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Man… it was about time you made a video about Everclear. Sparkle & Fade and So Much for the Afterglow are two defining albums of 90s alt rock imo

@musicmamma

9 ай бұрын

Great albums!!

@rnrtruestories

9 ай бұрын

Yes, long overdue!

@michaelinglis567

8 ай бұрын

Completely agree. Those two albums were constantly playing iny room as a kid in the 90s. I first heard Everclear in 97 or 98 when the older kids brought their boom box outside so we could listen to So Much for the Afterglow while we rode our skateboards/bikes. Ive been a fan ever since.

@strongxhands

8 ай бұрын

@@michaelinglis567surprised you didn’t have rollerblades on then. I switched to the board too but back then it was Everclear, skating rinks and Scholastic book-reading parties at Pizza Hut lmao

@RegisteredNurseL.A.

8 ай бұрын

It’s funny to me that I grew up in Los Angeles and now live in the pacific northwest. I love this band. I can relate to their songs because my childhood was horrible, too. It wasn’t my dad that left. It was my mom. My brother and I went to Raging Waters and came home to a different house and my mom was nowhere to be found

Despite all of Arts personal problems Everclear has some of my favorite songs ever made.

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@Rorschachqp

3 ай бұрын

Nobody told me I would meet a legend today. 😁

Sparkle and Fade was such a painful, but earnest album that I think it spoke to a lot of us back in 95.

@TheAngryPotato

8 ай бұрын

@@InjectBleach Time to move out of your mom's basement, loser.

@quiksilver78

8 ай бұрын

@@InjectBleach c'mon, be nice

@Cubbyg22

8 ай бұрын

@@InjectBleach and you created an account just to troll on this video nice one bud

@pc4mlc451

8 ай бұрын

@@InjectBleach What's your favourite band?

@trevorw3233

7 ай бұрын

​@@pc4mlc451Probably New Kids On The Cock or Justine Beaver

I got to see everclear in September 2023. They were awesome! They were humble and stuck around to meet fans and sign autographs. They may not be anyone's favorite band, but they're still a damn great band.

@chas1981

6 ай бұрын

My fav band❤ Their music saved my life as a teen.

I have known Art since 1988 when he was in The Easy Hoes as just a guitarist . He wasn't the leader or the frontman of this band . Now lets talk Colorfinger , I was the drummer for Colorfinger and that band was Art's first band that he was in total control . We played Heart Spark Dollar Sign and Twistinside and lots of other "Everclear" songs but we were not a grunge band , we were a cowpunk band . We toured with Dash Rip Rock another cowpunk band . We also did some covers of country songs . We were a lot different then Everclear , Art sang with a twang in his voice more in those days . Look through KZread for Colorfinger videos , you'll see what I mean .

Before I knew Art from Everclear, I knew him as Ned's music teacher from Ned's Declassified. They even reference Everclear in that episode he cameo'd in, but as a little kid I never picked up on it. 10+ years later though I found Everclear and enjoy their stuff.

Saw them at Summerland 2014 with Soul Asylum, Space Hog and Eve 6. They were awesome then and are still going strong today!

Santa Monica is first song I learned on guitar when I was a kid. Till this day, it’s the first song I play when I pick it up to tune my guitar.

@VanishedPNW

2 ай бұрын

Love that

@shawngraves3169

Ай бұрын

Same here!!

Thanks so much for focusing on these bands. I consider this period the golden era of music in my life.

The first time I picked up a guitar I sucked as one does. It was so discouraging I didn't pick it up for a while after that. Later on I bought the guitar tab book for So Much for the Afterglow from a record store. The first song I ever learned to play on guitar was White Men in Black Suits. It gave me this feeling like- OK. I can do this! and gave me the confidence to keep playing. My love for playing and writing never left. So very grateful for Everclear. 🙏🏼💙

@rnrtruestories

9 ай бұрын

That’s awesome I tried playing guitar and just was awful at it

@lowkeysoundsystem6174

9 ай бұрын

@@rnrtruestories Everyone is awful the first time they pick it up. Just gotta put the time in. Been playing for over 20 years and still learning new things. Great video btw- I've seen Everclear play live a handful of times and they killed it every time. 🤘🏼💀

@mrdeatheli

9 ай бұрын

Yeah, Everclear's music is painfully simple!

