Marcy Playground

Even though members of Marcy Playground met in NEW YORK during the middle-’90s, both singer/guitarist John Wozniak and bassist Dylan Keefe originally hailed from Minneapolis, and drummer Dan Rieser was raised in Ohio. The group required its name from your Marcy Open College, an experimental primary college that Wozniak went to in the past due ’70s. Wozniak was intimidated by way of a few other learners during his period at Marcy Open up, and he eventually refused to become listed on his peers in the school’s playground during recess. Subsequently, the vocalist claimed that tough amount of his lifestyle offered as “a base for another self.” In another of the band’s first bios, he described, “The strange manner in which I start to see the globe today could be straight traced back again to enough time when, as just a little youngster, I sat paralyzed with the unlucky realities of lifestyle as I appeared away from a school home window and down onto the Marcy Playground.” Keefe went to another nearby college — a sister college, of kinds, to one that Wozniak went to — nonetheless it wasn’t until both Minneapolis natives shifted to N.Con.C. they initial crossed pathways. Introduced via acclaimed jazz guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel, both realized they distributed similar preferences in music and shortly decided to type a music group. Keefe recommended a vintage university friend, Rieser, to try out drums for the group, which resulted in the official delivery of Marcy Playground. The group ultimately signed a documenting agreement with Capitol Information and released a self-titled debut record in Feb 1997. Almost a year following the album’s discharge, rock and roll radio found in the group’s one “Sex and Candy” (much like Nirvana’s even more tranquil occasions), which pressed the album in the U.S. graphs and, ultimately, to platinum qualification. The trio started work on another full-length effort, attempting in order to avoid the feared sophomore jinx that therefore many other rock and roll bands have dropped victim to after credit scoring an inaugural strike. Marcy Playground demonstrated ultimately vunerable to these “curse,” because the ensuing record, 1999’s Shapeshifter, was broadly panned by critics and sank from view soon after its discharge. The group shrank from the limelight but continued liberating albums, with MP3 arriving in 2004 and Departing Wonderland…Inside a Fit of Rage following in ’09 2009. The remix recording, Indaba Remixes from Wonderland — offering remixed variations of songs off Departing Wonderland — made an appearance this year 2010.