Adam Gimbel & his rotating band of merry pranksters. BLASPHEMOUS GUITARS are Adam (singing and playing unnecessary 3rd guitar), Greg Vaughan (lead shred), Tim Peacock (bass and pedal control), Roger Morrison (rhythm guitar and back-kicks) and Brad Smith (drums and pressing play).
Influences
El Vez, Big Daddy, Jose Sinatra & the Troy Dante Inferno, The Rutles, The Electric Mayhem, Hair Supply, Starock, the comedy stylings of Depeche Mode.
GEEZER?! Old men doing Weezer. Here, have a candy. Yes, we actually played onstage with Weezer. Such nice boys. Read the blog all about it with the pictures and the movies on the computer thing my grandson likes so much. Geezer gives you Weezer songs the way that they were meant to be done: by senior citizens. The band combines all of the excitement of the 1890's with the nostalgia of the long-forgotten era of the 1990's, as done by musicians in their nineties. Weezer hits, fan favorites, nurses, naps and medication are all in a night's work for the world's oldest coverband. If you don't think they sound just like the real Weezer, you should have your hearing checked out, sonny. The act began when people arrived in droves to see locals Rookie Card play Weezer's classic "Blue Album" for a benefit at the world-famous Casbah. Instead, they were greeted by old men offering Worther's from deep checkered pockets. The group retired to Florida after just two shows but were resurrected four score and seven years later, with Zachary Goode Sr. on bass guitar. Radio station FM94.9 asked them to host auditions for Weezer's 2008 Hootenanny, where the band was letting lucky fans play with them onstage in each city of their tour. Now, the old-timers have the rare opportunity to brag about actually playing onstage with the band whose songs they cover in front of 10,000 youngsters (except that they can't remember any of it). Here, have a candy.
WORLD'S GREATEST COVERBAND,
BLASPHEMOUS GUITARS,
RISES FROM THE DEAD!
One year after their first ever farewell show, the Blasphemous Guitars have decided that they are too damn good, have too much fun and there is WAY too much still left to be made fun of. The BG's are one of the only unique coverband acts on earth: DMode/Cure/Smiths mashed with METAL and anything else ridiculous you can think of. If you love these bands, you'll love us. If you hate them, you might love us more. We've played packed & empty shows all over SoCal, barely believed raves from Morrissey's guitarist Alain Whyte, received a San Diego Music Awards nomination, bought tons of local press and spawned countless imitators (ok, 8).
In addition to our greatest hits, new tunes, pointless stage props and endless banter, we now proudly feature Jeff Musser (Fookin Wankers/Pure Milk) on lead guitar. There's no telling how many shows we'll be doing but it won't be that many so don't miss us this time around! It's already looking like we'll be playing bigger and better shows than we did the first time around but make sure to slap us around if you see us taking it too seriously. We're surely not ambitious enough to rent out the Universal Ampitheater and make ourselves the headliner. We'll leave that to Blasphemous Rumours, the band that stole our name. They're far more grand than we are.
MONTHLY MUSIC TRIVIA:
Last Monday of every month at the Whistle Stop!
Cash prizes, free drinks for winning and losing teams. Live Name-That-Tune! Prizes for EVERYONE.
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TOO COOL FOR KARAOKE http://myspace.com/TooCoolForKaraoke
NOW EVERY TUESDAY NIGHT AT THE RUBY ROOM!
1271 University Ave in Hillcrest
Sing karaoke standards plus Pixies, Clash, Smiths Bowie & other cool stuff or sing badd songs for charity. Nightly contests, song voting and more! Check out http://myspace.com/TooCoolForKaraoke for more info!
COMING IN 2008, er 2009?:
.38 SPECIALS EDUCATION
Doing the entire Specials debut!
BLASPHEMOUS HOLIDAY MEDLEY ON FOX ROX!!
.... "Hey, look what I just wrote.
He can only quote.
His tribute band's so smart.
