Treble Charger
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Treble Charger was a Canadian rock
Rock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...

 group, consisting of vocalist Greig Nori
Greig Nori
Greig Andrew Nori is a producer and musician from Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada and is well known as the former frontman, lead vocalist and guitarist of the pop punk band Treble Charger...

, bassist Rosie Martin and drummer Trevor MacGregor. Guitarist Bill Priddle
Bill Priddle
Bill Priddle is a Canadian indie rock musician, who has been in the bands Treble Charger, Broken Social Scene, Don Vail and The Priddle Concern.Priddle released an album 6 May 2008 under the name The Priddle Concern.-External links:*...

, a founding member of the band, left in 2003. They began with a melodic indie rock
Indie rock
Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1980s. Indie rock is extremely diverse, with sub-genres that include lo-fi, post-rock, math rock, indie pop, dream pop, noise rock, space rock, sadcore, riot grrrl and emo, among others...

 style, but evolved into more of a pop punk
Pop punk
Pop punk is a fusion music genre that combines elements of punk rock with pop music, to varying degrees. Allmusic describes the genre as a strand of alternative rock, which typically merges pop melodies with speedy punk tempos, chord changes and loud guitars...

 band after signing to a major label in 1997.

Early years (1992–1996)

Originally from Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
Sault Ste. Marie is a city on the St. Marys River in Algoma District, Ontario, Canada. It is the third largest city in Northern Ontario, after Sudbury and Thunder Bay, with a population of 74,948. The community was founded as a French religious mission: Sault either means "jump" or "rapids" in...

, the band consisted of Nori, Priddle, Martin and Morris Palter
Morris Palter
Morris Palter is a drummer/percussionist from Canada who specializes in contemporary/classical chamber and solo percussion music. He also plays novelty ragtime xylophone and drum kit, and is also a composer, and university professor who was a founding member of the band Treble...

, and was named NC-17 (after the movie rating) until an American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 band with the same name threatened to sue. They adopted the name Treble Charger, but named their debut album NC17
Nc17 (album)
NC17 is the debut album by Treble Charger released on July 4, 1994. It was re-released by Sonic Unyon in 1997. "Red" from this album was also re-recorded for Maybe It's Me....

. NC17 was released independently at first by Smokin' Worm in 1994, but it was a hit on campus radio, MuchMusic
MuchMusic
MuchMusic is a Canadian English language Category A specialty channel owned by Bell Media. MuchMusic is dedicated to music-related programs, pop and youth culture.-History:...

, and CFNY when it was re-released by Sonic Unyon Records in 1997.

In 1995, the band released Self Title, which included a CD-ROM
CD-ROM
A CD-ROM is a pre-pressed compact disc that contains data accessible to, but not writable by, a computer for data storage and music playback. The 1985 “Yellow Book” standard developed by Sony and Philips adapted the format to hold any form of binary data....

 track promoting 30 of Treble Charger's favourite Canadian indie bands, including The Inbreds
The Inbreds
The Inbreds were a Canadian indie rock band formed in 1992. Originally from Kingston, Ontario, Canada the band relocated to Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1996. Three of the four albums released during the band's existence reached number one on the Canadian national university charts, and the band...

, Change of Heart
Change of Heart (band)
Change of Heart was a Canadian alternative rock band. They had one Top 40 hit, "There You Go" in 1992, as well as several hits on Canada's modern rock charts, including "Trigger" and "Little Kingdoms".-History:...

, By Divine Right
By Divine Right
By Divine Right is a Canadian indie rock band, led by guitarist and vocalist José Miguel Contreras.-History:The band was formed in 1989 by high school friends Contreras, drummer Mark Goldstein, bassist Liz Teear and guitarist Steve Berman. They put out a number of independent releases before...

