Smash Mouth biography

A freshness rock band in the same key as Presidents of the USA, but with surf and lockup influences instead of the Presidents' punk-hammer background, Smash Mouth found a hit in 1997 with the '50s-influenced "Walkin' on the Sun." The group was molded in 1994 in San Jose, CA, by vocalist Steve Harwell, a former rapper with the group F.O.S. After that group , he began with an friend, timpanist Kevin Coleman. Harwell's former leader introduced him to guitarist Greg Camp (fresh from the neighborhood band Lackadaddy) and bassist Paul DeLisle. The quartet two demos, and got the songs into variation on a parochial receiver station. After playing a straw-hat festival with No Doubt and Beck, Smash Mouth decided to record an LP. After finishing Fush Yu Mang, the group were by Interscope, which "Walkin' on the Sun" as the first only. It a number one avant-garde rock hit and lacking the scrapbook into the Top 40. Touring further helped the CD's push, and the band other in a live keyboardist, Michael Klooster, to bolster their (and later live instrumentalist Mark Cervantes as well).

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The develop-up albom, Astro Lounge, was released in 1999, the hit "All Star"; a compilation of early material, East Bay Sessions, also appeared that same time. A undecorated back ailment ultimately lead to Coleman's exit from the band; he was replaced by ex-Tripping Daisy instrumentalist Mitch Marine for the autograph album's subsequent tour and further out for Michael Urbano at its completion. Though no more hits with on a plane weight were forthcoming from Astro Lounge, the band's work of the initial 2000s (2001's Smash Mouth and 2003's Get the Picture?) satisfied fans of animated pop harmony. The group also contributed many to a plethora of flow pictures, most remarkably cover of the Monkees' "I'm a Believer" (from release) to the CD of 2001's hit picture Shrek, and many of these then on the August 2005 Smash Mouth hits assembly All Star Smash Hits. Harwell could be mottled in hasty 2006 as a cast participant on the sixth season of VH1's celeb-veracity TV show The Surreal Life, just as drummer Urbano was leaving the band due to imaginative differences. His spot was claimed in March by Jason Sutter, who had formerly done work with American Hi-Fi and the Rembrandts. Smash Mouth's ballet school stamp album, Summer Girl, appeared in primary September.