It's like he's tracing Picasso and calling it art.".
-"Hell Toupee" by Rookie Card.
HISTORY
When Adam Gimbel was a teen, all he wanted to do with his
life was be in a really great coverband. Then he
realized
that coverbands are lame. Still, he had a lot of
ideas that
were light years beyond anything a "tribute
band" could
ever come up with. He now sings fulltime for SD Music Award winning band Rookie
Card. They're hardly serious artrock but some ideas are too ridiculous, even for them. Enter Cover Me Badd....
CMB started as a barely rehearsed group of exiled
San Diego
musicians residing in Berkeley in August of 1994. The
band
played a random set of covers by artists as diverse
as the
Brady Kids, Nirvana, Neil Diamond and James,
sometimes all
in the space of one medley. The group later turned into
a tongue-in-cheek poetry act in the mold of Mike Myers'
character in "So I Married An Ax Murderer" and appeared
at an Acoustic Chanukah festival.
The Cover Me Badd moniker was revived back in San Diego
in December of 2000 when Gimbel put together a
tribute to
boyband pioneers that featured Color Me Badd classics
married
to the rocking melodies of the Stone Roses and
Rolling Stones
and other inconceivable combinations.
In 2001, Cover Me Badd presented a Chanukahtime Revue
for Casbah's annual 12 Days of Christmas. Adam assembled
a band
of Jewish musicians and singers to perform an
eclectic set
of songs by legendary Jewish music stars. Dubbed Rabbi Gimbel's Jews Explosion, their motto
is:
"There's more to a Jewish
education than
Adam Sandler." The set offered up everything from
metal
and rap bombast to Depression-era classics. Their
lone sold-out
show was such a sensation that the "Jews
Explosion"
made a triumphant return in December 2002, rocking
San Diego AND LA and even performing on the Fox Rox Christmas Disaster
special (the mp3 you're listening to as you read this).
In July 2002, the band found the perfect way to poke
fun
at the "tribute band" world with an Oasis
parody
called The Fookin'
Wankers. Sometimes
referred to simply as "Fauxasis", the band
insulted
the audience and each other while doing spot-on Oasis
covers
filled with Beatles and Blur references. A lot of
concertgoers
thought they were serious, which made it all the more
fun.
They played shows with real-deal serious tributes to the
Who, Oingo Boingo and the Smiths, got
kicked offstage at a Beatles convention and got a
spot
playing at San Diego's biggest Halloween annual
rockshow.
They hope to revive the act someday and take it to
England. In the meantime, check the amazing highlight video at youtube!
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Cover Me Badd does less
and less as Rookie
Card is finally getting the attention that is so
richly
deserves as an original band, despite the occasional
press person writing them off because of the occasional genius cover (they were the first band to play "Rock The Casbah" at San Diego's famed Casbah and once took a club full of people outside to sing "Back In The USSR" in the San Diego Airport's flightpath with planes flying overhead exactly in time like the original *click for video of both*). In 2003 and 2004, the only Cover Me Badd shows were a
one-off American Idol parody and the somewhat appropriately drunken Replacement Replacements. In February 2005, Cover Me Badd presented a night of bands covering
entire albums, including Rookie Card themselves, who played Weezer's
debut dressed as old men and Geezer was born. Look for more shows where whole
albums are recreated without getting quite so worried about authentic
wardrobe.
In October 2005, Cover Me Badd debuted THE BLASPHEMOUS GUITARS:
DMode/Cure/Smiths mashed with METAL...and Whitney. The new act took the synthesizer driven hits of D-Mode and the mope anthems of the Cure and the Smiths, rocked them out with THREE guitarists, including 2005 San Diego Guitarmaggedon champ Greg Vaughan, and combined them with the most ridiculously unrelated songs ever. Whether you loved or hated "The Holy Trinity of Mopedom", EVERYONE was floored by crazy combinations like "Just Can't Enough GnR", "The Beautiful People Are People" and "Just Like Stairway To Heaven". Overly serious bands were twisted up with bits of Whitney Houston and "Walking On Sunshine" like no band has ever done. They played to thousands of fans at San Diego's House of Blues, Big Night San Diego, Spaceland, The Casbah, The Beauty Bar, Club Rock It and other top venues around southern California. Their Cure covers benefit raised $1800 for the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center.
