Trip Shakespeare
Trip Shakespeare was a Minneapolis-based alternative rock band of the late 1980s/early 1990s. The band included Dan Wilson and John Munson, who would later go on to be founding members of Semisonic.
Origins
The band originated when Harvard University English student Matt Wilson (guitar/vocals) teamed up with Elaine Harris (drums), a Harvard grad student in biological anthropology, in the early 1980s. Harris had responded to a notice posted by Wilson seeking "wicked percussion hands."
Wilson and Munson had played together in an earlier band (E Brown), and Wilson had not been impressed by his bass playing, so he didn't want Munson to audition for the new band. "But he came over anyway and played, and he'd improved a lot," Wilson later recalled. "We ended up begging him to just give it a try and stay around."
In 1986 drummer Tim Rowe, who had played with Munson in several other bands, joined the group as percussionist. They performed as a quartet for several months before Rowe left the band during the recording of Apple Head Man to join The Nietzsches with the former guitarist for E. Brown, Jimmy Harry.
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ALBUMS
- Lulu released: 1991
- Across the Universe released: 1990
- Are You Shakespearienced? released: 1989
- Applehead Man released: 1988
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Applehead Man
by: Trip ShakespeareHighway in the sun, you're not the only one.
Highway in the sun, I'm gonna drive right out of here.
Burn my pretty sun you always know the way is clear.
Past the emerald lake, past the swans along the shore,
To the other mountain where I made it once before.
You don't have to go right now,
You don't have to go too far,
I don't have to go back north,
I don't have to drive that car.
Highway in the sun, I'm gonna drive right out of here.
Burn my pretty sun you always know the way is clear.
And I always think of ones I meet in other towns,
Folks who never bone you in the street or put you down.
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