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The members of Sum 41 started out in rival bands in high school. They joke that they met while attending a Hole concert 41 days into the summer (hence the name Sum 41) of 1996. However the current bassist, Cone, joined the band later in the year 1999, replacing Mark Spicoluk, who later played bass for Avril Lavigne, Deryck's fiancée.
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It would be a mistake to view Sum 41 as just another second-rate band cashing in on the early-'00s punk-pop boom, even if it did recruit Jerry Finn to produce All Killer No Filler. Just as Finn had done ...Read full review
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Sum 41 hit worldwide radar in 1996 after tiny Ajax, Ontario, proved unable to fully contain the foursome's blathering mixture of punk-pop riffing, hip-hop poses, and toilet-bowl humor. Led by guitarist/vocalist Deryck Whibley, who looked like a mash-up of the Prodigy's Keith Flint and cartoon land's Calvin, the band ... included guitarist/vocalist Dave Baksh, bassist Cone McCaslin, and drummer Steve Jocz. Wooed by the boys' goofy antics and incendiary live show (and excited about the prospect of promoting their very own blink-182), Island put Sum 41 on the payroll in 1999. The Half Hour of Power EP followed, and Warped Tour dates got the word out. They returned in 2000 with the fun-filled full-length All Killer No Filler, and the singles "In Too Deep" and "Fat Lip" became staples of both modern rock radio and Total Request Live.
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The members of Sum 41 started out in rival bands in high school. They joke that they met while attending a Hole concert 41 days into the summer of 1996. According to the website Supernova, the band was originally a NOFX cover band and named Kaspir, and changed their name to Sum 41 for a Supernova show on September 28, 1996. The website ... states that they were scouted by Greig Nori of Treble Charger at a Supernova show at the Opera House in Toronto on February 24, 1996.[3] The current bassist, Cone, joined the band in 1999, after the band went through several other bassists. They spent many years playing together, hoping to make it big one day.
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The film ... documents Sum 41 visiting Eckabana House, an orphanage for girls banished from their homes for allegedly being witches, and a trip to the music therapy camp Solidarity Action for Children in Distress. "The leader of the camp said it would be fun if we could do an exchange of music, so we exchanged one of the most popular hits of our time," explains Baksh of the band's impromptu rendition of the Beatles "Hey Jude." "Their music was better [laughs]."
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It was Sum 41’s juvenile takes on brash, snotty pop-punk LPs All Killer, No Filler and Does This Look Infected? that made them one of the most visible punters in the movement. And surely the most recognizable ever to come out of Canada, 2004’s Chuck, did as much towards proving they weren’t going to be stuck with the same immature Blink 182 jokes and beginner’s chord progressions for the rest of their faux-rebellious spiked-hair career. Chuck was dark, vaguely metallic, and atmospheric, named after an African peacekeeper who apparently saved the band’s life while they were in the Congo, and boasted sharp songwriting legions ahead of anything the group had previously penned. It was just the step forward Sum 41 needed to step away from pop-punk’s basic, corny conventions, but just as it hit shelves, the band’s members found themselves ready to split.
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