| A lot can happen in two years. Just ask any member of Bush. For them, two years
is the amount of time it has taken to go from relative obscurity on the U.K. circuit to the top of the American pop
charts. It is the amount of time it has taken to score five hit singles -- "Everything Zen," "Little Things,"
"Comedown," "Glycerin" and "Machinehead" -- play a few hundred concerts and sell seven million copies of
their debut album Sixteen Stone. In short, it is the amount of time it has taken for Bush to become the biggest
English rock act to break in American in more than a decade. Mindful of their hard-won achievement, Bush are
packing a Razorblade Suitcase for their return trip to the top of the charts.
Though it may appear serendipitous on the surface, there is nothing magical about Bush's phenomenal
success. By the time they came together in 1992, Robin Goodridge (drums), Dave Parsons (bass), Nigel
Pulsford (guitar) and Gavin Rossdale (guitar/vocals) were already frustrated with the fickle U.K. music scene.
As musicians, Rossdale had fronted several bands and released a few unsuccessful singles with Midnight,
Parsons had been working with glam-punksters, Transvision Vamp, Goodridge was getting regular session
work and recording with club act The Beautiful People and Pulsford had been gigging as a member of
Beggar's Banquet act King's Blank.
The band was officially founded when Gavin and Nigel, who met at a London Club gig shortly after Rossdale
had returned to the U.K. from a brief stint in Los Angeles, began working. Weaned on punk, and citing
influences as diverse as the Pixies and Bob Marley, Rossdale and Pulsford's shared musical interests quickly
evolved into the full throttle, melodic sonic assault that has become Bush's trademark. |
