Giant Jerks exist all over the world. Some are known to reside in the following locations:
Toledo, Washington D.C., Asheville, Bilbao, Portland, Latrobe, Roswell, Boulder, Missoula, el Barrio, East of Burden, Enon, Lawrence, Oklahoma City, Yellow Springs, Berwyn, Vienna, Batesville, Sandy, Prague, Waco, Holmes Beach, Bogota, Kokomo, Pittsburgh, Madrid, Bozemon, Cincinnati, Portales, Stockholm, Tulsa, Munich, Boston, KC, Tucumcari, Oaxaca, Los Angeles, Provo, Bithlo, Denver, St Louis, Denton, Asbury Park, Sao Paolo, Farmington, Bayonne, New York, Seattle, Orlando, Frankfurt, Medicine Bow, Plano, Columbus, Bikini, Lisbon, Chicago, Fairbanks, Perth, Sandy Hook, Beavercreek, Mesa, Honolulu, Pasadena, Midland City, Rio, Culver City, Atlanta, Dayton, Albuquerque and Detroit.
get there any way you can...
Etkilendikleri
Tascam, The Oregon District, Taylor big baby guitars, Bodhisattva, Huge Marshall cabinets with Peavey amplifiers powering them, dropped microphones, tape hiss, dick bongs, BBQ Bar, Homemade computers with nicknames like "Crappola 2000" and "El Shitbox", incestuous circles, teethglue, Trout Manor and its soot-stained walls, Columbus, Ohio, a 26" Gretsch bass drum and a man named Tito, nonferrous metals and their market value, Skinemax, hopeless travails into knowingness, the HOV lane through Atlanta, the digitization of sound, random Banter.
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Sounds like someone might be a Giant Jerk fan...
Here are some classic Giant Jerk songs for your downloading bemusement:
Although Giant Jerk no longer has albums available for purchase, probably will not be playing at a venue near you and will never be on the radio, if you drop them a line, someone will probably send you a bootleg CD.
Dayton,
Ohio is not only the birthplace of the Wright Brothers and the industrial
smokestack, but the birthplace of one the world's most under appreciated and most secretly influential improvisational folk-core bands, Giant Jerk.
Seems it all
happened back in the early 90s with the chance meeting of two idiot savant types, Jan Rigket
and Thaddeus Floodgate. As Floodgate tells it, he met Rigket while working
in the Audio-Visual dept. of the Dayton-Montgomery County Public Library. In between mind numbing tasks such as alphabetizing the Classical Music CDs by country of origin and sticking returned video tapes in a rewinding machine, Floodgate would often
sneak off to the Children's section in search of lyrical ideas for his
secret passion: writing impassioned country music tunes about the Armenian genocide. Meanwhile, Rigket was working as the guy who cleaned all the fingerprints off the gerbil and hamster cages. It was here that the soon to
be historic and prolific friendship found common ground in mutual admiration
of all things Betsy Byars and Roald Dahl. After Floodgate had
turned Rigket onto the work of Patricia Polacco and Rigket alerted Floodgate
to the artistic merits among the writings and illustrations of Robert
McCloskey, it was clear that this friendship was going places.
Before
long, Floodgate and Rigket were getting together for tea and late night
discussions of all things Quincy, (as in) "Dammit Quincy, the DA will never
go for a conviction on such flimsy evidence!" And it was during these
conversations that Floodgate noticed a certain lilt to Rigket's speech
and appreciated the savant's ability to speak at great length about everything
and nothing all at the same time. Busting out a ukulele he had pulled
from a trashcan earlier that day, Floodgate suggested Rigket improvise
lyrics over his quasi-musical stylings. It was with this bold move that
the first Giant Jerk song "She should have used birth control" was born
and a legacy spawned.
Drunk
with the possibilities of their new found ability and their unfathomable love
for each other (and whiskey), the boys set about designating themselves the least dangerous
band in the Dayton area, vowing to use their powers only for good and only occassionally for evil. Despite their absolute lack of talent or star quality,
the boys began to acquire a small yet devoted fan base. There was actually some demand for public performance of some of their more listener friendly songs.
Soon the boys were paying the sound guy at the local musicians' co-op to let
them play in front of their friends and a few drunken stragglers.It was in this live format that it became clear to Floodgate and Rigket
that in order to achieve the true sound of the jerk, they needed to expand the
line up. They found exactly what they were looking for in the power trio of Shirc Real, Jaime Legato and Stue Trory, fellow Ohioans who once comprised the formidable supergroup, Blee Mind Thrice. Blee's amelodic symphonies and disdain for lyrical content were a perfect fit for the fellas. Once Jerk and Blee joined forces, they became a piece of work with a sound that was truly something.
With
the lineup complete, the band began years of intensive writing, recording,
sleeping off hangovers, touring and Columbo watching, creating what has come
to be known in small circles of bottom-feeding, uninformed music listeners as
the most/least impressive and ever growing catalog of completely unlistenable
crap. ENJOY.
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Pending the new release "Melotonine" (release date coming soon), i decided to offer you a part of my best recent works in a free EP, "Cupboard Replacement", downloadable in all numeric formats with special graphic art works by Flint on Music AutOmatiK's Website :
We can stay in contact on facebook now... Thanks for your support !
I want to thank you for allowing me as Red Skelton to be a part of your myspace life.
Fall is here and the holidays are approaching. They can be stressful so I'm giving you a gift of laughter.
If by chance you are in Las Vegas or plan on visiting us this season, I would be honored to meet you.
I perform every Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday night 9pm inside the Royal Resort Hotel showroom located 99 Convention Center Drive (basically corner of Las Vegas Blvd and Convention Center Drive)
The name of the show is Larry G Jones ~Man of 1002 Voices Show.
I'm the opening act as Red Skelton. If you get the chance please stop by and say HI. If you want to see the show here is a discount code for you.
Just making the rounds to all of For Love & Stacie's friends here on MySpace letting you know that the full movie is now online in full for free. Hope you love it and and really hope you'll help us out by spreading it around! Thanks so much!
2 great show next week! Come hang out! Advanced tickets are available at Culture Clash Records, Rama Lama Records, or through any local bands on the show.
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La noche del 23 (Domingo) será la de "LA NOCHE HIP HOP" en la que podremos disfrutar del mejor rap racional con los shows de Nach, Toteking, Zpu, Zeropositivo y K.O Teknico.
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Haz las maletas porque llega CambriRock 2009. Del 20 al 23 de agosto la población tarraconense de Cambrils acogerá los conciertos de Macaco, Chambao, Ojos de Brujo, Barricada, Rosendo, Nach o ToteKing entre muchos otros.
La noche del 23 (Domingo) será la de "LA NOCHE HIP HOP" en la que podremos disfrutar del mejor rap racional con los shows de Nach, Toteking, Zpu, Zeropositivo y K.O Teknico.
No te lo pienses más y vente disfrutar del verano, y tu música favorita!!!.
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