Eric's Trip
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Eric's Trip is a Canadian
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 indie rock
Indie rock
Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1980s. Indie rock is extremely diverse, with sub-genres that include lo-fi, post-rock, math rock, indie pop, dream pop, noise rock, space rock, sadcore, riot grrrl and emo, among others...

 band from Moncton, New Brunswick
New Brunswick
New Brunswick is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces and is the only province in the federation that is constitutionally bilingual . The provincial capital is Fredericton and Saint John is the most populous city. Greater Moncton is the largest Census Metropolitan Area...

. Eric's Trip achieved prominence as the first Canadian band to be signed to Seattle's flagship grunge label Sub Pop
Sub Pop
Sub Pop is a record label founded in 1986 by Bruce Pavitt and Jonathan Poneman in Seattle, Washington. Sub Pop achieved fame in the late 1980s for first signing Nirvana, Soundgarden, Mudhoney and many other bands from the Seattle music scene...

 in the early 1990s. The band had a minor hit in alternative circles with the single "Viewmaster", from 1994's Forever Again.

History

Eric's Trip formed in 1990 when musicians Rick White
Rick White (musician)
Rick White is a Canadian musician and singer-songwriter. He was a member of indie bands Eric's Trip, Elevator, Perplexus, and The Unintended...

 and Chris Thompson
Chris Thompson (Canadian musician)
Chris Thompson is a Canadian musician who has performed in a variety of Maritime bands, including Eric's Trip, The Memories Attack, Orange Glass, and his solo project Moon Socket. Although Thompson was born in Ottawa, his family moved to Moncton, New Brunswick when he was five years old...

 of The Forest joined Julie Doiron
Julie Doiron
Julie Doiron is an award-winning Canadian singer-songwriter of Acadian heritage.-Background:Doiron started playing guitar in Eric's Trip at the age of eighteen, having joined the band at the insistence of her then-boyfriend, Rick White, also of Eric's Trip...

 and Ed Vaughan (who was later replaced by Mark Gaudet
Mark Gaudet
Mark Gaudet is a Canadian musician from Moncton, New Brunswick. He has played in various indie and metal music groups, such as Elevator, Eric's Trip, Purple Knight and Funeral Fog. In 1974, at the age of eleven Gaudet formed his first band, Purple Knight. In 1991, Gaudet joined Eric's Trip, taking...

 of Purple Knight). They took their name from a Sonic Youth
Sonic Youth
Sonic Youth is an American alternative rock band from New York City, formed in 1981. The current lineup consists of Thurston Moore , Kim Gordon , Lee Ranaldo , Steve Shelley , and Mark Ibold .In their early career, Sonic Youth was associated with the No Wave art and music scene in New York City...

 song and emulated the distorted guitar of Dinosaur Jr., the folk leanings of Neil Young
Neil Young
Neil Percival Young, OC, OM is a Canadian singer-songwriter who is widely regarded as one of the most influential musicians of his generation...

, and the lo-fi aesthetic of Sebadoh
Sebadoh
Sebadoh is an American indie rock band, formed in 1986 in Westfield, Massachusetts by Eric Gaffney and Dinosaur Jr bass player Lou Barlow. Along with such bands as Pavement and Guided by Voices, Sebadoh helped pioneer lo-fi music, a style of indie rock characterized by low-fidelity recording...

. Rick White described their sound as "sappy melodic pop music on top of thick distortion." Gaudet's description was more succinct: "dreamy punk".

The band broke up in 1996, but reunited in 2001, playing at the Sappy Records
Sappy Records
Sappy Records is an independent record label based in Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada, started by Julie Doiron in 1990 in order to release her own cassette....

 Festival in Sackville, New Brunswick
Sackville, New Brunswick
Sackville is a Canadian town in Westmorland County, New Brunswick.Mount Allison University is located in the town...

 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
Halifax Pop Explosion
The Halifax Pop Explosion is a music festival that takes place every fall, two weeks after Thanksgiving, in Halifax Nova Scotia, Canada.-History:...

.

Julie Doiron currently has a successful solo career; in 1999, she recorded an album Julie Doiron and the Wooden Stars with the Ottawa band Wooden Stars
Wooden Stars
Wooden Stars are a Canadian indie rock band formed in the 1990s. The band, from Ottawa, consists of vocalist and guitarist Julien Beillard, guitarist Mike Feuerstack, bassists Josh Latour and Mathieu Beillard, and drummer Andrew McCormack.-Style:...

 which won a Juno award
Juno Award
The Juno Awards are presented annually to Canadian musical artists and bands to acknowledge their artistic and technical achievements in all aspects of music...

 for best album of the year, and from 2003 to 2007 she performed with Shotgun & Jaybird
Shotgun & Jaybird
Shotgun & Jaybird were a Canadian indie rock band based in Sackville, New Brunswick.-History:Shotgun & Jaybird formed in mid-2003 when Dick Morello, formerly of The Janitors, travelled to the Yukon and was later joined by his lifelong friend and former Janitor, Shotgun Jimmie, from Ajax, Ontario...