, Hayden
Hayden (musician)
Paul Hayden Desser who records as Hayden, is a Canadian singer-songwriter from Thornhill, Ontario.His early works are a largely eclectic mix of genres from grunge rock to alt country, as demonstrated by his first full album, Everything I Long For, released in 1995. Since then his work has become...

 and Thrush Hermit
Thrush Hermit
-History:Thrush Hermit was formed in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1992 by Joel Plaskett , Rob Benvie , Ian McGettigan , and Michael Catano...

.

Irishman Michael Murphy who was born in Limerick, managed the band in the earlier days of their work.

Shift to pop punk (1997–2006)

1997's Maybe It's Me
Maybe It's Me
Maybe It's Me is Treble Charger's third album, released on July 29, 1997. A re-recorded version of "Red" was included in this album....

 was the band's major label debut. Palter recorded drums for only a few tracks, and, after Nori considered recording the rest of the drums himself, session drummer Mike Levesque stepped in. The album featured a more polished, commercial sound than the band's earlier albums, and launched the hit "Friend of Mine
Friend of Mine (Treble Charger song)
"Friend of Mine" is a song by Canadian band Treble Charger. The song is the first single and opening track from the band's third studio album, Maybe It's Me. The song was used by ESPN as the theme music for the 1997 X Games Wakeboarding Championship....

". Soon afterward, Trevor MacGregor joined as the band's drummer. That lineup, along with several of their songs from this album, were also featured in the 1999 film Mr. Music. The band played the role of an 'undiscovered' indie band that gets discovered and helps to turn fictional Tone Records around from its slump.

Wide Awake Bored, released in 2000, completed the band's evolution to a pop-punk style. This album also featured the hit singles "American Psycho" and "Brand New Low
Brand New Low
"Brand New Low" is the second single by Canadian rock band Treble Charger from their fourth album, Wide Awake Bored. It was the successor to their hit single, "American Psycho", from the same album...

".

In 2002, Treble Charger released Detox
Detox (Treble Charger album)
Detox is Treble Charger's fifth and final studio album, released in August 2002. The album was certified Gold in Canada. Detox was also nominated for "Rock Album of the Year" at the 2003 Juno Awards.-Track listing:All songs written by Treble Charger....

, featuring hit single "Hundred Million
Hundred Million
"Hundred Million" is the first and most popular single from Treble Charger's fourth album, Detox. The song features backing vocals by Deryck Whibley and percussion by Steve Jocz, both from Sum 41. This was the band's last successful single before their break-up...

" and "Don't Believe It All".

Bill Priddle, identified with Treble Charger's early indie rock direction rather than the later pop-punk, left the band in 2003. Initially, it was said he was taking a break from the group, but it later came out the departure was permanent, and Nori had asked him to leave sooner than Priddle had intended. He told Chart
Chart (magazine)
ChartAttack is a Canadian online music publication. Formerly a monthly print magazine called Chart, which was published from 1991 to 2009, the web version continues operation....

:
"I was always into music for music’s sake, when it got all corporate and about gimmicks and imaging and wearing the right clothes and having the right lingo, that kind of rubbed me the wrong way. We had a market of 16-year-old kids and we had to try to guess what our fans wanted. Which is really the opposite of where I was coming from. I’ve always thought the best music was, obviously, done by people that did music for themselves."


Kelly Osbourne
Kelly Osbourne
Kelly Michelle Lee Osbourne is an English media personality, television personality, host, judge, fashion designer, singer, and actress, best known for being the daughter of Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne...

 guitarist Devin Bronson
Devin Bronson
Devin Bronson used to be Avril Lavigne's lead guitarist and previously held positions with Kelly Osbourne's backing band and the Canadian rock band Treble Charger. He is also playing and touring with Ashley Parker Angel. Currently Devin is playing a series of Acoustic shows with Ashley...

 filled in for Priddle for the rest of the Detox tour.

