THE MODERN LOVERS

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詳細 2015年10月10日 01:52更新: THE MODERN LOVERSのコミュニティを設けました。

Jonathan Richman - Guit/Vox
Ernie Brooks - Bass
Jerry Harrison - Organ
David Robinson - Drums

ジョナサン・リッチマン、ジェリー・ハリスン（Talking Heads）、その後のカーズやブロンディのメンバー達が在籍したバンド。

VELVET UNDERGROUNDとNew York Punkを繋ぐバンド。

RoadrunnerはSEX PISTOLSを経てPUNK世代の隠れた名曲となり、今でもフォロワーを生み出し続けています。

ハイロウズの名曲『13才』で「ジョナサ～ン！」と唄われたのはこのジョナサン・リッチマンのこと。

２００７年のFUJI ROCK FESTIVALではジョナサン・リッチマンの演奏をBEST ACTに挙げるオーディエンスが続出！

About The Modern Lovers
Led by Jonathan Richman, the protopunk band The Modern Lovers came out of Massachusetts in the early 1970s. Their classic debut album contained heartfelt songs about dating awkwardness, growing up in Massachusetts, and love of life. Many feel their best work is the first album and the outtakes from those sessions. The sound of the band owed a great deal to the influence of The Velvet Underground, but also pointed the way towards much of the punk, new wave and indie rock of the following decades. The band included Richman, bassist Ernie Brooks, keyboardist Jerry Harrison, and drummer David Robinson. Early on, the group also included guitarist John Felice, who would later form the seminal Real Kids. After recording several sessions in 1972 and '73 with producers including Kim Fowley and The Velvet Underground's John Cale , Richman wanted to scrap the tracks that were recorded and start over with a mellower, more lyrical sound. The rest of the band, while not opposed to such a shift later, insisted that they record as they sounded now. These issues stymied efforts to complete a debut album, and, eventually, led to the band's breakup by the end of 1973. In 1976, the Berserkely label issued a posthumous LP, titled simply The Modern Lovers, drawn from the demo sessions - including tracks such as "Roadrunner", "I'm Straight" (referring here to abstinence from drug use), and "Pablo Picasso". Harrison moved on to the seminal new wave band Talking Heads. Robinson became the drummer for the hit Boston-based pop band, The Cars. Richman reused the name for subsequent bands which he put together in the 1970s and 1980s. These were always billed as Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers.

About Jonathan Richman
Biography by Jason Ankeny
Jonathan Richman was one of rock's most eccentric and unpredictable cult figures, a performer whose eternally childlike public persona and seeming naivet? -- typified by songs like "Ice Cream Man," "Hey There Little Insect" and "I'm a Little Aeroplane" -- tended to obscure the dexterity and craft of his music, which skirted from garage rock to country to Latin stylings and back. Born May 15, 1951 in Boston, Massachusetts, Richman began playing guitar at the age of 15, and within a year was making his first public appearances. In 1969 he relocated to New York, the home of the Velvet Underground (his central musical influence), and spent his first two weeks in the city sleeping on the Velvets' manager's couch.

While working a series of odd jobs, including a tenure as a foot messenger for Esquire magazine, Richman attempted to find a venue to perform his music, but his simple songs and adenoidal voice were roundly rejected; he ultimately moved back to Boston in 1970, where he formed the first incarnation of the influential proto-punk band the Modern Lovers with guitarist John Felice, drummer David Robinson and bassist Rolfe Anderson. Within a few months, Anderson had been replaced by Ernie Brooks, and keyboardist Jerry Harrison stepped in for Felice. After recording some demos with Kim Fowley in the spring of 1971 (unissued until 1981), in 1973, the Modern Lovers (with producer John Cale) recorded the demos which comprised their seminal self-titled debut, featuring long-standing Richman favorites like "Roadrunner," "Pablo Picasso" and "Hospital." Problems with their label, however, blocked the songs' release until 1976; at the same time, Richman wanted to quiet the group's minimalist, garagey sound, leading to their breakup in 1973.

Eventually, Richman formed a new, acoustic Modern Lovers with guitarist Leroy Radcliffe, Rubinoos bassist Greg "Curly" Keranen and drummer Robinson. In 1977, they debuted with Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers, which emphasized the doo-wop flavor and wry pop melodies that remained hallmarks of Richman's career. That same year, the group issued Rock 'N' Roll With the Modern Lovers (with D. Sharpe on drums) and scored a major European hit with the instrumental "Egyptian Reggae." A year later, Richman went solo, and in 1979 issued Back in Your Life.

After a period of self-imposed exile, he resurfaced in 1983 with Jonathan Sings A series of strong pop records followed, including 1985's Rockin' & Romance, 1986's It's Time for Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers (recorded with Andy Paley), and Modern Lovers 88. In 1990, he released the self-explanatory Jonathan Goes Country; later, he made another left turn with 1993's Jonathan, Te Vas a Emocionar!, a collection of Latin-influenced songs performed entirely in Spanish. No matter what path his music took, however, Richman's cult following remained fiercely loyal, and saw its ranks expand courtesy of his frequent appearances on the NBC program Late Night With Conan O'Brien; in 1998, he was also prominently featured in the hit film comedy There's Something About Mary. I'm So Confused appeared later that year. Richman began dipping his toes into slightly more sophisticated musical forms with 2001's Her Mystery Not of High Heels and Eye Shadow, which also documented his continuing interest in the Spanish language, as did 2004's Not So Much to Be Loved as to Love.

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