The Georgia Satellites

At the same time when rock and roll & move didn’t value its root base, the Georgia Satellites came crashing in to the charts using a shock hit single to remind everybody where in fact the music had result from. The strike one, 1986’s “Maintain THE HANDS to Yourself,” rocked as hard as a vintage Chuck Berry melody, in addition to being nearly as smart. The Satellites weren’t a back-to-basics root base rock-band, either — their simple sound borrowed similarly from Berry, the Moving Stones, the Encounters, Small Feat, and AC/DC, using a Southern backwoods bent. At their finest, the Satellites had been only a damn great rock and roll & roll music group, driven with the traditional yet fresh new songwriting of business lead vocalist/guitarist Dan Baird. On the effectiveness of “Keep THE HANDS to Yourself,” their 1st major-label album offered well, however the follow-up, Open up All Night, didn’t; radio and MTV experienced treated the music group as some sort of novelty — a couple of hicks kicking out rock and roll & roll provided a break between your slick pop-metal of Bon Jovi as well as the introspective pop of Peter Gabriel. By enough time they released Open up FOREVER in 1988, nobody was interested, actually if the recording was only somewhat weaker compared to the debut. After yet another album, 1989’s Within the Property of Salvation and Sin, the music group known as it quits. Guitarist Rick Richards became a member of Izzy Stradlin’s Ju Ju Hounds 3 years later on; Baird pursued a single career and experienced a small strike in past due 1992 with “I REALLY LIKE You Period.” In 1996, he helped type the Yayhoos after liberating his second single recording. The Yayhoos possess two albums, the newest being 2006’s Place the Hammer Down. Through the middle-’90s, the Georgia Satellites reunited without Baird. They released Shaken Not really Stirred in 1997.