The minute I hear Tonic I start singing.. "if I could only see the way..." for me as a African American female getting into rock back then, The 90s was so amazing for me in music. I listened to everything and Tonic was definitely up there for me...love them music
How can anyone be "Too influenced by 70s rock" ?.. Whatever gets your artistic juices flowing is what's right for that individual. I loved Tonic so whatever they liked and/or used worked for me 🤘🔥💜
I remember my boss recommending Tonic's first album to me. He was an older guy who was a drummer for The Tubes for a short stint. He said he wasn't into alternative rock much but he liked these guys. I bought the first album without even hearing it and loved their sound right away. I thought the melodies were great and the lyrics were heartfelt. I've been a fan ever since.
I just recently got Tonic's 2nd album "Sugar". My god this band can write great songs. Although the song "You wanted more" was the single and video from this album, the song "Future says run" is one of the best most melodic songs I have ever heard in my live and I own around 1,000 cd's that I listen to all the time.
When i first showed my lil cousin (im 5 years older) future says run, his exact words were. "This shit could have come out TODAY and been a hit" will always remember that interaction because thats my sentiment forever with this band
Emerson Hart & Tonic are very active on social and they are SUCH good, kind guys. Emerson has a great bunch of solo stuff. Cool story: Emerson & Dan (bassist) kindly posed w/ my wife & I after a show a few years back for a couple pics, and even re-posed after I approached them again and said my wife mistakenly took about five 1-second **videos** on her phone instead of pics, since it was accidentally in video mode. Emerson laughed and said "no problem!" Class acts, these guys.
I was fortunate enough to meet a woman that was great friends with Emerson, Dan and Jeff..we got green room back stage passes when they played and headlined Maffey Theater in St Pete. Hung out at the hotel afterwards. Was best experience of my life.
Lemon parade and sugar albums never really left my cd wallet or playlists both on my phone now. Grew up listening to tonic still do. They use some fun tunings like dadgad too.
I was 12 when this track came out. I loved this track during my teen years and I loving it even more now as I get close to turning 40! The chorus is so sweet! So poetic! And I appreciate how clean the lyrics are!! I look forward to passing this track to my kids one day ❤❤❤❤❤
Jeff Russo did the music for "Legion," "Fargo," and recently "Star Trek Discovery" and "Picard." The official Star Trek Podcast, "The Pod Collective" has a great interview with Jeff Russo. Obviously heavy on his part in recent Star Trek shows, but it does hit on Jeff's full career.
Tonic: "We don't think in terms of alternative rock or guitar rock... Or how many CDs can we sell." For the most part, the video goes on to describe the band's album sales. But yeah, for me Tonic still rules! Their songs are a staple in my 90s alternative rock Spotify playlist.
Great video, man. I always wondered what happened to Tonic. It's great to hear that they got back together again and are currently still recording. It sounds like they got caught under the wheels of mega-giant UMG's corporate b.s. . At least they garnered 2 Grammy Nominations for their unappreciated 3rd album (unheard by me). I first became aware of Tonic in late-1999 in the Puget Sound region when KZOK-FM played the *Live At Bob's Garage* version of "Open Up Your Eyes." This version - MUCH louder, tighter, stronger and heavier than the studio version - blew me away at first listen. Absolutely love that song - specifically that version of it - to this day. I love "If You Could Only See" just as much. I just find their music being the perfect combination of light and heavy. I also find their songs to be refreshingly honest. I remember watching the video for "You Wanted More" which came as a bonus feature on the *American Pie* DVD. I think I might have heard that song a 2nd time, if anything. Tonic is a band that should have received much more popularity than what they had. Thanks for reminding me that I do need to check-out more of their stuff other than the 2 songs I know well by them. 👍🏻
UMG and the Communications Act of 1996 pretty much suffocated a lot of the business that everyone assumes when they think of "rock and roll". Those drops in Tonic's album sales are too steep to explain any other way; they and a lot of other bands were just dumped off a cliff by the massive conglomerates that took over everything.
