BAMMIE Nominations
Third Eye Blind, Metallica, Rancid Earn Bammie Nods
San Francisco Chronicle Page D1
Tuesday, December 1, 1998
BY James Sullivan, Chronicle Staff Writer
Bay Area bands Third Eye Blind, Metallica and Rancid are among the nominees for this year's Bammie awards, it was announced yesterday. Now in its 22nd year -- second in its new incarnation as a statewide event -- the BAM magazine awards will be presented March 13 at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco. Tickets are now on sale.
Hole received the most nominations -- six, including outstanding album for ``Celebrity Skin'' and outstanding female vocalist for bandleader Courtney Love. Bakersfield aggro-rockers Korn joined Third Eye Blind and Metallica in second place, with four nominations apiece.
Vallejo natives E-40 and Mix Master Mike earned nominations in the statewide category for outstanding hip-hop/rap album.
Bay Area darlings Creeper Lagoon and the Donnas each had statewide nominations (for outstanding debut album and outstanding punk/ska album, respectively) as well as multiple nominations in the regionalized Northern California awards. Other Northern California nominees include the Hieroglyphics, Storm & Her Dirty Mouth, Wilson Gil and the Willful Sinners and the -- saxophonist Dave Ellis.
Here is a list of the statewide and Northern California nominees:
STATEWIDE
OUTSTANDING ALBUM: ``Celebrity Skin,'' Hole; ``Follow the Leader,'' Korn; ``Mechanical Animals,'' Marilyn Manson; ``MP Da Last Don,'' Master P; ``Life Won't Wait,'' Rancid.
OUTSTANDING SINGLE: ``Got You,'' the Flys; ``Celebrity Skin,'' Hole; ``Pretty Fly,'' Offspring; ``No Shelter,'' Rage Against the Machine; ``Jumper,'' Third Eye Blind.
OUTSTANDING DEBUT ALBUM: ``Behind the Front,'' Black Eyed Peas; ``I Become Small and Go,'' Creeper Lagoon; ``Eve 6,'' Eve 6; ``Holiday Man,'' the Flys; ``Ozomatli,'' Ozomatli.
OUTSTANDING ROCK/POP ALBUM: ``Prolonging the Magic,'' Cake; ``Whitey Ford Sings the Blues,'' Everlast; ``Celebrity Skin,'' Hole; ``Mechanical Animals,'' Marilyn Manson; ``Push the Button,'' Money Mark.
OUTSTANDING HARD ROCK ALBUM: ``Follow the Leader,'' Korn; ``Three Dollar Bill Y'all,'' Limp Bizkit; ``Re-Load,'' Metallica; ``Diabolus in Musica,'' Slayer; ``Hellbilly Deluxe,'' Rob Zombie.
OUTSTANDING PUNK/SKA ALBUM: ``Over Served,'' 22 Jacks; ``American Teenage Rock 'n Roll Machine,'' the Donnas; ``Right on Time,'' Hepcat; ``Life Won't Wait,'' Rancid; ``Why Do They Rock So Hard,'' Reel Big Fish.
OUTSTANDING HIP-HOP/RAP ALBUM: ``Behind the Front,'' Black Eyed Peas; ``Cypress Hill IV,'' Cypress Hill; ``The Element of Surprise,'' E-40; ``MP Da Last Don,'' Master P; ``Anti-Theft Device,'' Mix Master Mike.
OUTSTANDING R&B ALBUM: ``Kiss the Sky,'' Tatyana Ali; ``Never S-A-Y Never,'' Brandy; ``Let's Ride,'' Montell Jordon; ``From the Soul of Man,'' Kenny Lattimore; ``Tamia,'' Tamia.
OUTSTANDING SWING ALBUM: ``Big Bad Voodoo Daddy,'' Big Bad Voodoo Daddy; ``All Aboard,'' Indigo Swing; ``Mortyfied,'' the New Morty Show; ``The Contender,'' Royal Crown Revue; ``The Dirty Boogie,'' Brian Setzer Orchestra.
