Danny Wilde

Danny Wilde helped establish the Quick, a power pop outfit once sadly overlooked yet now regarded as legendary, whose lineup later supplied members to the Cruzados, the Three O'Clock, and the Weirdos. Their first full-length release, Mondo Deco, placed the group among the earliest Los Angeles D.I.Y. acts to secure a major-label contract with Mercury, though it remained their sole outing on that scale. The band next cut the EP Alpha/Beta in a failed attempt to land a deal with Elektra; issued via their fan club in 1978, the record preceded the Quick’s dissolution. Wilde subsequently assembled Great Buildings, another Los Angeles power pop ensemble that issued a lone album in 1981. Following that group’s breakup, he launched a solo career with the albums The Boyfriend, Any Man’s Hunger, and the 1989 self-titled Danny Wilde. When the third effort met with little commercial response, Wilde joined forces with former Great Buildings colleague Phil Solem to create the Rembrandts. The duo achieved moderate visibility during the nineties, chiefly through the hit single “I’ll Be There for You,” which served as the theme for the sitcom Friends. By 1998 Wilde was billing himself as Danny Wilde and the Rembrandts, the moniker under which the album Spin This! appeared.