FINGER ELEVEN
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Very cool rockers Finger Eleven will join 3 Doors Down at the Legendary Buffalo Chip Campground on Wednesday, Aug. 6 during the annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally.
They’re a Canadian alternative metal band formed in 1994. Originally called The Rainbow Butt Monkeys, they’ve achieved Number 1 hits with “One Thing” and “Paralyzer.”
Sturgis Rally fans from the U.S. and around the world will recognize the tunes which have recently brought Finger Eleven to the forefront of the American music scene eventhough they have since 1995 had a loyal following in Canada.
Their breakthrough album, Tip, was released on Mercury Records in Canada in 1997 and re-released by Wind-up Records in the United States in 1998. By then, they found themselves touring with Creed and Fuel.
Their self-titled 2003 album included “One Thing” which pushed the band into mainstream rock n’ roll and won Gold Album award in the U.S. and Platinum in Canada.
Their current album, Them vs You vs Me included the band’s most successful cut to date, “Paralyzer,” which they’ve played on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno – twice.
The band, correctly, claims that most band biographies aren’t very well done and offers the following eleven facts for their Sturgis Motorcycle Rally audience:
1. The band is from Burlington, Ontario, a city of about 150,000 on Lake Ontario about 30 miles west of Toronto and 70 miles from Buffalo, and a longer way from the Buffalo Chip.
2. Most of the members have known each other since high school. Although they don’t like to talk about it, two of the guys (we’ll let you guess which two) didn’t get along back then and there were some playground brawls. But all is now forgiven.
3. James has conceived every Finger Eleven record cover and layout to date. The new artwork was pieced together with digital photos taken over the course of the band’s writing period (nearly two years). Maybe the next album will include Sturgis Rally photos from the Buffalo Chip!
4. The guys have played their share of covers over the years. The list ranges from Frank Black and Bad Religion to Depeche Mode (“Walking In My Shoes” remains a fave).
5. The group issued their first record entitled Tip in 1997 (complete with the single and video, “Above”). America got the album the following September but with a couple of changes. For example, the song Canadians know as “Consolation Day” was re-titled and re-recorded as “Awake and Dreaming.”
6. The second Finger Eleven album, The Greyest of Blue Skies, was released in July 2000. It featured the big Finger Eleven song, “Drag You Down.” It was produced by Arnold Lanni, a guy best known for his work with Our Lady Peace, who played at the Buffalo Chip a number of years ago.
7. Finger Eleven’s “Sad Exchange” appears on Daredevil: The Album.
8. There has only been one line-up change in the group’s history. Rich replaced Rob Gommerman on drums in 1998.
9. The band gets support from a network of street teams, groups of hardcore fans that do their best to promote Finger Eleven however they can. These fabulous fans are rewarded with things like sound-check parties. We assume, the Legendary Buffalo Chip’s
10. Finger Eleven was chosen to tour Canada with Ozzy Osbourne and Voivod in 2003.
11. Finger Eleven keeps fastidious records of everything they do and everything that’s written about them along with tour diaries, audio, video and even examples of James’ artwork.
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