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- Manning and Sturmer met in high school in San Francisco, bonding over record collections and a love of 60s melodic pop. Their first band together, Beatnik Beatch, got signed to Atlantic, then “quickly got lost in the shuffle”. From the wreckage, the two friends formed the nucleus of Jellyfish.
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Jan 22, 2024 · Roger Manning first met Andy Sturmer at the end of the 1970s at high school in Pleasanton, a genteel neighbour of San Francisco. The freshman Manning was a happy-go-lucky teen whose uncle had drummed in various psych-rock bands and who had learnt to play piano on a second-hand instrument donated by his grandparents.
Jellyfish. Sturmer attended Amador Valley High School in Pleasanton, California in the 1970s. [1] There, he was a drummer in the school's jazz band, and met keyboardist Roger Manning. Manning recalled of Sturmer: "I've never seen anyone of his age with that expertise and command of his instrument.
May 22, 2015 · Like Lennon and McCartney before them, Manning and Sturmer were growing apart. Manning suggests his bandmate found success “challenging”, though personal and musical differences between the two were increasingly hard to ignore. “Andy and I had essentially been together for six or eight years,” he says.
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While attending Amador Valley High School in Pleasanton, California in the early 1980s, Andy Sturmer and Roger Manning met and bonded over their love for jazz. [5] [6] Later in the decade, they joined Beatnik Beatch , [7] a group fronted by Chris Ketner. [8]
May 17, 2008 · “We made no money with the first album, and financial pressure was looming over us,” says Manning of the issues leading up to Jellyfish’s 1994 dissolution. Compounding the monetary woes was singer/drummer Andy Sturmer’s autocratic hold on the group.
Nov 3, 2023 · Formed by keyboardist Roger Joseph Manning and drummer/vocalist Andy Sturmer, two high-school friends and former members of Beatnik Beach, Jellyfish crafted their sound from a range of influences...