I would give ANYTHING to have just one hit single, these guys had a few! I’ve never understood the hate against one hit wonders, 99.999% of us will never have a song played on the radio or sung by strangers, so to accomplish something like that is absolutely amazing. Even with just one hit song, it will still be around decades after we’re all gone and tracks like that live forever. There will still be folks two hundred years from now that will know the words to “If you could only see,” but there will be no one left on Earth at that time remembering any of us. So yeah, to write a song that will live forever is an accomplishment to envy and be proud of... not to mention these guys get to live comfortably off the residuals for the rest of their lives! On a side note, I met a guy who wrote a hit Christian song (just one song!) and he lived in a huge house with nice cars and never worked a day again. So I’m fairly sure Tonic is good to go and any of us would trade places with them in a heartbeat.
Christian music is a great racket to be involved in. There is an army of sleeve-tattooed youth pastors out there who consciously want to push alternatives to real music. Lots of real talent out there, but they'll subsidize the charisma and "it factor" for you. Also, being famous when you're dead feels the exact same as being not famous when you're dead.
I've always thought 1-hit wonders had it made- make a million bucks and your name in a book somewhere, and no more touring or stress. Get out and have cash in the bank. Smart if you ask me.
This is 7th grade for me. I used to love this song and quite a few others. I always thought the singer had the most 90's rock band front man names ever in existence...Emmerson Hart.
I own the first 2 albums and pretty much forgot about them (sorry). I just went on Amazon music and added a bunch of their songs. Thanks for the video and and re introducing me to a good band! Yeah Tonic!!
Thanks for this!! I had been wondering whatever happened to these guys. I'm shocked to find out that they didn't name themselves after tonic water! Lol, i always figured that was the origin of their band name! Lemon Parade is a classic album from my generation, & so is Sugar, in my opinion.
I always enjoyed this band!!!!!!! I have always loved their type of music!!!!!!!!! You have different feelings in your life and you don’t always want to feel like you suck and listen to harder driven music and hate life!!!?? Music like Tonics is very pleasing to listen to and their album is like a roller coaster of feelings!!!!!!!? One song will make ya sad and then the other one after that would build ya up a little bit!!?? Then by the time ya listened to the whole album!? Ya would have cried!? Laughed!? Got mad!? And then at the end you’d feel better about yourself and feel like you just had the best counseling session!!!? Lol God bless ya all today Shalom
Dude you're videos fucking kill it. I enjoy them very much and the spectrum you cover make them so interesting. I've watched some bands that I didn't care for but you made them interesting ha ha ha. Music is the universal language!
Thank you for doing a story on this band. Severely underrated at the time and don't really get the respect now. All the band members are monster musicians. My sons have grown up with their music and there's a Tonic gig happening close to us they are all about it. Got to see them at a local bar and mainstay in LA. Molly Malones, for the 20th Anniversary of Sugar and the band if ON POINT.
2003: MTV's True Life focuses on the "lifestyle" of renting & partying at the Jersey Shore, with its "I Have a Summer Share" filmed in Seaside Heights. also 2003: Tonic-Head on Straight was nominated for Best Rock Album at the Grammy's & "Take Me As I Am" was nominated for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal. I'm going to have to side with the Grammy's on this one.
Great video! “If you can only see” was me and my girlfriends at the time. Brings back bad memories. You know what band I’d like to see you spotlight? The Eels! I still listen to their album “Beautiful Freak” occasionally.
Much of the record label mentality during the 90s is basically summed up like this: Find a new band and sign them. Have them release a debut LP. Make hits of two or three singles. Then just throw the band away.
I was hooked the first time I heard "Open Up Your Eyes" on the radio. It was one of those " Who are THESE guys?!!!?" moments. I remember it happening two other times, that I can think of: The first time I heard "Talk Dirty To Me" on the radio(when it was current), and first hearing "Killing In The Name" in a club(again, being current). Tonic was the last time I remember this happening. Not saying these were the only 3 instances of this happening, but I can't remember any other times.
Here I am. Drunk. Need to sleep. Got work in 5 hours. This comes across my feed and am like "hell yeah, what ever did happen to Tonic? They were pretty cool" Thanks RUclips. Probably be late for work again
You wanted more was the first song of theirs that really clicked with me. I got so sick of hearing if you could only see back when it was first released. Their acoustic version of lemon parade is a very good offering though!
How about “Santa Monica”... now THAT was a hit song! When that track hit the airwaves you couldn’t go anywhere without hearing, “I am still living with your ghooost.”
It was one of those radio bands. They are pretty good. The drummer Kevin Shepard is Tom Selleck's adopted son. Tom was divorced from his mother, they were married for 10 years.
