The Young Fresh Fellows are an American alternative rock group, that was formed in 1981 in Seattle, Washington , United States, by Scott McCaughey and Chuck Carroll. Tad Hutchison, Chuck Carroll's first cousin, joined for the recording of the group's debut album in 1983.
8-472: Their first album was The Fabulous Sounds of the Pacific Northwest (1984) after which Jim Sangster joined the group on bass and McCaughey switched from bass to guitar. Carroll left the group in 1988, and was replaced by Kurt Bloch from The Fastbacks . The song "Amy Grant", a comical song about Contemporary Christian music and pop music artist Amy Grant , from the album The Men Who Loved Music ,
16-512: Is working more on visual art and design, as well as performing/recording as Chris & Tad with Chris Ballew of The Presidents of the United States of America . However, the Fellows released I Think This Is in 2009 and embarked on a tour of Spain that October. From 1994 to 2011, McCaughey was a "fifth member" of R.E.M. , playing guitar with the band both onstage and in the studio. The band
24-513: The Tall Birds . Nashville Pussy 's song "Fried Chicken and Coffee", produced by Bloch, was nominated for the 1999 Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance. He is a member of Thee Sgt. Major III (earlier known as Sgt. Major), along with ex- Posies drummer Mike Musburger, The Young Fresh Fellows bassist Jim Sangster, and Cantona singer and guitarist Leslie Beattie. Bill Coury (ex- Visqueen ) previously shared lead vocal duties, but has since left
32-511: The No Threes label. Also in 2017, Bloch joined Corin Tucker of Sleater Kinney , Peter Buck of R.E.M. , Scott McCaughey and Linda Pitmon to form the band Filthy Friends and release their album Invitation . Bill Rieflin has also been cited as a drummer in the band. See Fastbacks discography See The Young Fresh Fellows discography This United States musical biography article
40-591: The band. Bloch plays guitar for and produces Seattle-based prog-rock band The Beltholes, who released the 2007 album "For Whom the Beltholes" on the Burn Burn Burn label. The band also includes Kwab Copeland and Fred Speakman (lead vocals), and Anthony Clementi (bass). 2017 saw the release of the self-titled debut by The Yes Masters, featuring Kurt Bloch (lead vocals, electric guitar, production, engineering), Rick Foundation (drums), and Matt Scientist (bass, vocals) on
48-455: Was a success on college radio and arguably their biggest hit. The band are still together, although after 1996's A Tribute To Music they released no new material until Because We Hate You (2001), a split release with McCaughey's other band, the Minus 5 . McCaughey has given more attention to the Minus 5 since then, while Bloch and Sangster have formed the band Thee Sgt. Major III, and Hutchison
56-527: Was featured in " Benderama ", an episode of Futurama . Kurt Bloch Kurt Bloch (born August 28, 1960 ) is an American songwriter , guitarist , engineer and record producer . Bloch is best known as songwriter and lead guitarist of Fastbacks , and is a member of The Young Fresh Fellows . Bloch has recorded tracks and produced albums for The Presidents of the United States of America , Tokyo Dragons , Robyn Hitchcock , Les Thugs , Flop , Sicko , The Minus 5 , The Venus 3 , and more recently
64-529: Was mentioned in the They Might Be Giants song " Twisting ", and in "Big Salty Tears" by The Ziggens , which was later covered by Bradley Nowell of Sublime on the album Sublime Acoustic: Bradley Nowell & Friends . The tribute album This One's for the Fellows (2004) features twenty covers of Young Fresh Fellows songs by artists including The Presidents of the United States of America , Robyn Hitchcock , and The Makers . The Presidents' cover
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