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- Active: '80s, '90s
- Genres: Rock
- Instrument: Vocals, Guitar
- Representative Albums: "Straight Ahead," "Sacrifice (For Love)," "Herd"
Greg Sage
| Artist: Greg Sage |
| Discography: Greg Sage |
| Wikipedia: Greg Sage |
| Greg Sage | |
|---|---|
| Origin | United States |
| Genres | Punk rock |
| Occupations | Musician, songwriter, record producer |
| Instruments | Guitar, singing |
| Years active | 1977–present |
| Labels | Restless, Zeno Records, Jackpot Records |
| Associated acts | Wipers |
| Notable instruments | |
| Gibson SG | |
Greg Sage was the principal songwriter, guitarist, and vocalist for the influential Portland, Oregon-based punk rock band Wipers.
Greg Sage's first recording was on the pro-wrestler Beauregarde's full length album in 1971 (reissued by Jackpot Records in 2004) when he was age seventeen.
Sage's dark lyrics were rife with references to confusion and severe alienation. His songs took unexpected turns and were typified by fractured melodic passages punctuated by massive, clean, intricate guitar parts.
Sage operates his own label, Zeno Records (based in Phoenix, Arizona) and has also recorded several albums as a solo musician. He also builds his own music equipment and built his own studio.
Despite being right-handed, Greg Sage plays guitar left-handed. His instruments of choice are Gibson SGs.
In an interview Greg Sage said this about Kurt Cobain:[1]
| “ | Well, I can’t really speculate other than what he said to me, which was, he wasn’t at all happy about it, success to him seemed like, I think, a brick wall. There was nowhere else to go but down, it was too artificial for him, and he wasn’t an artificial person at all. He was actually, two weeks after he died, he was supposed to come here and he wanted to record a bunch of Leadbelly covers. It was kind of in secret, because, I mean, people would definitely not allow him to do that. You also have to wonder, he was a billion-dollar industry at the time, and if the industry had any idea at all of him wishing or wanting to get out, they couldn’t have allowed that, you know, in life, because if he was just to get out of the scene, he’d be totally forgotten, but if he was to die, he’d be immortalized. | ” |
Solo Discography
- Straight Ahead (1985)
- Sacrifice (For Love) (1991)
- Electric Medicine (2001)
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References
- ^ Marc Covert (2003). "interview with greg sage". Smokebox.net. http://www.smokebox.net/archives/interviews/sage801.html. Retrieved 2007-05-03.
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