However, Priddle continues his collaborations with Broken Social Scene
Broken Social Scene
Broken Social Scene is a Canadian indie rock band, a musical collective including as few as six and as many as nineteen members, formed in 1999 by Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning. Most of its members currently play in various other groups and solo projects, mainly based around the city of Toronto...

 and is a member of his new band The Priddle Concern
The Priddle Concern
The Priddle Concern is a Canadian indie rock band. Based in Toronto, the band is Bill Priddle's first project since leaving Treble Charger in 2003. The band consists of Priddle on vocals and guitar, Mitch Bowden on guitar, Scott Remila of Raising the Fawn on bass and Dave Dunham of Chore on drums...

.

By this time, their work with and the success of their proteges Sum 41
Sum 41
Sum 41 is a Canadian rock band from Ajax, Ontario. The band was formed in 1996 and currently consists of members Deryck Whibley , Tom Thacker , Jason McCaslin and Steve Jocz .In 1999, the band signed an international record deal with Island Records...

, whom Nori produced, had started to eclipse Treble Charger's own career. In late 2004, it was reported that Treble Charger itself was on hiatus, but an animated version of the group, including Priddle, would appear, with Sum 41, on The Comedy Network
The Comedy Network
The Comedy Network a Canadian English language Category A specialty channel owned by Bell Media specializing in comedy programming.The channel operates two time shifted feeds, East and West ....

 series Kevin Spencer
Kevin Spencer
Kevin Spencer may refer to:*Kevin Spencer , a cartoon television series developed by Greg Lawrence*Kevin Spencer , Canadian singer-songwriter...

.

However, a message posted on July 20, 2004, on their official website said they were continuing to record and the band is still together. But on September 1, 2005, Greig Nori said in an interview:
"Thanks for all the amazing support you have given us. It seems like we're bigger now then we have ever been. I only wish more people had caught on to our music sooner so that we could have had an easier time at being a band. I'm not saying it's over yet but I am saying that right now I need to focus on other things. Maybe in a while I will get the urge to write a new TC album but right now my heart's not in it. Thanks for enjoying our music." - Greig Nori
Greig Nori
Greig Andrew Nori is a producer and musician from Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada and is well known as the former frontman, lead vocalist and guitarist of the pop punk band Treble Charger...



The hits "American Psycho" and "Brand New Low" were featured in EA Sports
EA Sports
EA Sports is a brand of Electronic Arts that creates and develops sports video games. Formerly a marketing gimmick of Electronic Arts, in which they tried to mimic real-life sports networks by calling themselves "EA Sports Network" with pictures or endorsements of real commentators such as John...

 Hockey game NHL 2002
NHL 2002
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 and "Hundred Million" was used in NHL 2003
NHL 2003
NHL 2003 is the eleventh edition of the popular EA Sports NHL series, a hockey video game, released on the successor to NHL 2002. Jarome Iginla appears as the cover athlete and spokesperson of the game. Iginla appears in the Behind The Scenes video to show the player how the game was...

 and in Splashdown: Rides Gone Wild
Splashdown: Rides Gone Wild
Splashdown: Rides Gone Wild for the PlayStation 2 is a sequel to the original Splashdown for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox. The game features a career mode where winning races gives the player points which can be used to upgrade items or buy new items. It also features arcade, training and multiplayer...

. EA also used "Wear Me Down" and "Business" from the Wide Awake Bored album in Triple Play 2002
Triple Play series
Triple Play was a series of computer and video games based on Major League Baseball, published by EA Sports until their replacement by the MVP Baseball in 2003....

. "American Psycho" was used in promotional advertisements for the direct-to-video
Direct-to-video
Direct-to-video is a term used to describe a film that has been released to the public on home video formats without being released in film theaters or broadcast on television...

 movie American Pie: Band Camp
American Pie: Band Camp
#Andrew W.K. - "She Is Beautiful"#Breaking Benjamin - "Forget It"#Snow Patrol - "How To Be Dead"#Matt Nathanson - "Laid"#Treble Charger - "American Psycho"#Good Charlotte - "The Anthem"#Paul Locke - "Paul's Drums"#Jimmy Eat World - The Middle...

