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Full Name:	Buckcherry
Date of Birth:	1995
Place of Birth:	Los Angeles, USA
Claim to Fame:	Debut album Buckcherry (1999)

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• Kerrang! Download 2009 Podcast: Buckcherry

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• Buckcherry @ Download Festival 2009

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  Nascar - Found May. 18, 2009 ... available for purchase as part of Buckcherry's Black Butterfly on iTunes, beginning June 16. As part of the initiative, Buckcherry also will...

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Buckcherry
Buckcherry performing live.
Background information
Origin	Los Angeles, California, USA
Genre(s)	Hard rock
Years active	1995 - 2002, 2005 - present
Label(s)	DreamWorks, Eleven Seven Music, Atlantic
Website	buckcherry.com
Members
Josh Todd Keith Nelson Stevie D. Jimmy "Two Fingers" Ashhurst Xavier Muriel
Former members
Jonathan Brightman Devon Glenn Yogi Lonich

Buckcherry is a Grammy-nominated Los Angeles, California hard rock band formed in 1995. The band released two albums, Buckcherry (1999) and Time Bomb (2001), before dissolving in the summer of 2002. In 2005, lead vocalist Josh Todd and lead guitarist Keith Nelson formed a new band using the Buckcherry moniker and released a new album on April 16, 2006 entitled 15 (2006), which contained Buckcherry's biggest crossover hits to date, "Crazy Bitch" and the band's first Billboard Hot 100 top ten hit, "Sorry". Their fourth album was released in October 2008, and was entitled Black Butterfly (2008).

Contents 1 History 1.1 Early years 1.2 Commercial success 1.3 Later years 1.4 Recent events 1.5 Other projects 1.6 BitTorrent "leak" controversy 2 Tours 3 Band members 3.1 Current 3.2 Former 4 Discography 4.1 Studio albums 4.2 Singles 5 In popular culture 6 References 7 External links

History

Early years

Buckcherry was formed after lead vocalist Josh Todd met lead guitarist Keith Nelson through their tattoo artist after discovering a common love of AC/DC. The duo made a few demos before being joined by bassist Jonathan Brightman and drummer Devon Glenn, calling themselves Sparrow. Sparrow began performing around the Hollywood club scene, receiving a strong, local following due to their old school rock 'n' roll vibe, and were signed to DreamWorks Records shortly after. The group changed its name to Buckcherry after receiving a cease-and-desist letter from a record label called Sparrow, with Buckcherry being a Spoonerism of Chuck Berry, however, the group said it was inspired by a drag queen acquaintance of theirs named Buck Cherry. The band released its self-titled debut in 1999 to critical praise and certified gold sales. The album, produced by Terry Date (Soundgarden/Mother Love Bone/Pantera/Steve Jones), included three modern rock chart hits in "Lit Up", "Check Your Head", and "For the Movies".

Commercial success

After adding rhythm guitarist Yogi "the drummer" Lonich to the lineup in 1999, Buckcherry toured nonstop in support of the debut album, including opening for Lenny Kravitz on his Freedom Tour (1999), before going back into the studio in 2000 to work on a follow-up, 2001's Time Bomb. The second album was considered a disappointment by many critics,¹ and it didn't fare as well on the charts. Allmusic noted that "For a second record, it's surprising how jaded and nihilistic they are already.¹ Buckcherry performed opening dates for AC/DC in the spring 2000.² In August of 2001 after tension over the musical direction started to set in, Jonathan Brightman, Yogi Lonich, and Devon Glenn each successively left Buckcherry. However, Josh Todd and Keith Nelson planned to continue Buckcherry, and even began the writing process for a third album. It was during those sessions that Josh Todd unexpectedly left the band in July 2002, seemingly leading to Buckcherry's demise.³

Later years

Josh Todd and Keith Nelson did perform together along with ex-Guns N' Roses members Slash, Duff McKagan, and Matt Sorum (also of The Cult) at the Randy Castillo tribute concert. Speculation ensued that Josh Todd would become the lead vocalist of the Project headed up by Slash, Duff McKagan, and Matt Sorum. Josh Todd spent a month in the studio, reportedly completing 10 songs, but was abruptly dropped from the project by Slash. Todd was quoted as saying, "It was amazing, the band was slamming, and then Slash just came in one day and just shit-canned the whole thing." Scott Weiland of the Stone Temple Pilots was eventually chosen to helm the band that would become known as Velvet Revolver. Keith Nelson was given a songwriting credit on Velvet Revolver's track "Dirty Little Thing". Nelson then went on to write and produce on various records including Capitol records artist Huck Johns single "Oh Yeah" on Huck released in 2006.