The BG's worked so well that they lasted almost two years, longer than every other Cover Me Badd act put together. They made such a name for themselves, that band started stealing their name. Several other Cover Me Badds popped up worldwide and a serious LA DMode copyband took the name "Blasphemous Rumours" in an obvious attempt to confuse the easily duped tribute band audience. (read the whole story here). The band retired in August 2007 (click for heartbreaking press release), just after being nominated for a Music Award. They immediately publically made fun of their competitors (click). Rumors immediately circulated about weekly reunion shows and a year later, they reunited for a handful of their biggest shows to date. Despite constant reminders that they are the greatest, cleverest, funniest thing ever from intelligent concert goers, the other 90% of their confused audiences have demanded they scale back to just a few shows a year.
The Geezer act was reborn as a goof in late 2008 (see blog) and has quickly become Cover Me Badd's most popular coverband to date. Shocking.
IDEAS THAT WILL SURELY BE STOLEN BEFORE WE CAN GET TO THEM:
BJORK & MINDY
THE WHITE ZOMBIES featuring "Time Of The Season (Yeah)", "She's Not There (Yeah)" and, of course, "Tell Her No (Yeah)"
LICENSED TO ILYA (Beasties meets San Diego ethereal experts)
NONE MORE BLACK (a Spinal Tap tribute)
BADD TO THE BONO (a U2 parody)
ELVIS' ARMY (a Costello tribute)
MY BEST FRIEND'S CAR (a Cars tribute)
We'll probably only do one a year, so get comfortable
Fans and admirers remember the King of Pop, Michael Jackson. A short lived, musical genius. This video that I made revives the Michael Jackson events that went on when MJ was around. I also include other artists/actors who worked w/ Michael over the years. MUSIC is If We Hold On Together by Diana Ross. Since Diana Ross was named in Jackson's will... I felt that it was appropriate to have a song by her. The world will never forget MJ. He impacted/inspired/saved many lives. Thank you, Michael.
RIP Michael Jackson 1958 - 2009. His Music Will Live On Forever.
HAHAHA!!! Sorry...there are plenty of OTHER Celine songs you can cover! I'm plannin' to do mine again JUST to get a rise out of any of the judges that might be attending! If you like, I'll even come out and sing a different one with YOU! Contact me with a list, and we can decide which one.
Lookin' forward to seeing your show! See ya Sunday! ~~Shelli
Just wanted to let you know I have posted a blog in which fans can leave their condolences for Michael's family. I will be printing them out and forwarding them to the family within the next few weeks.
Sight & Sound feat. Apes of Wrath, The Old In Out, Sven-Eric Seaholm, Caburlesque Kittens, The Gift/Curse, and More - TONIGHT @ Planet Rooth Gallery - 3811 Ray St. 92104
I know ,I'm a good influence on both kiddies. We all actually enjoyed to your musical stylings at sdsu at a weezer concert a while ago. you guys are very good, and I'm looking forward to another show.
you guys totally made my night last night!!! I heard weezer tunes and rushed across the fair to hear. Wish I could have stayed the whole time though =( Anyways thanks and rock on!
Hey Guys, My boyfriend and I drove 2 hours just to catch you guys at Canes last Friday. We were not disappointed, you put on a great show! I hope you guys can come to the Riverside or Orange County area soon. Rock on =g=
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Sorry...there are plenty of OTHER Celine songs you can cover! I'm plannin' to do mine again JUST to get a rise out of any of the judges that might be attending! If you like, I'll even come out and sing a different one with YOU! Contact me with a list, and we can decide which one. 