, and featured in the movie Dude, Where's My Car?
Dude, Where's My Car?
Dude, Where's My Car? is a 2000 American stoner comedy film directed by Danny Leiner. The film stars Ashton Kutcher and Seann William Scott as two young men who find themselves wasted and forget where they parked their car....

.

On February 3, 2006, Greig Nori
Greig Nori
Greig Andrew Nori is a producer and musician from Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada and is well known as the former frontman, lead vocalist and guitarist of the pop punk band Treble Charger...

 disbanded Treble Charger, officially ending its 14 year career.

Post-breakup activity (2006–present)

Greig Nori has stopped managing Canadian band Sum 41
Sum 41
Sum 41 is a Canadian rock band from Ajax, Ontario. The band was formed in 1996 and currently consists of members Deryck Whibley , Tom Thacker , Jason McCaslin and Steve Jocz .In 1999, the band signed an international record deal with Island Records...

, although he now manages other bands. He is currently a 'musical guru' for the Canadian reality show disBAND(Renamed Much Discovered) on MuchMusic
MuchMusic
MuchMusic is a Canadian English language Category A specialty channel owned by Bell Media. MuchMusic is dedicated to music-related programs, pop and youth culture.-History:...

. Bill Priddle pursues a solo career in Toronto, and released a solo album in 2008 with his new band The Priddle Concern
The Priddle Concern
The Priddle Concern is a Canadian indie rock band. Based in Toronto, the band is Bill Priddle's first project since leaving Treble Charger in 2003. The band consists of Priddle on vocals and guitar, Mitch Bowden on guitar, Scott Remila of Raising the Fawn on bass and Dave Dunham of Chore on drums...

. Trevor MacGregor currently writes music for TV and film. Morris Palter went on to pursue degrees in contemporary percussion performance, and continues to perform solo and chamber music of contemporary composers all over the world.

Treble Charger was one of the inaugural inductees into the Sault Ste. Marie Walk of Fame on September 30, 2006 during the grand opening weekend of the Steelback Centre
Steelback Centre
The Essar Centre is a 5,000 seat sports and entertainment centre in downtown Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. It opened on September 29, 2006, replacing the now demolished Sault Memorial Gardens. The new building was constructed directly next door to the former Memorial Gardens and incorporated its most...

, the city's new sports and entertainment arena.

Greig Nori
Greig Nori
Greig Andrew Nori is a producer and musician from Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada and is well known as the former frontman, lead vocalist and guitarist of the pop punk band Treble Charger...

 is set to produce The Organ Thieves
The Organ Thieves
Organ Thieves is a southern and soul-influenced experimental hard rock side project by Brown Brigade guitarists Chuck Coles and Dave Baksh, formed by Coles in mid-2008...

' first full-length studio album, which is due for release in mid-2010. Pre-production began in October 2009.

Final line-up

  • Greig Nori
    Greig Nori
    Greig Andrew Nori is a producer and musician from Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada and is well known as the former frontman, lead vocalist and guitarist of the pop punk band Treble Charger...

     - lead vocals
    Singing
    Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...

    , guitar
    Guitar
    The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...

     (1992–2006)
  • Rosie Martin - bass
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

     (1992–2006)
  • Trevor MacGregor - drums
    Drum kit
    A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....

    , percussion (1997–2006)

Former members

  • Bill Priddle
    Bill Priddle
    Bill Priddle is a Canadian indie rock musician, who has been in the bands Treble Charger, Broken Social Scene, Don Vail and The Priddle Concern.Priddle released an album 6 May 2008 under the name The Priddle Concern.-External links:*...

     - guitar
    Guitar
    The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...

    , vocals
    Singing
    Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...

     (1992–2003)
  • Morris Palter
    Morris Palter
    Morris Palter is a drummer/percussionist from Canada who specializes in contemporary/classical chamber and solo percussion music. He also plays novelty ragtime xylophone and drum kit, and is also a composer, and university professor who was a founding member of the band Treble...

     - drums
    Drum kit
    A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....

