8stops7

8stops7 is a hard rock band from Ventura, California.

8stops7 has shared the stage with Stone Temple Pilots, Everclear, Eve 6, Stroke 9, Cypress Hill, Staind, The Flys ^{[disambiguation needed ]}, Filter, Crazy Town, Dynamite Hack, Stroke 9, Tantric, American Hi-Fi, The Calling, Remy Zero, Alien Ant Farm, Saliva, Default, Foo Fighters, Wheatus, Harvey Danger, Lit, 3 Doors Down, Stir, Goo Goo Dolls, Our Lady Peace, Vertical Horizon, 311, Everclear, Goldfinger, MxPx, Blue October, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Toadies, Nickelback, Papa Roach, Disturbed, Slipknot, Godsmack, The Nixons, Full Devil Jacket, Marvelous 3, Fuel, Isle of Q, Fu Manchu, Frankie Machine, Mars Electric, and billed as 8 stops 7 with Moby, Deftones, Papa Roach, Jimmie's Chicken Shack, Fenix TX, The Dandy Warhols, Powerman 5000, Static-X, American Head Charge, Dope, U.P.O., Incubus, Sprung Monkey, Ultraspank, Coal Chamber, Kottonmouth Kings, Dynamite Hack, Jesse Dupree, Bowling For Soup, Stir,^[1] Guano Apes, Sevendust, Chevelle, P.O.D., Creed, Primal Scream, Kittie, Apartment 26, Bloodhound Gang, Heidi., System of a Down and more.^{[2][3][4][5][6][7][8]}

Formation and initial success

Originally named Haze for brief period,^[9] 8Stops7 formed in Ventura, California in 1996. Vocalist Evan Sula-Goff explained the meaning of the band's name as, "Basically, seven is a symbol of something you want to get away from, and eight is the door you go through to get there." ^[10] After self-releasing their first self-produced album Birth Of A Cynic, the band signed with Warner Bros. Records/Reprise Records under the Warner Music Group umbrella in 1999 through their manager.

Their second album In Moderation was produced by Toby Wright (KoRn, Alice In Chains, Sevendust) and included re-recordings of 4 songs from the previous album. Two of the songs from In Moderation, "Satisfied", and "My Would-be Savior", were featured on the soundtrack of the Sony PlayStation game Street Sk8er 2. "Satisfied" was also featured in the Sony PlayStation 2 game Gran Turismo 3 and on its soundtrack. The video for "Satisfied" was featured on the MTV show 120 Minutes. "Question Everything" was featured on the Friends Again Soundtrack with other artists featured on the Friends NBC sitcom. Apple placed the music video for "Question Everything" on the Mac OS 9.1 CD, and later included a high-quality mp3 copy of the song to demo the new digital speakers included with the PowerMac G4 Cube.

To date, In Moderation has sold more than 400,000 copies, enjoyed widespread national radio airplay, and spawned two hits that landed on three different Billboard charts.

Exit from Warner

In 2002, when Time Warner, the parent company of 8Stops7's record label, merged with AOL, every artist who hadn't sold 1 million albums in the previous year was dropped with a promise of being re-signed in 2003.^[9] However, Warner didn't want to "deal with (the band's manager) anymore".^[9] Since the band was signed to their manager and not the label directly, 8Stops7 was not re-signed. The band spent the next few years working to separate themselves from their manager.

Finally in 2006, 8Stops7 was able to self-release their third album Bend on their own label 7spots8 Music.

In 2008, David Cook, the seventh winner of American Idol, named 8stops7 as one of his top 5 favorite and most influential bands.^[11]

Current Status

The current line-up consists of all four original members, singer Evan Sula-Goff, guitarist Seth Watson, bassist Alex Viveros, and percussionist Adam Powell along with guitarist Rodney Amieva.

After raising money from fans through the pledgemusic.com website,^[12] the band released their fourth album Fables on February 8, 2012.^[13] The album's first single is titled "The Sting".^[14] "To come back as hard as this band has with Fables is not only to believe in yourself but to know who you are, unequivocally....From the first track to the last, Fables is exactly the kind of post-grunge melodic rock that’s expected of this band, only better...8Stops7 is unattached and arena-ready. Get it." Michelle Cicero, writing for the VCReporter ^[15]

Discography

Albums

• Birth of a Cynic (1997)
• In Moderation (1999)
• Bend (2006)
• Fables (2012)

Charting singles

References

1. ^ http://www.311.com/tour-history
2. ^ http://www.last.fm/music/8stops7/+events/2001
3. ^ http://www.last.fm/music/8stops7/+events/2000
4. ^ http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-5950933.html
5. ^ http://www.pitch.com/kansascity/saturday-june-3-sandstone-amphitheatre/Content?oid=2160390
6. ^ http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/live-music-listings/Content?oid=22583
7. ^ http://www.98rock.com/pages/livestock.html
8. ^ http://whitelightning.org/resources/chron00.htm
9. ^ ^{a b c} http://www.hitrockbottom.org/8stops7.html
10. ^ Billboard 8stops7 bio
11. ^ 'Idol' Backstage Q&A: David Cook
12. ^ http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/8stops7fables
13. ^ http://www.amazon.com/Fables-Explicit/dp/B006LZ3IZ2
14. ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyoD2I1XwIg
15. ^ http://vcreporter.com/cms/story/detail/on_and_off_the_record/9703/
16. ^ Billboard chart history
17. ^ Billboard pop

External links

• Billboard
• Allmusic