I remember watching them from the upstairs balcony of The Trubadour during a show for all the record excutives around 96 or 97. Some A&R guy was standing next to me rocking out, telling me how "these guys got it, they are going to be huge!" I was unimpressed and I guess history shows I was right.
Another great video! I would love to see one on one of my favorites bands American Football. They have a strong cult following and oddly released two albums almost two decades after their first and for a long time, only release.
I would very much love to see you do a video on whatever happened to the band "Machines of Loving Grace" the most well-known song is probably "butterfly wings" from their second album "concentration" they had a awesome song (one of my favorites actually) off The Crow soundtrack called "Golgotha tenement Blues" I always wanted to find out what happened to them and what they're doing now?
Now there's a blast from the past. I saw Machines of Loving Grace at Club DV8 in Salt Lake City. They only played half a set and left the stage to a chorus of boos.
@@maxmatson1578 Hope you enjoy the visit to SLC. Club DV8's long gone, having succumbed to a fire. The club hosted some cool bands, but the only time I was there was for the Machines concert. I wanted to see Lush when they stopped by, but was unable to.
Not even dad rock. It was just run of the mill "safe" post-grunge alternative. It didn't have any urgency or attitude, it was just vanilla flavored radio rock.
I had their two big albums. They were catchy. They had a song called "Waltz With Me," though, which was in 4/4 time all the way through. It felt oddly un-self aware.
I love your channel. I've worked in radio for 27 years. These days I work in traffic/news, but in the late 90's I worked for one of those "Upbeat Variety of the 80's, 90's & Today!" radio stations. We played the shit out of bands like this; to the point where I never wanted to hear any of this music again. To be honest, I had to find some of their songs on RUclips to jumpstart my memory. Sucks that the 90's are starting to become a blur to me.
They were a pretty good band with some really good songs, and a unique sound. There is actually a song about Hart's father on Lemon Parade. I thought Sugar had been much more successful that that. I remember hearing a lot about that album when it came out.
I always love these guys. Tonic is just a great band, but it always felt their record label didn't always feel the same way. By the time their third album came out, Hart and Russo could only tour as an acoustic duo since the label wouldn't help fund a full band tour. I think they just got caught up in a record biz that was consolidating, merging and dealing with Napster. Their albums were always great and they had a loyal fanbase, but the label never saw them as a priority. During the whole boy band craze it felt to as if all that mattered to the labels were those pop groups that were selling a gazillion copies of their albums and no 90's holdover band could compete with N'Sync selling four million copies in a week.
I can’t really believe how the song Lemon parade” didn’t complete out as a single off the album !!!!? It’s such an awesome song!!!!!!!!” And then some other songs that people didn’t really hear apparently!!!?? Just saying y’all!!!? God bless you all today Shalom
Tonic is a critically underrated band. The acoustic lemon parade album is amazing.
Twenty years later covering your own material isn’t evidence of being critically underrated. But the original album is good.
@@stephenbarone4053 I should have clarified, the band is critically underrated. Also, the acoustic release is amazing.
@@Dime_time333 You're welcome. ✌
I always liked Tonic. I like them even more after this docu.
They suck.
The minute I hear Tonic I start singing.. "if I could only see the way..." for me as a African American female getting into rock back then, The 90s was so amazing for me in music. I listened to everything and Tonic was definitely up there for me...love them music
My girlfriend was an American female..we both liked /loved the first 3rd eye blind album.
I looved 'If You Could Only See'. Still a beautiful song to me
Agreed. One of only songs that can make me choke up.
Tonic, Third Eye Blind, Matchbox 20 and many others. 93-95 great 3 year period for music.
1990s had some great pop music: big hits. 📻 ....
How can anyone be "Too influenced by 70s rock" ?.. Whatever gets your artistic juices flowing is what's right for that individual. I loved Tonic so whatever they liked and/or used worked for me 🤘🔥💜
Critics get paid to have opinions and come up with a bunch of flowery words.
If you could only see how blue her eyes can be when she says...... tonic was great!
Exactly! Maybe some fans wouldn't like a band "too influenced by 70's rock", but I seriously doubt it.
That's literally the same criticism for Greta Van Fleet
@@benjaminwatt2436 well, in that case, I would say it's legit because they sound exactly like led Zeppelin. Tonic doesn't sound like anybody else.
