SKINNY PUPPY....STILL RABID?

by Rev. Cecil B. Demented Mon Sep 03, 2012 4:29 pm

ELECTRO/INDUSTRIAL BAND SKINNY PUPPY WERE FORNED IN VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA IN 1982 BY cEVIN KEY . IT WAS ACTUALLY A SIDE PROJECT OF KEY'S, AS HE WAS A FULL TIME MEMBER OF THE BAND 'IMAGES IN VOGUE'. WHEN VOCALIST NIVIK OGRE CAME ABOARD,SKINNY PUPPY BECAME A FULL TIME GROUP. THE LINE-UP CHANGED A LOT, WITH OGRE AND KEY BEING THE ONLY CONSISTANT MEMBERS. OTHER MEMBERS INCLUDED DAVE "RAVE' OGLIVIE (PRODUCER AND UN-OFFICIAL MEMBER UNTIL 1995).AL JOURGENSEN OF MINISTRY WAS EVEN A MEMBER FOR A SHORT TIME.SIGNED TO CANADA'S NETTWORK RECORDS, THEIR FIRST EP,"REMISSION" CAME OUT IN 1984 . THE BAND HAVE RELEASED 14 ALBUMS IN THEIR CAREER, AND ARE CONSIDERED VERY INFLUENCIAL. THEY TOURED HEAVILY OVER THE YEARS ,AND BROUGHT TEROR-FILLED THEATRICS TO THEIR SHOW. TAKING ON ISSUES LIKE CHEMICAL WARFARE, AND ANTI ANIMAL TESTING.THEIR SONG,"WHO'S LAUGHING NOW' WAS USED IN THE 1990 FILM, "BAD INFLUENCE". IN 1993, THE BAND LEFT THEIR LONG TIME LABEL, NETTWORK RECORDS, AND SIGNED WITH AMERICAN RECORDINGS. SKINNY PUPPY THEN RELOCATED TO CALIFORNIA. WHILE RECORDING THEIR NEW LP,"THE PROCESS" TENSION BETWEEN MEMBERS AND DRUG PROBLEMS LED TO OGRE QUITTING THE BAND IN JUNE OF '95,. AND ANOTHER MEMBER DYING OF A HEROIN OVERDOSE IN AUGUST OF THAT SAME YEAR. THE ALBUM WAS COMPLETED AND RELEASED IN 1996, THEN, SADLY, SKINNY PUPPY BROKE UP. IN 2000, A ONE-OFF REUNION CONCERT TOOK PLACE AT THE DOOMSDAY FESTIVAL IN DRESDEN, GERMANY. IN 2003, THE BAND RE-FORMED YET AGAIN, RELEASING TWO ALBUMS ON THEIR NEW LABEL,SYNTHETIC SYMPHONY RECORDS OUT OF GERMANY. OVER THEIR CAREER, THE BAND HAVE RELEASED 14 LP'S, A LIVE LP OF THE BAND'S 2010 EUROPEAN TOUR,ENTITLED "BOOTLEGGED,BROKE,AND IN SOLVENT SEAS" WAS RELEASED IN JUNE OF 2012. farao

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