Godsmack’s 1997 self-financed, self-released debut All Wound Up was quickly picked up by Republic/Universal. All Wound Up and Everywhere to Go: Godsmack and Awake (1998-2000) Now, decades later, we’re rounding up just a few of the group’s best songs. One demo later, they changed their name to Godsmack, earned strong radio support in Boston for the songs “Keep Away” and “Whatever,” and developed a local following that quickly spread. When Erna launched Godsmack with bassist Robbie Merrill, guitarist Lee Richards, and drummer Tommy Stewart, they called themselves The Scam. But Erna was also inspired by the vocal cadences and consumer-friendly choruses of commercial hard rock bands he grew up listening to on the radio as well as post- Black Album-era Metallica. Godsmack shares their name with an Alice In Chains tune and many of Godsmack’s songs are embellished with minor-key harmonies redolent of AIC. Most importantly, though, they balanced surging melodic riffs with catchy, aggressive vocals that captured the attention of fans in search of something heavier than grunge and alt-rock.Įven so, there’s no question that the heavier grunge bands were instrumental in Erna’s development as a songwriter. So, it’s not surprising that when he put away his drums and picked up a mic and guitar and started writing his own songs, they were heavily percussive and sometimes tribal. Having banged on the drums since he was three years old, he thought about music in beats and rhythms as much as melodies.
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Ronald Speirs became known to a wider audience with the publication of Stephen Ambrose’s book “Band of Brothers” and the subsequent HBO TV mini-series of the same name.For more than 20 years, feisty Boston-area rocker Sully Erna played drums for various bands across Massachusetts, including Meliah Rage and Strip Mind. He retired from the military in 1964 after 22 years in active duty.
His final assignment was in the Planning and Policy Division at the Pentagon, Washington DC. He was also the US American military Senior Advisor to the Royal Lao Army. Later, he served as an American foreign liaison intelligence officer and was the American Director of Spandau Prison.
He saw combat in Korea, commanding a rifle company in the 187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team. Speirs remained in the Army when the war was over which lead to an extensive military career spanning more than 20 years. In the final few months of WWII, Speirs and Easy Company were assigned occupation duty at Berchtesgaden in the German Bavarian Alps, home to the famous Eagle’s Nest. Later he fought in Operation Market Garden in Holland and at the Battle of the Bulge in Bastogne, during which he was reassigned as Commanding Officer of Easy Company. These landings were the first US combat operation during Operation Overlord by the Allied Forces in Normandy. On 6 th June, 1944 he played a part in the early morning D-Day American airborne landings as part of Operation Neptune. Ronald Speirs was an American United States Army Officer who served with the US 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division “Screaming Eagles” during World War II.
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