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1) What is the Origin of the band name?
2) Who does GLU consist of?
3) Who are GLU's Past members? (bios?)
4) A brief history of GLU
5) Where was your first show played at?
6) Who has/does manage GLU?
7) Album Producers
8) Equipment
9) Recording studio sessions
10) God Lives Underwater Tour background
11) Record label changes
12) What happened to GLU thru this whole period?
13) What has happened to GLU since 1998?
14) Side Projects
15) Internet Tracks
16) Tribute Projects
17) Is GLU still together? and other rumors

1) What is the origin of the band name?
Supposedly, this was a joke. The band sent out demo tapes to a bunch of different record labels, and they all wanted to sign them, but at that time they didn't have a band name.

2) Who does GLU consist of?
In the beginning it was David Reilly, Jeff Turzo, Adam Kary, and Andrew McGee. It has changed often since then, and now the only original member of GLU left in the band is David Reilly. Jeff Turzo is now in a band that was called Wired All Wrong.

3) Who are GLU's Past members?
Jeff Turzo, Andrew McGee, Adam Kary, Scott Garrett and other people who were GLU's touring members.

4) A brief history of GLU
The Band originally came from Perkiomenville, Pennsylvania, but then relocated to Los Angeles. Up until his passing, David resided in Pennsylvania. He is now buried in Ambler, PA.

5) Where was their first show played at?
Good question. I have no idea.

6) Who has/does produce GLU's Albums?
GLU had originally formulated and recorded all their work at home. David Reilly says he really dislikes working in the studio environment. Empty was recorded by them but was produced with the help of Gary Richards. On the Album sleeve, for some strange reason, Rick Rubin (KoRn, System of a Down, Coal Chamber producer) gets credit as Executive Producer. On the album Life In The So-Called Space Age, the credits go to Gary Richards.

7a) Management of God Lives Underwater
Unknown.

7b) Management of David Reilly
In 2004, it was On The Radar. http://www.ontheradar.net/ in conjunction with Thom from Corporate Punishment., now it is David Sherman , and David's Solo Label is Ruffnation

8) Equipment
Keyboards, guitars, drums. specs unknown.

9) Recording studio sessions
GLU went into the studio to record Life In The So-called Space Age, and Up Off The Floor. David Reilly also recorded his Inside EP and How Humans Rx in the studio too.

10) God Lives Underwater Tour background
GLU has toured with Korn, Filter, Deftones, Fear Factory, and plenty of others.

11) Record label changes
They were originally on American Recordings, then got fired from American Recordings. Gary Richards really liked GLU and decided to form his own Record label, 1500 Records, which ended up goiing bankrupt. GLU suffered as a result, along with a number of personal issues, and in 2004 found a label (Megaforce Records) to release their final album, Up Off The Floor.

12) A Brief Synopsis of GLU/ David Reilly
Jeff wanted to do other things (Mass Hystereo - their ep was released in 1997) & David had to deal with alcohol and heroin addiction. Also, his fiancee "7", passed away in 2000, then David decided to get clean. He batteled with this on and off, and when Fluzee came about in 2001 he was clean temporarily. Once again he got clean, and started pursuing his solo career, and in 2004 released the Inside EP. In early 2005 his then girlfriend, Amy, passed away to drugs. David continued working on his music and soon after signed a four-record deal with Ruffnation/Universal. In early October, he announced he was going to get married to his current girlfriend, Rachael, but only weeks after, David Reilly Passed away to health problems. Conflicting reports say that he died because of a tooth infection that had bled in his sleep and put him into a coma, where it ended up filling his lungs with blood. ANother report says he died due to stomach problems. As David stated in this Re>gen Magazine Interview, "The lowest points personally and musically were a lifelong battle with heroin and alcohol ruining my music and my relationships with the band and management. Musically, my lowest point was just simply not being there while a lot of the album components were being put together."

13) What has happened to GLU since 1998?
1500 Records got liquidated, and then finally after 3 label (contract) switches, GLU found Megaforce records. Also, David released two EPs, one called "7", from his side project Fluzee, and another called "Living In Syn" from Robot Teen America. Fluzee was supposed to be the next incarnation of God Lives Underwater, but failed due to some conflicts with the band members. Robot Teen America is more electronic music, with 4 tracks on the EP labeled track 1-4 consecutively. There were only 77 copies of RTA released, and it is unknown at this time if more songs exist.

14) Side Projects
David Reilly is focusing on his solo career right now, but the new GLU album, Up Off The Floor will be released later this year on Megaforce Records/Locomotive Records. Jeff's is still in the band Wired All Wrong. He works at Noiselab Music with Matt Mahaffey (of SELF) and they have samples of WAW here.>

15)Internet Tracks
Plenty of the UOTF tracks have been circulating on p2p networks like KaZaA and Napster for awhile, but the also can be obtained here.

16.Tribute Projects
GLU produced a track called "Fly on the Windscreen" for the Depeche Mode tribute album, "For The Masses", they did another cover of the song "Fame" for that compilation, and they also did a remix of the song "Testure" for a Skinny Puppy tribute album.

17) Is GLU still together? and other rumors
GLU was considered on 'hiatus' unless Sales of UOTF was large and if they were willing to tour. David Reilly did some solo touring in 2004 and was going to do 3 shows in 2005, but due to his death, those were cancelled.