Originally known as After All and Grin Factory, Vancouver-based
Pure were signed to Reprise/Warner in 1991 on the strength of their demos. Vocalist Jordy Birch, guitarist
Todd Simko, bassist
Dave Hadley, drummer Leigh Grant and keyboard player
Mark Henning released a four-song EP called
Greed in 1992 and their debut album,
Pureafunalia, later that year. After their song "Greedy" was used in the soundtrack for
Cool World, Pure went on sabbatical before returning in 1995 with Anything Test.
Generation Six-Pack followed in 1996. Henning and
Grant departed by the time of 1998's
Feverish, with drummer
Jim Hobbs signing on in their stead. ~ John Bush