American Bang

Playing raucous, strutting hard rock and roll using a classic feeling of design and contemporary sweating and swagger, American Bang had been a four-piece group from Nashville whose had been determined to confirm there’s still area for rock within the world’s capital of country music. American Bang had been formed in middle-2005 by associates of two busted Nashville rock and roll works. Lead guitarist Ben Dark brown and drummer Neil Mason acquired caused Llama, who released an record for MCA in 2001 that generally dropped on deaf ears, while business lead vocalist and tempo guitarist Jaren Johnston performed drums using the Kicks, who released an record for TVT in 2004 before breaking up. Johnston have been composing songs following the collapse from the Kicks, and asked longtime friends Dark brown and Mason to greatly help him place them into form; teaming up with bassist Kelby Ray, the four close friends started playing Nashville rock and roll night clubs as Bang Bang Bang, and had been packing 300-capability venues within weeks of the debut. By the finish of 2005, Bang Bang Bang experienced self-released their 1st recording, I Shot the Ruler, and inside a year the people had been sharing phases with functions as varied as O.A.R., Shooter Jennings, and Lynyrd Skynyrd. In 2006, Bang Bang Bang authorized a recording cope with Warner Bros. Information; one year later on, the music group began focusing on its 1st recording for the label. Prior to the task was finished, though, the group found that another music group was already saving beneath the name Bang Bang Bang, and in August 2007 the bandmates announced they might now be referred to as American Bang. The group released an EP known as Proceed to the Music in Oct 2007 and continuing working on a complete recording, which eventually found its way to 2010 beneath the band’s brand-new relationship with Reprise. American Bang’s record failed to surpass sales goals, and Ben Dark brown left to start a solo profession. Johnson, Mason, and Ray continuing being a trio, initial utilizing the name the Cadillac Dark and afterwards the Cadillac Three; the brand new music group opened travels for Eric Cathedral and Dierks Bentley, made an appearance on the strike Television series Nashville, and released a self-titled debut record in 2013.