With the arrival of the nineties, the world changed again. Nirvana was the beginning and end of the new problem. Thousands of bands around the world were fighting for the title of being the new Nirvana. The recording industry knew about it and did nothing, but trying to hire any new “alternative” project that appeared. With this, the record companies made and lost a lot of money. Some bands survived, while others fell to the deepest of radial forgetfulness. Perhaps, those were the last days when radio really opened its doors to alternative rock. Today, Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry and Jessie J. with his “Price Tag” dominate the world.

Among the bands that surfaced in the early nineties, Spin Doctors was one of the most loved and remembered, that to date, is still causing smiles with songs like “Little Miss Can not Be Wrong” and “Two Princes”. This band started somewhere in the late eighties in New York. Its original training dates were back to 1989 exactly, and after being signed by Epic Records, they edited their debut hit “Up for Grabs … Live”, recorded live in Manhattan. In the beginning, even though no one believe it, the Spin Doctors was almost a “jam band”, making mischief on stage in a very deep and psychedelic-hippie way, the Manhattan style. Its melodic chords and happy strumming of its songs, used to make everyone dance for long and intense jams. Some of these improvisations are on the network in various “bootlegs” and rarities compiled.

The success came with the release of “Pocket Full of Kryptonite” in the summer of 1991, their debut album certainly, and probably most remembered for its hit singles mentioned above, as well as the classical “Jimmy Olsen’s Blues”. No obsession is clearer in this first release of Superman and the immense metropolis that he defends from evil. Without thinking, in two years consecutive to the album’s release, it received a platinum record for sales, Saturday Night Live appearances, extensive touring and fixed radio transmissions at the time.

The subsequent history of Spin Doctors is the same as of any band with a successful first album, the second release was not so successful, and the ups and downs, typical of Rock N Roll. However, in August 2011 marked the 20th anniversary of the release of the classic “Pocket Full of Kryptonite” and the boys are back in the ring with their joyful and rock sounds. The event will be in Milan on the 29^th of January at the Bloom Club. For more information on the Spin Doctors, visit their official website by clicking here: http://www.spindoctors.com/

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