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The pop/rock quartet Lifehouse is the idea chiefed by singer/songwriter Jason Wade, who originally tagged the band Blyss during Lifehouse's initial conception in 1996. After playing in various music scenes in Seattle and Portland, Wade brought Lifehouse to life in Los Angeles. Their thick sound has been compared to the likes of Live and Matchbox Twenty, but Wade insists Lifehouse is entirely original. They inked a deal with Dreamworks after years of gigging in L.A., and released their debut album No Name Face in fall 2000. The album was a hit, featuring the modern rock success "Hanging By a Moment." The song was the most played radio track of 2001, and inspired the band to step back into the studio. With Brendan O'Brien at the boards, they recorded Stanley Climbfall throughout the spring and summer of 2002; it was released on Dreamworks in September.
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Lifehouse is the brainchild of singer-songwriter-guitarist Jason Wade, who started the band (originally called BLYSS) in 1996 with bassist Sergio Andrade; the lineup has since grown to four members. Lifehouse is based in Los Angeles, where Wade settled after stints in Portland and Seattle. 20-year-old Wade, whose mother sang and played guitar with a folk-pop trio in the '70s, got his first guitar and began writing songs at 12, after his parents split up. Among his influences are Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Paul Simon and The Beatles. The discipline he brings to his craft is ... reflected in his extra-musical activities: Wade is a black belt in the martial art of Du Ye Chi Tao.
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The pop/rock quartet Lifehouse featured singer/songwriter Jason Wade, who originally tagged the band Blyss during the group's initial 1996 conception. After playing in various music scenes in Seattle and Portland, Wade brought Lifehouse to life in Los Angeles. Their thick sound was compared to Live and Matchbox Twenty, but Wade insisted Lifehouse was entirely original. They inked a deal with Dreamworks after years of gigging in L.A., and released their debut album No Name Face in fall 2000. The album became a hit behind the single "Hanging By a Moment.", which was the most played radio track of 2001, and its success inspired the band to step back inside the studio. With Brendan O'Brien at the boards, Wade and drumming collaborator Rick Woolstenhulme recorded Stanley Climbfall throughout the spring and summer of 2002; it was released on Dreamworks the following September.
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Townshend, never one to give up on a good idea, continued to believe that the 'Lifehouse' project was still viable. He had worked on a further draft of the script and continued to write music for the project. The new script changed the scenario to a world where music was banned, well rock music anyway; Musak supplied by media moguls was allowed. The basic theme... of the 'One Note' stayed the same other than the fact that this time the radicals were the disenchanted 'Musos'. Songs such as 'Slip Kid' from the 1975 who album 'The Who By Numbers' is instantly recognisable as a 'possible' Lifehouse song but the first real evidence of the Lifehouse resurrection came with the 1978 release of 'Who Are You', where, together with Roger Daltrey, he had revisited the project once again. Songs such as 'Music Must Change', 'Sister Disco' and possibly 'Who Are You' itself, were written with 'Lifehouse' in mind.
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In October 2000 the debut record of Lifehouse was released with the name of ‘No Name Face’. Why that? It was named for a song not finished in time for the track laying. The first single, "Hanging By A Moment", reached #1 hit status on the Billboard Top 100, and the record went multi-platinum 10 weeks after release. "HBAM" was the number one most played song of 2001.
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This sonic edge was indeed the right complement to Lifehouse's emotionally charged songs. Evidence of that can be found in the thousands of calls placed to Modern Rock stations across America requesting "Hanging By A Moment."
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