 WJRR Rock Files Our Lady Peace  band
members . . .Raine Maida - vocals Mike Turner - guitar Chris Eacrett - bass Jeremy Taggart - drums
about the band . . . The history of Our Lady Peace begins in 1992. While studying at the University of Toronto in 1992, vocalist Raine Maida met guitarist Mike Turner (a British expatriate) and the two formed the post-grunge band Our Lady Peace. The two soon recruited bassist Chris Eacrett and jazz drummer Jeremy Taggart. In 1993, the band cut three demos (including their smash hit "Starseed") with producer Arnold Lanni in his Toronto studio. Those demos quickly led to a deal with Sony Music. Released in 1995, 
the group's first album, Naveed (released on Relativity in the
States), generated the Top 10 Modern Rock and Active Rock hit, "Starseed."
Following the album's release, Our Lady Peace embarked on a marathon
round of touring, playing more than 400 shows to over half-a-million
people as the band shared bills with with Alanis Morissette, Bush,
Elastica, Sponge, and Better Than Ezra.The group's success accelerated with the release of Clumsy in 1997. The complex, sophisticated rock songs on the album -- including the U.S. Top 5 Modern Rock Tracks "Superman's Dead" and "Clumsy" -- earned critical accolades for the group, who, in their native Canada, collected two 1998 Juno Awards and two MuchMusic Video Awards.  Since
the release of Clumsy, Our Lady Peace has played more than 350
concerts -- including dates with the Rolling Stones, Everclear, Third
Eye Blind and others as well as a sold-out arena tour in Canada and SRO
headlining dates in Europe. In August 1998, prior to beginning
preliminary work for Happiness ... Is Not A Fish That You Can Catch,
OLP wrapped up 18 months of touring with "Summersault," a
multi-band festival -- featuring Our Lady Peace, Garbage, the Crystal
Method, Sloan, and Harvey Danger -- conceived and organized by the
band's four members. In the summer of 1998, a remixed version of OLP's
germinal hit "Starseed" was included in the Armageddon
soundtrack, which has gone on to sell nearly four million copies.On Happiness . . . Is Not A Fish That You Can Catch, Our Lady Peace continues to deepen the band's sound and sensibility while developing new avenues of musical exploration. The genius of legendary jazz drummer Elvin Jones, 73, can be heard on the track, "Stealing Babies." Jones was a large contributor to the John Coltrane sound of the 1950's. Drummer Jeremy Taggart was the catalyst for his inclusion. "I'd been hearing this guy's playing from the cradle," Jeremy recalls. "My dad would play all these great records of his while I was growing up. I never thought I'd be able to call this guy my friend. Having him appear on our album was a dream come true for me." Sol Fox, 78, is the man who appears on all three Our Lady Peace album covers. Fox is holding a fish on Happiness . . . Is Not A Fish That You Can Catch. Our Lady Peace is taking the group's ever-widening worldwide fan-base another step further on the journey from Naveed to Clumsy to Happiness . . . Is Not A Fish That You Can Catch. |
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