Lou Poster, guitar and vocal;
Jason McKiernan, drums;
Will Pugh, bass (on Jumpstart Wire)
Chris Burney, bass (on Tour)
Influences
hubba bubba, trampolines, cut-offs, broken glass, ojII's, '74 SS nova's, Marlboro and later Camel, cisco wine, ford EXP (not explorer but crappy little sports version of escort), bassholes, mule, getting beat, the thick gray called columbus, 1000 petty indignities, 7am to 3:30pm, younger kids who do it better but aren't as good...somehow, the promise of potential, stale toast w/ or w/o peanut butter, eighty-thousand miles in 3 years, indoor propane heat, rewired amps, hernias, blown everything, that guy who let you stay at his place last time, cat piss, that girl who let you stay at her place last time, more cat piss, terrible music, great movies, more more more....
Sounds Like
a knife fight between Mudhoney and Mule officiated by a man with his leg in a beartrap.
Come close, dearest fucko, and dig the old, smelly breed: Grafton. But before we start, let’s have a pop quiz, for we are all thinking adults, schooled, literate beings, are we not? To you I pose the following query: What is the sound of desperation? Nay, not desperation as in “I neeeeeed to be heard above the mountain of dunggg otherwise known as ‘modern music’.” Nor even desperation in the form of “I’m filled with angst because I’m in a fight with my special lady and it’s really tearing me up inside and I gotta get it out, bro.” Grafton shit out that sort of turd a decade ago into a broken toilet in some dude’s house who let them stay there after a gig one night. Theirs is more of the end-of-the-line, don’t have a hell of a lot to fucking live for but this, desperation. Many try, very few can lay claim to it. This beast, Jumpstart Wire, you have in your possession, is the sound of unhinged desperation. And forget that band of British tarts from a while back, when Lou Poster screams on “Never Had Less” --- that is the real primal scream, Nigel. For, truth be told, Grafton have lived the uncherished life since forming a decade ago: they’ve been shat upon, fired, stranded, frozen out, stiffed, seen friends die, been passed over by better looking bands, and all those hard knocks add up to the furious snort contained herein. If one must suffer for his art, it could be argued you hold the MagnafuckingCarta here, Nadine. Ah yes, the sound, what of the sound? Critical Theory is built upon precedents, yes. Ok, then think of the fattest, most inbred version of Black Oak Arkansas (circa High on the Hog) with Blixa Bargeld sitting in on guest Stihl chainsaw. See Hoss, when people call Grafton, “backwoods” (and plenty have), they get it about half right. On this, their third longplayer, they go so far backwoods that they keep crawling and run smack into the industrial rendering plant on the other side of the forest. The resultant burp might best be labeled “industrial swamp” or “kudzu metal” or even “recently laid-off from assembly line job.” Just listen to the hot-jizz riffs on cuts like “I Say Try” or the positively molten “Gave You Up” and see if you don’t begin to see the permanent glower on Poster’s face.
That their hometown of Columbus (“the thick gray” as it’s otherwise known) has also been home at one time or another to the likes of the Gibson Brothers, Bassholes, Cheater Slicks, and New Bomb Turks, is inconsequential. Take a listen to the sound of Grafton on Jumpstart Wire and all those close cousins begin to fade into the gray. This is the sound of a trio who have little time for nuance, shades of distinction, or artistic ass-baggery. Pretension has a negative life-span in Grafton’s world, and what they are living, painful as it is, is what you get.
And quite clearly, these are desperate times.
--Jerry Dannemiller
February 2007
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hola Grafton ! qué tal? yo aquí escribiendo todo el día este mismo saludo a todos mis friends. ya hasta las teclas que uso en este mismo estúpido e insípido recadito están como los jeans que usa mi papá para bañar al perro. ojalá tuviera algo más deinspiración. pero te aseguro que si llega la usaré para una rola, no para andar bombardeando myspace con saludos desnutridos. ayós! besitos!
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Thank you, Robert Brock Studio Manager/Head Recording Engineer
Thursday 1am- Preacher’s Kids 12am- Psychedelic Horseshit 11pm- Wheels on Fire 10:15pm- Grafton 9:30pm- Pink Reason 8:45pm- Dragline Bros. 8pm- Never Evers 7:15- Casual Future 6:30- Spooktober 6p- Mishka Shubaly
Friday 1am - This Moment In Black History 12am - Greg Cartwright 11pm - Dan Melchior Und Das Menace 10:15pm- Thomas Function 9:30pm - Cheap Time 8:45pm - El Jesus De Magico 8pm - The Makebelieves 7:15pm- Paper Machetes 6:30pm- Loaded Revulvas 6p- Goodbye Goats
Saturday 1am - Terrible Twos 12am - Birthday Suits 11pm- Necropolis 10:15pm - Dropdead Sons 9:30pm- Ribs 8:45pm- Guinea Worms 8pm- Kurt Vile 7:15pm- Grave Blankets 6:30pm- Silo Circuit 5:45pm- Octoberfist 5pm- RedDahlia 4:15- Sad Bastards 3:30p - the Pages
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yeah yeh yeah...I know I suck....but I have resa to tell me that so back off. Miss yall...I'll be in touch more often now so becareful what everyone wishes for...merry holiday
Once a month (I'll set a big alarm) I am going to sign on here and tell you, again, to come home and play Morgantown, 123 Pleasant St, please. We miss your spit.
Do you leak urine when you cough, sneeze, laugh or exercise? Do you leak urine on the way to the bathroom? Do you have intense and sudden bladder urges you cannot control?
Do you find yourself going to the bathroom often, more than 8 times in a day? Do you wake up more than two times at night to go to the bathroom? Do you need to know the locations of bathrooms when you travel or go shopping? Are you afraid that you will leak urine during sex?
If you answered yes to any of these questions then you have to come to our next show!
we will be playing w/ gitogito hustler (japan) (gearhead records) on September 30th at the high five in columbus ohio. come out and drink w/ us!!!
