Local H is an American rock band, formed by Scott Lucas (lead vocals, guitar, bass) and Joe Daniels (drums) in Zion, Illinois in 1987. Local H's 1996 album, As Good as Dead is a certifie . .   Expand    Wikipedia

Local H is an American rock band, formed by Scott Lucas (lead vocals, guitar, bass) and Joe Daniels (drums) in Zion, Illinois in 1987. Local H's 1996 album, As Good as Dead is a certified gold record and includes the top 10 hit "Bound for the Floor". Their 1998 album Pack Up the Cats also went gold. More recently the band (now with drummer Brian St. Clair) has received extensive critical acclaim. Author, rock critic and Rolling Stone contributor Greg Kot and the Chicago Tribune named the band its 2008 Chicago band of the year, calling them "as good a rock band as any to call Chicago home in the last decade." Online Metacritic calls Local H "rock’s greatest unknown two-man band" and says of their newest album, 12 Angry Months, "the ten year anniversary of Pack Up the Cats marks not some complacent CD reissue with bonus tracks, but rather a great new album that flips the bird to anyone who thought Local H was history along with their era." Lucas and Daniels began playing together while attending Zion-Benton Township High School in 1987. After their original failed attempts at recruiting a bassist, Lucas took the unique approach of adding bass pickups to his electric guitar, an attribute of Local H that survives to this day. Local H's first album, Ham Fisted, was released in 1995. Their 1996 follow up album, As Good as Dead had a successful release due to the popularity of the hit song "Bound for the Floor." Two years later, in 1998, the band released Pack Up the Cats, a critically acclaimed album which spawned the single "All the Kids Are Right". During the period surrounding the album's release - their label, PolyGram, merged with Universal Music Group and the album's promotion became a casualty of the transition. Despite these difficulties, both "As Good as Dead" and "Pack Up the Cats" were eventually certified as gold records, meaning that they sold in excess of 500,000 copies in the United States, according to the RIAA standards at the time.

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