![]() Their last performance was in October 2002 in Japan, and the band broke up afterwards. ![]() Domrose called the music on this record more "pop-aggressive" than the band's earlier work. 1999–2002: Happy Ending, breakup and post-Dogstar Īlthough the band members had other work commitments, a second album, Happy Ending, followed in 1999, produced by Michael Vail Blum and Richie Zito. The band also performed at the Zee Cine Awards in India, the 1996 Zwemdokrock Festival in Lummen, Belgium, and the 1999 Glastonbury Festival in Pilton, Somerset, England. With Quattro Formaggi, they released their first sound carrier in the form of a four-track EP in 1996, via Zoo Entertainment, and followed this up with their debut album, Our Little Visionary, which was only distributed in Japan, even though Dogstar already had a worldwide fanbase at the time. However, Miller left the band at the end of the tour. and Asia, and opened for David Bowie at his 1995 Hollywood Palladium gig, where they covered a song by Pink Floyd, as well as for Bon Jovi on their 1995 These Days – Crossroads Tour in Australia and New Zealand. One year later, the band toured extensively throughout the U.S. Band history 1994–1999: Quattro Formaggi, Our Little Visionary and live performances ĭogstar was joined by Bret Domrose as an additional vocalist and guitarist in 1994. The band originally called themselves Small Fecal Matter, and then BFS (Big Fucking Shit, or Big Fucking Sound), before settling on Dogstar, after Mailhouse found the name in the book Sexus, written by Henry Miller. Keanu Reeves in an interview with Jimmy Fallon You know, we started in a garage, and then you end up starting to write songs, and then you're like "Let's go out and play them!", and then you're like "Let's go on tour!", and then.you're playing Reeves said that one thing led to another in the band's history: As the two men formed a friendship, they began jamming together, and were joined by Gregg Miller as the original lead guitarist and singer in 1992. Mailhouse was wearing a Detroit Red Wings hockey sweater, and Reeves (an avid hockey fan and a keen player of the sport) asked if Mailhouse needed a goalie. The genesis of Dogstar was a chance encounter between Robert Mailhouse and Keanu Reeves in a supermarket in 1991. Their upcoming album, Somewhere Between the Power Lines and Palm Trees, is set to be released on October 6, 2023. The band officially reformed in May 2023 for a performance at the BottleRock Napa Valley music festival. They were initially active from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s, during which time the band found moderate success but garnered significant media attention due to the band's bassist being Hollywood actor Keanu Reeves. ![]() Dogstar is an American alternative rock band from Los Angeles, California. ![]()
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