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Originally formed of vocalist Jason Cruz, guitarists Jake Kiley and Rob Ramos, bassist Jim Cherry, and drummer Adam Austin, Strung Out made their debut with a 7” self-titled record released shortly after their formation. Following the release the band became one of the first bands to sign with Fat Mike of NOFX’s label Fat Wreck Chords, which marked the departure of Austin on drums eventually replaced by Jordan Burns.
Strung Out’s debut album “Another Day in Paradise” arrived in May 1994, produced by Fat Mike himself and featured the singles “Population Control” and “In Harm’s Way”. The band subsequently released the albums “Suburban Teenage Wasteland Blues” in 1996 and the pre-Fat Wreck Chords compilation album “The Skinny Years… Before We Got Fat” in 1998.
The band’s third album proper “Twisted by Design” released in 1998, showed a musical maturity and development of technical skill compared to its predecessors, and largely established Strung Out’s future sound. In 1999 bassist Jim Cherry was fired from the band and went on to join the band Pulley and later Zero Down, before dying of heart failure in 2002. Cherry’s replacement Chris Aiken, represented a slight shift of focus for the band and made a notable contribution to the EP “The Element of Sonic Defiance” released in 2000.
Strung Out’s fourth full-length album “An American Paradox”, released in 2002, was their first to appear in the Billboard 200 and featured the single and video “Cemetery” – which found its way onto a number of punk rock compilations. The band has subsequently released the albums “Exile in Oblivion” in 2004 and “Blackhawks Over Los Angeles” in 2007. Both albums earned positive reviews from critics, the latter of which reached No.5 on the Billboard Top Heatseekers chart.
A collection of rare tracks and B-side got its release in March 2009 entitled “Prototypes and Painkillers”, followed by Strung Out’s seventh studio album “Agents of the Underground” released in September 2009.
Críticas en vivo
Strung Out are yet another band inspired by California's obsession with punk culture and they have been forging a career from this genre since the early 90s. Although they have undoubtedly had more success in their homeland, they occasionally cross the Atlantic and perform for their devoted British fandom.
Reaching back to their 1998 album 'Twisted by Design' to build the majority of tonight's setlist, the group entertain and energise the crowds with all five musicians making sure they are fully involved with the audience. Jason Cruz does a great job of getting up close and personal with the front rows during 'Mind of My Own' and 'Velvet Alley' as the whole room surges towards him. The man set is raucous and rowdy before the encore slows pace and Jason takes to stage solo and performs a couple of acoustic number with a surprising sincerity. The band then reconvenes for a rock-tastic finale of 'Wrong Side of the Tracks'.
sean-ward
The Show @ Borderline in Thousand Oaks was amazing...high energy and interpersonal - the band has no problem playing an in your face set shoulder to shoulder with a full house of sweaty screaming fans..Great show - they even did an improv of Danzigs Mother during an unplanned interlude due to a broken snare drum
shawn-deffenbaugh
Strung out is still going strong. Ive seen them in the early 90's and this year with a couple times in between. They still play as good if not better LIVE! High energy shows with a mix of new and old songs, singer is always on point same with the band. Not a show to be missed if your into music period.
AudioJak
Show was amazing a nice mixture of old and new songs they sound great as usual opening bands were pretty good as well great show can't wait to see them next time around we drove 3 and a half hours to see them and would definitely do it again
Vincentvega417
Great Saturday in town.
Security officers were nice.
And that's it because, for an unknown reason, this particular rock show was not allowed under 19.
Old band for old men
Roi_Pilaf
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