. Rick White and Mark Gaudet play in Elevator
Elevator (band)
Elevator is a band from Moncton, New Brunswick. Started in 1994 as Elevator To Hell, a solo outlet for Eric's Trip lead man Rick White, the project eventually grew to include Eric's Trip drummer Mark Gaudet and White's ex-wife Tara on bass and, for a short while, Ron Bates of Orange Glass as a...

, and White has also released three solo albums under the name Rick White Album, The Rick White Album
The Rick White Album
The Rick White Album is the first full-length album by Rick White. The recording of the album was completed on March 25, 2005. It was released by Bluefog Records in 2005.The vinyl pressing was released as a numbered limited edition of 425 copies....

, Memoreaper
Memoreaper
Memoreaper is the second full-length album by Rick White. It was released by Bluefog in 2007.-Track listing:# "Sorry We Missed You"# "Away"# "Flicker"# "Icicle"# "Wreck"# "Grim Intention"# "Okay Okay Okay"# "Ode"# "I Don't Know Her"# "Utterance"...

and 137
137
Year 137 was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Caesar and Balbinus...

. Chris Thompson enjoyed some fame as Moon Socket, and currently plays in The Memories Attack
The Memories Attack
The Memories Attack is a Canadian indie pop duo from Atlantic Canada. The group consists of Eric's Trip guitarist Chris Thompson and Ron Bates of the pop group Orange Glass...

 with Ron Bates of Moncton band Orange Glass.

White produced Doiron's solo albums Woke Myself Up
Woke Myself Up
Woke Myself Up is an album by Julie Doiron, released in 2007.Doiron's former Eric's Trip bandmate Rick White produced and played on the album. Three songs on the album — "I Woke Myself Up", "No More" and "The Wrong Guy" — also include contributions by Mark Gaudet and Chris Thompson, the other two...

(2007) and I Can Wonder What You Did with Your Day
I Can Wonder What You Did with Your Day
I Can Wonder What You Did with Your Day is an album by Julie Doiron, released on March 10, 2009.Recorded at the home studio of Rick White, the album's producer and Doiron's onetime bandmate in Eric's Trip, the album is more rock-oriented than Doiron's other solo albums, revisiting the sound and...

(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
    Julie Doiron
    Julie Doiron is an award-winning Canadian singer-songwriter of Acadian heritage.-Background:Doiron started playing guitar in Eric's Trip at the age of eighteen, having joined the band at the insistence of her then-boyfriend, Rick White, also of Eric's Trip...

     – bass
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

    , guitar
    Guitar
    The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...

    , vocals
  • Chris Thompson
    Chris Thompson (Canadian musician)
    Chris Thompson is a Canadian musician who has performed in a variety of Maritime bands, including Eric's Trip, The Memories Attack, Orange Glass, and his solo project Moon Socket. Although Thompson was born in Ottawa, his family moved to Moncton, New Brunswick when he was five years old...

     – guitar, bass, drums
    Drum kit
    A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....

    , vocals
  • Rick White
    Rick White (musician)
    Rick White is a Canadian musician and singer-songwriter. He was a member of indie bands Eric's Trip, Elevator, Perplexus, and The Unintended...

     – vocals, guitar
  • Ed Vaughan – drums (1990–1991)
  • Mark Gaudet
    Mark Gaudet
    Mark Gaudet is a Canadian musician from Moncton, New Brunswick. He has played in various indie and metal music groups, such as Elevator, Eric's Trip, Purple Knight and Funeral Fog. In 1974, at the age of eleven Gaudet formed his first band, Purple Knight. In 1991, Gaudet joined Eric's Trip, taking...

     – drums, vocals (1991–present)

EPs/cassettes

  • Eric's Trip
    Eric's Trip (album)
    Eric's Trip is the first release by Canadian indie band Eric's Trip.-Track listing:# "Disguise"# "Lost"# "Don't Worry About Me"# "The Beauty Was All Froze"# "Sunlight"# "Dreaming"# "Blurred"# "So Far Away"# "Here I Go Again"# "I Exist"...

    cassette (Independent) – Dec 1990
  • Catapillars EP cassette (Independent) – Apr 1991
  • Drowning EP cassette (Independent) – Aug 1991
  • Warm Girl
    Warm Girl
    Warm Girl is an EP by Canadian indie band Eric's Trip. It was released in 1992 on cassette by the band and rereleased on vinyl in 1993 by Derivative Records. Several vinyl colours exist; confirmed colours include blue, red, clear, and standard black...

