Whibley, who goes by the nickname Bizzy D, started out in the rap trio the Powerful Young Hustlers when he was His mother encouraged him by giving him a dollar for every song he rapped for her. Before forming Sum 41 he also was part of a Nirvana cover band and a Weezer-like group. Sum 41 went through several guitar and bass players before enticing Baksh and McCaslin to join the band. Baksh, whose nickname Brownsound reflects his Guyanese heritage, was playing alternative-metal in a Rage Against the Machine-type group called He previously belonged to A.
Sum 41 ended their search for a bassist when McCaslin, also known as Cone, joined them in His grunge rock band, according to the Sum 41 website, went through numerous name changes. The four friends meshed their eclectic musical roots to create a sound popular with audiences from preteen to Neale Johnson of the Herald Sun characterized their sound as "freshness, hip-hop and metal to boot. Whibley was just 16 when he went to a Treble Charger concert in Toronto.
Afterward he went backstage and struck up a conversation with the Canadian hit group's singer, Greig Nori. At Whibley's urging, Nori took in a Sum 41 gig. Impressed with the band, Nori took them into the studio and eventually became their manager.
Some of the Sum 41 musicians disappointed their parents at first when they decided to pursue music careers rather than go to college. Today, their parents drive to local concerts in cars with personalized license plates boasting relationships to the group. Whibley's father gave him one year to achieve commercial success with the band that had already been playing together for a couple of years. Grabbing the attention of record executives turned out to be easy, though, with their self-created press kit, which included video of some of the pranks they loved to pull.
Edwards described the kit's content: "The band made home videos for its own amusement, featuring remakes of action movies and footage of the members driving around, drenching pedestrians with Super Soakers. In late , they edited the footage into a ten-minute montage with music and sent it off to a bunch of major labels. Within a week, there was a full-fledged bidding war. The group's second release was a different story. It reached number 13 on the Billboard album chart in When McGrath made the offhand remark "This album is all killer, no filler," the album had its name.
In his review of All Killer No Filler, Edwards observed that the lyrics are about apathy or breakups and include "radio-ready choruses. Two months later it had reached the platinum level in sales. The next few months were very busy for Sum The band opened for the Mighty Mighty Bosstones, the Offspring, Blink , and Social Distortion, and they played dates on the summer Vans Warped tour of alternative rock bands.
The influences you hear in their music, however, are heavy metal, hip-hop, and rap. Steve Marshall remarked in the Daily Herald: "At times, it's hard to separate Sum 41 from the masses, but they're saved by their humor. While it sets them apart, they also are at their best musically when they take themselves seriously. Although the group's album sold well in Canada, Sum 41 was more popular south of the border. Follow TV Tropes. You need to login to do this.
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