@drippinglass

7 ай бұрын

@@rnrtruestoriesI’ve been playing since 1986. I’m still awful. 😀

I remember seeing Everclear in 2011 at our local festival. Some one threw a full water bottle and hit Art directly in the head during an encore. I remember Art yelling for the crowd to "kick his ass". Not sure what happened since i was towards the back, but the show was good.

@joeholtster1891

9 ай бұрын

😂😂😂

@WaspHokie

9 ай бұрын

Hope they did & I’d love to see footage 😂

@rustyshackleford7265

8 ай бұрын

I want to hurl a bottle every time i hear their lyrics "Hope my mommmy and my daddy dont say words that i know are bad and make me sad" or whatever. Its infintile song writing, just horrible

@berrtusmaximus5212

8 ай бұрын

@@rustyshackleford7265wow…guess you missed the concept of that ONE song…it’s intentionally written from the perspective of a young child…

@NASkeywest

8 ай бұрын

@@rustyshackleford7265the fact you can’t see that the lyrics are from the perspective and thoughts of a child really shows you are not smart enough to have a legitimate opinion

One of my favorite songs of all-time is still “Wonderful”. It always makes me tear up and I think it’s truly brilliant song. It’s set up like an upbeat song from a kid’s perspective and vernacular, but it’s so sad and heartbreaking and real. I grew up with my parents just not being great for or to each other and I denied the bigger reasons why I might have loved the song as much as I did/do.

Man I used to not get this band it was never my cup o tea but one day I was listening to one of their songs and it just hit me so hard that guy is a amazing artist

Everclear....what a great band! I wore Sparkle and Fade tf out in the 90's and still have a soft spot for it now🙂!

Heroin Girl blew me away. It rocked.

Heard "I Will Buy You a New Life" on Now That's What I Call Music 1 and bought So Much for the Afterglow as my first album. Listened to it nonstop as a kid.

@SuicideVan

9 ай бұрын

That's a great redemption for those comp cd's from the 90's. They seem corny now, but probably got a lot of us into unexpected artists. For me I had a double CD called "Amplified" with a big stack amp on the cover. It got me into a ton of classic rock acts like Thin Lizzy.

@mikekavanagh

9 ай бұрын

@@SuicideVan My older brother wanted nothing to do with me at the time so my exposure to music that wasn't what my parents played was those albums. Pre-Napster, it's how I could hear the "cool" songs without straight up listening to the radio where I didn't know the stations well enough to hear what I would like.

@chas1981

6 ай бұрын

That song came on the radio while driving at 16. I ran to Walmart for the CD. I am now at 42, their self-proclaimed biggest fan. That album changed my life.

Fire Maple Song will always be the most powerful song I've ever heard, the pure emotion and passion behind that song is unreal. World of Noise is a great album, it's very overlooked and underrated.

@derekshambles3636

8 ай бұрын

World of noise my man!!! You are talking my language...

@joebodynobody764

8 ай бұрын

My favorite album of theirs

I have been a HUGE fan since the early/mid 90's. Loved every album and some of my favorite songs are off the last 3. Sadly, never got to see them in their hayday, but FINALLY got to a show in Denver a month ago. They put on a great show. It was a bit wild when I realized half the people there weren't even alive in the 90's, but I thought that was great.

“Electra Made Me Blind” is my favorite Everclear track.

I met Art outside the tattoo shop where I had a lot of my work done in Minneapolis. He liked my Greyhounds, as he's also an adopter. Surprised my boy took to him, as Niles didn't usually take to males. My little girl loved everyone and was very outgoing. He liked my hound tats, many of which were done by Nik at Uptown Tattoo. If my dogs liked people, I usually did. Dogs are rarely poor judges of character.😊

My father gave me a name. Thinking back it is a powerful song. Thanks for making this video

@rnrtruestories

9 ай бұрын

Yeah, love the song

My sons & were blessed to go see Everclear a few times in smaller venues in SW Florida in the 90's. We really enjoyed them a lot. Concerts were our main form of entertainment for a while till prices skyrocketed. Thx!❤

Of course sparkle and fade is already known a great album but their first full length World of Noise was great too. Yet another great band I found bc of 120 minutes

I was stationed in gtmo, cuba from 2007-2008- it makes sense why Everclear would consider playing there for us being he was in debt. It allowed me to chat with Art prior to band playing.

