Electric Six
By All Music Guide
By All Music Guide
ew wave, and metal into cleverly dumb, in-your-face songs like Danger! High Voltage, which reached number two on the British charts early in 2003. Singer Dick Valentine, guitarists Rock and Roll Indian and Surge Joebot, bassist Disco, and drummer M. formed the Wildbunch in 1996 (keyboardist Tait Nucleus? joined the band later), releasing their debut single, I Lost Control (Of My Rock & Roll), and the eight-track An Evening with the Many Moods of the Wildbunchs Greatest Hits...Tonight! that year on Uchu Cult Records. They also released 1999s full-length on that imprint. The group switched to Flying Bomb for singles like 1997s The Ballade of MC Sucka DJ, the Christmas single Flying Bomb Surprise Package, Vol. 1, and 2001s Danger! High Voltage, which became an underground hit, particularly in the U.K.
The following year the group signed to XL and re-recorded Danger! High Voltage, this time adding backing vocals from the White Stripes Jack White. After the re-release of the single in 2003, Electric Six issued their full-length debut album, Fire, later that spring. Just a few weeks after the albums release, Disco, Rock and Roll Indian, and Surge Joebot left the band and were replaced by Frank Lloyd Bonaventure, the Colonel, and Johnny Na$hinal. In 2004, the band got a new record deal with Rushmore, a British Warner Bros. imprint, and lost Bonaventure and M., whose bass and drum duties were filled by John R. Dequindre and Percussion World, respectively. The second Electric Six album, Señor Smoke, arrived in the U.K. early in 2005. It took another year for the album to be released stateside, on Metropolis Records. Switzerland arrived in fall of 2006.
