维明顿有株玉树独立——曾经的The Promise Ring
[ 1995 - 2002 ]
Davey vonBohlen
Guitar, Vocals
Jason Gnewikow
Guitar, Vocals
Scott Schoenbeck
Bass, Vocals
Dan Didier
Drums
The Story
The year was 1995, and there was a battle of the bands brewing somewhere between the Wisconsin and Illinois state lines. In the middle of it all was Davey vonBohlen - forced to choose between his guitar stint for future punk heroes Cap'n Jazz and his status as the frontman for a burgeoning, though wholly unestablished The Promise Ring. As history would have it, the answer was obvious: The Promise Ring were toast.
Of course, final hurrahs were sometimes meant to be, and since The Promise Ring had yet to see theirs, Davey agreed to a final nine-day trek across the country with his dearly departed side project. When the band landed back home in Milwaukee, vonBohlen unpacked his gear and expressed a deep sigh of relief. And then he quit Cap'n Jazz.
Such is the inception of a band who have outlived almost all of their peers, while surviving horrid van wrecks, personal medical emergencies, and the rise and fall of a genre they somehow managed to inspire without ever really figuring out what it was in the first place. After signing with Jade Tree in 1996, The Promise Ring went on to release a slew of EPs and full-length albums that have seen accolades everywhere from the well-respected pages of The New York Times to the uber-groovy Teen People. But don't let that fool you: The real acclaim is in the captured hearts of a fanbase that have kept this Milwaukee unit up-and-running for the more-than-six-years after that fateful "final" tour.
After many happy years together and 8 releases, The Promise Ring departed Jade Tree for the Anti- label, a division of Epitaph, in October 2001.
“许愿戒指”（The Promise Ring）是来自美国东南部城市密尔沃基的乐队。玉树最早签下的乐队之一，现以解散。在新一拨Emo乐队中可算是成立较早的一支，当他们在1997年连续出版3张口碑极高的专辑后，曾一度被媒体看作“下一件大事”，但是他们始终没有新的突破。
如果你熟悉硬核音乐，那么对Emo音乐应该不会陌生，这种音乐在英国被称作朋克，到了美国就变成硬核。Emo就是在吵闹的硬核基础上多了一些旋律和更情绪化的内容，歌词倾向于诗歌化的语言，带有自省式的忏悔（这一点有点像80年代中国流行过的囚歌），往往把自己描述得比较惨，失意、无助和罪恶感，但又看不出对生活的绝望。换句话说，他们是在玩味一种苦涩。而音乐上比起硬核来说少了许多男性气质，但这种顾影自怜的音乐已越来越受到听众的喜欢。
试听曲目Best_Looking：
http://www.jadetree.com/mp3/The_Promise_R-Best_Looking.mp3
THE PROMISE RING
Boys & Girls
THE PROMISE RING
30 Degrees Everywhere
（对于这张专辑在JT上有这样一段介绍“as this album - which gave Cherry Coke and John Taylor entry into the post-punk lexicon and inadvertently lavished the art of the pop music handclap with a renewed lease on life”。想必这张就是让THE PROMISE RING载入了EMO历史的CD～～～）
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