Eric's Trip Explained

Eric's Trip
Landscape:yes
Background:group_or_band
Alias:Stereo Mountain
Origin:Moncton, New Brunswick
Genre:Indie rock, noise pop, alternative rock, grunge[1]
Years Active:1990 - 1996, 2001, 2006-2009
Label:Sub Pop, Sappy, Great Beyond, Sonic Unyon, Murderecords, Squirtgun Records
Associated Acts:Elevator, Sloan
Current Members:Rick White
Julie Doiron
Chris Thompson
Mark Gaudet
Past Members:Ed Vaughan

Eric's Trip is a Canadian indie rock band from Moncton, New Brunswick. Eric's Trip achieved prominence as the first Canadian band to be signed to Seattle's flagship grunge label Sub Pop in the early 1990s.[2]

The band had a minor hit in alternative circles with the single "View Master", from the 1994 album Forever Again.

History

Eric's Trip formed in 1990 when musicians Rick White and Chris Thompson joined Julie Doiron and Ed Vaughan (who was later replaced by Mark Gaudet). They took their name from a Sonic Youth song[3] and developed a unique sound which fused elements of the distorted guitar of Dinosaur Jr., vocal elements of My Bloody Valentine, the folk leanings of Neil Young, and the lo-fi aesthetic of Sebadoh. White described their sound as "sappy melodic pop music on top of thick distortion." Gaudet's description was more succinct: "dreamy punk".

The band released their first full-length album, Love Tara, in 1993.[4] and its follow-up Purple Blue in 1996. In between, Eric's Trip played the 1995 edition of the Tragically Hip's Another Roadside Attraction (festival) tour.[5]

Eric's Trip went on indefinite hiatus in 1996 and reunited in 2001. They also played a series of shows between 2007 and 2009. These included a show at the 2007 Halifax Pop Explosion and the 2008 edition of Primavera Sound in Barcelona, Spain and the SP20, a 20th anniversary concert for Sub Pop Records that took place in Redmond, Washington.[6] [7] [8]

They played at the Sappy Records Festival in Sackville, New Brunswick from 2006 to 2009, with their final performance as a band occurring at the 2009 edition of the festival.[9] [10] In 2010 both White and Doiron played separate sets at SappyFest.[11] [12]

Post Eric's Trip projects & legacy

Doiron currently has a successful solo career; in 1999, she recorded the album Julie Doiron and the Wooden Stars with the Ottawa band Wooden Stars, which won a Juno Award for Best Alternative Album of the Year,[13] and from 2003 to 2007 she performed with Shotgun & Jaybird.

White and Gaudet played in Elevator until 2009, when White announces the bands dissolution at that years SappyFest.[14] Since then, White has also released three solo albums under the name Rick White Album, The Rick White Album, Memoreaper and 137 during, and after Elevator. Gaudet currently plays in the heavy metal band Funeral Fog.[15] Thompson enjoyed some fame as Moon Socket, and currently plays in The Memories Attack with Ron Bates of Moncton band Orange Glass, as well as the band Diamondtown.[16]

White produced Doiron's solo albums Woke Myself Up (2007) and I Can Wonder What You Did with Your Day (2009). Woke Myself Up features three tracks on which the entire Eric's Trip lineup contributed to the recording, their first studio collaboration since the band's 1996 breakup, while I Can Wonder has been described by critics as directly revisiting the sound and style of Eric's Trip for the first time in Doiron's solo career.

A two-disc CD tribute album, titled Songs For Eric: A Tribute to Eric's Trip featuring Eric's Trip songs covered by artists influenced by the band, released by Gooseberry Rcords, in April 2009.[17]

Personnel

Discography

EPs/cassettes

Albums

Live Albums

Splits

Compilations

Moncton N.B." (No label, SSSCD 197-2, released independently by Rick White)

Other

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Barclay, Michael; Schneider, Jason; Jack, Ian. Have Not Been the Same: The CanRock Renaissance, 1985-1995. ECW Press, 2011
  2. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/musicnightlife/2008050409_subpop14.html Seattle Times
  3. Web site: Throwaway Style: What A Ride! . Throwawaystyle.blogspot.com . 2006-08-13 . 2012-04-02.
  4. http://www.cbcmusic.ca/posts/17548/cohen-gould-buffy-25-best-canadian-debut-albums "25 best Canadian debut albums ever"
  5. News: 20 years ago today: Gordon Downie sees Bruce Allen in a Subway ad at Another Roadside Attraction. The Georgia Straight. 2015-07-15. 2024-07-31. Steve. Newton.
  6. News: Solarski. Matthew. Eric's Trip Reunite (Again), Tour Canada. Pitchfork Media. 2007-08-01. 2007-08-27. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20071230053254/http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/44581-erics-trip-reunite-again-tour-canada. 2007-12-30.
  7. News: The Pitchfork Guide to Summer Festivals 2008. Pitchfork.com. 2008-05-23. 2024-08-14.
  8. News: Sub Pop 20th anniversary schedule. Seattle Times. 2008-07-11. 2024-08-14.
  9. http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/44581-erics-trip-reunite-again-tour-canada Pitchforkmedia.com
  10. Web site: SappyFest Line Up 2009 . Sappyrecords.com . 2012-04-02 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110716005005/http://www.sappyrecords.com/SappyFest_09/lineup.html . 2011-07-16 .
  11. Web site: SappyFest day 1 - July 30th, 2010 in Sackville, NB. toomuchrock.com.
  12. Web site: SappyFest Day 3 - August 1st, 2010 in Sackville, NB. toomuchrock.com.
  13. http://www.junoawards.ca/archive_results.php
  14. Murray, 2017, p.100
  15. Web site: Funeral Fog - 13th Moon . . 2022 .
  16. Web site: Diamondtown. Diamondtown.
  17. Web site: Eric's Trip Tribute Album Out This Month | Exclaim!.
  18. . Chart Attack, August 07, 2001. review by J A Moussadji
  19. Web site: ERic's TRIP live Montreal (Mar.93), by Rick White Archive .
  20. Web site: RICK WHITE - Eric's Trip Demos (92-95), by Rick White Archive .

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