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CanCon icon's Rusty return to Paddy's Underground to celebrate the 30th anniversary of thier album 'Fluke' with support from The Half Smokes$35 (includes hst - fees extra if purchased via Eventbrite) $45 night of (limited to availability) doors 8pm. all ages/licensed
RUSTY
Rusty's origins are in One Free Fall, a band from Wolfville, Nova Scotia who moved to Toronto in 1988. That band's core members were vocalist Ken MacNeil, guitarist Sandy Graham, bassist Jim Moore and drummer Bob Vespaziani. That band signed to independent label Handsome Boy Records, released the album Mud Creek in 1993 and collaborated with Art Bergmann on a cover of "Prisoners of Rock 'n Roll" for the Neil Young tribute album Borrowed Tunes: A Tribute to Neil Young, but broke up in 1994 before achieving any notable success. Following their breakup, MacNeil, Moore and Vespaziani hooked up with former Doughboys/Luther Victim member Scott McCullough to form Rusty, and recorded their eponymous E.P. in 1994. A video for the song "Wake Me" would become a hit on MuchMusic and the single charted on both U.S. and Canadian commercial radio. The video was also featured on the MTV show 120 Minutes, leading to a bidding war amongst U.S. labels to sign them. Released on Handsome Boy Records, the EP was also popular on Canadian campus radio, and led to a major label distribution deal with BMG Records in Canada for their full-length album Fluke in 1995. Vespaziani left the group after the E.P. release and was replaced by Mitch Perkins. Led by the hit single "Misogyny", which featured a video consisting of clips from Canadian filmmaker Bruce LaBruce's film Hustler White, Fluke was the band's commercial breakthrough, also spawning the singles "California" and “Groovy Dead” while earning a Juno Award nomination for Best Alternative Album. The album was produced by Chris Wardman, who also played acoustic guitar on the tracks "Groovy Dead" and "California". While remaining independent in Canada, the band signed in the U.S. with Atlantic Records imprint TAG and spent the bulk of 1995 touring the U.S. opening for Collective Soul. Wake Me and Misogyny both got airplay on U.S. alternative rock radio but record sales were somewhat disappointing. When the band handed Atlantic the demos for what would become their second album, the label asked them to write another complete record as they didn’t hear a ‘hit”. The band refused, and TAG bought them out of their contract and parted ways with the band, while Rusty returned to indie status back in Canada. Fluke ended up selling nearly 50,000 copies in Canada, as well as another 25,000 in the U.S.
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20 John Pound Road,Tillsonburg,N4G0B9,CA, Canada
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