There is more than one artist with this name:
1) Sammy, the heavily Pavement-inspired partnership of guitarist Luke Wood and guitarist/vocalist Jesse Hartman, released three albums before calling it quits. Debut Album, issued in 1994, and Kings of the Island Empire, issued in 1995, were both put out by Sonic Youth drummer Steve Shelley’s Smells Like Records and featured drummer Tony Maxwell. Their final full-length, Tales of Great Neck Glory, which was issued by Geffen, followed in 1996 shortly before the band decided to split up.
2)This rock band was formed by Mick Underwood (previously of Episode Six, The Herd and Quatermass and later of Raw Glory) in 1972. There’s lots of experience in this line-up. Keith Gemmell had been in Audience and was later in The Roy Young Band and Stackridge. Geoff Sharkey was in Ginhouse. Mike Hodgkinson and Paul Simmons were also members of The Roy Young Band and Hodgkinson had played with Billy J. Kramer. Their album was produced by Ian Gillan (of Deep Purple) and Louie Austin.
3) Sammy is also a Japanese pop artist known for the song ‘トモダチの海’ (Tomodachi no Umi) in the 5th Digimon anime movie. |
