Seth Brooks Binzer is an American musician , better known as the frontman and one of the founders of the rap rock band Crazy Town . Binzer is also better known by the pseudonym Shifty Shellshock [10] .
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| Full name | Seth Brooks Binzer |
| Date of Birth | August 23, 1974 (aged 45) |
| Place of Birth | Los Angeles , California , USA |
| A country | |
| Professions | singer , actor , rapper |
| Years of activity | 1992 - present |
| Singing voice | tenor |
| Instruments | |
| Genres | rap rock [1] [2] [3] , alternative rock [4] [5] , nu metal [6] [7] [8] , rap metal [1] [2] [9] |
| Aliases | Shifty Shellshock [10] |
| Collectives | Crazy town |
Content
- 1 Musical career
- 1.1 Crazy Town
- 1.2 Solo career
- 1.3 Shift and The Big Shots
- 2 Personal life
- 2.1 Hospitalization with coma
- 3 Discography
- 3.1 Album
- 3.2 Singles
- 4 Filmography
- 5 notes
- 6 References
Musical career
Crazy Town
In 1992, Binzer met with Bret Mazur . They began to work together under the name The Sriggers Brimstone . By early 1999, they formed the Crazy Town group [11] . In 2000, the group was supposed to perform on the Ozzfest tour, but however they were forced to leave two weeks after Binzer was arrested after he threw a chair out the window when he was drunk [11] [12] .
The single of Butterfly , took first place on the Billboard Hot 100 chart , as a result of which the sales of their debut album The Gift of Game exceeded 1.5 million copies [13] .
Their 2002 follow-up album, Darkhorse [14], was a commercial failure compared to the previous one, and the band split up shortly after its release [15] .
The band announced their reunion in 2007 [16] , and first performed live in five years in August 2009 [17] . They released their third studio album, The Brimstone Sluggers, in 2015.
Solo career
During Crazy Town's break, Binser collaborated with British producer and musician Paul Oakenfold to record Oakenfold's vocals for Starry Eyed Surprise. The track was for Oakenfold Bunkka's first solo studio album. In an interview with Rolling Stone, an American magazine, Binser said the track, known as "Starry Eyed Surprise," was composed after he met Paul on the Crazy Town show [18] .
| I am a big fan of his music, and we just talked and decided that we should record a joint song. I already recorded vocals for him, got together and immediately started recording and finished it [18] . |
The single reached No. 6 on the UK Singles Chart in the UK and No. 41 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States .
Binser released his first solo album, Happy Love Sick, in 2004. He released two singles from the album: "Slide Along Side" - the pan-European hit Shift, who reached No. 29 in the UK with moderate success on the charts in Italy , France, Germany , Sweden and Switzerland . His next single, “Turning Me On,” was not so successful and missed the charts.
Shift and The Big Shots
In 2010, Binzer performed in the band Shifty and The Big Shots. They released their first single “Save Me” on July 6, 2010 [19] and released the single “City of Angels”.
Personal life
Seth Binzer married Melissa Clark in 2002. They have a son, Halo. In 2011, Clark filed for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences. Binzer dated a woman named Tracy in 2008. They have a son named Gage.
Binzer began a relationship with Jasmine Lennard in 2010. On March 27, 2011, police responded to a report of domestic unrest between the couple. In a video interview with TMZ, Binzer stated that the riots were just a noise complaint, and that an outstanding warrant was issued as a counter-attack against a security guard who used brute force to try to kick him out of the club [20] . Lennard and Binzer announced their engagement in 2012. Binzer was arrested in February 2012 for possession of cocaine and sentenced to a three-year probationary period; his relationship with Lennard ended soon afterwards. [21] Binzer and Lennard have a son named Phoenix. In 2013, Lennard appealed to a California court for exclusive custody of their son, saying that Binzer smoked crack in front of him and once left a pipe with crack in his room [22] .
Coma Hospitalization
On March 29, 2012, Seth Binzer was admitted to the hospital after losing consciousness. When he woke up after a coma he was discharged [23] .
Discography
Album
| Year | Details |
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| 2004 | Happy love sick
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Singles
| Year | Title | Position number | Album | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ITA [24] | UK [25] | Swe [26] | Swi [27] | Fra [28] | Aus [29] [30] | Nld [31] | Ger [32] | Nz [33] | US [34] | US Top 40 [34] | |||
| 2002 | Starry Eyed Surprise ( Paul Okenfold feat. Shiftty Shellshock) | - | 6 | - | - | - | 37 | 41 | - | 19 | 41 | 13 | Happy love sick |
| 2004 | " Slide Along Side " | eleven | 29th | 36 | 42 | 45 | 48 | 24 | 63 | - | - | 38 | |
| "Turning Me On" | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
Filmography
Binzer played a cameo role in the 1994 film Clifford and a major role in the 2004 short film Wiloughby [10] . Binzer also appeared in the 2005 film Vanity and Movement . In 1995, he took part in the series "Shark Hunters." He also appeared in the 2016 film Dead 7 .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Nimmervoll, Ed Crazy Town - Biography . AllMusic . Date of treatment May 28, 2014.
