Georgia Satellites Keep Your Hands to Yourself Album Art
The twangy guitar introduction to "Go on Your Hands To Yourself" is certainly familiar to anybody who listened to rock radio, tuned into MTV, or punched the vocal up on a jukebox dorsum in 1986. The melody was a sizable hit for the Georgia Satellites, an Atlanta-based grouping that specialized in old-fashioned, guitar-infused rock and roll. The band started out around 1980 as Keith and the Satellites, with a lineup that included guitarists Rick Richards and Dan Baird, bassist Keith Christopher and drummer David Michaelson.
The group regularly played local bars and clubs in Georgia and weathered a couple of personnel changes in their early years. Both Keith Christopher and David Michaelson departed and were replaced by Dave Hewitt and Randy DeLay. The band changed their name to Georgia Satellites and went into the studio to record a demo with producer Jeff Glixman. The demo didn't generate much interest, so in 1984, the ring members went their separate ways. However, that wasn't the end of the road for the group.
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The ring'south director took the demo to a small British record label. They liked the songs and in 1985, issued them as an EP under the title Go along The Faith. The release received some positive response from reviewers, and Baird afterward joined upwardly with quondam bandmate Rick Richards, drummer Mauro Magellan and bassist Rick Price (a trio who had been playing together in a band called the Hell Hounds) to re-launch the Georgia Satellites. The reconstituted band signed upwards with Elektra Records, and their self-titled debut was released in 1986, at a time when old school stone and curl was in short supply. The album was a resolute nail of no holds barred, straight alee, bar ring music with a dash of country and southern stone tossed in for good measure out.
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"Keep Your Hands To Yourself," an ode to dear and (pre-marital) sex, jumped all the manner up to number ii on the charts. The depression-fi video for the song, featuring the band performing the tune on a flatbed truck, was aired constantly on MTV. "Keep Your Hands To Yourself," was actually kept out of the Number 1 spot on the charts past Bon Jovi's "Livin' on a Prayer."
The group's follow-upward single "Battleship Chains" was a sharp-edged rocker, once once more featured Baird'south distinctive vocals. The song managed to hit number 86 on the charts. The band also recorded a encompass of the Swinging Bluish Jeans' late 1960'southward hitting "Hippy Hippy Milkshake" for the soundtrack of the Tom Cruise movie, Cocktail. "Hippy Hippy Shake" was the group's highest-charting single other than "Continue Your Hands Yourself," reaching number 45. The Georgia Satellites, similar Jason and the Scorchers, The Blasters, and The Kentucky Headhunters, mixed old school rock with other genres including country, soul, and blues, and gained a reputation for raucous live shows.
Sadly, their retro-fueled style primarily appealed to dyed in the wool rock fans in an era when hair bands and synth music were in abundance. The grouping's second anthology, Open All Night, was released in 1988. The record featured a embrace of the Beatles tune "Don't Laissez passer Me By" and a number of downwardly and dirty, guitar-fueled selections, including the Faces meets Stones vibe of "Mon Cheri." Sales for the anthology didn't quite accomplish the heights of their debut, nor did those for their final disc, the critically acclaimed In The Country of Salvation and Sin, which was issued in 1989.
Dan Baird departed the band in 1990, and the group soon disbanded. Baird launched a solo career, scoring a success with "I Love You Menses," from his excellent solo debut, 1992'southward Dear Songs for the Hearing Dumb. Baird also fronted the band Homemade Sin, which included former Satellite Mauro Magellan. The Georgia Satellites, led by Rick Richards, reunited in 1993 and released a new album, Shaken Not Stirred, and also headed dorsum out on the route to perform live. Equally for "Proceed Your Easily To Yourself," information technology'due south been covered past The Charlie Daniels Band, Garth Brooks, and Kenny Chesney. The song has remained a bar ring perennial and is as well a favorite of a new generation of artists, including country vocaliser Chris Stapleton and southern rockers Blackberry Smoke.
-John Visconti
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