Black Fork

Bio:

WE HAVE SHIRTS FOR SALE! $12 POST PAID! (PLEASE NOTE: Myspace is being ridiculous and blocking all links, including Paypal buttons. If the buttons on this page don't work, just send your order in an email to jvindar@yahoo.com - we'll send a total and you can Paypal to that same address. Thanks!)
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Black Fork 4" Sticker and 1" Button, only $2 PPD!
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Only $2 PPD! Sticker and button set: .. .. .. .. .. Black Fork is a punk band from the East Bay, CA, that played mostly during the years 1993-'97. During that time they put out one LP, "Rock for Loot" on Lookout! Records, then promptly broke up. In 1995, an LP had been recorded, but due to a series of setbacks, the songs were divided into two EPs and released on labels that almost immediately folded. There is also a split 7" with comrades-in-arms Los Canadians, as well as tracks on various compilations, including Recess Records' "Play at Your Own Risk Vol 2.", Zafio's "This is the East Bay...", Lookout!/Kill Rock Stars' "A Slice of Lemon" and Very Small Records' "Wood Panel Pacer Wagon". MOST OF THESE TRACKS, REMIXED AND REMASTERED, ARE NOW AVAILABLE ON VINYL AND CD FROM BERKELEY'S MESS ME UP RECORDS. Black Fork was best known for the intensity of its live show, which always left both band and audience close to deaf and soaked in a hot vapor of sweat and liquor-swill. The band was known to cram as many as 16 songs into a 20-minute set, leaving many to wonder both why and how they managed to play so fast. There were four or five exhausting (and for the most part ill-fated) U.S. tours, one of which saw the band return home starving, sick and penniless, riding with their equipment in the sweltering hold of a rented moving truck. Black Fork was resurrected to play 924 Gilman Street's 20th anniversary show in 2007, and has been playing together every now and then since. As noted, a discography is now available from MMU, which includes nearly all BF's recorded material. All the members of Black Fork are now in other bands, so live shows are few and far between, but there will be a few this year (2009). Singer Robin Tussin and Guitar player Josh Indar are now in Severance Package. Cyrus, the bass player, is in Saviours and Drunk Horse. Drummer Jim Nastic is in Swann Danger. ..

Member Since:

September 18, 2005

Members:

Voice: Robin Tussin * Guitar: Josh "Officer" Indar * Bass: Rusty Comiskey * Drums: Jim "Nastic" Anderson. (While this line-up lasted the longest, there were three previous drummers: Janelle "Blarg" Hessig, Candy "Chuckles" daClown and Ivy "Hellbaby" McClelland.)

Influences:

Black Flag, Stains (L.A.), Battalion of Saints, Sick Pleasure, Code of Honor, Bad Brains, Blatz, Filth, Circle Jerks, Los Canadians, X-Ray Specs, X, Reagan Youth, Butthole Surfers, Rudimentary Peni, Dead Milkmen, Dayglo Abortions, New Bomb Turks, The Sonics, Poison Idea, The Wipers, Wire, Bikini Kill, Motley Crue, The Plugz, The Deadbeats, Motorhead, Ramones, Manowar, Go-Gos, AC/DC, Vice Squad, Black Randy, Weirdos, Crime, The Pretenders, Blondie, Descendents, Dead and Gone, Husker Du, Agent Orange, Dick Dale, The Modern Lovers, The Eat, Roach Motel, The Voidoids, Television, Minutemen, Venom, Void, Minor Threat, Sex Pistols, Black Sabbath, Slayer, Germs, MDC, MCG, The Lewd, Cheap Trick, Subhumans, The Clash, The Misfits, Elvis Costello, The Bags, White Flag, Los Crudos, Rudiments, Thatcher on Acid, N.W.A., Crass, DK, Heroin, Rice, Citizen Fish, Alice Cooper, Joan Jett, The Runaways, Iggy, Bowie, Ornette Coleman, Thrasher Skate Rock, The Jabbers...

Sounds Like:

Extremely fast punk rock with female vocals.

Record Label:

Mess Me Up