Mark Curry

Mark Curry landed on alternative radio in 1992 with "Sorry About the Weather", the single from his album It's Only Time, a wry, rueful strummer that got to number 20 on Billboard's Alternative Songs chart and remains the thing he's best known for. He didn't come out of nowhere. Back when he was a student at Sacramento City College in the '80s he'd put together a band called Crystal Sphere, with a lineup that included Aaron "El Hefe" Abeyta, later of NOFX. An early fan who went by "Gumdroplou" became their first manager and got them gigs in the pubs of downtown Davis, California, and even at the Davis airport, playing for skydivers.

The band headed to Los Angeles in the early '90s, swapped Gumdroplou for a new manager, Desi Benjamin, and the showcases he set up led to a bidding war. Curry came out of it in 1992 with a deal from Virgin Records and Virgin Publishing, and he went solo, leaving Crystal Sphere behind.

In the mid-'90s he worked for a while with the jazz flutist Rebecca Prichard, and NOFX, El Hefe's later band, covered his song "Perfect Government" on their 1994 album Punk in Drublic.

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