Silage (band)

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Name = Silage


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Origin = Grass Valley, California
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Genre = Alternative
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Years_active = 1996-1999
Label = Sub•Lime Records
Associated_acts = Celebrity, Parkway
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Current_members = Damian Horne
Lance Black
Shane Black
Chuck Cummings
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Notable_instruments = While more commonly being known as fermented animal feed, Silage is also the name of a Christian alternative band formed in the 1990s out of Grass Valley, California." [http://web.archive.org/web/19980215115244/www.sublimerecords.com/silgebio.html Silage Bio] ". Published by Sub•Lime Records, available through the Internet Archive. Retrieved Feb. 01, 2007.] Silage produced two albums, "Watusi" and "Vegas Car Chasers" on Sub•Lime Records and their parent Essential Records, respectively. The band's lineup for "Watusi" consisted of Damian Horne, Lance Black, and Shane Black (brothers). Chuck Cummings joined the band before the release of "Vegas Car Chasers" and stayed on until the eventual demise of the band.

The band was known for their quirky but spiritually relevant lyricscite web |url=http://www.jesusfreakhideout.com/cdreviews/Silage.asp |last=Terry |first=Jen |title=Silage, "Vegas Car Chasers" Review |publisher="Jesus Freak Hideout" |date=1998-11-05] and their constant mix of musical styles.

Release History

Silage produced a few independent albums before being signed to Sub*Lime Records, including "Holy Cow Food! Bagman!" in 1996 on the Sonfish Records imprint (featuring partial vocals and bass by A-F Records recording artist Ean Elliot), "Liquid Spatula".Fact|date=February 2007 Silage's first album, "Watusi" (1997) saw a slightly immature blend of ska, punk and hip-hop heralded mostly by the Christian underground punk scene, though songs such as "My Car Makes Me Sin," which is about traffic in Southern California, rose above the general melee. For their next release, Silage modified their sound to bring pop and hip-hop influences to the fore.cite web |url=http://www.tollbooth.org/reviewm/silage.html |title="Vegas Car Crashers" |last=Baldwin |first=Steven Stuart |date=1998-11-08 |publisher=The Phantom Tollbooth] cite journal |last=McGovern |first=Brian Vincent |year=1998 |month=November/December |title=SILAGE "Vegas Car Chasers" |journal=HM Magazine |id=ISSN|1066-6923 |issue=74 |pages= |accessdate=2007-04-24 |url=http://web.archive.org/web/20010222184244/www.hmmagazine.com/issue74/74Albums.htm] This new sound produced their more successful album, "Vegas Car Chasers" (1998). The most notable songs from this album are "Billboards," which garnered the #6 spot on Christian music charts in 1998; and "Verbs," which was graced by the rap stylings of Knowdaverbs, and achieved #7 on the same chart the next year.cite book |last=Powell |first=Mark Allan |title=Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Music |year=2002 |publisher=Hendrickson Publishers |location=Peabody, Massachusetts |isbn=1-56563-679-1 |edition=First printing |pages=823]

The Demise of Silage

In the wake of "Vegas Car Chasers", the buzz and anticipation for Silage was impressive, though it seems the band was not able to survive the hype. Following unrealized rumors of a name change, Silage disbanded in 1999, for undisclosed reasons. While this came as a blow to the increasing fan base of Silage, hope was offered in the form of the band Parkway, also on Essential Records, and consisting of Damian Horne and Lance Black, two members of the former band Silage. While on the surface it seemed that Parkway had all the elements loved in Silage (a guest rapper, KJ-52 on "Need Someone" and even guest vocals from Jars of Clay's Dan Haseltine on the successful "Your Love Surrounds Me"), yet the album, "Glad You Made It" and the new band did not fulfill the eager expectations Silage fans brought with them, as reflected in Parkway's short-lived career.

Today, the only surviving vestige of Silage exists in the band Celebrity, fronted by Lance Black. Celebrity has perhaps gained more acclaim than either Silage or Parkway for their indie-emo fashionings.

References

Further reading

*cite journal |last= |first= |title=Silage |month=May / June |year=1997 |issue=12 |journal=7ball Magazine
*cite journal |last= |first= |title=Silage |month=May / June |year=1998 |issue=18 |journal=7ball Magazine
*cite journal |last= |first= |title=Silage |month=January / February |year=1999 |issue=22 |journal=7ball Magazine Lance black from celebrity,silage,and parkway is currently in a band called the goodwolves.(jonah black)

External links

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