AMERICA FOUNDER PEEK DIES Multi-instrumentalist-singer Dan Peek, one of the three founding members of soft-rockers, America, along with high school pals Gerry Beckley and Dewey Bunnell, died at 60, reports Billboard. Peek was an integral member of America from 1970-1977 that were the band's most popular years when they scored big with such hits as the #1 smashes, "A Horse with No Name" and "Tin Man," as well as Top 10 standards, "Lonely People" and "Ventura Highway.
Question for the geographically challenged: Is Montclair in America, or is America in Montclair? Answer: both, when America comes to the Wellmont Theatre, with an assist from Loggins and Messina's Jim Messina. TELL ME MORE: Some bands, like Chicago, name themselves for a city. Other bands, like Kansas, name themselves for a state. But it takes a bit of cheek to name your band after a country - particularly when it's technically not your own (founding members Dan Peek, who died this year, Gerry Beckley and Dewey Bunnell were all Americans living abroad in London when they met). But that's a matter for rock historians - along with perennial FM radio hits such as "Horse With No Name," "Ventura Highway," "Tin Man" and "Sister Golden Hair." This is the band's 40th birthday, and country-rock ...
The anonymous horse rides again!: One of the most regularly charting Top 40 bands of the '70s has embarked on a 40th anniversary tour - one that will bring them galloping to the stage of Springfield's Sangamon Auditorium at 8 p.m. June 3, with tickets priced from $47-$57, and going on sale at 10 a.m. April 18. America, as the band named itself, features founding members Dewey Bunnell and Gerry Beckley, who were sons of U.S. military personnel stationed in England when they crossed paths in 1970 - hence naming the band after a country they rarely saw growing up. The group's first hit, 1972's "A Horse With No Name," was followed by "Ventura Highway," "Sister Golden Hair," "Tin Man," "I Need You," "Lonely People" and their final Top 10 hit, 1982's "You Can Do Magic." The trio's third origi...
America -- "Here & Now" (Burgundy/Sony): For all the hoopla surrounding legendary duo America's first studio release since 1998, "Here & Now" sounds like classic America, and that's exactly what makes the album a breath of fresh air. What could have turned into a four-decade-old band trying to be hip with former Smashing Pumpkins guitarist James Iha and Foutains of Wayne's Adam Schlesinger co- producing, instead has all the lush harmonies and easy melodies you'd expect from a mid-'70s release from the group. The key to "Here & Now's" success lies with Schlesinger and Iha understanding what makes America tick. Gone are burdensome synths and the maudlin production that duo Gerry Beckley and Dewey Bunnell favored on recent albums. What's left is quaint folk-pop, the kind of Crosby, Stills ...
For those with a hint of gray in their hair, songs such as "Ventura Highway," "Sister Golden Hair" and "A Horse With No Name" - and the group that sang them, America - will bring back memories of an earlier time. Two of America's three original members, Gerry Beckley and Dewey Bunnell, return with a two-CD set that pairs a disc of new material with a concert recording of their greatest hits. Such a combination usually suggests the new disc isn't strong enough to stand on its own. Certainly, the new songs have their share of platitudes, but the soft-rock melodies, lush harmonies and straightforward lyrics are hard to resist.
SPRINGFIELD -- The idea behind America's first album in almost a decade, "Here & Now," was easy enough. "The concept," explained Gerry Beckley, "wasn't us and our hip new friends." Wait. What'd the man just say? Hip new friends? Hip? America? Learning who produced the album is like being kicked in the teeth by a horse with no name - - you have no idea where you are, what your name is or how you ended up flat on your back in the desert. Basically, it's just really hard to accept the reality that America, returning to Springfield on Saturday, March 29, is now cool. When the folky '70s softies dropped the double-disc last year, it's doubtful anybody saw it coming. Adam Schlesinger of Fountains of Wayne helmed "Here & Now" with former Smashing Pumpkins guitarist James Iha. Oh, it gets bette...
Gerry Beckley and Dewey Bunnell suffer no delusions of grandeur. They're working musicians in a band called America that dusts off a dozen or so decades-old songs a hundred nights a year in exchange for a steady paycheck. Beckley and Bunnell are dedicated to their craft and clear about their place in the popular culture. They know exactly why America high priests of soft rock in the '70s but hardly a blip on the radar since is back on a major label for the first time in 20 years. When word got out we were hooking up with Adam, a lot of people thought that was a good move," Beckley says.
OREM -- From the beginning of the performance to the encore, America had the audience riveted to the group's every note as the musicians closed out the season at the SCERA Shell Outdoor Theater on Monday. The popular and legendary Grammy-award-winning 1970s band, led by singers and founders Gerry Beckley and Dewey Bunnell, is on a nostalgia tour as the band continues the hectic pace of 100 concerts a year, a pace the musicians have kept up for some 35 years.
Dan Peek, a founding member of the soft-rock trio America, which shot to the top of the pop charts in the 1970s with bouncy, lightweight hits including "A Horse With No Name," "Ventura Highway" and "Sister Golden Hair," died Sunday at his home in Farmington, Mo., outside St. Louis. He was 60. Peek's wife, Catherine, found him dead in bed, his father, Milton Peek, told the Associated Press. An autopsy will be conducted to determine the cause of death.
... top 10 singles with fellow band members Gerry Beckley and Dewey Bunnell. "It was a joyous time f...
After almost 40 years in the music business, Gerry Beckley knows lightning usually doesn't strike twice in the same place. So he and his musical partner, Dewey Bunnell better known as the soft-rock group America don't feel any pressure to follow up their successful 2007 release "Here & Now," which marked the band's first major-label album in 23 years. The recording was a collaborative effort with Fountains of Wayne bass player and composer Adam Schlesinger and James Iha, formerly of the Smashing Pumpkins.
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