One the most underrated band from The PNW. One my all time favorites from that era.

@mrdeatheli

9 ай бұрын

Underrated? Were you alive in the 90s??

@NWJonathan

8 ай бұрын

@@mrdeatheliborn in 85’. Ask ya mother. 😘

@asdf9890

8 ай бұрын

@@mrdeathelihaha yeah really, they were on the radio at least every hour. I can remember the lyrics to Santa Monica word for word yet I never bought their album or thought anything of them but mediocre …yes radio was a main source of music back before streaming was a thing.

The band is amazing! I’ve hung out with them in Boston in 2023 and Bristol CT they are some of the nicest guys ever! So down to earth and just overall great dudes! 🔥

Love this band! “So much for the afterglow” was an influential record for me personally and they do a badass cover of Thin Lizzy’s The boys are back in town.

@newtoncountry5937

9 ай бұрын

I liked their cover of Tom Petty's American Girl as well

@user-ws2iw1vc2jAndriod

9 ай бұрын

Wants to diss on The Dead when he has the weakest chord progressions and very weak lyrics. Let's not move forward and write weak lyrics about the past over and over. I understand about getting things out but all their records are based on his past. Move on. A band with no back bone.

@newtoncountry5937

9 ай бұрын

​@user-ws2iw1vc2j Your mom never hugged you when you were a child, did she?

@dukenukem69

5 ай бұрын

​@@user-ws2iw1vc2jAndrioddead heads are brain dead

This aint even my kind of music really, but I had a friend back in the 90s that was big into Everclear, so I learned to love the songs, and now it's nostalgic for me to hear them.

They have been putting together some great tours the last few years , I went to high school with the current guitar player Davey French, he's been with them for years now.

My favourite band for a stretch in my youth. Loved Art’s lyrics and melodies.

I saw both Everclear and Sponge at the same tiny bar here in Victoria in the mid 90s. Sponge left me with ringing ears for days!😆

I loved Everclear then and I love them now. I’ve seen them a few times in various incarnations and I have never been disappointed. Art’s lyrics speak to me in a way few musicians have - probably because I had a great father. (Sarcasm) Thanks for covering them.

@rnrtruestories

8 ай бұрын

You’re welcome. This video was a labor of love

I was and always be a fan of Everclear. As a child of the 80s and 90s I grew up listening to their songs. I saw Alex like 8 years ago in Pasadena he played for a school fundraiser I believed his kid went to that school or he lives in Pasadena my friend asked me to do security for the event I had a great view of the band and sang along to the songs as I protected the guest. It was a nice event for the children. Thank you Alex for the great songs. As a new father myself to a baby boy I can relate to father of mine which was always a favorite because I'm real dad abandoned Us when I was 1 years old. I sing it to my son now along with other greats.

"Don't fall down now, you will never get up..." Say what you will about Art's personal life, but the guy's an amazing songwriter. He knows how to tell stories about real shit. Sparkle & Fade is one of the best albums of the 90's.

Still rocking sparkle and fade and so much for the afterglow in my playlist

Sparkle and Fade is one of my all time favorite albums! Non stop song after song perfection.

The imagery and wonderful, and Father of Mine are so deep. I cry every time.

@dogface-hd8px

6 ай бұрын

My Daddy game a name. Then he walked away! As a bastard myself that line is REAL.

I actually saw Craig's Slayer cover band recently, he seems like a really down-to-earth guy.

I only ever really knew this band because of Ned’s Declassified

Love Everclear! So Much For The Afterglow is a perfect album. I think of it as a 90s Cheap Trick, it's poppy but it's dark. Great stuff The new album this year, Live At The Whisky A Go Go is incredible too. The new lineup is genuinely good. The drummer from American Hi Fi is in the mix, he's a powerhouse

@kristy9337

7 ай бұрын

That's a good analogy🙂

They have been my favorite band my entire life. I started listening when I was 6 in 1996. Ive seen them once, but they didnt play Misery Whip or Heroin Girl, or my favorite song, White Men in Black Suits, when I saw them. They play two of those in the new Whiskey A-Go-Go video they uploaded. I will treasure that video forever. FOR. EVER.

