KINGS’ X: Gretchen goes to Nebraska LP 1989. Great cult Hard rock. Check 2 official videos, 3 review videos and an exclusive video of the LP on sale.

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Gretchen Goes To Nebraska is the second album by heavy metal/hard rock trio King X. It is a concept album, based around a short story written by drummer Jerry Gaskill.
The album first track is named after the title of the band debut album.


The songs “”Over My Head””

and “Summerland”

https://youtu.be/Dd4Uto-0XZg

had promotional music videos. The album cover artwork is seen at the end of the latter video.


SONGS:
“Out of the Silent Planet” 5:44
“Over My Head” 4:47
“”Summerland”” – 3:17
“”Everybody Knows a Little Bit of Something”” – 3:57
“”The Difference (In the Garden of St. Anne-on-the-Hill)”” – 3:08
“”I’ll Never Be the Same”” – 4:56
“”Mission”” – 5:01
“”Fall on Me”” – 4:05
“”Pleiades”” – 4:41   Ty Tabor identifies Pleiades as the starting point for the King’s X sound, even though they held it over until Gretchen. As sparkling and celestial as the stars it was named after.


a video review:

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another video review:


“”Don’t Believe It (It Easier Said Than Done)”” – 3:07
“”Send a Message”” – 4:02
“”The Burning Down”” – 5:35
All songs written by Pinnick, Tabor, Gaskill, except “”I’ll Never Be The Same”” written by Pinnick, Tabor, Gaskill and Marty Warren; “”Pleiades”” written by Pinnick, Tabor, Gaskill and Dale Richardson.

Accolades:
Publication -Country- Accolade- Year- Rank
Kerrang! United Kingdom “”Albums of the Year”” 1989 4
Tip Germany “”Albums of the Year”” 1989 8
OOR Netherlands “”Albums of the Year”” 1989 18
Sounds United Kingdom “”Albums of the Year”” 1989 38
OOR Netherlands “”The Best Albums of the 80s”” 1989 244
Hard Rock Magazine France “”The Best Albums of the 80s”” 1989 1

Personnel:
Doug Pinnick- bass/vocals
Ty Tabor- guitar/vocals
Jerry Gaskill- drums/vocals

King X is an American hard rock band that combines progressive metal, funk and soul with vocal arrangements influenced by gospel, blues, and British Invasion pop groups. The band lyrics are largely based on the members’ struggles with religion and self-acceptance.
Since being signed to Megaforce Records in 1987, King X has released twelve studio albums, one official live album, and several independent releases. The band is currently recording for the InsideOut Music label, and continues to tour with each new release. Early in their major label career, they had many opening slots on arena tours, but lately the band, for the most part, headline their own shows playing mostly clubs and smaller venues.
Each member of the group has recorded solo albums and has made numerous guest appearances on other artists’ albums and compilation projects. Doug Pinnick and Ty Tabor also have albums released with side bands that they participate in.
Despite the band members having varying degrees of Christian beliefs through the years and the group having had early dealings in the Contemporary Christian market, the members of King X have never considered themselves a “”Christian”” band. However, some of their early lyrical themes (especially the first three albums) have led to some people labeling the group as such, which all three members strongly oppose . King X was ranked #83 on VH1 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock.”


Jerry Gaskill [Kings X drummer ] has a vivid memory of being chased down the street by Layne Staley of Alice In Chains. Gaskill’s band, the Texan trio King’s X, had rolled into Seattle on the tour to promote their debut album, 1988’s Out Of The Silent Planet. Many of the leading players in the city’s nascent grunge scene had turned out to see them, including members of Soundgarden and Mother Love Bone as well as Alice In Chains.

It was after the show that Gaskill found himself accosted by Staley. The Kings’s X drummer was on his way to get some food when he heard footsteps hammering behind him.

“I see this guy hurtling down the street towards me, going: ‘Jerry! Jerry! I love your band, man!’” remembers Gaskill, as softly spoken and modest a man as you could ever hope to meet. “It was Layne. For some reason they all were really supportive of us up there. We became friends with a lot of those guys.”

Staley wasn’t the only superstar besotted with King’s X. In the early 90s, at the height of his own band’s success, Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament declared on MTV that “King’s X invented grunge”. Ament’s rationale was sound. In the era of Guns N’ Roses and Poison, King’s X, with their drop-D guitar tunings, sounded like nothing else around. But even if they had sparked off that movement – which is debatable anyway – that doesn’t tell the whole story. They also drew on a deep well of influences that ran from The Beatles (their effortless melodicism and immaculate harmonies) to Motörhead (the metallic ring of frontman Dug – formerly Doug – Pinnick’s bass sound was the heaviest thing this side of Lemmy) and even Joshua Tree-era U2 (their songs possessed an enigmatic, uplifting, spiritual edge).

The British music press went into meltdown. Out of nowhere, this trio of unlikely looking men in their greatcoats and military jackets became magazine cover stars. The band’s first three albums – Out Of The Silent Planet, 1989’s Gretchen Goes To Nebraska and 1991’s Faith, Hope, Love – were each individually hailed as the future of rock.

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