90s Alternative Band Tells The Story of This #1 Rock Hit | Professor of Rock

As the Rock Era began to wrap up in the mid 90s Better Than Ezra that formed at LSU and rocketed to #1 on the modern rock charts with the #1 song GOOD a classic sing along song of it’s time. Singer Kevin Griffin and bassist Tim Drummond tell the story in this exclusive interview.

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Let me take you back to mid 1995. One of the greatest summers of my life I had just graduated from high school, finally free of the daily grind I moved out on my own, working construction outside the state with a couple of my best friends. No curfews, no adult supervision, cruising the strip at night, chasing beautiful girls and better than Ezra's deluxe was the soundtrack of that youthful romantic season. As it was for a score of other kids across the nation Better Than Ezra’s song good was....as they say now. my jam

The band Better than Ezras was formed in 1988 with the aforementioned singer and guitarist Kevin Griffin, bassist Tom Drummond, Drummer Cary Bonnecaze and lead guitarist Joel Rundell while the four of them were students at LSU. Their first gig was at a place called Murphy in Baton Rouge not long after they formed. Nobody knows for sure where their band name came from, Many urban lengends and theories have been thrown around but Tom Drummond said that the story is not that great. One of my favorite stories is that the band was nameless at the time they participated in a battle of the bands competition where a band called Ezra also competed., Since kevin and the boys needed a band name to officially enter they wrote down that they were better than ezra. Better than Ezra defintely paid their dues when coming up. they recorded a demo in 1988 called the Chime Street Demo to try and get gigs and a possible record deal, then they released the cassette only album Surpise. Tragedy struck in the late summer of 1990 when their Lead guitarist Joel Rundell took his own life.. From there the remaining member took some time to ponder their future as a band. They decide to continue with Better than Ezra as a trio playing Frats and parties locally and through the south. Their breakthrough album Deluxe was released in 1993 on it’s own Indie label called Swell Records. From there the major label Electra came knocking where the band signed in 1995. From there the band shot to the mainstream with their first single, the no doubt about it smash GOOD that went to #1 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart, that sent Deluxe across the Platinum sales line. 7 years of Paying their dues. that’s how it used to be.

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