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How Many Tears by The Poor

Künstlerbiographie The Poor

The Poor Are An Australian Hard Rock Band That Formed In 1988 As The Poor Boys In Darwin Northern Territory. 1 The Original Line-Up Was Mark Davis On Drums Julian "RV" Grynglas On Guitar Chris Risdale On Guitar Anthony "Skenie" Skene On Vocals And Rhythm Guitar And Matt Whitby On Bass Guitar. 1 2 3 Risdale And Skene Had Met In 1984 When They Attended Dripstone High School Together. 3 They Had Met Davis And Whitby At Parties In Darwin And Soon Were Gigging Together As A Covers Band. 3 Risdale Soon Left When Grynglas Joined And They Started To Write Their Own Material. 3 Davis Left A Few Years Later. 3 In 1991 The Group Relocated To Sydney And Later That Year Toured The United States Supporting Fellow Australian Hard Rockers The Angels. 1 By June 1992 James Young Ex-BB Steal Replaced Davis On Drums And The Group Released Their Debut Extended Play Rude Crude & Tattooed On Sony/Columbia Records. It Was Produced By The Angels' Members Rick Brewster And Bob Spencer. 1 The Poor Boys Supported That Group's National Tour Through July To August. 1 About A Year Later The Poor Boys Issued Their Second EP Underfed Which Was Produced By Brent Eccles Also A Member Of The Angels . They Followed In October By Backing United States Acts Alice In Chains And Suicidal Tendencies On The Australian Leg Of Their Combined Tour. 1 In March 1994 The Poor Boys Changed Their Name To The Poor To Avoid Confusion With A US Group Of The Former Name. 1 That Month They Issued A Single "More Wine Waiter Please" In The US Where It Peaked At No. 30 On The Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks. 4 5 In May They Released It In Australia And It Peaked At No. 10 On The ARIA Singles Chart. 6 On 13 June 1994 They Followed With Their Debut Studio Album Who Cares Which Reached No. 3 On The ARIA Albums Chart. 6 It Was Produced By United Kingdom's Paul Northfield Suicidal Tendencies . 1 2 Recorded In Sydney And Montreal It Was Also Issued In The US. 7 The Poor Promoted Their US Releases With A Tour There Supporting German Rockers Scorpions. 7 The Poor Also Toured Europe And Japan. 1 7 In September 1994 Their Next Single "Poison" Reached No. 48 In Australia. 1 Early In 1996 They Opened For AC/DC's International Tour. 1 3 They Also Supported KISS 8 And In April 1998 Van Halen. 1 9 In 1997 Young Was Replaced On Drums By Gavin Hansen Ex-Rattlebone – A Friend Of Whitby's. 10 11 The Group Issued Another Single The Following Year "Simple Living" However In 2000 The Poor Disbanded. 10 11 Various Members Of The Poor Separated Into Two Heavy Rock Groups Lump And Blackseed. 11 Skene Related What Happened After The Split "I Did A Small Solo Acoustic Thing For A While. Matt Was At Uni Studying History. Julian Was Just Working. Gav Went Back To Melbourne Before Moving To The Gold Coast Where He Grew Up And Started Lump With Melbourne Mates Scotty And Stewie. Then I Moved Up And Joined Lump As Well!" 3 The Poor Reunited In April 2008 To Play On An Australia Tour With W.A.S.P. And Soon After Began Recording A New Album Round 1 Released In October 2009 By Riot! Comprised Several Older Songs Not Previously Released Together With Newly Written Tracks. 12 13 Since October 2009 The Group Are Based On The Gold Coast. 3 13 In January 2010 They Played At The Big Day Out On The Gold Coast. 14 On 15 October 2010 The Band Released Round 2 3 Brian Fischer-Giffin Of Loud Mag Found That For This Album " The Poor Come Out Swinging Much More Convincingly Punching Out A Short Sharp Album Of No-Nonsense Hard Rock That Doesn't Over Stay Its Welcome Or Try To Be Anything More Than It Is. The Poor Has Got Their Mojo Back". 15

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