    , percussion (1992–1996)
  • Devin Bronson
    Devin Bronson
    Devin Bronson used to be Avril Lavigne's lead guitarist and previously held positions with Kelly Osbourne's backing band and the Canadian rock band Treble Charger. He is also playing and touring with Ashley Parker Angel. Currently Devin is playing a series of Acoustic shows with Ashley...

     - guitar
    Guitar
    The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...

    , backing vocals
    Backing vocalist
    A backing vocalist or backing singer is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists...

     (2003–2004)
  • Mike Levesque - drums
    Drum kit
    A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....

    , percussion (1997)

Studio Albums

Year Title Chart positions Certifications
CAN
Canadian Albums Chart
The Canadian Albums Chart is the official album sales chart in Canada. It is compiled every Wednesday by U.S.-based music sales tracking company Nielsen Soundscan, and published every Thursday by Jam! Canoe and Billboard, along with its sister charts the Canadian Singles Chart and the Canadian BDS...


CRIA
1994 NC17
Nc17 (album)
NC17 is the debut album by Treble Charger released on July 4, 1994. It was re-released by Sonic Unyon in 1997. "Red" from this album was also re-recorded for Maybe It's Me....

-
1995 Self Title -
1997 Maybe It's Me
Maybe It's Me
Maybe It's Me is Treble Charger's third album, released on July 29, 1997. A re-recorded version of "Red" was included in this album....

 
77 Gold
2000 Wide Awake Bored
Wide Awake Bored
Wide Awake Bored is Treble Charger's fourth album, released on April 24, 2000. "American Psycho", "Brand New Low", and "Business" had their music videos, and some notable radio airplay.-Track listing:All songs written by Treble Charger....

 
9 Platinum
2002 Detox
Detox (Treble Charger album)
Detox is Treble Charger's fifth and final studio album, released in August 2002. The album was certified Gold in Canada. Detox was also nominated for "Rock Album of the Year" at the 2003 Juno Awards.-Track listing:All songs written by Treble Charger....

 
10 Gold

Singles

Year Title Peak Chart Position Album
CAN
RPM (magazine)
RPM was a Canadian music industry publication that featured song and album charts for Canada. The publication was founded by Walt Grealis in February 1964, supported through its existence by record label owner Stan Klees. RPM ceased publication in November 2000.RPM stood for "Records, Promotion,...


CAN
Alt.
Canadian rock/alternative chart
The Canadian rock/alternative chart was first published on June 11, 1995 by RPM magazine under the name Alternative 30. The song which held the number-one spot on this first chart was "More Human than Human" by White Zombie...


1994 "10th Grade Love" - - NC17
1995 "Even Grable" - 6 Self Title
1996 "Morale" 41 16
1997 "Friend of Mine
Friend of Mine (Treble Charger song)
"Friend of Mine" is a song by Canadian band Treble Charger. The song is the first single and opening track from the band's third studio album, Maybe It's Me. The song was used by ESPN as the theme music for the 1997 X Games Wakeboarding Championship....

"
41 9 Maybe It's Me
"How She Died" - 19
"Red" - 20
2000 "American Psycho
American Psycho (song)
"American Psycho" is the first single from Treble Charger's fourth album, Wide Awake Bored. The song was a hit in Canada, peaking at #4 on Canada's Rock/Alternative Chart. The song was also nominated for "Best Single" at the 2001 Juno Awards, losing to Nelly Furtado's "I'm Like a Bird"...

"
- 4 Wide Awake Bored
2001 "Brand New Low
Brand New Low
"Brand New Low" is the second single by Canadian rock band Treble Charger from their fourth album, Wide Awake Bored. It was the successor to their hit single, "American Psycho", from the same album...

"
- -
"Business" - -
2002 "Hundred Million
Hundred Million
"Hundred Million" is the first and most popular single from Treble Charger's fourth album, Detox. The song features backing vocals by Deryck Whibley and percussion by Steve Jocz, both from Sum 41. This was the band's last successful single before their break-up...

"
- - Detox
"Don't Believe It All" - -
1. Chart did not exist after 2000.

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