{{Short description|American alternative rock band}} {{about|the U.S. rock band|other uses|AMPS (disambiguation)|and|amp (disambiguation)}} {{Good article}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = The Amps | image = Kim Deal playing guitar with The Amps.jpg | caption = Kim Deal performing with the Amps in Dayton, Ohio in 1995 | background = group_or_band | origin = Dayton, Ohio, U.S. | genre = Alternative rock, lo-fi<ref name=Phares>{{harvnb|Phares}}</ref> | years_active = 1995–1996 | label = 4AD<br />Elektra | website = | current_members = | past_members = Kim Deal<br />Kelley Deal<br />Nate Farley<br />Luis Lerma<br />Jim Macpherson }}
'''The Amps''' were an American alternative rock band formed by Kim Deal in 1995, while her band the Breeders went on hiatus. The group consisted of Deal, on lead vocals and rhythm guitar; Luis Lerma on bass; Nate Farley on lead guitar; and Jim Macpherson of the Breeders on drums. Kelley Deal, Kim's sister, was also briefly involved, but had to leave the band due to drug problems. The group was named when Kim Deal started calling herself Tammy Ampersand for fun, and the band Tammy and the Amps. They recorded the album ''Pacer'' in the United States and Ireland.
''Pacer'' was released in October 1995. The group toured the United States, Europe, and Australia with bands including the Foo Fighters, Sonic Youth, and Guided by Voices. Critics commented on the loose and rough quality of these performances. The Amps continued as a group until 1996, when Deal changed their name back to the Breeders. By 2000, Macpherson, Lerma, and Farley had left the band; they were all at times involved in various projects with Guided by Voices' Robert Pollard. Deal's next album, the Breeders' ''Title TK'', was released seven years after ''Pacer''.
== Background and formation == From 1986 to 1992, Deal was a member of the Pixies<ref>{{harvnb|Erlewine: Pixies Biography}}</ref> and from 1989 onwards, the Breeders.<ref>{{harvnb|Rogers|2009}}</ref> In August 1993, the Breeders released their second album, ''Last Splash''<ref>{{harvnb|The Breeders (4AD)}}</ref> which went platinum in the USA,<ref>{{harvnb|American certifications – Breeders, The}}</ref> gold in Canada,<ref>{{harvnb|Gold Platinum Database}}</ref> and silver in the UK.<ref>{{harvnb|Certified Awards Search}}</ref> The other members of the group at that time were Kim's twin sister Kelley Deal, Josephine Wiggs and Jim Macpherson.<ref name=petrusich>{{harvnb|Petrusich|2013}}</ref> By late 1994, after two years of straight touring and recording, and culminating in the Lollapalooza tour, the band members were exhausted; they decided to take some time off from the Breeders, but this hiatus ended up being longer than expected.<ref name=petrusich /> Kelley was arrested on drug charges in late 1994 and spent time in and out of rehabilitation, while Wiggs became involved in musical projects in New York, including collaborations with members of Luscious Jackson.<ref name=petrusich /><ref name=Ashare>{{harvnb|Ashare|1995}}</ref>
Meanwhile, Kim Deal was eager to continue recording and performing.<ref name=Ashare /> At first she envisioned her next album as a solo record, on which she would play all of the instrument parts.<ref name=Gettelman>{{harvnb|Gettelman|1996}}</ref> When she was recording initial demos for the project, she asked Kelley to play on some of them, to distract her from her drug difficulties.<ref name=Gettelman /><ref name=Moore>{{harvnb|Moore|1996}}</ref> Since Kelley was now also involved, Deal decided not to go solo,<ref name=Gettelman /> but formed a new group. She recruited Macpherson to play drums, musician Luis Lerma, bass, and Nate Farley, guitar.<ref name=Moore /><ref name=hawthorne>{{harvnb|Hawthorne|1995}}</ref> Later, Kelley dropped out of the project for rehabilitation and moved to Saint Paul, Minnesota.<ref name=Gettelman /><ref name=Aaron>{{harvnb|Aaron|1995|pp=86–88}}</ref> For fun, Deal began calling herself Tammy Ampersand, and the group, Tammy and the Amps.<ref name=Gettelman /> This became simply the Amps.<ref name=Gettelman />
