2008 Woodie Awards
Mad About Bert
What ever happened to...?
By: Linda Merrick
Issue date: 2/26/07 Section: Entertainment
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Around this time last semester The Chronicle staff decided to do a special section tentatively titled "Whatever happened to…" We spent a day making lists of has-been celebrities, one hit wonders and disappeared bands of recent years and set out to track them down.
You may be wondering why you never saw the section. It's simple - we couldn't do it. We had some trouble tracking people down, with one notable exception - The Chronicle tracked down former MTV VJ Jesse Camp, who works in a pet food store in Los Angeles.
Even stranger and an unexpected phenomenon, a lot of the people on my list (which was largely made up of 1990's alternative rock bands and TV stars of the same era) were still famous- or at least still making music, movies or guest starring on TV.
I knew the Cardigans were still around. They've moved on from "Kiss Me" and are taking the indie rock world by storm.
The fact that Veruca Salt, of "Volcano Girls" fame, are still recording came as somewhat of a surprise. Veruca Salt started a years long trend in my life- when I went to a concert, the opening band would almost always be broken up within 6 months. I was kryptonite to opening bands and Veruca Salt was my first casualty. Sometime and somewhat under the radar, they came back.
Remember Silverchair? Daniel Johns was an underage alt-rocker ten years ago. In a little over a month, the band will release a new album. From what I've heard so far, it's good.
It's the same story over and over. With little to no fanfare, those acts we loved in the last decade are still around. In some cases (the Cardigans, in particular) the music they are making far, far surpasses anything they did in the past. I can't wait for the new Silverchair album and I desperately long for the cash to check out Veruca Salt's new stuff.
In the mean time, I'll be hitting MySpace to see who else is still out there, making music years after I thought they were gone.
You may be wondering why you never saw the section. It's simple - we couldn't do it. We had some trouble tracking people down, with one notable exception - The Chronicle tracked down former MTV VJ Jesse Camp, who works in a pet food store in Los Angeles.
Even stranger and an unexpected phenomenon, a lot of the people on my list (which was largely made up of 1990's alternative rock bands and TV stars of the same era) were still famous- or at least still making music, movies or guest starring on TV.
I knew the Cardigans were still around. They've moved on from "Kiss Me" and are taking the indie rock world by storm.
The fact that Veruca Salt, of "Volcano Girls" fame, are still recording came as somewhat of a surprise. Veruca Salt started a years long trend in my life- when I went to a concert, the opening band would almost always be broken up within 6 months. I was kryptonite to opening bands and Veruca Salt was my first casualty. Sometime and somewhat under the radar, they came back.
Remember Silverchair? Daniel Johns was an underage alt-rocker ten years ago. In a little over a month, the band will release a new album. From what I've heard so far, it's good.
It's the same story over and over. With little to no fanfare, those acts we loved in the last decade are still around. In some cases (the Cardigans, in particular) the music they are making far, far surpasses anything they did in the past. I can't wait for the new Silverchair album and I desperately long for the cash to check out Veruca Salt's new stuff.
In the mean time, I'll be hitting MySpace to see who else is still out there, making music years after I thought they were gone.
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