Tumbleweed (band)
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| Origin | Tarrawanna, New South Wales, Australia |
| Genres | Rock, stoner metal |
| Years active | 1990–1998, 1999–2003, 2009–present |
| Labels | Seed, Waterfront, Polydor, Universal |
| Associated acts | Proton Energy Pills, The Unheard, Monstrous Blues, The Pink Fits, Richie & the Creeps, The Hot Rollers, Brother Brick |
| Website | facebook |
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Tumbleweed is an Australian rock group formed in 1990 in Tarrawanna. Three of their studio albums appeared on the ARIA Albums Chart: Tumbleweed (No. 48, 13 December 1992), Galactaphonic (No. 6, May 1995), and Return to Earth (No. 11, 1 September 1996). Three releases reached the top 50 on the related ARIA Singles Chart: "Sundial (Maryjane)" (1993), "Gyroscope" (1994), and "Hang Around" (1995).
The group had a year-long hiatus from April 1998 after reconvening in 1999 they recorded Mumbo Jumbo (March 2000). At the ARIA Music Awards of 2000 it was nominated for Best Adult Alternative Album. Tumbleweed disbanded in 2003. In 2009 Tumbleweed reformed with their early line up of Jason Curley on bass guitar, his brother Lenny Curley on guitar, Paul Hausmeister on guitar, Richard Lewis on lead vocals, and Steve O'Brien on drums. Australian musicologist Ian McFarlane described the group as the "ultimate stoner's band for the 1990s. From within a post-psychedelic underground haze that evoked the spirit of 1969, [they] came on with lashings of fuzz-drenched wah wah guitar riffs, hard-driving beats, languid vocal melodies and more hair than any band had a right to possess!"
Tumbleweed were formed in October 1990 in Tarrawanna, a northern suburb of the sea-side city of Wollongong from two local groups, The Proton Energy Pills and Unheard. Proton Energy Pills played a "form of heavy retro-grunge that drew on US bands like Blue Oyster Cult, MC5 and Mudhoney for inspiration". They included the three Curley brothers: Dave on lead vocals, Jason on bass guitar, and Lenny on guitar; with Stewart Cunningham on lead guitar & Richard Lewis on drums. Other bands which included Tumbleweed members were Richie and the Creeps, The Pink Fits, Monstrous Blues, The Unheard, The Hot Rollers, Brother Brick, Leadfinger. Australian musicologist, Ian McFarlane, described Tumbleweed as the "ultimate stoner's band for the 1990s. From within a post-psychedelic underground haze that evoked the spirit of 1969, [they] came on with lashings of fuzz-drenched wah wah guitar riffs, hard-driving beats, languid vocal melodies and more hair than any band had a right to possess!" Their initial line up only lasted a few months, they recorded a 7" single, "Captain's Log", which was produced by Mudhoney's Mark Arm, in December 1990 and released in August the next year on Waterfront Records. McFarlane noted that it was "a distorted slice of voodoo acid-rock".
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