Never forget being an 11 year old hearing Santa Monica on MTV. I liked the song, ended up buying their next album. It wasn't exactly my type of music but those songs definitely bring me back to that time.

I think Art was miserable because Sean pen was his classmate and not the parental abuse

Like nirvana? Kurt wrote in pure poetry. Of you didn't know somehow what the song was about ...you would have no idea. Everclear is a good story song written band.

They played a full local show at Seaworld Orlando last year. They sounded great and had some good stories and comments between songs. We really enjoyed the show!

I just saw them @Piere's & met the entire band & got them to sign my old work shirt!!! They are truly amazing

Thank you for all you do. Your videos always bring a bright spot to my day.

@rnrtruestories

9 ай бұрын

Thanks I’m having a bit of a rough stretch in my life so I am glad it’s bringing some happiness

@tomg_2

9 ай бұрын

@@rnrtruestoriesmusic is always there for us.

@seansnyder6696

9 ай бұрын

I watch and listen to you often. I hope that things get better for you soon. Thanks for all that you do.

@xxxxWYLDSTALLYNSxxxx

9 ай бұрын

@@rnrtruestoriesit’s nice to see someone cover these bands while the genre is dying, being replaced by more garbage every year.

@rnrtruestories

9 ай бұрын

@@seansnyder6696thanks!

Favorite band ever got to see them live years ago love art !

Sucks that he had to sell his publishing. I'm sure it takes A LOT of the fun out of hearing your music played.

@thomasminarchickjr.7355

9 ай бұрын

I tried to dm him about getting his masters and copyrights back from Capital Records with the 1976 Copyright Recapture Act and Instagram suspended my account

Everclear doesnt get enough love these days… their early stuff is incredible

I went to see them at a tiny venue in grand rapids Michigan called the orbit room. It's still one of the best concerts I have been to. It was right after so much for the after glow was released. Oct 24 2002. I still have the ticket.

I've said it once, and I'll say it again, I am from Portland and have met Art twice. He was nothing but nice to me.

I'm a huge fan of Everclear's first two albums, World of Noise (pure raw unadulteraded garage alternative Rock) and Sparkle and Fade (basically World of Noise with a more polished sound and better production values). So Much for the Afterglow marked the beginning of their radio friendly era, and while I liked the album I haven't kept up with their music ever since.

Future Leaders of the World is a band that fell apart after one album. The album LVL IV (Level Four) is great. I'd love to hear a story about the band, where they came from and where they went after they split up.

@BlakeBlackstone

8 ай бұрын

I know that album. I have it. I personally don't think it is very good but the one song off that album is really good.

Sparkle and fade is an amazing album

Could be right, could be wrong (I’m often wrong lol) everclear is one of the more underrated brands. Lyrically Art is one of the best.

I remember working at a coffee packing warehouse in the early 2000s and we could play whatever cds we wanted while we were working and one day a guy tried playing Everclear. We teased him about it all summer 😂

Saw Art in May of this year playing an acoustic set for my friends MS Sucks show here in Chicago.

I had a dvd copy of the movie Basketball Diaries back in the day. There was a special features interview with Art where he talked about his experiences with drugs, pretty depressing stuff

That Sparkle record was PERFECT! I was 23 & living the 90’s (working at a CD store & playing in a local band with my first apartment) with sooooo much new awesome music. They lost me after that record, like the REO Speedwagon of alternative music lol. Early REO was fantastic, then they turned too ballad-ish? Even the early ballads were different in some way that I have trouble explaining. Same with Everclear…..too repetitive as far as the song structure/composition & the lyrics/subject just felt soft in place of biographical, even if they were personal, something felt too radio pandering.

Every time I see art, the more I see alternative rock Dr. Drew

I saw and met the current iteration of Everclear a little over a month ago. Super cool guys

I just saw them in concert end of September 2023, it was a great show.

I saw them at the wildflower festival in Dallas several years ago and Art came out hammered drunk. Effed up the first song then started over. Then later asked if there were any college students in the crowd. As they raised their hands he said “you guys think you’re better than me??” It was funny at the moment, but looking back he was in a bad way. I hope he’s found peace.