I remember my boss recommending Tonic's first album to me. He was an older guy who was a drummer for The Tubes for a short stint. He said he wasn't into alternative rock much but he liked these guys. I bought the first album without even hearing it and loved their sound right away. I thought the melodies were great and the lyrics were heartfelt. I've been a fan ever since.
One of my very favorite songs (I have many and have been around for a looong time) is “Open Up Your Eyes”. The singing and guitar just make me happy!
I saw tonic last year at the island in Pigeon Forge great band Emerson was a very nice guy
How could anyone consider being accused of being influenced by '70s rock a bad thing. This band was and is amazing!
I just recently got Tonic's 2nd album "Sugar". My god this band can write great songs. Although the song "You wanted more" was the single and video from this album, the song "Future says run" is one of the best most melodic songs I have ever heard in my live and I own around 1,000 cd's that I listen to all the time.
When i first showed my lil cousin (im 5 years older) future says run, his exact words were. "This shit could have come out TODAY and been a hit" will always remember that interaction because thats my sentiment forever with this band
Emerson Hart & Tonic are very active on social and they are SUCH good, kind guys. Emerson has a great bunch of solo stuff. Cool story: Emerson & Dan (bassist) kindly posed w/ my wife & I after a show a few years back for a couple pics, and even re-posed after I approached them again and said my wife mistakenly took about five 1-second **videos** on her phone instead of pics, since it was accidentally in video mode. Emerson laughed and said "no problem!" Class acts, these guys.
Lemon parade and Sugar were amazing records. Plenty of hits. They’re a solid band
I was fortunate enough to meet a woman that was great friends with Emerson, Dan and Jeff..we got green room back stage passes when they played and headlined Maffey Theater in St Pete. Hung out at the hotel afterwards. Was best experience of my life.
"If You Could Only See" still holds up well today, even after the post Grunge era
No, it’s crap, it’s garbage.
@@curly_wyn 😅
It's a great song! (Issa crate song!)
I remember the days when movie soundtracks were cds you actually wanted to buy. I remember going to Sam Goody to buy the End Of Days soundtrack.
those were the best CDs to get. All the songs were good
I remember having to go to a couple of music stores to find a copy of the Bright Lights, Big City soundtrack. I still have that CD in my collection.
The Crow soundtrack was one of the best soundtracks.
@@BockwinkleB Judgement night soundtrack was bad ass. Still listen to it.
Tragically underrated band. Lemon Parade is still one of my favorite albums, from first track until the last
Tonic's a great, insanely underrated band. I'd love to get some more material. Thanks for covering so many awesome bands!
I believe that I’m gonna go buy a few of their albums again!!!!!!? God bless you all today Shalom
*You wanted more is my favourite song of all time and it sounds amazing live*
I love this channel. Keeps the rock alive.
"Too influenced by 70's rock"
I don't even know what that means.
everyone's a critic
Well, I bought the album Lemon Parade and loved it. Completely underrated band.
Tonic kept it real. Great band. Very underrated. So much competition in that time. But Im happy to have lived in the grunge era. 😊
Lemon parade and sugar albums never really left my cd wallet or playlists both on my phone now. Grew up listening to tonic still do. They use some fun tunings like dadgad too.
I listen to "Open up your eyes" almost every single morning. It's a great song to get the day started 👍🎸🥁🎶
Lemon Parade is by far one of my favorite albums from the 90s
The word underrated is overrated but these guys are genuinely underrated.
My wife and I still listen to lemon parade all the time. Mountain is an incredible song. They are so talented.
"Mountain" is kinda my unofficial theme song for me for my home state of Arizona. For me it musically embodies the American Southwest.
@@palmerjacob39 I can totally see that. It definitely always felt like it takes me somewhere else and that makes sense.
*Untalented
@@curly_wyn ummm...un - educated
I always loved the Album “ Lemon Parade!!!! And I still enjoy listening to them on a regular basis!!!!!!!! God bless you all today Shalom
I was 12 when this track came out. I loved this track during my teen years and I loving it even more now as I get close to turning 40! The chorus is so sweet! So poetic! And I appreciate how clean the lyrics are!! I look forward to passing this track to my kids one day ❤❤❤❤❤
You wanted more American Pie movie Soundtrack is my favorite Tonic track.
Jeff Russo did the music for "Legion," "Fargo," and recently "Star Trek Discovery" and "Picard."
