Monday, 26 Feb 2007
If you stop by this site on the regular, you’d know we’re big fans of Lucero. Today, we wanted to give you a look back at lead singer Ben Nichols’ previous band, Red 40.
Towncraft unveiled this quicktime video from February, 1995 of a bass playing and brit accented Ben Nichols fronting his previous band. Nichols has come quite a way since then, and while the video is great for nostalgia the factor, we definitely dig his cigarette and whiskey soaked voice that we’ve come to enjoy with his contributions to Lucero.
You can purchase the Red 40 Discography at the Lucero store for $8.
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February 26th, 2007 at 6:06 pm
That Red 40 Disc is great. Ben was also in a band called Lucky Old Sun which is much like the Red Forty stuff. There are no formal releases of Lucky Old Sun, but if you ever find it, you will be stoked.
March 3rd, 2007 at 11:42 pm
Wow, thanks for posting this! I had no idea Ben had an emo background. Good stuff. Wish I’d known about them back in the day.
April 11th, 2007 at 9:58 am
Reminds me of being fifteen again. Those were definitely the “good ‘ole days”!