Bonehead (also known as Familiar 48) is an American
alternative rock band, best known for their US radio hit, "The Question".
History
Bonehead was formed in 1994 by Stone Groove Productions as a
Philadelphia area nightclub cover band. A trademark of the band was during sets a group of die hard Bonehead fans would do different pro wrestling gestures usually getting a response from Scott. By 1997, the band released an
EP of original music, entitled "Bonehead". This EP was mainly available for purchase at the band's live performances & sold well enough to justify a follow-up effort. Their next release was a CD single for the song "I Know" in 1998 on Vulgar Entertainment; their first
LP was 1999's ''Fade'', also released on Vulgar. After discovering that the name "Bonehead" was very similar to another band with national aspirations, the band changed names in 2000 to Familiar 48.
[ Biography Allmusic.com. Accessed April 26, 2007.] Producer
Don Gehman, expressing interest in the band's debut album, got them signed to
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, a subsidiary of
MCA Records and produced their major-label debut, ''Wonderful Nothing''.
[ The album was released in April 2002, with the lead single "Learn to Love Again";][ this song failed to chart, but a later single, "The Question", experienced minor chart success in the United States.]Billboard Singles
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In 2005, Mannon announced a reformulation of the band under the old name, and the next year yielded a re-press of ''Fade'' with four extra bonus tracks. In 2007, Jayy Mannon announced that Bonehead would release a new album containing much of the work he wrote as a solo artist, entitled ''Broken and Glued''.[ Since then Bonehead has remained primarily a regional draw, playing in the Philadelphia area mostly as a cover band. In 2011 Bonehead released its first new music in four years, a digital single entitled "Real".
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Members
Current Members
*Jayy Mannon - guitar, lead & backing vocals, drums
*Jeff Camarco - bass
*Daryl Updike - drums
*Kevin Hug - guitars, bass
Former Members
*Rick Dean Smith - guitars, vocals
*Dave Poole - guitars, vocals
*Walt Sarkees - guitars, vocals
*Jeffery Beck - keyboards, vocals
*Chris Martin - guitars, vocals
*Derek Lim - guitars, vocals
*Pat Callahan - guitars
*Mike Arellano - guitars, vocals
*Nick Denofa - drums
*Mike McPeak - drums
*Scott Pustilnick (aka Scott Stanley) - bass
Discography
*''Bonehead'' EP (1997)
*''I Know'' CD-Single (Vulgar, 1998)
*''Fade'' (Vulgar, 1999)
**reissued in 2006 by Vulgar
*'' Wonderful Nothing'' (as Familiar 48) (MCA, 2002)
*''Broken and Glued'' (Vulgar, 2007)
Charting singles
References
External links
Official WebsiteBonehead at MySpaceFamiliar 48 at MySpace
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Musical groups from Philadelphia
American post-grunge musical groups