He also makes a gesture with his arm that the Los Angeles Times described as “what appeared to be a Nazi salute to the crowd.” Photos: Rapper Tyga sells California lakefront property for $5.1 million The video shows Harwell slurring his words, swearing at the crowd and issuing a harsh threat to someone, saying “I’ll (expletive) kill your whole family, I swear to God.” A video of the show was posted on TikTok - and quickly viewed over 1½ million times, causing Harwell and the band to trend on social media for all the wrong reasons. The low point came in October 2021, during a now-infamous Smash Mouth show at The Big Sip festival near Syracuse, New York. In 2016, he reportedly collapsed during a concert in Illinois and was rushed to the hospital, while the rest of the group finished the show without him. The group’s next major label release - 2003’s weak-selling “Get the Picture?” - turned out to be its last, although Smash Mouth would put out three more independent albums with Harwell on the microphone, the last of which was 2012’s “Magic.”Īs Smash Mouth’s fortunes declined, Harwell became an increasingly unstable presence onstage.
Yet, musical tastes were changing by that point, with Smash Mouth’s increasingly homogenic brand of ’90s-rooted alt-rock losing favor with the public.
The good times would last for one more full-length, as the band managed to eek out gold status with 2001’s self-titled affair. Smash Mouth’s next album, “Astro Lounge,” was even bigger, reaching triple-platinum heights on the back of “All Star.” The album went on to sell over 2 million copies, propelled - one might say almost entirely - by the career-making single “Walkin’ on the Sun.” The full-length debut album “Fush Yu Mang” came out in 1997 and introduced fans to the band’s commercial-friendly mix of ska, retro surf rock, big pop hooks and frat-house fun. The band’s first big break came when the legendary San Jose radio station KOME played a demo of the song “Nervous in the Alley,” which helped it garner publicity and paved the way to its signing by mighty Interscope Records. Prior to that, Harwell was a rapper in a group called F.O.S. He co-founded the band - which originally went by Smashmouth - in 1994 in San Jose with drummer Kevin Coleman, guitarist Greg Camp and bassist Paul De Lisle. Steven Scott Harwell was born in January 1967, and grew up in San Jose. People who grew up during the time of “Shrek” will likely remember these Smash Mouth songs as fondly as earlier generations recall such Disney tunes as “Someday My Prince Will Come” and even “When You Wish Upon a Star.” Yet, it wasn’t just a temporary occurrence, but, really, something that has continued to this day as new generations of viewers journey into the magical world of Shrek, Donkey and Fiona. in 2001 - greatly expanded Smash Mouth’s fan base, especially among younger listeners.
The massive success of “Shrek” - which ranked only second to “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” among the top-grossing films in the U.S. Smash Mouth basically ended up opening and closing the film, as the San Jose band’s cover of “I’m a Believer” - the Neil Diamond-penned Monkees hit from 1966 - was chosen for the closing scene of the film.
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