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Speedealer originally formed in 1994 in Lubbock, TX, under the name REO Speedealer. When <a href="spotify:artist:55vs7NT1KxcFjbMC4y202E">REO Speedwagon</a> served the band a cease-and-desist order on their moniker, they shortened their name to Speedealer. In 1998, the band released their debut, self-titled album on Royalty Records. The following year, the hard rocking foursome -- made up of singer/guitarist Jeff Hirshberg, bassist Rodney Skelton, drummer Harden Harrison, and guitarist Eric Schmidt -- released their follow-up record, Here Comes Death, on the same label. Royalty Records went bankrupt soon after the band's second release, leaving Speedealer to their own devices for exposure. Label-less and musically driven, they played 309 shows in 1999 to stay in the public eye, pairing up with such like-minded, aggressive rockers as Zeke, <a href="spotify:artist:1TKaUU8ooBgSW9TlyKsw6k">Fu Manchu</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:1KHydwFySZY3YcWyo2q2dF">Neurosis</a>, and <a href="spotify:artist:3dnH7fdVm2X07MK6Fkbhbt">GWAR</a>. Speedealer's efforts finally paid off when Palm Records A&R man Michael Alago (who signed <a href="spotify:artist:2ye2Wgw4gimLv2eAKyk1NB">Metallica</a> to Elektra and <a href="spotify:artist:0CF71zaDOJWCynIkW9bSK8">White Zombie</a> to Geffen) contracted the band to his label. Palm Records re-released Here Comes Death in 2000, and Second Sight in 2002. ~ Jennifer Maerz, Rovi
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