Recent events

Back on September 11, 2006, another lawsuit had been filed against the band, their current record label, and other related companies on behalf of a sixteen-year-old girl who claimed she was coerced into appearing topless and in various sexual scenarios at a concert while the band was playing a sexually-related song. According to sources, however, all participants in the video had to show proof that they were over eighteen years old and sign a release form further reaffirming their age. Band attorney Skip Miller is quoted in several news stories as stating, "This woman filled out a release form with false information. And once it was determined this woman was underage, the video was removed." ⁴

On April 15, 2008, Buckcherry announced they would be touring as part of Mötley Crüe's Crüe Fest, along with Papa Roach, Sixx:A.M., and Trapt.⁵ The tour began July 1, 2008, in West Palm Beach, Florida.⁶

The band did the theme song for Night Calls Radio on Sirius Satellite Radio's Playboy Radio. It is heard at the beginning of the show.

On September 16, 2008, the band released their fourth album, Black Butterfly, which debuted at number 8 on the top 200 charts. It was the number one rock album that week.

In January and February of 2009, Buckcherry toured with Avenged Sevenfold and opening bands Papa Roach and Saving Abel.

In May 2009 Kiss Announced that Buckcherry will be the opening band in there 2009/10 US and Canadian tour.

In June 2009 Buckcherry played at the Download Festival held at Donington Park on the second stage along acts such as Papa Roach and Shinedown. Also in June they played on a festival in Belgium: graspop

Other projects

In April 2008, Buckcherry founding member Jonathan Brightman (JB) entered the studio to record a new record with producer Dave Cobb (Shooter Jennings, Waylon Jennings, The Tender Idols) and former Buckcherry members Devon Glenn and Yogi Lonich. Using the name Black Robot, it features tracks written & performed by JB, Devon, Yogi, Dave Cobb, and Huck Johns. Executive produced by JB, Black Robot blends musical influences from AC/DC, The Black Crowes, and Led Zeppelin. The first Black Robot record, featuring the singles "BADDASS", "I'm in Love", and a cover of the Eric Clapton/JJ Cale classic "Cocaine", will be available May 5, 2009 on Amazon.com and iTunes.

In early 2009, Black Robot added Swedish born guitarist Andy Andersson to the line-up, as well as Daxx Nielsen, son of guitar legend Rick Nielsen, on drums. They expect to debut their live show around the release of their album.

BitTorrent "leak" controversy

On July 2nd, the first single off of the Black Butterfly album "Too Drunk..." was leaked through BitTorrent. Shortly after the track was leaked, the band issued a press release and blamed pirates for the leak saying "Honestly, we hate it when this shit happens, because we want our FANS to have any new songs first.”

However, this claim was investigated by the site TorrentFreak. The IP address that was seeding the track had only uploaded one torrent, the track. Using WikiScanner they found out that the person in question had edited the BuckCherry wikipedia entry, and added the name of the band manager to another page. After emailing band manager Josh Klemme with these queries, they found that his IP-address was the same as the torrent uploader, which led TorrentFreak to the conclusion that the song had been leaked intentionally for publicity purposes.⁷

Tours

• Buckcherry Tour (part of Lenny Kratvitz's Freedom Tour)
• Time Bomb Tour (w/ Fuel, Kid Rock, AC/DC, Kiss)
• 15 Tour (w/ Motley Crue, Rock N' Roll Soldiers, Black Stone Cherry, Damone, Nonpoint, Revelation Theory, The Bangkok Five)
• Bad Boys Of Rock Tour (w/ Hinder, Revelvation Theory, Papa Roach, The Exies)
• Crue Fest (w/ Motley Crue, Papa Roach, Trapt, Sixx A.M.)
• Black Butterfly Tour (w/ Avenged Sevenfold, Papa Roach, Shinedown, Saving Abel, Burn Halo, Rev Theory, The Trews, Throw The Fight, Royal Bliss)

Band members

Current

• Josh Todd – lead vocals
• Keith Nelson – lead guitar, backing vocals
• Stevie D. – rhythm guitar, backing vocals
• Jimmy "Two Fingers" Ashhurst – bass guitar, backing vocals
• Xavier Muriel – drums, backing vocals

Former

• Yogi Lonich – rhythm guitar, backing vocals
• Jonathan Brightman – bass guitar, backing vocals
• Devon Glenn – drums, backing vocals

