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Buckcherry Breaks Up
07/17/2002 6:00 PM, Yahoo! Music
Mark Armstrong
(7/17/02, 6 p.m. ET) -- Tattooed hard rockers Buckcherry are no longer. The Los Angeles group called it quits after a two-album run with DreamWorks Records, citing the changing musical interests of frontman Joshua Todd for its demise, according to band fansite Buckcherry.net.
"He was no longer having fun being in Buckcherry and the process of making the new record had become quite disappointing to him," reads a post on the site. "He thought it best to move on at this time."
However, no confirmation from DreamWorks Records was available at press time.
Playing raw music in the tradition of Guns N' Roses, the Black Crowes, and AC/DC, the one-time buzz band showed great promise for commercial success with its 1999 self-titled debut album, featuring the single "Lit Up" and its sing-along chorus, "I love the cocaine." Nearly 700,000 copies of the effort were sold in the U.S., according to sources.
But the public proved less responsive to Buckcherry's 2001 follow-up, Time Bomb, for which sales dipped to less than 108,000.
-- Neal Weiss, Los Angeles
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