For some reason, Tom Green was briefly in the world's awareness for another split second before something actually interesting happened. He also still seems to get work. Good for him.
The rest of this post has nothing to do with him. It's about Finger.
They were from the Raleigh/Durham, Chapel Hill, North Carolina scene and plied their trade at the very start of the 90's while everybody was getting into grunge and acting like they invented punk rock or something.
They played a surprisingly straightforward form of alternative rock. Nothing earth or genre shattering, but pretty damn listenable in a way that was most certainly not fashionable at the time. If nothing else it would certainly make for a fine background for hanging out at whatever bar they were playing. They did a bit of touring and then the drummer quit.
Looking at some of the rest of the story, it seems that individuals got sucked into the country/Americana void never to return. The guitarist here seems to be now employed in Keith Urban's backing band after a stint in Son Volt. Well, at least it's a steady paycheck making music.
At least they also left behind these three singles to pay loudly while cruising around in a beater car on a summer Tuesday night with the windows down.
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