    cassette (Independent) – Jan 1992
  • Belong 7" EP (NIM) – Apr 1992
  • Peter
    Peter (album)
    Peter is an EP by Canadian lo-fi indie rock band Eric's Trip. It was released by Murderecords.- Credits :*Julie Doiron − bass, vocals*Mark Gaudet − drums*Chris Thompson − guitar*Rick White − vocals, guitar...

    cassette/CD (Murderecords
    Murderecords
    Murderecords is an independent record label that releases the music of the Canadian rock band Sloan. Originally formed in 1992 to produce just the records of that band, it later released work of other bands including Eric's Trip, The Hardship Post, Al Tuck, Stinkin' Rich, Hip Club Groove, The...

    ), LP (Sub Pop Germany) – Apr 1993
  • Songs About Chris 7" EP (4 songs) / CD5 (6 songs) (Sub Pop
    Sub Pop
    Sub Pop is a record label founded in 1986 by Bruce Pavitt and Jonathan Poneman in Seattle, Washington. Sub Pop achieved fame in the late 1980s for first signing Nirvana, Soundgarden, Mudhoney and many other bands from the Seattle music scene...

    ) – May 1993
  • Julie and the Porthole to Dimentia
    Julie and the Porthole to Dimentia
    Julie and the Porthole to Dimentia is an EP by Moncton, New Brunswick's, Eric's Trip. It was released by Sappy Records in 1993. On the album cover it says "Stereo Mountain", which was the band's alter-ego. They released only this one album under the name...

    7" EP (One solo track by each of the four members) (Sappy Records
    Sappy Records
    Sappy Records is an independent record label based in Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada, started by Julie Doiron in 1990 in order to release her own cassette....

    ) – Jul 1993
  • Trapped In New York 7" EP (Summershine Records) – 1993
  • Warm Girl
    Warm Girl
    Warm Girl is an EP by Canadian indie band Eric's Trip. It was released in 1992 on cassette by the band and rereleased on vinyl in 1993 by Derivative Records. Several vinyl colours exist; confirmed colours include blue, red, clear, and standard black...

    7" EP (Derivative) – 1993
  • The Gordon Street Haunting 7" EP / CD5 (Sub Pop
    Sub Pop
    Sub Pop is a record label founded in 1986 by Bruce Pavitt and Jonathan Poneman in Seattle, Washington. Sub Pop achieved fame in the late 1980s for first signing Nirvana, Soundgarden, Mudhoney and many other bands from the Seattle music scene...

    ) – 1994
  • The Road South
    The Road South
    The Road South is an EP by Canadian indie band, Eric's Trip. It was released in 1995 by Sonic Unyon.-Tracklist:A-side:# "The Road South" – 2:19# "Smoke" – 2:56B-side:# "I Exist" – 7:13...

    7" EP (Sonic Unyon
    Sonic Unyon
    Sonic Unyon Recording Company is an independent record label based in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The retail store is located on Wilson Street near James Street North)...

    ) – Aug 1995

Albums

  • Love Tara
    Love Tara
    Love Tara is the first full-length album by Canadian indie band Eric's Trip.This was their first release on Seattle's Sub Pop record label, their second not independently released. This was the first time a Canadian band was signed to Sub-Pop. Self-recorded in three months, it embodied Sub-Pop's...

    (Sub Pop
    Sub Pop
    Sub Pop is a record label founded in 1986 by Bruce Pavitt and Jonathan Poneman in Seattle, Washington. Sub Pop achieved fame in the late 1980s for first signing Nirvana, Soundgarden, Mudhoney and many other bands from the Seattle music scene...

    ) – Nov 1993
  • Forever Again
    Forever Again
    Forever Again is the second full-length album by Canadian indie band Eric's Trip.-Track listing:# "New Love" – 2:59# "This Way Out" – 1:08# "About You" – 1:22# "Girlfriend" – 2:19# "Always There" – 1:53# "Stupidest Thing" – 1:52...

    (Sub Pop) – 1994
  • Purple Blue
    Purple Blue
    Purple Blue is the third full-length album by Canadian indie band Eric's Trip. A tribute to the album can be found in the song "Eric Sleeps" by Australian indie band Youth Group, from their debut album Urban and Eastern.-Track listing:...

    (Sub Pop) – Jan 1996
  • Long Days Ride 'Till Tomorrow
    Long Days Ride 'Till Tomorrow
    Long Days Ride 'Till Tomorrow is the first compilation album by Canadian indie band Eric's Trip.Released on Julie Doiron's Sappy Records, this was the first compilation released by Eric's Trip. All songs were compiled by Rick White...

    (Sappy Records
    Sappy Records
    Sappy Records is an independent record label based in Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada, started by Julie Doiron in 1990 in order to release her own cassette....

