Reel Big Fish recorded its self-released debut album, Everything Sucks, in Everything Sucks became a word-of-mouth underground hit in ska-punk and college circles, which gave the band enough leverage to sign with the indie label Mojo Records. By summer, the song had become a moderate modern rock hit, and the album had charted in the Top Touring continued for the rest of the year, and Reel Big Fish happily parted ways with Jive in January As a child, Aaron Barrett showed a strong interest in music.
Being quite a shy child, Barrett was not able to share this love until he met Matt Wong. In middle school, Aaron began taking guitar lessons in hopes to start a band of his own. Barrett took up the reigns as lead singer during this time, and recorded the band's first demos. Reel Big Fish became quite well-known in Orange County's underground ska scene, and later released their first album, Everything Sucks.
Sometime after the album's release, Barrett and a couple of other friends were playing leapfrog on their school campus, which piqued the interest of a young Scott Klopfenstein. At the time, Aaron was looking for new members to Reel Big Fish's horn section, and quickly took Scott on as both a trumpeter and a backup vocalist.
The release was such a big hit that Barrett was able to quit his job at Subway which is jokingly referenced in the album's single "Sell Out" and start touring with Reel Big Fish professionally.
They have been touring ever since. To "prove to the ska scene" that he was still proud to be playing the genre, Barrett formed ska supergroup The Forces Of Evil. Cheer Up was not the commercial failure that Barrett expected, so The Forces Of Evil was disbanded after only releasing one album. Reel Big Fish decided to return to its ska roots after this, causing the band to fall out of mainstream relevance following Third Wave Ska's demise.
At a show in November of , Barrett reportedly appeared extremely intoxicated, stumbled through songs, smashed his guitar on stage and left the show early. That night, he posted a mess of characters on his online journal [4]. Barrett admitted later that he had been playing while under the influence of drugs implied to be heroin and apologized to fans. Publicist--Earshot Media, Manhattan Ave. Reel Big Fish is known for its entry into the so-called "third wave" of Southern California ska.
The group rode in on the coattails of more commercially successful groups from the region in the s, including No Doubt and Sublime.
They are perhaps best known for their single "Sell Out," which came to public attention in the summer of , thanks to radio play and MTV. Its popularity waned in the mids, when it was supplanted by rock-steady. The genre was revived in the early s by British multiracial or so-called two-tone bands on the edge of the punk movement.
During the early '80s, this third wave continued to growmore bands continued to pop up across the country, but many of the most popular were based in California," according to All Music Guide. These bands included Rancid, considered to be the first of the so-called third wave bands. During , the third wave of ska revival became one of the most popular forms of alternative music in the United States. The rock trio started covering hard rock songs from metal bands such as Warrant, L.
Guns, and the Cult. The group also typically included classic rock and Top 40 covers among their sets. The group continues to have a seemingly ever-changing lineup. With the departure of vocalist Ben Guzman in , the band added a horn section consisting of Tavis Werts trumpet , Scott Klopfenstein trumpet, vocals , Grant Barry trombone , and Dan Regan trombone. The band has always had a diverse range of influences.
Reel Big Fish recorded and self-released their debut album, Everything Sucks, in
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