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Bowling for soup biography Musical heavyweights, yes. But what do these acts actually have in common? They've all been nominated for Grammys. Yep, Bowling For Soup,
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Musical heavyweights, yes. But what do these acts actually have in common? They've all been nominated for Grammys. Yep, Bowling For Soup, the drunk-rockers from Wichita Falls, Texas, scored a nomination in 2003 in the Best Performance Pop By a Duo or Group category for their power-pop Sing-a-long "Girl All the Bad Guys Want."
"It opened a lot of doors for us," admits BFS's frontman Jaret Reddick, who wore an unforgettable pale-blue tux to the event. "Now we're no longer known as the fat guys from Texas. Now we're the Grammy-nominated fat guys from Texas."
The Grammy's are just part of the continuing success story for the band with the unforgettable name. The group actually started out all the way back in 1994 in Wichita Falls, Texas, without any notions of succeeding. At the time, guitarist Chris Burney and bassist Erik Chandler were in a band that frequently played a local coffee shop (conveniently owned by Burney). Drummer Gary Wiseman was also in a group that frequented the store, as was Reddick. "Really, it was just a case where all the bands dissolved at the same time," says the singer. "And I wanted to start a band that was a punk-rock Beatles. So we all got together over a beer and worked it out."
At the time, Reddick, Burney and Chandler were attending Midwestern State University, and had no intention of doing anything more than making music for fun. "It was never like 'let's start a band and be real musicians,'" remembers Reddick. "We got together in '94 because we discovered beer. Beer is really fun! And what better way to get free beer than being in a band? You'll notice that's been a recurring theme for the band over the years."
After relocating to Denton, Texas, Bowling For Soup continued to load their concert riders with outrageous requests for alcohol and suddenly found themselves to be a popular draw. Perhaps it was due to their undeniably catchy pop hooks, or their love of old-school...
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