David Reilly (singer)
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David Reilly (May 5, 1971 – October 17, 2005), as singer and songwriting/production partner in the seminal electro-rock band God Lives Underwater (GLU), spent the better part of the last decade as a producer and touring artist, first signed by Rick Rubin to American Recordings in 1993.
American went on to release GLU's self titled EP and debut album Empty, which spawned minor radio hits "No More Love" and "All Wrong", the former as a single from the soundtrack to the hit Keanu Reeves film Johnny Mnemonic.
GLU then made a move to 1500 /A&M, who went on to release their breakthrough second full-length Life In The So Called Space Age, which generated the hit, "From Your Mouth". The single enjoyed extensive play on alternative rock stations and MTV alike, and saw the band hitting the road for several years of mostly sold out shows alongside notable artists including KMFDM, Korn, Stabbing Westward, Life of Agony, Filter, Far, Type O Negative, Genitorturers, Deftones, No Doubt, and Sublime, playing virtually every radio festival in the country, and all the while building a huge, rabid fanbase.
In addition to his repertoire as a writer and vocalist, Reilly was a multi-instrumentalist and producer with extensive synthesis/sampling knowledge, and with his GLU partner Jeff Turzo stayed busy with other production and remix projects as well, including remixes for Skinny Puppy, Rob Zombie and Messiah, and organizing and contributing to 1998's For the Masses: A Tribute To Depeche Mode, which also featured tracks from Deftones, Smashing Pumpkins, Failure, The Cure and Monster Magnet.
2004 saw the release of GLU's much anticipated Up Off the Floor, released worldwide in June on Megaforce/Locomotive. 2004 also saw a short solo acoustic tour by Reilly, mostly along the east coast (including stops in Cleveland, Akron, Detroit, Boston, & New York City), in support of his Inside EP (which due to timing issues actually wasn't released until the end of the tour). 2005 was to see Reilly's return to touring in support of unreleased How Humans R(x) album.
David Reilly died unexpectedly at 5:15am on October 17, 2005 from complications of a coma brought on by pain medication for an abscessed tooth[1]. He was 34 years old. Tour dates were scheduled at the time of his death, and the album was left unfinished, which was tentatively scheduled to be finished and released in March 2006 with guest vocalists filling in on a few incomplete tracks.
Reilly's Inside EP continued to be the top selling product in Corporate Punishment's online store as late as March 2006.
[edit] Labels
- American Recordings
- Corporate Punishment Records
- RuffNation
[edit] Releases
- Inside (2004)
- How Humans R(x) (Currently unreleased. In production at time of death)