Discography

Studio albums

Year	Album details	Chart Peaks8					Certifications91011
		US	US Indie	US Int.	US Heat.	CAN
1999	Buckcherry Release date: April 6, 1999 Label: DreamWorks Producer: Terry Date, Steve Jones	74	—	—	1	—	RIAA: Gold CRIA: Gold
2001	Time Bomb Release date: March 27, 2001 Label: DreamWorks Producer: John Travis	64	—	—	—	—	—
2006	15 Release date: April 11, 2006 Label: Eleven Seven Producer: Mike Plotnikoff, Paul DeCarli, Keith Nelson	39	2	48	—	—	RIAA: Platinum
2008	Black Butterfly Release date: September 16, 2008 Label: Eleven Seven Producer: Marti Frederiksen, Buckcherry	8	—	8	—	6	CRIA: Gold
2009	1st Live Record TBA Release date: Fall Label: Eleven Seven Producer: TBA	—	—	—	—	—	RIAA: -
a "—" denotes an album did not chart

Singles

Year	Title	Chart Positions							Album
		US	US Main. Rock	US Mod. Rock	US Pop	CAN	NZ12	UK13
1999	"Lit Up"	—	1	33	—	—	—	103	Buckcherry
	"For the Movies"	—	25	24	—	—	—	—
	"Dead Again"	—	38	—	—	—	—	—
2000	"Check Your Head"	—	29	—	—	—	—	—
2001	"Ridin'"	—	9	—	—	—	—	—	Time Bomb
2006	"Crazy Bitch"	59	3	13	52	—	—	—	15
	"Next 2 You"	—	18	—	—	—	—	—
2007	"Everything"	117	6	23	—	50	—	—
	"Broken Glass"	—	28	—	—	—	—	—
	"Sorry"	9	32	31	8	7	15	—
2008	"Too Drunk..."	96	7	25	—	—	—	—	Black Butterfly
	"Don't Go Away"	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
	"Rescue Me"	—	11	—	—	—	—	—
2009	"Talk To Me"	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
a "—" denotes a single did not chart

In popular culture

• "Anything, Anything (I'll Give You)", a Dramarama cover, was featured on Road Trip
• "Alone" was featured on the Mission: Impossible II Soundtrack
• "Next 2 You" was featured in Disturbia
• "Lit Up" was featured in Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
• "Crazy Bitch" was featured in National Lampoon's Van Wilder: The Rise of Taj
• "Borderline" was featured on the Evolution Soundtrack
• "Rescue Me" was featured for download on the video game Rock Band. It was recently announced as the theme song for the 2009 WWE Judgment Day PPV.
• "Highway Star" a cover of the Deep Purple song, was featured as the theme song for 2009 NASCAR on TNT Summer Series.

References

1. ^ ^{a b} allmusic ((( Time Bomb > Overview )))
2. ^ Buckcherry :: Fifteen :: All Access Magazine :: It's All About The Music
3. ^ Buckcherry | Music Artist | Videos, News, Photos & Ringtones | MTV
4. ^ Labels Sued Over Sexy Video of Minor - Los Angeles Times
5. ^ 2 Music Geeks' Podcast 19: Controversial Songs--- Featuring Jimmy Two Fingers Ashhurst of Buckcherry
6. ^ Concert Announcement: Cruefest with Motley Crue, STLtoday.com
7. ^ Band Leaks Track to BitTorrent, Blames Pirates
8. ^ "Single Chart Peaks". http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:fvftxqtjld0e~T5. Retrieved on 2008-12-11. 
9. ^ "United States Album Certifications". http://riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?table=SEARCH_RESULTS. Retrieved on 2008-12-11. 
10. ^ "United States Album Certifications". http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=88708. Retrieved on 2008-12-11. 
11. ^ "Canada Album Certifications". http://www.cria.ca/cert_db_search.php. Retrieved on 2008-12-11. 
12. ^ New Zealand Charting
13. ^ UK Charting Archive

External links

• Buckcherry Website

v • d • e Buckcherry Josh Todd • Keith Nelson • Stevie D. • Jimmy "Two Fingers" Ashhurst • Xavier Muriel Jonathan Brightman • Devon Glenn • Yogi Lonich Studio albums Buckcherry • Time Bomb • 15 • Black Butterfly Singles "Lit Up" • "For the Movies" • "Dead Again" • "Check Your Head" • "Ridin'" • "Crazy Bitch" • "Next 2 You" • "Everything" • "Broken Glass" • "Sorry" • "Too Drunk..." • "Don't Go Away" • "Rescue Me" • "Talk To Me" Video albums Crüe Fest