Fireworks was an American garage rock

Garage rock

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 band from Denton, Texas

Denton, Texas

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Fireworks was founded by Darin Lin Wood, a former member of the bands Cop Shoot Cop

Cop Shoot Cop

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, '68 Comeback

'68 Comeback

68 Comeback is an American garage rock band formed in Memphis, Tennessee in 1992 by singer, songwriter, and musicologist, Jeffrey Evans. For the purposes of the band, Jeffrey Evans is frequently billed as either "Monsieur Evans" or "Monsieur Jeffrey Evans." The group contains a revolving cast of...

, and The Blacksnakes. In 1993, he founded Fireworks with Chris Merlick. Merlick was an itinerant member, leaving the group and returning several times; its other members included drummer Janet Walker and guitarist James Arthur. They released an album on Crypt Records

Crypt Records

Crypt Records is a Hamburg-based record label and record store founded by Tim Warren. The label is perhaps best known for issuing the eight-volume Back From The Grave Series of garage rock compilations, although its reissues and releases include surf, rockabilly, punk rock, exotica, garage punk,...

 in 1994 and a sophomore effort on Au Go Go Records

Au Go Go Records

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 in 1996. Following this, Wood and Walker worked on a side band with Mick Collins

Mick Collins

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 of The Gories

The Gories

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 called Blacktop; this project released I Got a Bad Feelin' About This in 1995 on In The Red. Fireworks's last full-length appeared in 1997.

Members

• Darin Lin Wood - vocals, guitar, drums
• Chris Merlick - vocals, guitar, drums
• Janet Walker - drums
• James Arthur - guitar
• Keith Underwood - guitar

Discography

• Set the World on Fire (Crypt Records
  Crypt Records
  Crypt Records is a Hamburg-based record label and record store founded by Tim Warren. The label is perhaps best known for issuing the eight-volume Back From The Grave Series of garage rock compilations, although its reissues and releases include surf, rockabilly, punk rock, exotica, garage punk,...
  
  , 1994)
• Off the Air (Au Go Go Records
  Au Go Go Records
  Au Go Go Records is the name of a Melbourne, Australia based independent record label.It was founded by Bruce Milne and Philip Morland from a house in Brunswick Street, Fitzroy in 1979 and is now operated by Greta Moon....
  
  , 1996)
• Lit Up (Last Beat Records, 1997)