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Also known as
  
Stereo Mountain

Past members
  
Ed Vaughan

Associated acts
  
Elevator

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Origin
  
Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada

Years active
  
1990–1996, 2001, 2006–present

Members
  
Julie Doiron, Rick White, Mark Gaudet, Chris Thompson, Ed Vaughan

Genres
  
Indie rock, Noise pop, Alternative rock, Grunge

Record labels
  
Sub Pop, Sappy Records, Murderecords, Sonic Unyon, Squirtgun Records

Albums
  
Love Tara, Forever Again, Purple Blue, Long Days Ride 'Till Tomorrow, Songs About Chris

Profiles

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Eric's Trip is a Canadian indie rock band from Moncton, New Brunswick. Eric's Trip achieved prominence as the first Canadian band to be signed to Seattle's flagship grunge label Sub Pop in the early 1990s. The band had a minor hit in alternative circles with the single "Viewmaster", from 1994's Forever Again.

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History

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Eric's Trip formed in 1990 when musicians Rick White and Chris Thompson of The Forest joined Julie Doiron and Ed Vaughan (who was later replaced by Mark Gaudet of Purple Knight). They took their name from a Sonic Youth song and emulated the distorted guitar of Dinosaur Jr., the folk leanings of Neil Young, and the lo-fi aesthetic of Sebadoh. Rick White described their sound as "sappy melodic pop music on top of thick distortion." Gaudet's description was more succinct: "dreamy punk".

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The band broke up in 1996, reunited in 2001, and played at the Sappy Records Festival in Sackville, New Brunswick from 2006-2009. In 2010 both White and Doiron played separate sets at SappyFest. Eric's Trip also played a series of shows in 2007, including a show at the 2007 Halifax Pop Explosion.

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Doiron currently has a successful solo career; in 1999, she recorded the album Julie Doiron and the Wooden Stars with the Ottawa band Wooden Stars, which won a Juno Award for Best Alternative Album of the Year, and from 2003 to 2007 she performed with Shotgun & Jaybird. White and Gaudet play in Elevator, and White has also released three solo albums under the name Rick White Album, The Rick White Album, Memoreaper and 137. Thompson enjoyed some fame as Moon Socket, and currently plays in The Memories Attack with Ron Bates of Moncton band Orange Glass.

White produced Doiron's solo albums Woke Myself Up (2007) and I Can Wonder What You Did with Your Day (2009). Woke Myself Up features three tracks on which the entire Eric's Trip lineup contributed to the recording, their first studio collaboration since the band's 1996 breakup, while I Can Wonder has been described by critics as directly revisiting the sound and style of Eric's Trip for the first time in Doiron's solo career.

Personnel

  • Julie Doiron – bass, guitar, vocals
  • Chris Thompson – guitar, bass, drums, vocals
  • Rick White – vocals, guitar
  • Ed Vaughan – drums (1990–1991)
  • Mark Gaudet – drums, vocals (1991–present)

    • EPs/cassettes

  • Eric's Trip cassette (Independent) – Dec 1990
  • Catapillars EP cassette (Independent) – Apr 1991
  • Drowning EP cassette (Independent) – Aug 1991
  • Warm Girl cassette (Independent) – Jan 1992
  • Belong 7" EP (NIM) – Apr 1992
  • Peter cassette/CD (Murderecords), LP (Sub Pop Germany) – Apr 1993
  • Songs About Chris 7" EP (4 songs) / CD5 (6 songs) (Sub Pop) – May 1993
  • Julie and the Porthole to Dimentia 7" EP (One solo track by each of the four members) (Sappy Records) – Jul 1993
  • Trapped In New York 7" EP (Summershine Records) – 1993
  • Warm Girl 7" EP (Derivative) – 1993
  • The Gordon Street Haunting 7" EP / CD5 (Sub Pop) – 1994
  • The Road South 7" EP (Sonic Unyon) – Aug 1995

    • Albums

  • Love Tara (Sub Pop) – Nov 1993
  • Forever Again (Sub Pop) – 1994
  • Purple Blue (Sub Pop) – Jan 1996
  • Long Days Ride 'Till Tomorrow (Sappy Records) – 1997
  • The Eric's Trip Show live CD (Teenage USA) – 2001
  • Live in Concert November 4th, 2001 live CD (Great Beyond) – 2001
  • Bootleg (No Label) – 2007

    • Splits

  • "Laying Blame" b/w Stove-Smother Split 7" with Sloan (Cinnamon Toast Records) – 1994
  • Pillow (Red) b/w Payday and Don't Spook the Horse... Split 7" with Moviola (metoo! records) – 1996

    • Compilations

  • "Sickness" featured on Naked in the Marsh 10" Compilation of Moncton bands, 500 copies on green vinyl (NIM) – 1991
  • "Understanding" featured on Raw Energy CD Compilation (Raw Energy Records) – 1993
  • "Blue Sky for Julie/Smother" featured on Never Mind the Molluscs East Coast Compilation Double 7" set/CD (Sub Pop) – 1993
  • "Blue Sky for Julie/Smother" featured on Sub Pop Employee of the Month Compilation CD/LP (Sub Pop) – 1993
  • "Laying Blame" featured on Trim Crusts if Desired East Coast CD Compilation (Cinnamon Toast Records) – 1994
  • "Evie" featured on Not If I Smell You First CD Compilation (Sonic Unyon) – Aug 1995
  • "If You Don't Want Me" featured on Teenage Zit Rock Angst Compilation LP/CD/8-track (Nardwuar the Human Serviette/Mint Records) – 1995
  • "So Easier Last Time" featured on More of Our Stupid Noise Squirtgun Records - 1996
  • "New Love" (remix) & "We're Only Gonna Die" (live in Montreal '94) featured on "The Stareoscopic Scary Show - An Audiological View Of

    • Moncton N.B." (No label, SSSCD 197-2, released independently by Rick White)

    Songs

    Behind the GarageLove Tara · 1993
    My Chest Is EmptyForever Again · 1994
    View MasterForever Again · 1994

    References

    Eric's Trip Wikipedia
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