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This 8-track is extremely rare, only 10 – 15 copies were pressed and was basically recorded over other old 8-tracks and consisted of live tracks recorded by Spencer and Martin at the Old Miami. 8-TrackĪside from this single release on Uchu Cult, The Wildbunch also released an 8-track album entitled An Evening With The Many Moods Of The Wildbunch’s Greatest Hits… Tonight! also in 1996. On this first single, Tyler Spencer was responsible for much of the creation of the track, performing vocals, guitar, bass and synthesizer, with Cory Martin on drums, but it was recorded with all the members of the band in place. Only 500 copies of this single were pressed, and fewer cassettes were made. This first combination of The Wildbunch released their first single ‘I Lost Control (Of My Rock ‘n’ Roll)’ on 7” and cassette under the record label of Uchu Cult, a cover name for self-distribution, in 1996. I Lost Control (Of My Rock & Roll) single With Spencer learning his trade and performing the songs live in the area around 1996 – 1998, an A&R man saw them and they recorded three songs for a possible deal with Hollywood Records, the record label of Insane Clown Posse, but it fell through, as did possible deals with Roadrunner Records and Americoma, among others in the late 1990s, though no demos were created for these. The WildbunchĪ demo of eight tracks (Gay Bar, I Lost Control (Of My Rock ‘n’ Roll), Tiny Little Men, I Know Karate, I’m on Acid, Computer, Christian Radio Manchester and Are You Afraid of the Devil?) was created, Some songs that would be familiar to fans (Gay Bar, The Ballade of MC Sucka DJ, Computer) were done in that session. Songs were recorded at that session, obviously, but they were never circulated. Needless to say, a deal was not forthcoming. This was but 6 months after the band formed.
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The band had a demo deal with Hollywood Records, and the trip to LA was for the purpose of recording a demo by which Hollywood would evaluate the band and decide whether or not to offer them a record deal. These demos were heard by Anthony Selph and Joe Frezza at Gasoline Alley, who asked if they could cover ‘Gay Bar’.
The Wildbunch originally started with Spencer and dummer Steve Christensen, but when he left Cory Martin stepped in and recorded eight songs on four-track in Martin’s basement studio. He went to Starkville, Mississippi to study at Mississippi State University but didn’t enjoy it due to the lack of a social scene, and a different music taste, and so came back to Detroit to rejoin the Wildbunch. When Spencer graduated he had no ambitions to be in a band, planning to become a weatherman a year after leaving University. Going under many names, such as the Wildbunch, Maine Lobsters, Doycher, and Shatner, this was a more informal group. Spencer learnt to play guitar at this time and soon began writing songs and forming early bands around 1992 at the height of grunge, but playing different music and performing live at frat parties. He went to Berkeley High School where he knew of the other members of them loosely with Steve Nawara’s sister being in his class, but he was friends with Cory Martin. Spencer was born in Pittsburgh, Pensylvania and moved to Michigan, Ohio and Kentucky before settling in Royal Oak in Michigan, moving every three years. These pseudonyms have changed over the years, Spencer now being known as Dick Valentine. We use stage names because we had a stupid idea one night and now we have to live with it Adopting monikers of Martin M and Jackson Pounder respectively, they began touring around Detroit. Tyler Spencer didn’t come from a musical family and was originally born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania before moving to Detroit before high school. 1995 – 2000 The WildbunchĮlectric Six began as the band The Wildbunch in 1995, formed by drummer Cory Martin and vocalist Tyler Spencer, who had just graduated from college. You can find out more by checking out Spencer’s interview on the Absolute Treasure second disc. The information has been collected by a variety of sources but if there’s something incorrect or missing contact me via the site page.