Filter (band)

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Background information
Origin United States
Genre(s) Industrial Rock
Post-Grunge
Years active 1993 - Present
Label(s) Warner Music Group
Associated
acts		 Nine Inch Nails
Army of Anyone
Stone Temple Pilots
The Damning Well
Website http://www.officialfilter.com/
Members
Richard Patrick
Geno Lenardo
Frank Cavanaugh
Steve Gillis
Alan Bailey
Former members
Brian Liesegang
Matt Walker

Filter is a rock group formed in 1993 by Richard Patrick (former live guitarist for Nine Inch Nails) and guitarist/programmer Brian Liesegang. Filter's most distinguishing feature is Richard Patrick's voice, which can soar to quite a high scream.

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[edit] History

[edit] Short Bus

Their first album, Short Bus, was released in 1995. The album was commercially successful, and included the smash hit single "Hey Man, Nice Shot". The song was somewhat controversial, as it was seen as capitalizing on the public suicide of Budd Dwyer. Kurt Cobain's suicide was widely rumored to have inspired the song, but the band refuted this. In need of a live band to tour the album, Patrick and Liesegang recruited Geno Lenardo on guitar, Frank Cavanaugh on bass, and Matt Walker on drums. They would all later be featured in the video for the album's second single, "Dose".

[edit] Soundtracks and Remixes

In 1996, Filter recorded and filmed the video for the song "Jurassitol", for The Crow: City of Angels soundtrack. They also released the home video Phenomenology in 1996, which showcased some of the band's live performances and music videos, as well as an interview with Richard Patrick and Brian Liesegang filmed in New Mexico.

Liesegang left in 1997 shortly after recording the Filter/Crystal Method collaboration "(Can't You) Trip Like I Do" for the Spawn movie soundtrack, due to creative differences with Patrick. In 1998, for The X-Files film soundtrack, Patrick decided to keep the Filter name and recorded a cover of Three Dog Night's "One".

[edit] Title of Record

Patrick continued on with 1999's Title of Record with returning members Geno Lenardo and Frank Cavanaugh, as well as Steve Gillis on drums, filling in the gap left by Matt Walker after he left to work with The Smashing Pumpkins. Title of Record moved away from industrial rock somewhat, and resulted in the band's biggest hit, the mellow ballad "Take a Picture," along with other lesser-heard singles "Welcome to the Fold" and "The Best Things".

[edit] The Amalgamut

2002 saw the release of The Amalgamut, featuring the single "Where Do We Go From Here" and scoring another radio hit with "American Cliché". "The Only Way (Is The Wrong Way)" was also featured in the first wave of Hummer2 commercials that year and in the movie Tomb Raider: Cradle of Life the following year (2003). Alan Bailey was recruited for live guitar when they set off to tour the album; however, the tour ended abruptly a few weeks in when Patrick decided he needed to go to rehab. He's since tattooed his date of sobriety, September 28, 2002, on his forearm.

[edit] Future Works

Patrick has reported in his official website that he has already put a great deal of work into an unnamed fourth Filter release, but has put that aside in favor of his new project Army of Anyone with former Stone Temple Pilots members, Robert and Dean DeLeo and Ray Luzier. Army of Anyone's debut album was released on November 14, 2006.

[edit] Discography

Year Album US Peak RIAA Certification
1995 Short Bus #59 Platinum
1999 Title of Record #30 Platinum
2002 The Amalgamut #32 Not certified

[edit] Singles

Year Title Chart positions Album
US Hot 100 US Modern Rock US Mainstream Rock US Hot Dance UK
1995 "Hey Man, Nice Shot" #76 #10 #19 - - Short Bus
1995 "Dose" - - - - - Short Bus
1996 "Jurassitol" - - - - - The Crow: City of Angles OST
1997 "(Can't You) Trip Like I Do" with The Crystal Method - #29 - - #39 Spawn: The Album
1998 "One" - - - - - The X-Files: The Album
1999 "Take A Picture" #12 #3 #4 #1 #25 Title of Record
1999 "Welcome to the Fold" - #17 #8 - - Title of Record
2000 "The Best Things" - #18 #31 - #63 Title of Record
2002 "Where Do We Go From Here?" #94 #11 #12 #21 - The Amalgamut
2002 "American Cliché" - #40 - - - The Amalgamut
2003 "The Only Way (Is The Wrong Way)" - - - - - The Amalgamut

[edit] Soundtrack contributions

[edit] Trivia

  • The song Captain Bligh was written about Trent Reznor's notoriously anti-social habits by Richard Patrick after he left Nine Inch Nails. Vice-Admiral William Bligh was also captain of the HMAV Bounty, on which Mutiny on the Bounty was based.
  • The song Take a Picture is about a dispute on an aircraft. Richard Patrick stripped down to his boxers to get comfortable enough to sleep, alarming the other passengers. Lyrics include: "I don't believe in privacy"; "I feel like a new-born"; and "Awake on my airplane." "Take a picture" is a popular expression to say when someone is caught staring, especially at someone who is naked or in his or her underwear ("Why don't you take a picture? It'll last longer."). Another similar rumor to the meaning of this song is that it is about Patrick getting naked while being intoxicated on an airplane ("Could you take my picture cause I won't remember.").
  • The lyrics "Hey, Dad, what do you think about your son now?" in the song Take a Picture refers to the fact that Patrick's father didn't believe he could make it in the recording business and tried to persuade him to pursue another direction.
  • Richard Patrick was part of the supergroup The Damning Well, which has only released one track on the Underworld movie soundtrack in 2003, despite an entire album's worth of recording.
  • They were referred to in the song 'Bonus Track #3' by Anal Cunt.
  • It was heavily rumored that Geno Lenardo and Frank Cavanaugh were going to be involved with former lead singer of Adema, Mark Chavez in a band called State Of Mind. These rumors proved to be false as Mark Chavez's band is called Midnight Panic and doesn't feature either of the two.

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

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