Matt Fallon
Born in Brooklyn, NY on September 30, 1965.
Former lead singer of Steel Fortune, [a66025], [a260673] and his own band, [a5446024].
In the early 80's, Matt played with [a1046348] in a cover band called Steel Fortune and opened up for [a18839] on their last show of their promo tour for the upcoming album [m6387] at Willy's in Sayerwille, New Jersey. On the same bill were [a66025] where he first met [a267746]. [a267746] asked Matt to join [a66025] after they had played a show together at L’Amour, Brooklyn at a later date. [a66025] were working on a follow up album to [m42898] so [a267746] sent Matt a cassette with some raw tracks they had been working on and asked him to write lyrics - Matt was replaced before the album was released and instead of crediting individuals for lyrics, the album simply credited "Anthrax" as songwriters.
After taking some time off music, [a1046348] called him in 1986 and asked him to form a band, and so [a260673] was formed with [a260688] on bass, Jim Yuhas or [a=Steve Brotherton] on guitar and [a=John Ratkowski Jr.] on drums. [a1046348] was a close friend with [a252393] and the band ended up recording some demo songs ([r10587890]) in [a252393]'s personal studio that same year.
[a260673] started playing shows with Matt in Pennsylvania opening up for [a124541] on their "Slippery When Wet" tour after [a196350] had some booking conflicts. They also played some New Jersey, Staten Island and Long Island shows, [a299759]'s band Zirus opened up for them for a few show(s) before Matt was kicked/left(?) and replaced by [a497926].
In the early 90's he formed his own band along with Aaron Wilkinson on guitar, Glen Moran on bass and Jon Nicholson on drums - this band was named [a5446024] because his bandmates thought it would make it easier to get a record deal due to the name's familiarity with [a66025] and [a260673]. [a5446024] recorded a 4 song EP at Sound Design Studios in Philadelphia, PA with Bill Fitch. The band was shopping the EP when they caught the attention of the program director of WSOU at Seton Hall. At the time WSOU was playing some of the best music around and was considered “the” college radio station in the area. They put [a5446024]'s ballad "The Rain Inside" into regular rotation, and were soon playing the groups other songs as well. During the early 90’s [a5446024] was also featured on WPAT, and played many NJ clubs including the Stone Pony, Club Bene, and the Fastlane.
[a5446024] was asked to appear on the 1993 Shore Records compilation CD, "Tri States Best Unsigned Artists". Unfortunately, by the time the CD was released, [a5446024] had broken up. They did reunite to support the release, but it was a short-lived reunion as most of the members had moved on to other projects by that time. Years later, that compilation CD fell into the hands of FNA Records, which led to [a5446024]'s current self-titled release [r8797139]. It contains the songs from the original 4 song EP, as well as other material that the band was performing and recording before going their separate ways.
Sources:
https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/8494742/skid-row-debut-sebastian-bach-rachel-bolan
https://sleazeroxx.com/interviews/matt-fallon-of-fallon-ex-skid-row-and-anthrax-interview/
http://fnarecords.net/index.php/fallon.html