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Formed in 1980 by guitarist Dan Baird, guitarist Rick Richards, bassist Keith Christopher and David Michaelson. Despite a lineup change, the band recorded their first demo, however, shortly after the demo was cut the band broke up in the summer of 1984. Despite their breakup, their manager, Kevin Jennings, had been distributing the demo, eventually making its way into the hands of the label, Making Waves. The label distributed the demo as an EP entitled “Keep The Faith,” in 1985. The positive response from the EP prompted the band to regroup and in 1986 The Georgia Satellites signed with Elektra Records.
After signing the deal, the band went into the studio to record their debut album, the resulting album, “Georgia Satellite.” Despite heavy rotation on MTV, the band’s singles never reached Top 40. The following album, “Open All Night,” which was released in1988, included a cover of Ringo Starr’s “Don’t Pass Me By.” The third album, “In The Land of Salvation and Sin” received high praise from critics, it failed to do well commercially, resulting in Baird leaving the band to pursue a solo career, and the rest of the band going out on sabbatical.
In 1993 the band released their first compilation album, “The Best of The Georgia Satellites.” That year also brought a reunited band consisting of Rick Richards, Bruce Smith, Fred McNeal, and Todd Johnston. They released an album in 1997 entitled “Shaken Not Stirred.”
Live reviews
Georgia Satellites employ certain maturity with their rock n roll music that they are so successful for. They cite AC/DC as huge influences on their music and their writing. There are heavy four to the floor drum beats on a drum kit that when surrounded by microphones, is wash with reverb enough to fill a room to the point that you can feel the beat resonating right through your body. Even the distorted guitars have this effect when they are chugging away through the choruses of these songs. They open their set with “Open All night” their hit song that made it to number 6 in the Rock charts. It’s when they play “Hippy Hippy Shake” that every one is literally shaking what they’ve got. I swear the floor was even shaking at one point during this song!
“Keep Your Hands to Yourself” sees this entire room dancing with a fist in the air punching along to the beat of these huge drums, and this wall of guitars that Georgia Satellites make. “Battleship Chains” is the nostalgic set closer for these seasoned rockers.
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