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As summer turned to fall, the prospects of Bush playing a show seemed to fade, as Mark's level of involvement and commitment was impossible to gauge and the band did not want to perform without him as a singer. This was unfortunate as most of the bands repertoire was developed instrumentally as a three piece, and they had many songs fully developed and ready to go in that format. | As summer turned to fall, the prospects of Bush playing a show seemed to fade, as Mark's level of involvement and commitment was impossible to gauge and the band did not want to perform without him as a singer. This was unfortunate as most of the bands repertoire was developed instrumentally as a three piece, and they had many songs fully developed and ready to go in that format. | ||
It was under these slow-progressing circumstances by | It was under these slow-progressing circumstances by late 1990 that Tom left the band under friendly terms to join a new band that his fellow Chicagoans had started with San Jose transplant Joe Sib, [[Wax]]. | ||
That was the writing on the wall for Bush, as Pat Finn went to the SF bay area for the winter, and Patrick Wilson joined [[Rivers]]' band Fuzz for several months before it too imploded by Spring 1991. By that time, Pat Finn had returned to LA, and while the "Bush" name was briefly considered, he and Patrick eventually restarted as [[60 Wrong Sausages]] with Jason Cropper, and soon thereafter, added Rivers as well. | That was the writing on the wall for Bush, as Pat Finn went to the SF bay area for the winter, and Patrick Wilson joined [[Rivers]]' band Fuzz for several months before it too imploded by Spring 1991. By that time, Pat Finn had returned to LA, and while the "Bush" name was briefly considered, he and Patrick eventually restarted as [[60 Wrong Sausages]] with Jason Cropper, and soon thereafter, added Rivers as well. | ||
Patrick Wilson recalled that when Jane's Addiction's "Stop!", the first single off of "Ritual de lo Habitual" debuted on KROQ (not long after Bush dissolved], he was bummed because the guitar riffing into was so similar to Tom Gardocki's sound in Bush, and the sense that they had missed their chance was palpable. It also reinforced the lesson that a band needed a strong singer/frontman to advance in the savage L.A. music scene. | |||
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