. This made recording a follow-up album a bit more difficult. None the less, by 1994, we had hired on a full-time harmonica player and returned to the studio with Jim Wirt to record the second album. The result of this effort was 1995's "Too High," which was also under the Roarshack Records moniker though not nationally distributed. The next year saw more playing, practicing, writing and touring, as well as some more hiring and firing: we parted ways with our harmonica player, and hired another manager. We also landed a gig as the House Band at a club called 14 Below in Santa Monica, California, thanks in no small part to the fact that our new manager was the club's owner. By 1996, we had decided that some radical changes were necessary. We decided to record a new album, move out of Los Angeles, quit our day jobs, and go on tour without stopping. So we did. We returned to 4th Street Recording with Jim Wirt and made our third album, "Artificial Hip." We then moved the families and the worldly possessions up to Northern California, where we now habitate in the San Francisco suburb of Walnut Creek. On June 28th, 1996, we embarked on the "Jam or Die Tour," playing 5-to-6 nights a week, sometimes three shows a day, all across the west, and released "Artificial Hip" on our new label, Half-Baked Records (which is short for "half-baked adolescent rock fantasy"). In late 1996, the band's independent efforts caught the attention of Atlantic Records, which signed us to our first major recording contract. In July of 1998, Atlantic released "The Uninvited," an album which comprised 10 re-recorded versions of our independently-released songs as well as two new songs. The band embarked on a never-ending national tour in support of the album, but despite strong sales and airplay, the band was recently dropped from the label in May of 1999. Hitting the ground running, The Uninvited returned to 4th Street to record "It's All Good," their 4th independent album. at this time, founding member Bill Cory decided to retire from the biz, and Los Angeles bass legend Frederick "Ladd" Story was hired in his place. The Uninvited continues to tour constantly throughout the country in it's trusty transportation entity, El Vano Blanco de los Muertos. Band Members: John Taylor, Steve Taylor, Bruce Logan, Ladd Story
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About the Artist
The Uninvited was officially "Born" on February 8th, 1988, in a garage attached to a roach-infested house on La Cienega Boulevard in Los Angeles. (The house has since been torn down and turned into a "Rocket Smog" smog-check center). We came up with the name "The Uninvited" because it was the least stupid name we could all agree upon of out of a list of about 50 stupid band names. Yes, the name does have that LA-Post-New-Wave-Cow-Punk vibe to it, but this was the environment we were in, so there you go.
Album Description
The Uninvited's fifth and latest CD, "It's All Good" is a tasty-tasty slab of frosty thunder pop, with lyrical intelligence and humor out the wazoo. At times more emotional and insighful than previous Uninvited CDs, "It's All Good" shows a band in transition, taking life's surprising twists with a smile on their face and three chords are their guitars.