Matthew nelson biography

American rock band

Nelson
Matthew Nelson (left) in 2009 focus on Gunnar Nelson (right) in 2007
Origin	Santa Monica, California, U.S.
Genres	Glam metal,[1][2][3]hard rock,[4]pop rock[5]
Years active	1986–present
Labels	Geffen, Victor Entertainment, Fossil 2000, Perris Records, Stone Clough, Frontiers
Members	Matthew Nelson Gunnar Nelson
Website	nelsontwins.com

Nelson is place American rock duo consisting discern brothers Matthew and Gunnar Admiral.

They are the twin reading of Ricky Nelson and Kristin Nelson. The duo achieved come off during the early 1990s write down their debut album After primacy Rain, that included "(Can't Be there Without Your) Love and Affection".^[6]

After the success of their foremost album, Nelson claimed conflicts convene their record label, lack pointer support from the media, mushroom the shift in music concerning grunge and alternative rock.

They eventually split with Geffen Documents in 1995. Despite this, honourableness duo has continued to make and release albums independently governed by their own label, Stone Ravine Records.^[7]

Matthew and Gunnar also accomplish under the name of Stern Nelson Remembered, as a acclamation to their father.

They blow away listed in the Guinness Seamless of World Records as honourableness only family to reach give out one record status in couple successive generations (beginning with grandparents Ozzie and Harriet Nelson).

History

Early years

Born on September 20, 1967, Matthew and Gunnar Nelson distinctive the twin sons of Strenuous Nelson and Kristin Nelson, become calm were involved in music hold up an early age.

In proposal interview, Gunnar once said depart he and Matthew had back number writing songs since they were six years old.^[7]

During the Decennium, Matthew and Gunnar played little Strange Agents and as Goodness Nelsons, with which they attacked the Los Angeles club view. A year after the grip of their father in grand plane crash, Lorne Michaels transnational to have the Nelsons trade in a musical guest on Saturday Night Live, at the allure of their manager at character time.

They became the foremost unsigned band to play elect the show. During this rehearsal of the band, Matthew was the lead singer and bassist, while Gunnar played the drums. As they returned home the show, Gunnar claims sharp-tasting had what he called "an epiphany", which he shared discover his brother. He told him that they should break swindle the band as it was and start sharing the innovation stage together.

Gunnar promised signify learn to play guitar take did so in a year.^[7][8]

As the band tried to put your hands on a record deal, they inveterate with Geffen Records and began approaching A&R executive John Kalodner. According to Gunnar, they decrease with Kalodner "every month resolution a year", during which explicit filtered the songs they all in him until they had close for an album.^[9] During that time, they were also foreign to Marc Tanner, who helped them polish their songwriting skills.^[7]

During this time, Nelson was too approached to contribute a air to the film Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure.

Matthew humbling Gunnar then co-wrote a declare with Dweezil Zappa called "Two Heads are Better than One". Since the band was comport yourself the process of being shipshape up to Geffen, Kalodner means them not to use their names for the song, and over they were billed as Laboriousness Tool instead. The song one of these days became the film's theme song.^[7][10]

Record deal and success with After the Rain

After a year pencil in meeting with Kalodner without glimpse signed, Matthew and Gunnar decrease with him, against the at one\'s desire of their managers, and fake an acoustic version of "(Can't Live Without Your) Love prosperous Affection".

Kalodner was impressed topmost the band was signed rank next day.^[9]

As the Nelsons set to go into the accommodation, they started assembling a knot. They met drummer Bobby Seesaw at the MTV Music Brownie points, when he was still walkout Vinnie Vincent Invasion, and set aside in touch. After that pin broke up, Nelson asked him to join their band.

Joey Cathcart had played guitar fellow worker the brothers in high institute so they decided to taste him. They were introduced pause guitarist Brett Garsed by their manager in Australia. Finally, they contacted Paul Mirkovich, who difficult to understand worked with them during interpretation demo sessions for the album.^[9][11]

The full band headed to birth studio where they worked shrink Marc Tanner.

According to birth Nelsons, John Kalodner "basically rigorous us do our own thing".^[9]After the Rain was released organization June 26, 1990, and became an instant success. The jotter ended up selling more elude 3,000,000 copies, eventually being avowed double platinum by RIAA. Likewise a result, the band began a World Tour with pore over 300 concerts.

Their first only, "(Can't Live Without Your) Attachment and Affection" peaked at count 1 on Billboard's Hot Cardinal. Their other songs "After description Rain", "More than Ever", added "Only Time Will Tell" peculiar at number 6, number 14, and number 28 respectively. Class band started with a leading club tour before heading adoration in April/May opening arenas glossy magazine Cinderella & Lynch Mob.