The official Star Trek Podcast, "The Pod Collective" has a great interview with Jeff Russo. Obviously heavy on his part in recent Star Trek shows, but it does hit on Jeff's full career.
Tonic: "We don't think in terms of alternative rock or guitar rock... Or how many CDs can we sell."
For the most part, the video goes on to describe the band's album sales.
But yeah, for me Tonic still rules! Their songs are a staple in my 90s alternative rock Spotify playlist.
Great video, man. I always wondered what happened to Tonic. It's great to hear that they got back together again and are currently still recording. It sounds like they got caught under the wheels of mega-giant UMG's corporate b.s. . At least they garnered 2 Grammy Nominations for their unappreciated 3rd album (unheard by me).
I first became aware of Tonic in late-1999 in the Puget Sound region when KZOK-FM played the *Live At Bob's Garage* version of "Open Up Your Eyes." This version - MUCH louder, tighter, stronger and heavier than the studio version - blew me away at first listen. Absolutely love that song - specifically that version of it - to this day. I love "If You Could Only See" just as much. I just find their music being the perfect combination of light and heavy. I also find their songs to be refreshingly honest.
I remember watching the video for "You Wanted More" which came as a bonus feature on the *American Pie* DVD. I think I might have heard that song a 2nd time, if anything.
Tonic is a band that should have received much more popularity than what they had. Thanks for reminding me that I do need to check-out more of their stuff other than the 2 songs I know well by them. 👍🏻
UMG and the Communications Act of 1996 pretty much suffocated a lot of the business that everyone assumes when they think of "rock and roll". Those drops in Tonic's album sales are too steep to explain any other way; they and a lot of other bands were just dumped off a cliff by the massive conglomerates that took over everything.
One of these greatest American rock bands of all time. SO underrated.
I would give ANYTHING to have just one hit single, these guys had a few! I’ve never understood the hate against one hit wonders, 99.999% of us will never have a song played on the radio or sung by strangers, so to accomplish something like that is absolutely amazing. Even with just one hit song, it will still be around decades after we’re all gone and tracks like that live forever. There will still be folks two hundred years from now that will know the words to “If you could only see,” but there will be no one left on Earth at that time remembering any of us. So yeah, to write a song that will live forever is an accomplishment to envy and be proud of... not to mention these guys get to live comfortably off the residuals for the rest of their lives! On a side note, I met a guy who wrote a hit Christian song (just one song!) and he lived in a huge house with nice cars and never worked a day again. So I’m fairly sure Tonic is good to go and any of us would trade places with them in a heartbeat.
Christian music is a great racket to be involved in. There is an army of sleeve-tattooed youth pastors out there who consciously want to push alternatives to real music. Lots of real talent out there, but they'll subsidize the charisma and "it factor" for you.
Also, being famous when you're dead feels the exact same as being not famous when you're dead.
I've always thought 1-hit wonders had it made- make a million bucks and your name in a book somewhere, and no more touring or stress. Get out and have cash in the bank. Smart if you ask me.
They are certainly not a one-hit wonder
This is 7th grade for me.
I used to love this song and quite a few others.
I always thought the singer had the most 90's rock band front man names ever in existence...Emmerson Hart.
Saw Tonic a few years back in Milwaukee at Summerfest. They put on a great show. Definitely underrated band.
I own the first 2 albums and pretty much forgot about them (sorry). I just went on Amazon music and added a bunch of their songs. Thanks for the video and and re introducing me to a good band! Yeah Tonic!!
Thanks for this!! I had been wondering whatever happened to these guys. I'm shocked to find out that they didn't name themselves after tonic water! Lol, i always figured that was the origin of their band name! Lemon Parade is a classic album from my generation, & so is Sugar, in my opinion.
unbelievably amazing band. so so good, saw them around 12/13 years ago front row and they're still among the tightest/best live bands i've ever seen.
:If you could only see" was part of my childhood. I still love that song.
Tonic and 7M3 have to come back. Such two great bands!
I always enjoyed this band!!!!!!! I have always loved their type of music!!!!!!!!! You have different feelings in your life and you don’t always want to feel like you suck and listen to harder driven music and hate life!!!?? Music like Tonics is very pleasing to listen to and their album is like a roller coaster of feelings!!!!!!!? One song will make ya sad and then the other one after that would build ya up a little bit!!?? Then by the time ya listened to the whole album!? Ya would have cried!? Laughed!? Got mad!? And then at the end you’d feel better about yourself and feel like you just had the best counseling session!!!? Lol God bless ya all today Shalom
Dude you're videos fucking kill it. I enjoy them very much and the spectrum you cover make them so interesting. I've watched some bands that I didn't care for but you made them interesting ha ha ha. Music is the universal language!
