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Carl Bell, Kevin Miller, Mark Klotz, Tommy Nat, Aaron Scott
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Fuel is an American rock band formed in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, by guitarist-songwriter Carl Bell in 1989. They are best known for their hit songs, “Shimmer”, “Hemorrhage” and “Bad Day”.
The guys had their first taste of television, performing on “Late Night with Conan O’Brien.” They have played large festivals throughout the country with everyone from the Foo Fighters to Green Day.
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In October ’98, Fuel‘s, “Shimmer”, video was nominated for two Billboard Music Video Awards, for Best New Artist Clip in both the Alternative/Modern Rock and Hard Rock/Metal categories.
The guys have been overwhelmed by enthusiastic press response. “Breezy melodies with full-out metallic aggression,” wrote Rolling Stone, and Entertainment Weekly praised the band’s “brutish guitar styling and familiar, yet contagious choruses.”
New York Times music critic Jon Pareles caught a live gig and admired how the band played with “passion and precision,” noting Fuel‘s “sharper riffs making way for clear melodies.”
Carl Bell and Jeff Abercrombie grew up as boyhood friends in a small Western Tennessee town (“Carl’s mother used to babysit me when I was in diapers,” recalls Abercrombie with a smile). Growing up without television in a “two stop light” town.
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Bell’s primary entertainment as a teenager was listening to the 500 vinyl albums his older brother won from a Memphis radio station. “Instead of coming home and watching ‘Gilligan’s Island,'” says Bell, “I’d throw on a Stones record.”
Although both boys started out playing guitar, Abercrombie jokes that Bell slyly convinced him to play the bass “’cause it was cooler.” In a town so small that there were only 27 people in Bell’s graduating class, the guys found themselves struggling to find fellow musicians.
“Writing is like therapy for me,” says Bell. “It helps you decode what’s going on in your life.” Bell admits to spending hours sometimes searching for the right word, the most compelling lyric that matches the melody in his head. “There has to be something that hooks me,” he points out. “You have to find it quickly and then slowly flesh out the details.”
Fuel has performed more than 800 concerts throughout their career. In September 2023, the band performed at the Rocklahoma festival along with others, including Theory of a Deadman, Limp Bizkit, Bush, Skillet, Warrant, Chevelle, Skid Row, Rob Zombie, Buckcherry and Daughtry.
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Their discography includes 6 studio albums, 4 extended plays, 2 compilation albums, 21 singles, and 13 music videos.
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