== Recording and touring == The Amps released one album, ''Pacer'' which was recorded at several different studios.<ref name=pacerliner>{{harvnb|Pacer liner notes}}</ref> The first session, at Easley Studios in Memphis was engineered by Davis McCain and Doug Easley.<ref name=tipp>{{harvnb|"Tipp City" single liner notes}}</ref> Deal recorded new songs there including what would become ''Pacer''{{'}}s single, "Tipp City".<ref name=Moore /><ref name=tipp /> While she was producing an upcoming record by Guided by Voices she had a recording opportunity; when the group abandoned work on their album, Deal used the leftover studio time for her own songs.<ref>{{harvnb|Greer: North of Onhava: The Official Charterhouse of Jim Greer}}</ref> Following the Easley Studios session, recording for ''Pacer'' continued at six other locations in total, including studios in Chicago, Los Angeles, Dublin, and Deal's hometown of Dayton.<ref name=pacerliner /> Engineers Steve Albini,<ref name=Aaron /> John Agnello, Bryce Goggin, and others each helped record one or more of these sessions.<ref name=pacerliner /> ''Pacer'' came out in October 1995.<ref>{{harvnb|The Amps (4AD)}}</ref>
thumb|The Amps toured with Sonic Youth in late 1995.<ref name=Borzillo>{{harvnb|Borzillo|1995|p=24}}</ref>The Amps toured throughout 1995 and 1996. Early performances, before releasing ''Pacer'', included June–July 1995 shows in Dayton: one with Guided by Voices at Gilly's<ref>{{harvnb|Gilly's – Dayton, OH, U.S.A.}}</ref> and another with Poster Children.<ref>{{harvnb|Shows (Posterchildren.com)}}</ref> They toured with Guided by Voices and Chavez in the United Kingdom in September, in cities such as Sheffield,<ref>{{harvnb|Leadmill – Sheffield, United Kingdom}}</ref> Glasgow,<ref>{{harvnb|Cathouse – Glasgow, United Kingdom}}</ref> Brighton,<ref>{{harvnb|Concorde – Brighton, United Kingdom}}</ref> and London;<ref>{{harvnb|Tutu's (King's College) – London, United Kingdom}}</ref> Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders attended the London concert as a birthday present to herself, and afterwards came backstage to meet Deal. The Amps played another show with Guided by Voices in Ohio in October.<ref>{{harvnb|Post Office – Tipp City, OH, U.S.A.}}</ref> The Amps performed a series of US concerts in October and November with Sonic Youth, among which were shows in Detroit and Chicago with Helium,<ref>{{harvnb|10/25/95 – Detroit, MI @ State Theatre}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|10/26/95 – Chicago, IL @ Riviera Theatre}}</ref> in Seattle and Portland with Bikini Kill,<ref>{{harvnb|11/03/95 – Seattle, WA @ The Paramount}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|11/05/95 – Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater}}</ref> and in Los Angeles with Mike Watt and Sonic Youth.<ref>{{harvnb|11/11/95 – Los Angeles, CA @ Wiltern Theater}}</ref> Following the concerts with Sonic Youth, the Amps did a tour of Europe,<ref name=hawthorne /> including a performance in London on December 7.<ref>{{harvnb|Rock & Pop Music|p=The Guide 35}}</ref> In January 1996, they played the Summersault festival in Australia.<ref>{{harvnb|Australia's Summersault Festival Comes To An End}}</ref> That year, the Amps toured with the Foo Fighters in the United States, in locations such as Chicago (with That Dog),<ref name=Kot>{{harvnb|Kot|1996}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Kening|1996|p=4}}</ref> Worcester, Massachusetts,<ref>{{harvnb|Upcoming Concerts}}</ref> and Austin, Texas (with Jawbreaker),<ref>{{harvnb|Music.recos}}</ref> as well as playing one more concert with Guided By Voices, in early March in Newport, Kentucky.<ref>{{harvnb|Southgate House – Newport, KY, U.S.A.}}</ref> At this show, Deal had a permanent falling-out with Robert Pollard when Guided By Voices unintentionally used up all the soundcheck time.<ref>{{harvnb|Greer|2007}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Cutter|2018}}</ref> In 1995 or 1996, they also played shows with the Tasties<ref name=Ashare /><ref name=Moore /> and Brainiac.<ref name=Moore />
