Black Rebel Motorcycle Club 的艺人档案
"你反抗什么?"
"我得到过什么?"
这是马龙·白兰度1954年出演《飞车党》(The Wild One)的著名对白。故事改编自真人真事，影片中一队开着摩托的黑衣车手横空出世，他们藐视传统、游戏人间，在身体的挣扎之中与世俗抗争，自此成为那个时代的一个神话。
"黑色叛逆摩托俱乐部"(Black Rebel Motorcycle Club，简称BRMC)的名字就来源于此,是这样一支吉他噪音电子嗡鸣的回响若隐若现，气质上找得着几分The Velvet Underground和T.Rex的影子的乐队，叫人重新对摇滚充满了幻觉。
而这支美国乐队的音乐风格也很配这个名字,吉他音及粗糙的打鼓声加上主音那漫不经心的唱腔,出来的却是酷得要命.一个刚吸了大麻的电单车手驾驶着摩托车高速地在公路奔驰亦听着这音乐,一定很有feel,因这乐队的音乐已是如一粒迷幻药般黑色的衣服。苍白的面孔。冰冷的酷。BRMC的音乐就象他们在“Whatever Happened To My Rock And Roll (Punk Song)”中的态度一样无瑕。三人组合的处女作是真正来自边缘的信函.
The seed that became Black Rebel Motorcycle Club — or B.R.M.C. for short — was planted back in 1995, when Robert Turner and Peter Hayes met while attending high school in their hometown of San Francisco. They formed a solid friendship and camaraderie based on a mutual love of early-'90s U.K. bands like Ride and the Stone Roses and a few on the successful Creation Records label (the Jesus and Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine). They ultimately decided to put their as-yet-unnamed project on hold, and joined other bands while still attempting to keep in touch with each other; frequently they would attend each other's gigs. In 1998, after both had fled their previous groups, they rejoined, this time adding new drummer Nick Jago. (Jago, originally from England, had finished art school to move to the States in 1996). They began performing live in November 1998. Originally calling themselves the Elements — they quickly changed it after discovering many other bands had shared the same title — they purloined their new name from the Marlon Brando-led biker gang who stormed into that dusty California hamlet in The Wild One.
By 1999, B.R.M.C. had recorded a polished 16-track demo CD that began making the rounds (they sold all 500 copies at their shows), and relocated to Los Angeles. Local Santa Monica-based KCRW (a well-known FM station that compiled and released yearly Rare on Air CD compilations) jumped on the band's demo first, giving them their initial airplay, but soon interest in the band spread across the Atlantic, where BBC Sheffield even named the demo their "Record of the Week." Oasis' Noel Gallagher heard it and wanted to sign the band to his new Brother Records imprint, telling MOJO magazine that they were his favorite new band, but after inking a lucrative Warner/Chappell publishing deal, they were fielding offers from interested major and indie labels, ultimately choosing to sign in March 2000 with Virgin Records. After a short U.S. tour with the Dandy Warhols, the band entered the studio and produced a self-titled debut, B.R.M.C., which was issued in March 2001. Two years later, the trio returned with a slicker edge; Take Them on, on Your Own appeared in September 2003. They severed ties with Virgin Records eight months later. A deal with RCA surfaced within months, and the acoustic, Americana-influenced Howl arrived in August of 2005. The band moved back to the loud rock & roll approach favored on their first two albums with 2007's Baby 81.
