In 2008, no song grabs attention quite like 'Brandy' by Greenhouse Effect a band which features former One handed reader Rick carmody and once had legendary Los Angeles giutarist Phillip Keegan among other band members some celebrated such as punk rock's Greg Tarpley drummer and Martin Silva from San pedro also on drums for a time in 1991 and 92'.....the Netherlands drummer Palle Karlson is featured in the band's video to "A White Black Thang (1991)"...
Greenhouse effect feature a multitude of great songs from 1988's 'Precarious' and 'Racers' through on into 1991's well known 'Ben is Dead, Hey Negrita, and "Star"...two 1992 songs garnish much attention for G.e. ; Brandy and "White Black Thang" also 1992's 'Irie Bob' is a stunner,..a classic...
Curiously, the band split in November of 1992 after it was confirmed Rick Carmody had officially left the band, ..an angry bitter Clark Hagins also had to deal with comparisons to his band and the then super famous American band Nirvana and Kurt Cobain....Today, Hagins still bristles at the mention of Nirvana...
"I always thought their music was unremarkable,..just more typical boring shit,...i never really liked them,..it took about a year,..one day in like 1993,..and after G.e. was over,..i sat down up in Bel Air and i listened to their album and i thought only a couple of songs were worth a shit,..that one fast song they did,.."Breed" i think..and "in Bloom',...i thought that the rest of their stuff was shit,..i didn't see what all the hype was about,...i actually thought that the band called Everclear that came later on in the 90's was better than them....i just thought that nirvana used these big 4/4 disco dance beats to get their ideas acrossed,..thats an idea that i had seen before,.....no better really than the Jesus and mary chain or Ned Atomic dustbin...or Living Color - it was just a buncha liberal media hype ....if people hyped up my band like that,..we woulda got big too,..but i can't honestly say that about every band,..i mean stuff like Pearl Jam sucks !!

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'Brandy' is probobly the best known song by Los Angeles California mega-band Greenhouse Effect....this 'internet cyberspace' band has challenged internet stapels like Tila Tequila and pornography for internet 'views' supremacy!
Greenhouse Effect really actually existed long LONG AGO...both frontman Clark Hagins and guitarist Phil Keegan have laid down dualing claims that 'G.e. is the 'original' grunge rock band ,..and long way before Nirvana or Green Day"; "We just had these great ideas for alternative rock music way back then" says Hagins....
"We would mix the Who with Deep Purple and Iron Butterfly and Zeppelin but we definitely had this punk rock psychedelic underground Sst records and Black Flag Greg Ginn twist to us...we were simple guys who showed up at a gig wearing whatever clothes we happened to be wearing that day,...we existed right in the middle of the Sunset strip 'glam metal' days way way back in the 1980's,..man ,..we were the fuckin' coolest hipsters there were,..our bassist Rick Carmody was always wearing flannels and probobly in honor of Cliff Burton - and 'thats' where the music industry got the idea ..for all the bands in 1991 to put on Hang tens and flannels,..much of this goes back to the Carmody's house in Torrance near El Retiro park,,..Ted's house was always trashed,..and 'thats' where the word 'grunge' comes from,..maybe that and Niel Young (laughs)..."
Hagins uses quite strong language when he discusses his hatred for today's music scene and bands like 'My chemical Romance' ; "they fuckin' suck" says Hagins..."they're no where as good or as soulful as G.e. "
"Brandy" is quite an odd song indeed for Greenhouse Effect as it sounds more like The Smiths or the Cure than it does a hard rocking garage grunge band,..."yeah, Brandy is a weird one" says Hagins.."it sounds like New Order (Laughs)"
Today, Brandy is one of the top songs on the internet,..it and White Black Thang..a song resembling John Cougar Mellencamp...have garnished G.e. much world wide attention and fanfare...."Our old drummer Greg Tarpley told me in an email that he can't believe how big G.e. has gotten on the net now,..he's seen the zillions of plays at google and he's like dude...lets jam again (laughs)...man,..this is wild" says Hagins - AP.