I’m from Portland Oregon and I love Everclear 💜🤗💯

Had to do a double take. I thought that was Norman Lear on the thumbnail.😂😂😂

They literate just played a show at a local casino here in Humboldt (rural Northern California coast) last November 18th

One of my favourite bands back in the 90’s, Sparkle & Afterglow still hold their own to this day.

7:47 I did not expect to hear my local paper, The Red deer Advocate on this channel.

@rnrtruestories

9 ай бұрын

Haha fellow Albertan here

I got to see Everclear in March. It was a fun concert!

A few years ago I worked a show of there's, it was for AARP lol. How many of you feel old now!This is not a joke unfortunately

One of the most Criminally Underrated Bands of all Time.

Art is a legendary musician and Everclear is a legendary band. Art is real and the songs are real.

I saw them twice way back in the early 2000s. Right around the time the album "Slow motion Daydream" came out. The 2 times I saw them it was very, very good. Havent seen them since Eklund and Montoya left.

Everclear is one of my all time favorite bands!

If I remember correctly, the fight in Australia was Art got hit in the face with a shoe and wanted the band to storm off stage with him , but Greg wanted to keep playing the gig .

@rnrtruestories

9 ай бұрын

yeah that's what it seemed like.

Saw them open for Tool and Primus in 95. What a show.

I’m sorry but the comparison back then about Everclear being like another Nirvana is ridiculous. They sound completely different. I’ve never even heard that people thought that!

@rnrtruestories

8 ай бұрын

Agreed even Dave grohl dismissed it

@NASkeywest

8 ай бұрын

@@rnrtruestories yea man like I’ve never thought that at all! Glad you ahree

Ran into Art at a CVS in Pasadena. He was nice. I got a picture!

Time to play So Much For The Afterglow surround sound version 👍 its such a gem.

Everclear is one of my favorite bands. That should reissue the Colorfinger music

😂Red Deer Advocate and the Edmonton Journal both quoted in the same video. Art must have been vocal while they were in Alberta.

@rnrtruestories

9 ай бұрын

Yeah I was shocked by both publications sometimes they reprint articles from bigger papers

I saw them live last year and meet Art and he was truly a nice guy.

I was in a band that opened for them. Didn't care for em. But that show was good for us.. that's all

My personal favorite from Everclear is "AM Radio"

Good band. And please, guys: never drink and drive, never text and drive. The roads are crazy out there. Be safe!

Everything I was just thinking about, thanks.

I liked a couple of their albums. a bright spot in a musically bad decade. Interesting retrospective because i don't really know anything about the band beyond their music.

The song Evergleam off what I believe is their first record has always been a favorite of mine, pops into my head pretty often. I remember buying So Much For the Afterglow but giving it away; the songwriting on it was still good but something about that album consistently gave me a headache... think it was the production

Another awesome mini-"biographical" - documentary-type...... something. I f****** love this channel. 👃😎👃

@rnrtruestories

8 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoy it!

Nice guys, I met them backstage when they were on Conan O’Brien 2003

There was a contest at our Music Video channel and I got to meet them Art ddint speak ro anyone but the 2 others were so cool to us.

Just heard new stuff the other day the one bad that still never changed their sound thank God

Art's a real-ass OG punk that just happened to find the right pop formula for success. Everclear is the shit.

All I know about everclear is that their guitar player was in the exies

I was just thinking about this band. Huh that's awesome - thank you!

@rnrtruestories

9 ай бұрын

Our pleasure!

My wife went thru nursing school with Craig's ex wife. Art really screwed over his bandmates. To this day he still owes them a truckload of cash. Sparkle and Fade is a semiole album of the 90s. Art is a narcissistic douche though.

@adambravo2353

9 ай бұрын

I lived in Portland in the 90s and had a few unpleasant run ins with Art. However Craig Montoya is very cool and nice, down to earth and rock and roll as hell.

@mattgrundy27

9 ай бұрын

@@adambravo2353 me and my wife went out for dinner and drinks with him once. He was cool as hell.

@MaggieKeizai

8 ай бұрын

Art is a flaming asshole and has no friends. When he got sick, everyone in Portland seemed to collectively say "good, fuck that guy, he deserves it".

Good band,great concerts