10,000 Maniacs
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10,000 Maniacs (named after the low-budget horror movie 2,000 Maniacs) was formed in Jamestown, NY, in 1981 by Robert Buck (guitar), Steven Gustafson (bass), Dennis Drew (keyboards), Natalie Merchant (vocals), John Lombardo (guitar) and Jerome Augustyniak (drums). The group gigged extensively and recorded independently before signing with Elektra Records and making The Wishing Chair in 1985. Guitarist Lombardo left the band in 1986, and they continued as a quintet, releasing the second album, In My Tribe, in 1987. This album broke into the charts, where it stayed 77 weeks, peaking at #37 and selling over a million copies. In My Tribe featured the hit singles "Don't Talk," "Hey Jack Kerouac,"> "Like The Weather" and "What's The Matter Here?"

Blind Man's Zoo, the 1989 follow-up, hit #13 and went gold. It featured the hit singles, "Trouble Me" and "Eat For Two."

Our Time in Eden was released in 1992, and featured the hit singles, "Candy Everybody Wants" and "These Are Days," which served as Bill Clinton's Presidential campaign theme song.

As Our Time in Eden had finished its run on the charts, Natalie Merchant announced that she was leaving for a solo career. MTV Unplugged was released a few months after her departure, featuring a remake of the Bruce Springsteen/Patti Smith classic, "Because the Night." The record sold 4 million copies.

10,000 Maniacs continued without Merchant, adding the folk-rock duo John & Mary in 1994 (original member Lombardo and violinist/vocalist Mary Ramsey). Ramsey was well-known to Maniac fans, having appeared as violinist, violist and back-up singer on Our Time in Eden and MTV Unplugged. The new lineup released Love Among the Ruins in 1997, featuring a cover of Roxy Music's "More Than This," which went to #24 on the Billboard charts, the highest-charting single in the band's history. In 1999, the band released The Earth Pressed Flat on Bar/None.

The career-retrospective greatest-hits-and-rarities collection Campfire Songs was released by Rhino Records in 2004.

10,000 Maniacs, now known for its high-energy, greatest-hits, audience-participation live show, currently consists of Oskar Saville on lead vocals; Jerome Augustyniak on drums, percussion and background vocals; Dennis Drew on keyboards; Steven Gustafson on bass guitar; and Jeff Erickson on lead guitar. Mary Ramsey will be rejoining the band at select shows in 2006 on vocals and electric violin.

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