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D-A-D
D-A-D performing in 2014
Background information
Also known as	Disneyland After Dark
Origin	Copenhagen, Denmark
Genres	Hard rock, glam metal
Years active	1982–present
Labels	Mermaid EMI Warner Bros. (US) (1989–92)
Members	Jesper Binzer Jacob Binzer Stig Pedersen Laust Sonne
Past members	Lene Glumer Peter Lundholm Jensen
Website	www.d-a-d.com

D-A-D (formerly stylized as D:A:D) is a Danish rock band. They were originally named Disneyland After Dark, but changed their name to avoid a lawsuit from The Walt Disney Company.

History

In the early 1980s in Copenhagen, D-A-D started playing together under their original name Disneyland After Dark. Pedersen came up with the name based on the idea that when the lights are out in Disneyland, anything can happen. The first lineup of D-A-D consisted of Jesper, Stig, Peter and Stig's girlfriend, Lene Glumer. The band's debut concert was at the youth club Sundby Algaard. In December 1982, Lene Glumer left the band and the three of them kept playing together and on 3 March 1984, Jesper's younger brother, Jacob, joined the band at a concert at Musikcaféen in Copenhagen.

The band released their first album, Call of the Wild in 1986.

The group made their international breakthrough in 1989 with the record No Fuel Left for the Pilgrims on Warner Records, which was released on the band's fifth birthday. They achieved some airplay with the single "Sleeping My Day Away".

The current lineup is Jesper Binzer, Jacob Binzer, Stig Pedersen and Laust Sonne.

The largest concert the band played as the opening act for the Böhse Onkelz on their farewell festival on 17 June 2005, about 120,000 people on the Euro Speedway Lausitz.

Band members

Jesper Binzer

• Birth: 4 September 1965
• Position: lead vocals, guitar, banjo, and backing vocals.

Binzer is from Frederiksberg like Laust Sonne. He was one of the founders of the band in 1982. He also plays drums for the band The Whiteouts and has also written a song for the Danish movie Bleeder.

Jacob Binzer

• Birth: 28 October 1966
• Position: Lead guitar, backing vocals, kazoo, piano, and keyboards.
• Nickname: Cobber

Jesper Binzer's younger brother. He is from Frederiksberg. Jacob has played in the band since 1984.

Stig Pedersen

• Birth: 18 May 1965
• Position: Bass guitar, lead vocals and backing vocals.

Stig is from Amager and used to play in a punk band called ADS and also plays in a band called Hellbetty. A notable aspect of Pedersen's bass playing is his use of almost exclusively two-stringed bass guitars; his basses often take extravagant shapes, such as an iPhone whose screen shows the audience.

Laust Sonne

• Birth: 11 December 1974
• Position: drums, backing vocals, vibraphone, keyboards, guitar, saxophone, xylophone, and bass guitar.

Sonne is from Frederiksberg. He has played in the band since 1999. He also plays in the bands Dear and Bugpowder.

Line-up history

Discography

Albums

Studio albums

Live albums

Compilation albums

Extended plays

Singles

Tours

• Scare Yourself Alive Tour (2005–2006)
• D-A-D Tour 2007 (2007)
• D-A-D Tour 2008 (2008)
• Monster Philosophy Tour (2009)
• D-A-D Tour 2010 (2010)
• D-A-D Tour 2011 (2011)
• Fast On Wheels Tour (2012)
• D-A-D Tour 2013 (2013)
• D-A-D Tour 2015 (2015)

See also

• List of glam metal bands and artists

References

1. Rivadavia, Eduardo. "D:A:D – Artist Biography". AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved 9 October 2016.
2. Klypchak, Brad (2016). "All Those Wasted Years: Hanoi Rocks and the Transitions of Glam". In Chapman, Ian; Johnson, Henry (eds.). Global Glam and Popular Music: Style and Spectacle from the 1970s to the 2000s. Routledge. pp. 142–155.
3. ^ Colin Larkin, ed. (1995). The Guinness Who's Who of Heavy Metal (Second ed.). Guinness Publishing. p. 92. ISBN 0-85112-656-1.
4. ^ "The Top Five Bands Featuring 2-String Basses". Cbgitty.com.
5. "THAT iPhone Bass: DAD's 2-string bass let bass players stand out". Gearnews.com. 20 August 2018.
6. "Veteran rocker plays giant iPhone bass guitar that films audience". Consequence.net. 15 August 2018.
7. ^ "danishcharts.dk – Discography D-A-D". Hitlisten. Hung Medien. Retrieved 6 September 2013.
8. ^ Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (PDF ed.). Mt Martha, Victoria, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p. 73.
9. "D:A:D – Chart history | Billboard". Billboard.com.
10. "DIC.NII.LAN.DAFT.ERD.ARK | D-A-D". D-a-d.com.
11. "A Prayer for the Loud by D-A-D". Music.apple.com.
12. "D-A-D – Speed Of Darkness (2024, CD)". www.discogs.com.
13. "Hitlisten.NU – Album Top-40 Uge 41, 2024". Hitlisten. Retrieved 16 October 2024.
14. "Various – Ungdomshuset (CD) at Discogs". Discogs.com. Retrieved 6 September 2013.
15. "Album Top-40 Uge 10, 2024". Hitlisten. Retrieved 13 March 2024.

External links

• Official website
• D-A-D at AllMusic

• 1982 establishments in Denmark
• Danish glam metal musical groups
• Danish hard rock musical groups
• Danish musical quartets
• Musical groups established in 1982