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Guitarist Phil Keegan put his own trademark stamp on "Fuzz Rock" or "Grunge" deep in the mid 1980's with muddy brazen tracks like "Precarious" and 1988's "Racers". "Six Feet Under" would be a tighter and more refined G.e. Sound as the band later evolved in March 1989 with "The Four Song E.p." Drummer Clark Hagins sang the Lead vocals directly from the drumkit ! Hagins was a great drummer who hit like a mean Keith Moon but was an even better lead singer with vocals somewhere between David Bowie, Robert Plant, and Iggy Pop !! Bassist Rick Carmody is probobly the most 'well known' member of G.e. internationally what with his red hair and very weird 'un-rocklike' demeanor ,....The Greenhouse Effect Would explode on the internet in 2006 and 2007 as one of the first alternative rock bands to really capitalize upon the new 'video boom era"..........Tracks like 1991's "Brandy" and "Black or White Song" would make the trio internationally known and top downloaded. Millions of people around the world have a Greenhouse Effect song in their ipod !! GoogleVideoCom declared G.e. as one of their most watched bands of 2008 with "Brandy"......Thousands of Internet Radios such as Jango have picked up G.e. Songs .....Says Keegan; "We started out playing where ever we could,...at the end of every gig, Hagins would smash all his drums,..I know that seems cliche - but NOBODY was doing THAT in 89' ,..it was all cheesey glam metal then ,..we were true originators,....Hagins would take our tapes and pictures of the band to the Major Labels,...not just to Indie ones,...We had big dreams to be the biggest rock band in the world and 'grunge' was the way we were going to do it - our uniqueness,... ,..Well , unfortunately,..it never happened,..after I left,..I think the band went downhill,....they couldn't get a record contract,....Who knows what would have happened with G.e. if I was still around with it !!" - "Other bands moved in and capitalized with our ideas,...if Hagins says that labels like Geffen took his vision then it might be true,..We went to Geffen in 1988 and Gary Gersh,..because that band Asia with Steve Howe from Yes was on Geffen,..and Steve Howe is one of my favorite Guitarists !! We got Great reviews in Flipside and all kinds of indie rock magazines,..everybody raved about us,..and we were the shit live,..when we played at Wilson park,..we would play with like 6 or 7 other bands and it didn't matter who was on the bill,..we would crush em !! I made damn sure of it "

• Release Date

  Aug 21, 2009

• Runtime

  03:47