Tonic is a wonderful, high talented but tragically underrated band.
I love'em🎶
Thank you for doing a story on this band. Severely underrated at the time and don't really get the respect now. All the band members are monster musicians. My sons have grown up with their music and there's a Tonic gig happening close to us they are all about it. Got to see them at a local bar and mainstay in LA. Molly Malones, for the 20th Anniversary of Sugar and the band if ON POINT.
Everything is at it should be. Tonic never gets mentioned, and that’s a good thing, because they’re not good.
I saw this band three years ago so they're still touring
2003: MTV's True Life focuses on the "lifestyle" of renting & partying at the Jersey Shore, with its "I Have a Summer Share" filmed in Seaside Heights. also
2003: Tonic-Head on Straight was nominated for Best Rock Album at the Grammy's & "Take Me As I Am" was nominated for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal.
I'm going to have to side with the Grammy's on this one.
Oh, I liked Tonic. I used to have their CD
So did a million other people 😂😂
Had the pleasure of meeting Emerson a few years ago. Extremely nice guy! Very down to earth and friendly. Sound great live even to this day.
That riff in you wanted more is flat out fantastic
They definitely had their own sound for that time. Which was rare in the mid 90s on pop radio.
I cannot believe the album sales these guys succumbed to so sad they are Rock iconic
Fun fact: “If You Can Only See” is about the lead singer’s mother, not about a breakup or an ex lover.
Great video! “If you can only see” was me and my girlfriends at the time. Brings back bad memories. You know what band I’d like to see you spotlight? The Eels! I still listen to their album “Beautiful Freak” occasionally.
Much of the record label mentality during the 90s is basically summed up like this:
Find a new band and sign them.
Have them release a debut LP.
Make hits of two or three singles.
Then just throw the band away.
I was hooked the first time I heard "Open Up Your Eyes" on the radio. It was one of those " Who are THESE guys?!!!?" moments. I remember it happening two other times, that I can think of: The first time I heard "Talk Dirty To Me" on the radio(when it was current), and first hearing "Killing In The Name" in a club(again, being current). Tonic was the last time I remember this happening. Not saying these were the only 3 instances of this happening, but I can't remember any other times.
Here I am. Drunk. Need to sleep. Got work in 5 hours. This comes across my feed and am like "hell yeah, what ever did happen to Tonic? They were pretty cool" Thanks RUclips. Probably be late for work again
But it was worth it right?
You wanted more was the first song of theirs that really clicked with me. I got so sick of hearing if you could only see back when it was first released. Their acoustic version of lemon parade is a very good offering though!
Yeah.....that song was horrible after the 1000th time i heard it that one month.
Tonic is playing a free show on Fremont street in downtown Las Vegas on July 31st. Fyi. Great band.
Please do a video about Everclear
@Steve A hahaha
"Wonderful"
Everclear is still releasing albums together and touring, they’re doing great.
How about “Santa Monica”... now THAT was a hit song! When that track hit the airwaves you couldn’t go anywhere without hearing, “I am still living with your ghooost.”
With my big black boots and my old suitcase
@@82pythons85 If someone did a Top-10 Best First Lines Of Songs list, "I am still livin' with your ghooost" would be #1 In my opinion.
Tonic is still an excellent band. Their music absolutely holds up over time.
Emerson Hart's solo albums are excellent, especially the most recent one.
Agreed. He's an excellent songwriter.
Hurricane really helped me.
It was one of those radio bands. They are pretty good. The drummer Kevin Shepard is Tom Selleck's adopted son. Tom was divorced from his mother, they were married for 10 years.
Tonic is so refreshing and I'll continue to love them forever
I remember watching them from the upstairs balcony of The Trubadour during a show for all the record excutives around 96 or 97. Some A&R guy was standing next to me rocking out, telling me how "these guys got it, they are going to be huge!" I was unimpressed and I guess history shows I was right.
Another great video! I would love to see one on one of my favorites bands American Football. They have a strong cult following and oddly released two albums almost two decades after their first and for a long time, only release.
Lemon Parade is an amazing album!
Excited to see them live at the beach this upcoming September!
