The volatile history of the band Failure, best known for the cult classic 'Fantastic Planet.'

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The LA Band failure would have their first run in the early to mid 90’s and while they didn’t sell millions of albums, they soon developed a cult following long after their breakup. Failure’s third album has been regarded as one of the greatest and underappreciated albums of the 90’s. Part of the Failure’s cult following could alspo be attributed to their fellow musicians including Tool, Paramore, Deftones who’ve paid their respects to the band. They’ve been labeled as alternative metal, grunge, grunge lite and space rock.
Today, because you guys, my subscribers had requested it, lets talk about the history of the band Failure.
Failure’s origins dated back to los angeles to 1987. Living in San Diego at the time Drummer Robert Gauss and frontman and guitarist Ken Andrews had moved to LA and were roomates while attending arts school. Andrews was a late bloomer when it came to music picking up guitar, starting at the age of 18 and taking lessons from his brother who had already been playing for several years. One of the first records he played along to, would be the first cars record.
Andrews and Gauss discussed putting a band together, but it took them two years to find a bass player. Not really feeling an attachment or affinity for the music scene in LA they put an ad in the recycler that read ‘‘moody trio seeks fretless bass player parallels with early cure, bahaus and joy divison. Not having luck, they dropped the fretless requirement to cast a bigger net. They only fielded 8 or 10 responses and none of the calls were promising enough to get into a room with anyone, except one person but it was now 1989. .It would be an Encino native a call from Encino native and bassist and multiinstrumentalist Greg Edwards. Edwards would tel bandcamp “Ken was by far the most serious musician I had met at that point,” “and more importantly, he was very good at charting practical steps on the way to a goal. We had artistic respect for each other immediately, but it wasn’t like we were natural born friends. Our friendship was really peripheral to our working relationship
As for Edwards he was largely influenced by somber and melancholy music rather than material taht was light and upbeat.
With the band’s lineup now assembled, Gauss already had some song ideas on his 4 track recorder., including t“Pro-Catastrophe.”, Screen Man and Count My Eyes. The band soon started playing shows around LA at venue’s like Al’s Bar, and Club Lingerie. They would meet another musician, Maynard James Keenan who shared a similar sentiment as the members of Failure on LA’s music scene. Maynard also wasn’t happy with who promoters were putting tool on the same bill with. It was a few month’s later they were playing together at the club Raji’s.
Failure soon spent about $800 to press 500 copies of its first single, Pro-Catastrophe. It would be mailed to college radio stations across America and got some airplay on local station KXLU. They credited the radio station with helping boost audience numbers from a handful of people to nearly 400-500 people per show playing venue’s like Al’s bar, raji’s and club lingerie.. Soon enough record label people started showing up and by the time the band only played 19-20 live shows they signed a deal with Slash Records, which was an indie label, but they had distribution through major labels. . Much to Fialure’s surprise they thought the label would hate their name, but they actually liked it.
First Album - Steve Albini
Soon after signing with Slash, attention turned to the group’s first album. Producer Steve albini’s name soon came up and the band sent their demo to albini who was in chicago. The members of Failure would cite jesus lizard’s goat album and pod by the breeders in terms of where there heads were. Albini would admit that at the time those were his two best records.’ In 92 failure headed to pachyderm studios in rural minnesota to record their first record. If the studio name sounds familiar, Nirvana would record In-Utero in the ame studio a year later.
By the band’s own admission their first album was more punk influenced largely due to their drummer Robert gauss who apart from coming up with the drum parts, had a hand in songwriting to