Stabilizers

Stabilizers

Infobox musical artist
Name = The Stabilizers


Img_capt = Cover of their lone album, "Tyranny" (1986)
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Origin = Erie, Pennsylvania, United States
Genre = Pop
Years_active = 1981 – 1991
Label = Columbia Records
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Current_members = "Left to Right:"
Dave Christenson
Rich Nevens
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The Stabilizers were a pop/rock duo founded in the early 1980s by musicians Dave Christenson and Rich Nevens. With Christenson on lead vocals and Nevens on guitars and occasional keyboards, they spent the first few years touring the Pennsylvania area and recording original compositions on a 4-track recorder. Then, in 1985, they were signed to Columbia Records and in 1986, released "Tyranny", their first and only album.

The guitar and synth-laced album followed in the style of other 1980s bands such as A-Ha, Duran Duran, Tears for Fears and Mr. Mister. The first single from "Tyranny" was "One Simple Thing," which peaked at number 21 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart (in 1986) and number 93 on the Billboard Hot 100, [Billboard.com: [http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/retrieve_chart_history.do?model.vnuArtistId=11920&model.vnuAlbumId=16128 Stabilizers: Artist Chart History] . Accessed 2007-05-27.] (in 1987) helped by the band's performance of the song on "American Bandstand" [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZuvB51BVS4] . Two music videos were released to promote the album: "One Simple Thing" [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v50khe9hg9o] , which was directed by David Fincher--who would go onto greater success directing the feature films "Alien³", "Se7en" and "Fight Club"--and "Tyranny," [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rko__Yjbyhc] helmed by renowned music video director David Hogan.

The "Tyranny" single failed to chart, and for the next five years, the band disappeared from view. Then, in 1991, an unreleased track from the "Tyranny" sessions, "Maybe This Time," surfaced on the soundtrack to the film "If Looks Could Kill", but that was the last anyone would hear from the band.

References

Websites

*http://www.playerie.com/classic/index.html (includes brief biography, photos, and what they're up to these days!)
*http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000008L2M/104-9279563-1516713?v=glance&n=5174 (includes comments in the reviews from Dave Christenson's former girlfriend!)


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