Editing Bush (British band) (section)

===Formation and ''Sixteen Stone'' (1992–1995)===
After leaving his band Midnight, [[Gavin Rossdale]] met former King Blank guitarist [[Nigel Pulsford]] at a [[Wembley Stadium (1923)|Wembley]] performance by [[Baby Animals]] opening for [[Bryan Adams]] in November 1991.<ref name="twentyseven" /> The two musicians became friends over a shared appreciation for several artists,<ref name="twentyseven" /> including [[Big Black]], [[The Fall (band)|The Fall]], [[Pixies (band)|Pixies]], and [[The Velvet Underground]].<ref name="twentyseven" /> They formed a new band which they called Future Primitive. Describing the early sound of the group, one British record label executive said years later, "They weren't what they are today – they were a little like the more commercial side of [[INXS]]".<ref name="Nirvanawannabes">Daly, Steven. "[https://web.archive.org/web/20080518100630/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/bush/articles/story/5938704/nirvanawannabes Nirvanawannabes]". ''Rolling Stone''. 18 April 1996. Retrieved on 14 July 2009.</ref> To complete the lineup, the pair recruited bassist Dave Parsons, and drummer Robin Goodridge joined in mid-1993 shortly before Bush were signed.<ref name="BBCmusic">{{cite news |title=Nigel Pulsford interview (2009) |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/music/sites/nigel-pulsford/pages/interview_01.shtml |work=BBC Wales - Music |date=12 November 2009}}</ref> While still known as Future Primitive, the band released the song "[[Sixteen Stone|Bomb]]",<ref name="twentyseven" /> later to be featured on the band's debut, as a single through Rossdale's own Mad Dog Winston Records.<ref name="twentyseven">{{cite book |last1=Nine |first1=Jennifer |title=Bush: Twenty-seventh Letter : the Official History |date=1999 |publisher=Virgin |isbn=9780753501894 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cdL0GIkAkycC |access-date=26 July 2020}}</ref> Rossdale's goal was for Bush to sign with [[4AD]] because of his love for their bands [[Cocteau Twins]], [[Pixies (band)|Pixies]] and [[Throwing Muses]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-10-06 |title=We've Got A File On You: Gavin Rossdale |url=https://www.stereogum.com/2201868/bush-gavin-rossdale/interviews/weve-got-a-file-on-you/ |access-date=2022-10-06 |website=Stereogum |language=en}}</ref>

[[File:Bush 2001.jpg|thumb|Bush, 2001. L-R: Nigel Pulsford, Robin Goodridge, Gavin Rossdale, and Dave Parsons.]]

In 1993, the band was signed by Rob Kahane, who had a distribution deal with [[Disney]]'s [[Hollywood Records]]. The band completed recording its debut album ''[[Sixteen Stone]]'' in early 1994. However, the death of Disney executive [[Frank G. Wells]] eliminated a supporter for Kahane, and executives at Hollywood deemed Bush's album unacceptable for release. Consequently, the bandmates took jobs performing menial labour. [[Interscope Records]] ultimately decided to release the album, and at the end of 1994, Kahane sent an advance copy of the album to a friend at influential Los Angeles radio station [[KROQ-FM]], which added the song "[[Everything Zen]]" to its rotation.<ref name="Nirvanawannabes" />

On the ''Billboard'' charts (North America), ''Sixteen Stone'' peaked at No. 4 on the Heatseekers and [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]] charts. The album spawned two Top 40 singles. After about six months of promotion for ''Sixteen Stone'', the album began to sell well, once "[[Comedown (song)|Comedown]]" and "[[Glycerine (song)|Glycerine]]" struck America. Additionally, "[[Little Things (Bush song)|Little Things]]" and "[[Machinehead (song)|Machinehead]]" both charted well in North America.

In Canada, the band were initially forced to release ''Sixteen Stone'' under the name Bush<sup>X</sup>, as the 1970s Canadian band [[Bush (Canadian band)|Bush]] still held the rights to the name ''Bush'' in the Canadian market.<ref>"The battle for Bush: Canadian band duking it out with Brits over its name". ''[[Halifax Daily News]]'', 12 June 1997.</ref> The dispute arose after the British band's lawyers threatened to intervene to prevent the Canadian band from reissuing its 1970 album,<ref name=xcellent>"X-cellent solution found to band's name woes". ''[[Waterloo Region Record]]'', 16 April 1997.</ref> although it was entirely between the bands' lawyers as Rossdale and [[Domenic Troiano]], the leader of the Canadian band, both expressed a willingness to negotiate a solution.<ref>"X marks the sore spot for mega-popular BushX". ''[[Hamilton Spectator]]'', 10 January 1997.</ref> In 1997, after the band's second album ''Razorblade Suitcase'' also bore the X, Rossdale and Troiano directly negotiated an agreement under which the British band were allowed to drop the X in exchange for donating $20,000 each to the [[Starlight Children's Foundation|Starlight Foundation]] and the Canadian Music Therapy Trust Fund.<ref name=xcellent/> Both ''Sixteen Stone'' and ''Razorblade Suitcase'' were then reissued without the X.<ref>"Both `X' and grunge gone from British Bush". ''[[Ottawa Citizen]]'', 22 May 1997.</ref>