Draft:Brian Blush

Brian Blush (born February 24, 1969) was the Lead guitarist and a co-founding member (2) of The Refreshments until the band Broke up in 1998, He wrote and recorded the Theme song to the television show King of the Hill (4)

Early Life

Brian David Blush was born on February 24, 1969 in the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan (1) he began learning guitar as a teenager and soon began playing in bands.

Career

Blush began playing in the Band August Red in 1990 while pursuing education at the University of Arizona where he would meet fellow student Roger Clyne who was playing in a band called The Mortals at the time, in 1991 August Red imploded leaving Blush without a band, a few months later in early 1992 The Mortals disbanded, Clyne invited Blush to his house to Jam with a few other musicians, namely being bassist Art Edwards and drummer Dusty Denham after playing a few punk covers, they liked what they heard and decided to form a band.

The Refreshments (1992 - 1998)

They formed what would soon be The Refreshments which was titled All You Can Eat and immediately began touring and playing covers in bars under that name, but in 1993 the band heard that there was a San Francisco based band already named All You Can Eat so the band would sit down and settle on the name The Refreshments, The Band in 1994 would record a live demo tape titled Wheelie. and produced 2000 copies and began selling them at their next show and all 2000 copies sold out that same day, in 1995 the band was booked to perform at SXSW in Austin, Texas where a rep. for Mercury Records saw the band performing and saw an opportunity in them, so the band was set to record a EP, that EP would be Lo, Our Much Praised Yet Not Altogether Satisfactory Lady and was their first release under Mercury Records, after another complete sellout of single copies Mercury Records decided that they should record a full-length studio album, so they then recorded Fizzy Fuzzy Big & Buzzy in the winter of 1995, and when it was released on February 27, 1996 sales went insane, prompting a promotional tour where they made multiple TV appearances on programs like MuchMusic and played multiple festivals, but in September of 1996 the tour came to a halt, Mike Judge was working on a new show at FOX after he left the production team at Beavis & Butthead Brian and The Refreshments saw in a very vague report that "Judge seeks theme song for FOX sitcom." After finding out that it was Mike Judge making a animated sitcom, they applied, and after flying to Rockford, IL from Toronto, CA the band received a package from FOX and it contained a VHS tape, after putting it into a VCR, It was a Black & White incomplete silent video of Hank Hill and the residents of Arlen, Texas, after having nothing to go off of other than that, Brian Blush pitched a Guitar riff to the band, and after working on it the band finished the song by the time they left Rockford, IL now they would have to pitch it to a crowd, so they decided to play the song which was titled Yahoos & Triangles so they brought a tape recorder to their next show in Wichita, KS and front man Roger Clyne said to the crowd something among the lines of "Clap your hands like you love this." and they blasted into the song, and they finished it, the crowd goes crazy, so they stop recording and they intend to cut Clyne's request for chant, but they forgot to and they mailed the raw tape to FOX in California and the next week Roger Clyne received a call from FOX scolding him, "Who do you think you are, telling the crowd to do that." but the band had a sigh of relief after he said "We're just kidding, we love it, come to Los Angeles and we'll record you." So the band went to Los Angeles in-between concert dates in Dallas, Texas and Denver, Colorado to record the song, and after finishing the track, they resume the tour. After the tours end in December 1996, the band recorded their follow-up, The Bottle & Fresh Horses and before release, Yahoos & Triangles debuted as the theme song to King of the Hill and the band began getting a sea of pay from the smash hit TV show. but then in 1997 the 2nd record came out and it flopped compared to the previous album. Whilst still gaining traction, they just stopped receiving promotion because of the change of personnel at Mercury Records which kept putting them under more pressure to change their style due to the new management at Mercury disliking the previous Alternative Rock that had came out in the previous 2 releases, prompting the band to disband in May of 1998.

Personal Life

Brian has struggled with drug abuse throughout his life, in July of 2005 he died for about 15 minutes after a heroin overdose, at the time of overdose Brian weighed just barely more than 98 lbs. He has been sober since then and has been working on other musical projects.

Discography

Wheelie (Demo) (with The Refreshments (1994)) (3)

Lo, Our Much Praised Yet Not Altogether Satisfactory Lady (with The Refreshments (1995))

Fizzy Fuzzy Big & Buzzy (with The Refreshments (1996))

The Bottle & Fresh Horses (with The Refreshments (1997))

Deck Chairs (Cassette Exclusive Single, 1997)