Reviewers described live concerts by the Amps as unpolished and relaxed. ''The Chronicle''{{'}}s Drema Crist praised their show at an unidentified location as "fun-spirited and silly".<ref>{{harvnb|Crist|1995}}</ref> Greg Kot of ''The Chicago Tribune'' described one of their Chicago performances as "off-kilter" and wrote that "Deal's pungent vocals were swallowed up by the guitars, and the foursome's slight melodies were lost amid all the bashing."<ref name=Kot /> A review in ''The Chicago Reader'' of the same concert noted that "The Amps play with a low-key, hangout sound."<ref>{{harvnb|Vowell|1996}}</ref> ''The Phoenix''{{'}}s Matt Ashare felt that at their December 1995 show in Boston "the Amps didn't click in a way that would suggest that this was Deal's new, full-time band"; he added that it was "an unpretentiously gritty way for Deal to let off some steam while the Breeders [took] a little break".<ref name=Ashare /> In ''Boston Rock'', this concert was characterized as "sloppy" but "charm[ing] ... hanging loosely off Kim's gruff vocals and ebullient personality".<ref name=Moore />
== Reforming the Breeders == Later in 1996, Deal changed the name of the group back to the Breeders and the band originally had almost the same line-up as the Amps.<ref name=Phares /> Until then Deal had been waiting for Wiggs and Kelley to rejoin the Breeders and record a new album together, and had held back from reforming the Breeders out of respect for them.<ref name=Ashare1997>{{harvnb|Ashare|1997}}</ref><ref name=Catlin>{{harvnb|Catlin|1997}}</ref> In May 1996, Wiggs revealed that she would not be involved in any immediate Breeders activity; Kelley also chose to stay in Saint Paul, to be close to her rehabilitation facility.<ref name=Ashare1997 /><ref name=Catlin /> Deal then decided that she did not want to wait any longer to reform the group, partly because the Breeders' repertoire was larger than the Amps', thereby allowing longer concerts.<ref name=Ashare1997 /><ref name=Catlin /> Deal added violinist Carrie Bradley (who had played on the Breeders' ''Pod'' album), and with Macpherson, Lerma, and Farley, played some shows in 1996 with Primus.<ref name=Phares />
By 1998, Kelley had rejoined and Macpherson had left the group, and by 2000 Lerma and Farley had also left.<ref name=breedersbiography>{{harvnb|Erlewine: The Breeders Biography}}</ref> With a line-up including the Deal sisters and new members Mando Lopez and Jose Medeles, the Breeders released the albums ''Title TK'' in 2002 and ''Mountain Battles'' in 2008.<ref name=breedersbiography /> Meanwhile Macpherson was a member of Guided by Voices from 1998 to 2001,<ref>{{harvnb|Jim Macpherson (Guided by Voices Database)}}</ref> and participated in other projects with Guided By Voices' Robert Pollard until 2005.<ref>{{harvnb|Motel of Fools (Guided by Voices Database)}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Lightninghead to Coffee Pot (Guided by Voices Database)}}</ref> Lerma and Farley have been members of the Tasties,<ref name=Phares /><ref name=Sepich>{{harvnb|Sepich}}</ref> and in 1999 participated in Pollard's Lexo and the Leapers side project group;<ref name=Sepich /> Farley was also a member of Guided by Voices from 1999 to 2004.<ref>{{harvnb|Nate Farley (Guided by Voices Database)}}</ref> In 2013, the ''Last Splash''-era Breeders line-up of Kim and Kelley Deal, Macpherson, and Wiggs reunited to tour to celebrate the 20th anniversary of that album.<ref>{{harvnb|Rayner|2013}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Power|2013}}</ref>
== Members == * Kim Deal – vocals, guitars * Kelley Deal – guitars * Luis Lerma – bass * Nate Farley – guitars * Jim Macpherson – drums
== Discography ==
=== Album === {| class="wikitable" !Title !Release date !Label |- |''Pacer'' |1995 |4AD/Elektra |}
=== Single === {| class="wikitable" !Year !Title !Album !Label |- | 1995 | "Tipp City" | ''Pacer'' | 4AD/Elektra |}
== Notes == {{Reflist|30em}}
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