Hoss (band)
| Hoss | |
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| Origin | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Genres | Hard rock |
| Years active | 1990–2004 |
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| Associated acts | Seminal Rats |
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Hoss were an Australian hard rock band which formed in 1990 by Scott Bailey on bass guitar, Todd McNeair on drums (ex-Seminal Rats), Joel Silbersher on guitar and lead vocals (ex-God) and Michael Weber on lead guitar (ex-Seminal Rats, Slush Puppies). They released five albums, Guzzle (1990), You Get Nothing (April 1992), Bring on the Juice (August 1993), Everyday Lies (November 1995) and Do You Leave Here Often (February 1998). In 1992 McNeair was replaced by Michael Glenn on drums, who was replaced in turn in 1995 by Dean Muller. Michael Weber, who had been replaced in 1992 by Jimmy Sfestos on guitar, died in January 1999, aged 32.
Hoss were formed in 1990 in Melbourne as a hard rock band with the line-up of Scott Bailey on bass guitar, Todd McNeair on drums (ex-Seminal Rats), Joel Silbersher on guitar and lead vocals (ex-God) and Michael Weber on lead guitar (ex-Seminal Rats, Slush Puppies). Their name was chosen "because Joel likes monosyllabic names." They signed with Au Go Go Records, which issued their debut single, "Green", and their first album, Guzzle. Australian musicologist, Ian McFarlane, described it as "a rushed affair (recorded in one session, the day before the band played its debut gig), and consequently lacked appealing ideas." Silbersher told Steven Corby of The Canberra Times that their sound was "stripped down, raucous rock 'n'roll."
You Get Nothing, their second album was released in April 1992, for which McFarlane felt, "The band was at its best [as they] mixed Detroit rock action with Exile on Main Street-era Rolling Stones raunch." By that time they were one of a string of 1990s hard rock bands on Melbourne's Dog Meat Records, alongside label mates, Powder Monkeys and Splatterheads. Just before the album's appearance McNeair and Weber had returned to Seminal Rats; they were replaced in Hoss by Michael "Captain Kaos" Glenn (ex-Joysticks, Forbidden Planet) and Jimmy Sfetsos (ex-Nice Girls from Cincinnati), respectively.
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