Tin Huey
Tin Huey | |
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 Promotional picture forContents Dislodged During Shipment,1979 Left to right: Chris Butler, Harvey Gold, Michael Aylward, Ralph Carney, Mark Price, Stuart Austin | |
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| Origin | Akron,Ohio,United States |
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| Labels | Warner Bros. |
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| Website | www |
Tin Hueyis an Americanexperimental rockandnew waveband fromAkron, Ohio,United States, that formed in 1972 and disbanded in 1982.
History
[edit]Original lineups
[edit]Initially named Rags, the band started with Mark Price (then known as Wesley the Stash) on guitar, Michael Aylward on bass, and Stuart Austin (then known as Napoleon Lemens) on drums.[1]The band renamed themselves after Aylward's younger brother.
Harvey Gold became the fourth member to join on organ.[2]Price left the band, and the remaining members switched toacousticmusic before hiring electric guitarist Arthur Baranoff and bassist Wayne Swickley.
When the latter two left, Price rejoined as the bassist, while Aylward took on electric guitar, and Gold alternated between electric guitar andkeyboards;they briefly added saxophonist Lochi MacIntosh to the lineup before replacing him withRalph Carney.Chris Butler(the bassist for15-60-75 (The Numbers Band)) was the last to join, also on guitar.
Inspired byCaptain Beefheart,Frank Zappa,The Stoogesand theSoft Machine,Tin Huey was among the bands that emerged from the Akron/Cleveland music scene, includingDevo,Pere Ubu,Chi-Pig,theElectric Eels,theBizarros,and theRubber City Rebels.
Career
[edit]Tin Huey signed withWarner Bros. Recordsand recorded and released their debut albumContents Dislodged During Shipmentin 1979. (The album was issued for the first time onCDbyCollector's Choice Musicin 2003.)[3]It was not a commercial success.
Ralph Legnini (a.k.a. Ralph E.) played with the band for several early '80s shows before they went their separate ways. It would be two decades before they released any new material.
Their follow-up second album,Disinformation,was released in 1999 by Butler's Future Fossil Records. Since then, they have played shows both inOhioand in the greater New York City area. Most recently, they assembled recordings from the mid-70s for their third album,Before Obscurity: The Bushflow Tapes.[1]The album is a combination of studio recordings and live performances from JB's inKent, Ohio,where they regularly played.
In 2003, Tin Huey were among the Midwestern/Akronite bands that were featured in thePBSdocumentaryIt's Everything, And Then It's Gone,which covered the mostly overlooked stories about the bands who hailed from the Ohio music scene and developed the "Akron Sound".That same year, Tin Huey played at theRock and Roll Hall of FameinCleveland.
Tin Huey briefly became a septet after adding newcomer Bob Ethington, formerly of Unit 5.
Price died after a four-year battle withcolon canceron 6 November 2008, at the age of 56. Tin Huey stopped performing as a band. A spin-off band, Half Cleveland, was formed in 2007 featuring Gold, Butler, Ethington, and formerChi-Pigbassist Debbie Smith.[4]They have played occasional shows in the Akron/Cleveland area, including opening a show at the Akron Civic Theater forChrissie Hyndeofthe Pretenders.Since Price's death, there have been a couple live events, one a jam loosely dedicated to Mark involving all the surviving members of the Hueys, bass handled by Gold, Smith, and Kristoffer Carter (The KC Show). The second was an Arts Program benefit billed as "A Gaggle of Hueys and a Houseguest" featuring original Hueys Gold, Aylward and Austin, along with Dave Rich of Houseguest. Recently, Gold and Aylward have also been playing improvisational guitar duets at local art galleries.
Current line-up of Tin Huey
[edit]- Michael Aylward (Guitar, Vocals)
- Stuart Austin (Drums, Percussion)
- Chris Butler(Guitar, Vocals)
- Harvey Gold (Keyboards, Bass, Guitar, Vocals)
- "Bongo" Bob Ethington
Former members of the Rags/Tin Huey
[edit]- Arthur Baranoff (Electric Guitar)
- Wayne Swickley (Bass)
- Lochi MacIntosh (Horns)
- Ralph Legnini (Guitar)
- Mark Price (Bass, Vocals) (deceased)
- Ralph Carney(Horns) (deceased)
Discography
[edit]- Tin Huey (EP)(1977) (Clone Records)
- Breakfast with the Hueys (EP)(1978) (Clone Records)
- Contents Dislodged During Shipment(1979) (Warner Bros. Records)
- English Kids(1980) EP (Clone Records)
- Disinformation(1999) (Future Fossil Records)
- Before Obscurity: The Bushflow Tapes(2009) (Smog Veil Records)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^abKelly, Jennifer (3 February 2010)."Tin Huey – Before Obscurity: The Bushflow Tapes".Blurt.Retrieved17 January2021.
- ^Niesel, Jeff (23 July 2020)."Eccentric Multi-Instrumentalist Harvey Gold Talks About His Solo Debut".Cleveland Scene.Retrieved17 January2021.
- ^Cizmar, Martin (17 December 2017)."Ralph Carney, Legendary Saxophonist and Recent Portland Transplant, Has Died".Willamette Week.Retrieved17 January2021.
- ^Abram, Malcolm X. (21 July 2020)."Local acts make music in the time of coronavirus".Akron Beacon Journal.Retrieved17 January2021.
External links
[edit]- Official website
- Petkovic, John."Birthday sparks return of Tin Huey".scamcity.com.Archived from the original on 7 May 2003.Retrieved10 July2007.
{{cite web}}:CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - Dougan, John.Biography of Tin HueyatAllMusic.Retrieved 2012-04-23.
