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===Early years===
[[File:Natalie merchant1.jpg|alt=|thumb|upright|left|Natalie Merchant as lead singer in 1984]]
The band was formed as Still Life in 1981 in [[Jamestown, New York]],<ref name="LarkinGE">{{cite book|title=[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music|The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]|editor=Colin Larkin|editor-link=Colin Larkin (writer)|publisher=[[Guinness Publishing]]|date=1992|edition=First|isbn=0-85112-939-0|page=2467}}</ref> by [[Dennis Drew]] (keyboards), [[Steven Gustafson]] (bass), Chet Cardinale (drums), [[Rob Buck|Robert Buck]] (guitar), and Buck's ex-wife<ref>{{cite web|last=Margolis|first=Lynne|date=2006-01-06|title=10,000 Maniacs Guitarist Robert Buck Dead at 42|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/story?id=111781|website=ABC News|access-date=2022-03-11}}</ref> Terri Newhouse (vocals). Gustafson invited [[Natalie Merchant]], who was 17 at the time, to do some vocals. [[John Lombardo]], who was in a band named The Mills (along with brother guitarist/vocalists Mark Liuzzo and Paul Liuzzo and drummer Mike Young) and used to play occasionally with Still Life, was invited to join permanently on guitar and vocals. Newhouse and Cardinale left the band in July, and Merchant became the main singer. Various drummers came and left. The band changed its name to Burn Victims and then to 10,000 Maniacs, inspired by the 1964 low-budget horror movie ''[[Two Thousand Maniacs!]]''.<ref>{{cite news|last=Deusner|first=Stephen|title=Natalie Merchant: "When I talk to friends who have creative lives and children, we commiserate about all the time we wasted in our youth"|work=[[Salon (website)|Salon]]|url=http://www.salon.com/2014/05/12/natalie_merchant_when_i_talk_to_friends_who_have_creative_lives_and_children_we_commiserate_about_all_the_time_we_wasted_in_our_youth/|date=May 12, 2014}}</ref><ref name="Glendale Star">{{cite web|url=https://www.glendalestar.com/features/article_b501c8aa-e818-11ec-aca3-8f2b53ecf1c4.html|title=10,000 Maniacs are still crazy about the band|last=Fuoco-Karasinski|first=Christina|work=The Glendale Star|date=2022-06-15|access-date=2022-09-18}}</ref>
They performed as 10,000 Maniacs for the first time on Labor Day, September 7, 1981, with a line-up of Merchant, Lombardo, Buck, Drew, Gustafson, and Tim Edborg on drums. Edborg left and Bob "Bob O Matic" Wachter was on drums for most of the 1981 gigs. Tired of playing cover songs—though their first notable American hit was a cover of the [[Cat Stevens]] hit "[[Peace Train]]"—the band started to write their own music, usually with Merchant handling the lyrics and Lombardo the music. In March 1982, with Jim Foti on drums, the band recorded an [[Extended play|EP album]] titled ''[[Human Conflict Number Five]]'', financed by Drew's mother.<ref name="tlobf">{{Cite web |url=https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/features/interviews/natalie-merchant-looking-at-love-from-all-sides-now |title=Natalie Merchant: "When I say keep your courage, I'm talking to myself as much as anyone" |last=Pedder |first=Alan |date=2023-04-21 |access-date=2023-04-22 |language=en-US |website=[[The Line of Best Fit]]}}</ref> More gigs followed in 1982. During this time, they lived in [[Atlanta]], [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]], for a short period at the encouragement of friends who said that many gigs were available there. Discouraged by the lack of actual gigs, and by having to sell plasma and rake leaves to buy food, the band moved back to Jamestown in November 1982 to regroup.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.c86show.org/e/10000-maniacs-special-with-steve-gustafson/|title=10,000 Maniacs special with Steve Gustafson|website=c86show.org|date=2019-07-22|publisher=PodBean Development|access-date=2022-09-18}}</ref>
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===2008–2022===
[[File:10kManiacs.jpg|thumb|10,000 Maniacs in 2019 in Rochester, Minnesota]]
The band—consisting of Augustyniak, Drew, Erickson, Gustafson and Ramsey—remains active, playing shows throughout the United States. In June 2011, the band released the EP ''Triangles'' on its own label, Ruby Wristwatch Records. The band celebrated its 30th anniversary in October 2011 with two sold-out concerts at the Scharmann Theater on the campus of [[Jamestown Community College]]. The band spent most of 2012 recording a new album at their studio in Jamestown, New York. In February 2013, they released the album, titled ''[[Music from the Motion Picture (10,000 Maniacs album)|Music from the Motion Picture]]''.
Former drummer Robert Wachter died on March 26, 2013, at the age of 49 due to a long illness.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/oleantimesherald/obituary.aspx?pid=163897611|title=Robert J. Wachter (1963–2013) Obituary|website=Legacy.com|access-date=2015-06-25}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.billboard.com/artist/431830/10000-maniacs/biography|title=10000 Maniacs Biography|magazine=Billboard|access-date=2015-06-25}}</ref>
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