Louis & Clark

The short-lived Los Angeles-based power pop group Louis & Clark was started by guitarist Louis Gutierrez after he still left the Three O’Clock following 1986’s Ever After. Starting up with business lead vocalist and guitarist Michael Gurley (who helpfully followed the name Clark Gurley therefore the duo could name themselves following the explorers who mapped the Louisiana Buy), the brand new companions quickly added bassist Joie Adam Calio, a pal of Gurley’s from senior high school in Saratoga, CA, and drummer Phil Maturano. Posh Boy Information, which got missed from putting your signature on the Three O’Clock back 1982, agreed upon Louis & Clark and bankrolled the discharge of the EP Hollywood Capability: Optimum (called for an indicator on the neighborhood water tank) in past due 1987. The record included the band’s edition of “Strolling Down Your Road,” a tune Gutierrez wrote with Susanna Hoffs from the Bangles that got appeared on the hit record Different Light. Gutierrez’s a friendly relationship with Hoffs additional benefited Louis & Clark if they had been chosen to surface in and compose several tracks for the soundtrack from the All Nighter, a film created and aimed by Susanna’s mother Tamar Hoffs and starring her comely girl in her initial acting function. The film, a significant flop, did no-one concerned worthwhile, and Louis & Clark split in 1988. Gutierrez became a member of the favorite L.A. substitute rock-band Mary’s Danish, ultimately marrying business lead vocalist Gretchen Seager from then on group split in 1993; the few became realtors within the Los Angeles region. Michael Gurley reverted to his genuine name with Joie Adam Calio created the alt-rock trio Dada, who experienced a major option radio strike in 1992 making use of their solitary “Dizz Knee Property.” Phil Maturano became an in-demand jazz program drummer that has written a number of instructional books on African and jazz drumming.