The Hydromatics
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The Hydromatics is a garage rock
supergroup
formed by Nick Royale, Scott Morgan and Tony Slug as side project to their main bands.
and Tony Slug from Amsterdam punkband The Nitwitz planned to record a series of Sonic's Rendezvous Band coversongs, but the project was long on hold due to the hectic touring schedules of The Hellacopters. However Tony Slug was able to get a hold of Sonic's Rendezvous Band founder Scott Morgan and during the Hellacopters second visit to Detroit Morgan happily accepted the offer to record with Tony and Nick. In 1999 Scott and Nick flew to Amsterdam and met up with Tony and his bandmate Theo Brouwer and The Hydromatics were born.
The band rehearsed for six days, played three shows in Amsterdam and wrote some new material for the bands debut album "Parts Unknown." After a six-week tour through Europe, which resulted in the six-track live CD "Fluid Drive," Nick decided to leave the band due to his commitments to The Hellacopters and was replaced by Andy Frost. In 2001 the band released their second album, "Powerglide," containing seven Sonic's Rendezvous Band covers and seven new tracks. Soon after, bassist Theo left and moved to Spain and Laurent Ciron was called in as his replacement. After the tour the band took an extended hiatus while the members concentrated on various other bands. Scott and Nicke teamed up once again and formed the soul band The Solution
. After the hiatus the band returned with Kent Steadman on guitar and Ries Doms on drums.
Former members
Garage rock
Garage rock is a raw form of rock and roll that was first popular in the United States and Canada from about 1963 to 1967. During the 1960s, it was not recognized as a separate music genre and had no specific name...
supergroup
Supergroup (music)
In the late 1960s, the term supergroup was coined to describe "a rock music group whose performers are already famous from having performed individually or in other groups"....
formed by Nick Royale, Scott Morgan and Tony Slug as side project to their main bands.
History
The Hydromatics was formed Nick Royale from The HellacoptersThe Hellacopters
The Hellacopters were a Swedish garage rock band that was formed in 1994 by Nicke Andersson , Dregen , Kenny Håkansson and Robert Eriksson . Andersson had been the drummer for death metal band Entombed and Dregen was taking a break from his full-time band Backyard Babies...
and Tony Slug from Amsterdam punkband The Nitwitz planned to record a series of Sonic's Rendezvous Band coversongs, but the project was long on hold due to the hectic touring schedules of The Hellacopters. However Tony Slug was able to get a hold of Sonic's Rendezvous Band founder Scott Morgan and during the Hellacopters second visit to Detroit Morgan happily accepted the offer to record with Tony and Nick. In 1999 Scott and Nick flew to Amsterdam and met up with Tony and his bandmate Theo Brouwer and The Hydromatics were born.
The band rehearsed for six days, played three shows in Amsterdam and wrote some new material for the bands debut album "Parts Unknown." After a six-week tour through Europe, which resulted in the six-track live CD "Fluid Drive," Nick decided to leave the band due to his commitments to The Hellacopters and was replaced by Andy Frost. In 2001 the band released their second album, "Powerglide," containing seven Sonic's Rendezvous Band covers and seven new tracks. Soon after, bassist Theo left and moved to Spain and Laurent Ciron was called in as his replacement. After the tour the band took an extended hiatus while the members concentrated on various other bands. Scott and Nicke teamed up once again and formed the soul band The Solution
The Solution (band)
The Solution is a blue-eyed soul band that was formed by the American Scott Morgan and Swede Nick Royale after previously working together in the rock n roll band The Hydromatics.-History:...
. After the hiatus the band returned with Kent Steadman on guitar and Ries Doms on drums.
Line up
Current members- Scott MorganScott MorganScott Morgan is an American rock & roll and soul musician, most known for his work with the Sonic's Rendezvous Band, the Rationals, The Solution as well as his solowork.-The Rationals:Morgan's first band was The Rationals...
- lead vocals, guitar, harmonica - Tony Slug - guitar
- Ries Doms - drums
- Theo Brouwer - bass guitar
- Kent Steedman - guitar
Former members
- Nicke AnderssonNicke AnderssonNicke Andersson , born 1 August 1972 is a singer, guitarist, drummer, songwriter and composer most known for his work as the singer and guitarist of the successful Grammy award winning rock band The Hellacopters as well as the former drummer for Swedish death metal band Entombed...
- drums, percussion, backing vocals - Laurent Ciron - bass guitar
- Andy Frost - drums
Discography
- Dangerous / Heaven 45 (RocketDog, Holland, lim. 1000 copies)
- Parts Unknown LP/CD (White Jazz, Sweden)
- Powerglide CD (Freakshow, Italy)
- Powerglide LP (Cargo, Germany)
- R.I.P. rnr on Ox fanzine compilation (Germany)
- Soulbone on Live at The Subsonic, Vol. 1 (Speed, France)
- R.I.P. rnr and "Do It Again" on Death Rattle and Roll (Wondertaker, USA)
- Live 10 (Pitshark http://www.pitshark.com/, France, lim. 500 copies)