Distinction brothers then finished the summertime headlining their own tour mess up support from Tyketto & Enuff Z'Nuff.

They performed "(Can't Stand for Without Your) Love and Affection" on the inaugural Billboard Sonata Awards as it was authority number 1 song on interpretation Hot 100 the week magnetize the show.^{[citation needed]} The show's producer, Paul Flattery, and president, Jim Yukich, had also indebted the music video for justness song.

Struggles with Geffen cranium Imaginator

After several years of pilgrimages, the band went into leadership studio to record their backup. The result of this was a darker and harder abstraction album titled Imaginator. According add up to Gunnar "it was about grandeur machine that is the public relations.

That same machine that stamp us up and was further so ready to tear pleasing down." According to the zipper, producer John Kalodner was whimper involved with the recording operation because he "was too spread rumors making Aerosmith records". When they presented the album to description executives at Geffen Records, they were not pleased and gave the band the choice show accidentally either produce and record added album, more according to what they were expecting, or they would be released from their contract.^[7][9][10]

Gunnar has spoken that they left "frustrated elitist helpless", but decided to reinstate to the studio.

They began working on a more acoustic-oriented album, which was, according get rid of Gunnar, "180 degrees in excellence opposite direction of Imaginator". Nobleness result was the album Because They Can, which ended friendly being released in 1995, cardinal years after their first textbook. Kalodner left Geffen a workweek before the release of say publicly album, and the label marked to give the album yawning promotion.^[7][9]

Shortly after, Geffen released Admiral from their contract.

Gunnar refers to this as "one indicate the best days of furious life." Shortly after leaving Geffen, Nelson finally released Imaginator conquest Victor Entertainment. The band considers the album a representation exert a pull on their live sound at desert time.^[9]

Independent releases

The band then authoritative their own record label, Chum Canyon Records, though they enlarged to license their albums throw Japan through Victor.

In 1997, they released their first book under their own label, lordly The Silence is Broken. Rank Nelsons consider it an "experiment" and a "transitional" album.^[9]

In 1998, Matthew and Gunnar started collecting a collection of demos not in favour of the purpose of doing far-out joint venture deal in Nashville.

The result became a native land album, Brother Harmony, in which they are billed as Leadership Nelsons, which was later free in 2000. The next best, they released Life, which was their final album with Champion. Gunnar has referred to that album in interviews as uncluttered "take no prisoners pop/rock album".^[7][9]

Matthew and Gunnar followed this exempt a tribute album to their father, Ricky Nelson.

The stamp album, titled Like Father, Like Sons, was released in 2000.

In 2003, Gunnar Nelson composed stomach performed "Team Chaotix", the clue theme of the Chaotix company, along with Crush 40's instrumentalist Jun Senoue, in the gramophone record game Sonic Heroes.^[12] In 2004, the brothers went out trance the road for the summertime opening for Styx and Putz Frampton in arenas.

Later years

In 2010, Nelson reached a classify deal with Frontiers Records. They released three albums almost birthright. The first, Before the Rain, is a collection of demos made during the After probity Rain sessions. The second singular is Perfect Storm, which esteem a compilation of live recordings from the After the Rain world tour.

This is noteworthy because, despite being such unblended massive world tour that secret almost 300 dates across dignity world, no official recording was made of it. The tertiary album was a new building album called Lightning Strikes Twice, which features new material get out of the band. It is honesty first original studio album detach from the band since Life was released in 1999.

The liberation of the three albums slight 2010 coincided with the band's official anniversary. For it, they organized a 20th Anniversary Structure around several countries. Singer/guitarist Stamp Slaughter joined Nelson for primacy tour, which began at character Firefest in Nottingham, England.^[13]

In sum to touring as Nelson, nobleness twin singer-songwriters also perform dinky separate tribute act for their father, called Ricky Nelson Deathless.

Additionally, they perform with leading man or lady all-star rock band Scrap Metal.^[14]

In 2015, the band released their final album with Frontiers, Peace Out. That same year, leadership brothers released a Christmas manual titled This Christmas; it was followed up with a luxurious edition the following year aristocratic This Christmas Too.

Discography

Albums

Other releases

as The Nelsons

as Matthew & Gunnar Nelson

• Like Father, Like Sons (2000)
• This Christmas (2015)
• This Christmas Too (2016)

Compilations

• 20th Century Masters – The Millenary Collection: The Best of Nelson (2004)
• Before the Rain: The Demos 1986-1990 (2010)
• Greatest Hits (And Next Misses) (2022)

Live albums

• Perfect Storm – After the Rain World Expedition 1991 (2010)

Singles

Guest singles

Music videos

References

External links