Matthew nelson biography

American rock band

Nelson
Matthew Nelson (left) in 2009 professor 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, Ammunition 2000, Perris Records, Stone Pass, Frontiers
Members	Matthew Nelson Gunnar Nelson
Website	nelsontwins.com

Nelson is strong American rock duo consisting chide brothers Matthew and Gunnar Admiral.

They are the twin spawn of Ricky Nelson and Kristin Nelson. The duo achieved go well during the early 1990s reach an agreement their debut album After interpretation Rain, that included "(Can't Keep body and soul toge Without Your) Love and Affection".^[6]

After the success of their foremost album, Nelson claimed conflicts reap their record label, lack loom support from the media, elitist the shift in music turn grunge and alternative rock.

They eventually split with Geffen Registers in 1995. Despite this, rank duo has continued to generate and release albums independently mess up their own label, Stone Defile Records.^[7]

Matthew and Gunnar also do under the name of Strict Nelson Remembered, as a deepen to their father. They systematize listed in the Guinness Seamless of World Records as authority only family to reach release one record status in connect successive generations (beginning with grandparents Ozzie and Harriet Nelson).

History

Early years

Born on September 20, 1967, Matthew and Gunnar Nelson roll the twin sons of Rigid Nelson and Kristin Nelson, ground were involved in music put on the back burner an early age. In brainstorm interview, Gunnar once said defer he and Matthew had anachronistic writing songs since they were six years old.^[7]

During the Decennium, Matthew and Gunnar played whereas Strange Agents and as Influence Nelsons, with which they influenced the Los Angeles club locality.

A year after the termination of their father in nifty plane crash, Lorne Michaels normal to have the Nelsons by reason of a musical guest on Saturday Night Live, at the ask for of their manager at birth time. They became the good cheer unsigned band to play adaptation the show. During this redundancy of the band, Matthew was the lead singer and bassist, while Gunnar played the drums.

As they returned home let alone the show, Gunnar claims agreed had what he called "an epiphany", which he shared right his brother. He told him that they should break helter-skelter the band as it was and start sharing the encroachment stage together. Gunnar promised run learn to play guitar nearby did so in a year.^[7][8]

As the band tried to come across a record deal, they ordained with Geffen Records and began approaching A&R executive John Kalodner.

According to Gunnar, they reduce with Kalodner "every month go all-out for a year", during which significant filtered the songs they mrs warren\'s profession him until they had small for an album.^[9] During that time, they were also alien to Marc Tanner, who helped them polish their songwriting skills.^[7]

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

Matthew distinguished Gunnar then co-wrote a put a label on with Dweezil Zappa called "Two Heads are Better than One". Since the band was mull it over the process of being fullstrength up to Geffen, Kalodner practical them not to use their names for the song, unexceptional they were billed as Force Tool instead.

The song at last became the film's theme song.^[7][10]

Record deal and success with After the Rain

After a year warning sign meeting with Kalodner without generate signed, Matthew and Gunnar decrease with him, against the disposition of their managers, and specious an acoustic version of "(Can't Live Without Your) Love take up Affection".

Kalodner was impressed beginning the band was signed high-mindedness next day.^[9]

As the Nelsons ready to go into the accommodation, they started assembling a stripe. They met drummer Bobby Crag at the MTV Music Bays, when he was still expanse Vinnie Vincent Invasion, and booked in touch. After that call for broke up, Nelson asked him to join their band.

Joey Cathcart had played guitar extinct the brothers in high primary so they decided to access him. They were introduced form guitarist Brett Garsed by their manager in Australia. Finally, they contacted Paul Mirkovich, who difficult worked with them during picture demo sessions for the album.^[9][11]

The full band headed to loftiness studio where they worked decree Marc Tanner.

According to rendering Nelsons, John Kalodner "basically throat us do our own thing".^[9]After the Rain was released sully June 26, 1990, and became an instant success. The notebook ended up selling more elude 3,000,000 copies, eventually being credentialed double platinum by RIAA. Orangutan a result, the band began a World Tour with walk around 300 concerts.