I saw Tonic in Lawrence Kansas in 1999 with Weezer at a music festival and loved every minute of it
What happened is they’ve been producing amazing music ever since - just under the radar
Awesome Band Lemon Parade is still an amazing album to this day same with Sugar lot of good memories with both album thanks for this one
Please do a video about Tina Bell and her band Bam Bam... Some people call her the grandmother of grunge! Pionneers from Seattle!
I would very much love to see you do a video on whatever happened to the band "Machines of Loving Grace" the most well-known song is probably "butterfly wings" from their second album "concentration" they had a awesome song (one of my favorites actually) off The Crow soundtrack called "Golgotha tenement Blues" I always wanted to find out what happened to them and what they're doing now?
Now there's a blast from the past. I saw Machines of Loving Grace at Club DV8 in Salt Lake City. They only played half a set and left the stage to a chorus of boos.
@@cris_261 hella jealous!👍 I would have loved to seen them play Live, ironically I'm getting ready to visit Salt Lake City to see my family😅✌
@@maxmatson1578 Hope you enjoy the visit to SLC. Club DV8's long gone, having succumbed to a fire. The club hosted some cool bands, but the only time I was there was for the Machines concert. I wanted to see Lush when they stopped by, but was unable to.
Love the song The Mountain on Lemon Parade. Its a 9.5
Yeah, great song!!
Still listen to them all the time!👍😎👍
Please tell us about pizzicato five.
I love them, but I'm not sure they'd classify as rock, even in its most liberal definitions.
I still have the lemon parade cd
such a great band. their songs are on constant rotation in my personal playlists.
their sound is nearly indistinguishable from dozens of other bands that got famous at the time. it's a sound I never really personally cared for.
Totally agree, it was dry dad rock. Not BAD, but...a bit shit.
Not even dad rock. It was just run of the mill "safe" post-grunge alternative. It didn't have any urgency or attitude, it was just vanilla flavored radio rock.
@@robwalsh9843 yes, That's a perfect description of what it is.
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Well damn this was very informative
I had their two big albums. They were catchy. They had a song called "Waltz With Me," though, which was in 4/4 time all the way through. It felt oddly un-self aware.
They were fun for a couple yrs in the late 90s.
One of my most favourite bands ever.
“OPEN UP YOUR EYYYYYEEESSSSS!”
Sugar is an awesome album. Still one of my favorites today
Iam a total black / death metal guy and I loved tonic excellent live band.
I love your channel. I've worked in radio for 27 years. These days I work in traffic/news, but in the late 90's I worked for one of those "Upbeat Variety of the 80's, 90's & Today!" radio stations. We played the shit out of bands like this; to the point where I never wanted to hear any of this music again. To be honest, I had to find some of their songs on RUclips to jumpstart my memory. Sucks that the 90's are starting to become a blur to me.
Tonic? Tonic. Tonic? Tonic. We had that song in the 90's. We we're really big in Finland. Tonic?
Love their hits. Sang them at karaoke the other week.
They were a pretty good band with some really good songs, and a unique sound. There is actually a song about Hart's father on Lemon Parade. I thought Sugar had been much more successful that that. I remember hearing a lot about that album when it came out.
I always love these guys. Tonic is just a great band, but it always felt their record label didn't always feel the same way. By the time their third album came out, Hart and Russo could only tour as an acoustic duo since the label wouldn't help fund a full band tour. I think they just got caught up in a record biz that was consolidating, merging and dealing with Napster. Their albums were always great and they had a loyal fanbase, but the label never saw them as a priority. During the whole boy band craze it felt to as if all that mattered to the labels were those pop groups that were selling a gazillion copies of their albums and no 90's holdover band could compete with N'Sync selling four million copies in a week.
I can’t really believe how the song Lemon parade” didn’t complete out as a single off the album !!!!? It’s such an awesome song!!!!!!!!” And then some other songs that people didn’t really hear apparently!!!?? Just saying y’all!!!? God bless you all today Shalom
I used to stan that song on AMERICAN PIE they did really hard. Shame it didn’t take off as it should have
Good band. Really enjoyed their music.
Mr Golden Deal is sublime. Brilliant tune.
I'd love to see a series on the most iconic rock and roll music videos...just an idea
Jeff Russo is now a genius film scorer. Fargo for one and SO many more. The guys still play shows. Long live these boys.