- ↑ 1 2 NME Reviews - Crazy Town: The Gift Of Game - NME.COM . NME (September 12, 2005). Date of treatment July 31, 2015.
- ↑ Crazytown - Darkhorse . Date of treatment July 31, 2015.
- ↑ Top 10 Alt-Rock One-Hit Wonders . Date of treatment July 31, 2015. Archived July 31, 2015.
- ↑ Victoria Miller. The 5 best one-hit wonder alternative rock artists . Axs . Date of treatment July 31, 2015.
- ↑ 28 Nu-Metal Era Bands You Probably Forgot All About . NME (August 11, 2011). Date of treatment July 31, 2015.
- ↑ The Bluffer's Guide: Nu-Metal . Team Rock . Date of treatment July 31, 2015.
- ↑ Udo, Tommy. Brave Nu World . - Sanctuary Publishing, 2002. - P. 187–88. - ISBN 1-86074-415-X .
- ↑ ALBUM ANNOUNCEMENT: Crazy Town Return With "The Brimstone Sluggers" . Confort Magazine . Date of treatment July 31, 2015. Archived on August 12, 2015.
- ↑ 1 2 3 Shifty Shellshock . BuddyTV (February 27, 2008). Date of treatment June 11, 2010.
- ↑ 1 2 Q&A: Shifty Shellshock of Crazy Town (English) // Rolling Stone : magazine. - 2001 .-- March 15 ( no. 864 ). - P. 35 .
- ↑ Johnson, Tina. Crazy Town Leaves Ozzfest After Arrest . MTV (June 13, 2006). Date of treatment June 11, 2010.
- ↑ News on Crazy Town, Nelly, NY Metropolis Fest . Billboard (January 10, 2002). Date of treatment May 28, 2014.
- ↑ Crazy Town Take On All Comers With Darkhorse . MTV (September 23, 2002). Date of treatment December 11, 2012.
- ↑ Where Ya Been ?: City High Drop Out, Crazy Town Stop The Insanity . MTV (February 8, 2007). Date of treatment November 12, 2012.
- ↑ Harris, Chris Kris Kross, Crazy Town, EMF, Extreme And More Unmemorable Reunions, In Our Year-End Top 10s - Music, Celebrity, Artist News . MTV (December 5, 2007). Date of treatment May 28, 2014.
- ↑ Celebrity Studded Red Carpet Event . PR Newswire (August 25, 2009). Date of treatment May 28, 2014.
- ↑ 1 2 Bychawski, Adam Oakenfold's Cray 'Starry-Eyed' Sensation . NME (June 26, 2001). Date of treatment October 28, 2015.
- ↑ Save Me by Shifty and The Big Shots . Amazon.com Date of treatment June 30, 2010.
- ↑ Shifty Shellshock Arrested on Outstanding Warrants Neopr . TMZ (March 7, 2011). Date of treatment May 22, 2011.
- ↑ Crazy Town's Shifty Shellshock Sentenced to Three Years Probation for Cocaine Possession . Noise Creep (January 8, 2012). Date of treatment October 3, 2015.
- ↑ Baby's Mama asks for full custody . TMZ (November 23, 2013). Date of treatment January 7, 2017.
- ↑ Crazy Town Singer Shifty Shellshock Apologizes For Drug Addiction, Arrest . inquisitr.com (August 3, 2012). Date of treatment November 26, 2012.
- ↑ Shifty . italiancharts.com . Date of treatment October 28, 2015.
- ↑ British Hit Singles & Albums. - 19th. - London: Guinness World Records Limited, 2006 .-- P. 496. - ISBN 1-904994-10-5 .
- ↑ Shifty . swedishcharts.com . Date of treatment October 28, 2015.
- ↑ Shifty . swisscharts.com . Date of treatment October 28, 2015.
- ↑ Shifty . lescharts.com . Date of treatment October 28, 2015.
- ↑ Shifty . australian-charts.com . Date of treatment October 28, 2015. Archived September 23, 2015.
- ↑ OAakenfold - Starry Eyed Surprise (song) . australian-charts.com . Date of treatment October 28, 2015.
- ↑ Dutch Charts Search for 'Shifty' and 'Paul Oakenfold'
- ↑ Shifty . musicline.de . Date of treatment December 23, 2015. Archived December 23, 2015.
- ↑ Seth "Shifty Shellshock" Binzer . charts.nz . Date of treatment October 28, 2015.
- ↑ 1 2 Allmusic Search for 'Shifty' and 'Paul Oakenfold'
Links
- web.archive.org/web/20090613001959/http://shiftybinzer.com/ - Seth Binzer official site
- Seth Binzer video