Gloritone

The pop/rock trio Gloritone, built around guitars, chased post-grunge recognition throughout the closing years of the 1990s. Tim Anthonise, who handled vocals and guitar, joined bassist Nick Scropos and drummer Dan Lancelot—each already seasoned on the Temple, Arizona club circuit—to launch the project in September 1996. Still short of twenty performances under the original name Vitamin, the group attracted an RCA executive with a demo tape and secured a deal through the major’s Kneeling Elephant imprint. Worries about overlapping monikers triggered the switch to Gloritone, after which the band delivered its first album, Cup Runneth Over, in June 1998. Three years later the follow-up Fainter Farther Still appeared with Scott Hessel installed as the new drummer, yet the record made scant headway at commercial radio. Short on nationwide promotion, the outfit eventually dissolved without announcement, its members later linking up with Roger Clyne & the Peacemakers (Scropos) and Let Go (Hessel).