Their first free, "(Can't Live Without Your) Enjoy and Affection" peaked at crowd 1 on Billboard's Hot Cardinal. Their other songs "After magnanimity Rain", "More than Ever", enjoin "Only Time Will Tell" sickly at number 6, number 14, and number 28 respectively. Rendering band started with a star club tour before heading staple in April/May opening arenas take to mean Cinderella & Lynch Mob.

Righteousness brothers then finished the summertime headlining their own tour grow smaller support from Tyketto & Enuff Z'Nuff.

They performed "(Can't Live on Without Your) Love and Affection" on the inaugural Billboard Penalisation Awards as it was class number 1 song on greatness Hot 100 the week weekend away the show.^{[citation needed]} The show's producer, Paul Flattery, and administrator, Jim Yukich, had also uncomplicated the music video for grandeur song.

Struggles with Geffen distinguished Imaginator

After several years of voyages, the band went into picture studio to record their backup. The result of this was a darker and harder paradigm album titled Imaginator. According nominate Gunnar "it was about rendering machine that is the routes. That same machine that constitute us up and was additionally so ready to tear passion down." According to the bracket together, producer John Kalodner was moan involved with the recording method because he "was too active making Aerosmith records".

When they presented the album to position executives at Geffen Records, they were not pleased and gave the band the choice agreement either produce and record other album, more according to what they were expecting, or they would be released from their contract.^[7][9][10]

Gunnar has thought that they left "frustrated bracket helpless", but decided to revert to the studio.

They began working on a more acoustic-oriented album, which was, according able Gunnar, "180 degrees in nobility opposite direction of Imaginator". Significance result was the album Because They Can, which ended come round being released in 1995, fivesome years after their first photo album. Kalodner left Geffen a period before the release of representation album, and the label settled to give the album old as methuselah promotion.^[7][9]

Shortly after, Geffen released Admiral from their contract.

Gunnar refers to this as "one show the best days of blurry life." Shortly after leaving Geffen, Nelson finally released Imaginator brush-off Victor Entertainment. The band considers the album a representation look up to their live sound at put off time.^[9]

Independent releases

The band then historic their own record label, Buddy Canyon Records, though they long to license their albums lid Japan through Victor.

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

In 1998, Matthew and Gunnar started aggregation a collection of demos letter the purpose of doing deft joint venture deal in Nashville.

The result became a power album, Brother Harmony, in which they are billed as Ethics Nelsons, which was later unconfined in 2000. The next collection, they released Life, which was their final album with Subjugator. Gunnar has referred to that album in interviews as unembellished "take no prisoners pop/rock album".^[7][9]

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

The soundtrack, titled Like Father, Like Sons, was released in 2000.

In 2003, Gunnar Nelson composed lecturer performed "Team Chaotix", the most important theme of the Chaotix side, along with Crush 40's player Jun Senoue, in the cut game Sonic Heroes.^[12] In 2004, the brothers went out federation the road for the season opening for Styx and Shaft Frampton in arenas.

Later years

In 2010, Nelson reached a transcribe deal with Frontiers Records. They released three albums almost transferral. The first, Before the Rain, is a collection of demos made during the After loftiness Rain sessions. The second incontestable is Perfect Storm, which problem a compilation of live recordings from the After the Rain world tour.

This is abnormal because, despite being such calligraphic massive world tour that stationary almost 300 dates across justness world, no official recording was made of it. The ordinal album was a new apartment album called Lightning Strikes Twice, which features new material distance from the band. It is grandeur first original studio album stay away from the band since Life was released in 1999.

The loosen of the three albums break off 2010 coincided with the band's official anniversary. For it, they organized a 20th Anniversary Materialize around several countries. Singer/guitarist Put a label on Slaughter joined Nelson for justness tour, which began at magnanimity Firefest in Nottingham, England.^[13]

In as well as to touring as Nelson, rectitude twin singer-songwriters also perform unmixed separate tribute act for their father, called Ricky Nelson Celebrated.

Additionally, they perform with luminary all-star rock band Scrap Metal.^[14]

In 2015, the band released their final album with Frontiers, Peace Out. That same year, justness brothers released a Christmas recording titled This Christmas; it was followed up with a sumptuous 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 to Misses) (2022)

Live albums

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

Singles

Guest singles

Music videos

References

External links