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Local H is an American rock band originally formed by guitarist and vocalist Scott Lucas, bassist Matt Garcia, drummer Joe Daniels, and lead guitarist John Sparkman in Zion, Illinois in 1990. The members all met in high school in 1987 and founded Local H three years later.
Nov 27, 2018 · In 1994, Local H put out a bunch of feelers in search of a record deal. They were a two-piece band, having long foregone the need for a bassist by adding customized low-register pickups to a bevy ...
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Local H was founded in 1990 by high school buddies Scott Lucas, Matt Garcia, John Sparkman, and Joe Daniels. Although Sparkman and Garcia left 1 and 3 years into the band, respectively, Local H ...
Feb 16, 2021 · Local H was one of the more unlikely success stories in the mid-'90s. Now, Scott Lucas reflects on the band's glory years and their latest material.
- 4-Piece Band Becomes 2
- Local H Gets Help from Local Band
- Recording Sessions Produces “Believe You Me”
- As Good as Dead Is Certified Gold
- Roy Thomas Baker Is Brought on to Produce Third Album
- A Second Merger Proved Catastrophic For Local H
- Joe Daniels Departs from Local H
- The Band Is Dropped from Universal Music Group
First starting out in 1988 in high school as a 4-piece band, the group’s bassist and guitarist eventually left the group, thinking the band wasn’t going anywhere. Drummer Joe Daniels and frontman and guitarist Scott Lucas were left to continue on with the band. To compensate for the fact that the band was only a two-piece, Lukas had two bass pickup...
Local H would get some help from local power-pop band, Shoes. Lucas told the Morning Call newspaper, “They have a studio, Short Order Recorder in Zion and we did a lot of demos there. When they saw things were starting to happen, they hooked us up with a lawyer.” By 1994, the band recorded their first demo and started sending it out to record label...
The re-recording sessions also produced a new song titled “Believe You Me”. Local H would work with producer Steve Haigler, who was chosen because of his work with the Pixies. Released in January 1995, the band’s debut album, Ham Fisted was mostly written off as sounding too close to Nirvana and didn’t even chart. The band spent close to half a yea...
As Good as Dead would be certified gold, selling over 500,000 copies. Local H would admit on their website that prior to “Bound for the Floor” coming out, they were playing a lot of empty or half empty venues, but once the single hit, they soon got huge offers including opening for Stone Temple Pilots, Silverchair and Cheap Trick. The success of As...
With a bigger budget from their label, and a promise of no interference, the label brought in Roy Thomas Baker to produce the album. Former tour mate Dean DeLeo of Stone Temple Pilots also lent a hand on the album, playing on one of the tracks. As the band readied their third album, Pack Up the Cats, their label was getting ready to heavily promote...
Their label, Polydor would end up merging with Universal Music Group in May of 1998, just as the band was readying their album for release. It was the second merger Local H would experience and while the first one was good for the band, the second was catastrophic. Four months after the merger, Pack Up the Cats was released in August 1998. Lucas de...
The band remained on the label and on June 24, 1999, they published the following on their website, describing their changing fortunes, “Wounded and exhausted after a year of shrinking crowds, dwindling radio and label support, and a distinct leveling off from the whirlwind highs of the As Good As Dead tour, we pull into the Metro for one more show...
Lucas took this as an insult and submitted to Universal the demos he was working on. The label wasn’t impressed and dropped the band. Local H soon signed with a series of indie labels and released a bunch of new records starting with 2002’s, Here Comes the Zoo. The album represented a more straightforward approach, not trying to create another conc...
Remastered from the original recordings and finally available on vinyl for the first time ever, the record is packaged in a heavyweight gategold jacket complete with an 8-page booklet with extended liner notes and expanded artwork! CD/Blu-Ray combo features 3 unreleased, professionally recorded live shows from the P.J. Soles era!
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Local H is known for their blistering live shows and for pioneering the two-man band set-up — frontman Scott Lucas covers both guitar and bass through an extra pick up in his guitar and drummer Ryan Harding pounds out the rest of the sound. While they have earned praise in the past for their catalog of clever concept albums, Local H are forgoing a singular theme on their new album — Hey ...