OUTSTANDING ELECTRONIC ALBUM: ``Back on a Mission,'' Cirrus; ``Drive,'' Gearwhore; ``Life in the So-Called Space Age,'' God Lives Underwater; ``Actual Sounds & Voices,'' Meat Beat Manifesto; ``Psyence Fiction,'' Unkle.
OUTSTANDING BLUES ALBUM: ``The Skin I'm In,'' Elvin Bishop; ``Best of Friends,'' John Lee Hooker; ``Pleasure & Pain,'' Roy Rogers; ``Deja Blue,'' Angela Strehli; ``Preachers and the President,'' Joe Louis Walker.
OUTSTANDING JAZZ ALBUM: ``In the Long Run,'' Dave Ellis; ``Return of the Headhunters,'' Headhunters; ``Afro-Cuban Fantasy,'' Poncho Sanchez; ``Goat Hill Junket,'' Anthony Wilson; ``Club Nocturne,'' Yellowjackets.
OUTSTANDING GROUP: Crystal Method; Hole; Korn; Metallica; Third Eye Blind.
OUTSTANDING FEMALE VOCALIST: Brandy; Sheryl Crow; Janet Jackson; Courtney Love (Hole); Alanis Morissette.
OUTSTANDING MALE VOCALIST: Stephan Jenkins (Third Eye Blind); Chris Isaak; Grant Lee Phillips (Grant Lee Buffalo); Rufus Wainwright; Scott Weiland.
OUTSTANDING GUITARIST: Kevin Cadogan (Third Eye Blind); Eric Erlandson (Hole); Kirk Hammett (Metallica); Tom Morello (Rage Against the Machine); Brian Setzer.
OUTSTANDING BASSIST: Chi Cheng (Deftones); Les Claypool (Primus); Mike Dirnt (Green Day); Matt Freeman (Rancid); Mike Watt.
OUTSTANDING DRUMMER: Tre Cool (Green Day); Josh Freese; David Silveria (Korn); Lars Ulrich (Metallica); Joey Waronker (Beck/R.E.M.).
CALIFORNIA ARTIST OF THE YEAR: Public write-in.
BILL GRAHAM LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: To be announced.
ARTHUR M. SOHCOT AWARD (for public service and excellence in performance): TBA.
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
OUTSTANDING INDEPENDENT ALBUM: ``I Become Small and Go,'' Creeper Lagoon; ``American Teenage Rock 'n Roll Machine,'' the Donnas; ``For Stars,'' For Stars; ``3rd Eye Vision,'' Hieroglyphics.
OUTSTANDING ROCK/POP ARTIST: Capsule; Creeper Lagoon; Red Planet; Snowmen.
OUTSTANDING HARD ROCK ARTIST: Old Grandad; Spike 1000; Storm and Her Dirty Mouth; Zen Guerrilla.
OUTSTANDING PUNK ARTIST: The Donnas; Me First and the Gimme Gimmes; One Man Army; Pansy Division.
OUTSTANDING SKA ARTIST: Filibuster; Monkey; Punch the Clown; Slow Gherkin.
OUTSTANDING HIP-HOP/RAP ARTIST: Hieroglyphics; Invisibl Skratch Piklz; Marvaless; Mystik Journeymen.
OUTSTANDING ELECTRONIC ARTIST: Wade Randolph Hampton; Junior Varsity; Matmos; Mox.
OUTSTANDING BLUES ARTIST: Brenda Boykin; Chris Cain; Sugar Pie De Santo; Alvin Youngblood Hart.
OUTSTANDING JAZZ ARTIST: Graham Connah; Dave Ellis; Oranj Symphonette; Marcus Shelby.
OUTSTANDING WORLD BEAT/REGGAE ARTIST: Dub Nation; Ali Khan; Positive Sound Massive; Omar Sosa.
OUTSTANDING ROCK EN ESPANOL ARTIST: Caradura; Firme; Lodo y Asfalto; Orixa.
OUTSTANDING LOUNGE/SWING/CABARET ARTIST: Indigo Swing; Jellyroll; Lee Press-On and the Nails; New Morty Show.
OUTSTANDING AMERICANA/ROOTS ARTIST: Jim Campilongo; Wilson Gil and the Willful Sinners; Train; Rube Waddell.
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