Candlebox Whatever Happened To The Band Behind You, Cover Me

Candlebox: Whatever happened to the band behind "Cover Me", "You" and "Far Behind?" Courtney Love Candlebox Feud https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGvYfK0T8PY&t=20s Have a video request or a topic you'd like to see us cover? Fill out our google form! https://bit.ly/3stnXlN 0:00 - Introduction 1:30 - Beginnings of Candelbox 4:35 - Backlash Against Candlebox 5:14 -Huge Success 7:40 - Alice in Chains Factor 9:10 - Lucy & Follow Ups -----GET A SECRET VIDEO PLAYLIST----- Sign up for email news and get a link to my secret playlist with 10 of my best stories. https://bit.ly/3emyloM -----CONNECT ON SOCIAL----- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rocknrolltruestories Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RNRTrueStories Twitter: https://twitter.com/rocktruestories Blog: www.rockandrolltruestories.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/RNRTrueStories #candlebox #kevinmartin #peterklett Candlebox was a band that critics, fellow musicians and some in the music industry wrote off as being derivative or even taking advantage of the popularity of the Seattle music scene in the early 90’s. But one thing that people may often miss about Candelbox is that the band's members mostly hailed from seattle and they were living in the city long before alternative music blew up the early 90's. Frontman Kevin Martin perfectly summarized the early part of the band’s career telling author mark yarm “we were the redheaded stepchild. We were in the right place at the right time. Fortunately our music had its own voice. Unfortunately, everybody believed that we had moved there to steal the sound. And today, we're going to talk aboutwhatever happened to the band candlebox. Candlebox was made up of vocalist Kevin Martin, guitarist peter klett, bassist Bardi Martin and drummer scott mercado as part of their original lineup. All of hte band members grew up in and around seattle, with the exception of singer Kevin Martin who hailed from San Antonio Texas. He would move out to seattle at the age of 14 in 1984, long before grunge took over the world. It’s important to note that the members of candlebox were on average 5 years younger than a lot of the other bands who were popular from seattle in the 90’s. And during his time in texas, Martin was influenced by punk bands like Black Flag and Dead Kennedys’. And By Martin’s own admission he would claim that moving to seattle was like culture shock because of the type of music people were playing there.. And prior to forming Candlebox the members were already playing in different bands around town and given that the music community was pretty small, they frequently crossed paths. The origins of candlebox started with Kevin Martin and scott mercado who started a band named uncle duke. Soon enough peter klett and bardi martin joined and they would soon change their name to Candlebox. It seemed like from the start though, the band gelled pretty quickly since the bands inception in 1990. But one of the questions you may have about candlebox is what kind of relationship did they have with their counterparts like pearl jam and alice in chains and soundgarden. Well in an interview frontman kevin martin gave to german website grungery he talked about it in detail revealing how he used to work at a shore store at the age of 16 where coincidentally enough Chris Cornell's first Susan Silver also worked. She managed the shoe store, while having her own music management company behind the building. That’s how martin met chris cornell. He would reveal in the interview She managed a shoe store called {John} Fluevog, Susan did.. So, that’s I met Chris. That’s how I met Andy Wood That’s how I met Layne Stanley. It’s how I met Jerry Cantrell. It was really amazing for me to meet guys that I admired musically and at the same time I was playing drums in a band. I never thought it would turn into friendship because I was so much younger. Layne and I hadbecame really good friends just through parties and stuff and we rehearsed next door to them at the Music Bank. He and I would sit and shoot the s**t all the time about singers and rock and roll. And Andy was the one who would come into the shop and would love to talk about music when he did come in he'd say. Bardi Martin recalled the early rehearsals with the band and writing some of the band’s hit songs telling author Mark Yarm in the book 'Everybody Loves Our Town' “I was the last person to join. What ended up being “you” which was one of the songs that did really well happened when we were improvising, the first hour we were together. I had a rough song idea that became far behind and i think we worked on that that night too. It felt pretty magical early on he'd say. While it appeared that people in seattle liked the band, it would be local rock jouralists and established bands who hated on them for coming at a time when grunge was popular and they were frequently accused of riding other more established band’s coattails. The band would soon play sold

Added 10 Aug 2026