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Berton Leslie Averre (born December 13, 1953) is an American guitarist. He was the lead guitarist and one of the founders of the band The Knack. [1] That group had a No. 6 UK / No. 1 US hit with "My Sharona", [2] which sold 10 million copies in the US.
“Musical comedy,” states Berton, “is most likely what I’ll be doing for the rest of my life.” Berton hails from Van Nuys, California and was born December 13,1953. For more information please visit: http://www.bertonaverre.com/
The Knack è stato un complesso powerpop / new wave nato a Los Angeles nel 1978, che divenne famoso con il primo singolo, My Sharona, una hit internazionale del 1979. La formazione all'esordio comprendeva: Doug Fieger (voce solista e chitarra ), Berton Averre (seconda voce e chitarra), Prescott Niles ( basso) e Bruce Gary ( batteria ).
- History
- Outside The Knack
- Members
- Discography
Founding
Singer Doug Fieger was a native of Oak Park, Michigan, a northern suburb of Detroit, Michigan, and grew up in the 9 Mile/Greenfield area. The brother of attorney Geoffrey Fieger (later known for representing Jack Kevorkian in a series of assisted suicide cases) Fieger had previously played in an eclectic rock band called Sky as well as the Sunset Bombers. Although Sky had received a modest amount of acclaim, including being produced by Rolling Stones producer Jimmy Miller, the band broke up w...
Get the Knack
Within months of their live debut, popular club gigs on the Sunset Strip, as well as guest jams with musicians such as Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty and Ray Manzarek, led to the band being the subject of a record label bidding war. The band was pursued by ten record labels, but decided on Capitol Records; at the time, the Knack was given the largest signing sum in the label's history. A&R executives Bruce Garfield and Bruce Ravid are credited with signing the band.[citation needed] The band's...
The follow-up albums
The Knack quickly recorded a follow-up album ...But the Little Girls Understand, which was released in early 1980. Though the album went gold in the US and Japan, and platinum in Canada, it didn't meet with the same level of commercial success as their debut. Fieger claimed in later interviews that all of the tracks for Get the Knack and ...But the Little Girls Understand were written before the first LP was recorded and were intended to be put out as a double album. Additionally, the lead si...
In the interim between the Knack's break-up and 1986 reunion, Doug Fieger worked as a guest vocalist on a few tracks by Was (Not Was). (Fieger had grown up with band member Don Was; Was later produced the Knack's album Serious Fun.) Fieger also recorded a solo album in 2000, and appeared as a solo artist in the Countdown Spectacular 2 concert serie...
We discuss, in-depth, in the interview below damn near everything, including mononucleosis, jamming with Bruce Springsteen, the reissued CDs, and the band breaking up and, of course, that girl named Sharona. Read on to get more about The Knack than you ever knew!
– Berton Averre “I’ll be the first to admit that we’re the ‘90s version of Cheap Trick or The Knack but the last to admit that it hasn’t been rewarding.” – Kurt Cobain, liner notes to Incesticide, (1992)
7 ott 2020 · Berton Averre, whose guitar riff propelled The Knack’s “My Sharona” to the top of Billboard’s charts in 1979, was aware of Eddie Van Halen before he ever heard the legendary guitar sound that...