    ) – 1997
  • The Eric's Trip Show live CD (Teenage USA
    Teenage USA
    Teenage USA Recordings is a Canadian independent record label, founded by Phil Klygo and Mark DiPietro in the fall of 1997 on the back of Klygo's Skull Geek record label and fanzine....

    ) – 2001
  • Live in Concert November 4th, 2001
    Live in Concert November 4th, 2001
    Live in Concert November 4th, 2001 is a live album released by Canadian indie pop band Eric's Trip. It was recorded at Richards On Richards in Vancouver, British Columbia on 4 November 2001...

    live CD (Great Beyond) – 2001
  • Bootleg
    Bootleg (Eric's Trip album)
    Bootleg is the second compilation album by Canadian indie band Eric's Trip. It is only available on vinyl. The album was released to coincide with the band's 2007 reunion tour.-Side 1:# "What I Meant"#* Belong session outtake-march 1992...

    (No Label) – 2007

Splits

  • "Laying Blame" b/w Stove-Smother Split 7" with Sloan
    Sloan (band)
    Sloan is a Toronto-based alternative rock quartet from Halifax, Nova Scotia. Throughout their 20-year tenure Sloan has released 10 LPs , two EPs, a live album, a "best of" collection and no less than thirty singles...

     (Cinnamon Toast Records
    Cinnamon Toast Records
    Cinnamon Toast Records was a record label, inspired by the American label Simple Machines, from Halifax, Nova Scotia and run by Walter Forsyth, Lee Ann Gillan, Shawn Duggan, Colin MacKenzie, Robert Jeans and Miroslav Wiesner. They released a number of limited release 7" singles, each in a different...

    ) – 1994
  • Pillow (Red) b/w Payday and Don't Spook the Horse... Split 7" with Moviola
    Moviola
    A Moviola is a device that allows a film editor to view film while editing. It was the first machine for motion picture editing when it was invented by Iwan Serrurier in 1924.-History:...

     (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
    Raw Energy Records
    Raw Energy Records was a Canadian independent record label, based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The music label was established in the late 1980s by founder entrepreneur and music journalist Graeme Boyce, initially to distribute the debut EP by King Apparatus, Loud Party...

    ) – 1993
  • "Blue Sky for Julie/Smother" featured on Never Mind the Molluscs
    Never Mind the Molluscs
    Never Mind the Molluscs is a compilation EP released in 1993 on Sub Pop Records. Released as part of the Halifax Pop Explosion movement of the early 1990s, the EP featured four songs by emerging alternative rock bands from Halifax, Nova Scotia and Moncton, New Brunswick...

    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
    Cinnamon Toast Records
    Cinnamon Toast Records was a record label, inspired by the American label Simple Machines, from Halifax, Nova Scotia and run by Walter Forsyth, Lee Ann Gillan, Shawn Duggan, Colin MacKenzie, Robert Jeans and Miroslav Wiesner. They released a number of limited release 7" singles, each in a different...

    ) – 1994
  • "Evie" featured on Not If I Smell You First CD Compilation (Sonic Unyon
    Sonic Unyon
    Sonic Unyon Recording Company is an independent record label based in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The retail store is located on Wilson Street near James Street North)...

    ) – Aug 1995
  • "If You Don't Want Me" featured on Teenage Zit Rock Angst Compilation LP/CD/8-track (Nardwuar the Human Serviette
    Nardwuar the Human Serviette
    Nardwuar the Human Serviette is a Canadian celebrity interviewer and musician from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He is the lead singer and keyboardist for The Evaporators and plays in Thee Goblins....

    /Mint Records
    Mint Records
    Mint Records is a Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada-based independent record label founded in January 1991, by friends and campus radio enthusiasts Randy Iwata and Bill Baker....

    ) – 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)

See also

  • Music of Canada
    Music of Canada
    The music of Canada has influences that have shaped the country. Aboriginals, the British, and the French have all made unique contributions to the musical heritage of Canada. The music has subsequently been heavily influenced by American culture because of its proximity and migration between...

  • Canadian rock
    Canadian rock
    Canadian rock describes a wide and diverse variety of music produced by Canadians, beginning with American style rock 'n' roll in the mid-20th century. Since then Canada has had a considerable impact on the development of the modern popular music called rock...

  • List of Canadian musicians
  • List of bands from Canada
  • :Category:Canadian musical groups

External links

  • Eric's Trip official site at Sub Pop
    Sub Pop
    Sub Pop is a record label founded in 1986 by Bruce Pavitt and Jonathan Poneman in Seattle, Washington. Sub Pop achieved fame in the late 1980s for first signing Nirvana, Soundgarden, Mudhoney and many other bands from the Seattle music scene...

  • Great Beyond Recordings record label
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