![]() Morris and Bain had previously played together in a band called Noise on Independent Street. Shortly afterwards they were joined by an acquaintance, Pete Bain, on bass. The two guitarists recruited drummer Tim Morris, who played with a couple of other bands and had a rehearsal space at his parental home which they used. Pierce was in a band called Indian Scalp, but he left them near the end of 1982 in order to collaborate with Kember. They met at the (now defunct) Rugby Art College on Clifton Road, Rugby, Warwickshire in Autumn 1982, both aged 16, and became close friends. ![]() ![]() The creative and song-writing force throughout Spacemen 3's history were Peter Kember and Jason Pierce. Kember described it as "very hypnotic and minimal every track has a drone all the way through it".N'Joy ![]() Their earlier record releases were guitar 'heavy', sounding Stooges-esque and "a bit like a punked-up garage rock band" whilst their later work was mostly sparser and softer with more textural techniques and augmented by organs, resulting in "their signature trance-like neo-psychedelia". Today's artists' music was characterised by fuzzy and distorted electric guitars, stuttering tremolo effects and wah-wah, the employment of 'power chords' and simple riffs, harmonic overtones and drones, softly sung/spoken vocals, and sparse or monolithic drumming.
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