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Jawbreaker: General Info

Member Since	7/3/2005
Band Website	blackballrecords.com
Band Members	Blake Schwarzenbach - guitar and vocals Chris Bauermeister - bass Adam Pfahler - drums
Influences	Music, film, books.
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Record Label	Shredder, Tupelo/Communion, Geffen, Blackball
Type of Label	Indie

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Jawbreaker

1986
In his second year of college, after his first band Butcher Clyde broke up, bassist Chris Bauermeister pasted up an ad in a New York University dorm seeking a guitarist and drummer. The poster, a psychotic Rorschach with teeth suitable for framing listed a variety of early 80's hardcore bands. Blake Schwarzenbach and Adam Pfahler, recent NYU transfers and friends and Red Harvest band mates from high school in Los Angeles, were intrigued. They responded. Terminal Island practiced between classes, experimented with fourth members and eventually make their first $30 playing soundtrack to a rock opera featuring Adam's sister Kembra (of The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black).

1987
The three spent the following summer in L.A. They found another singer, practiced, played some parties and recorded a demo tape as Thump. Blake and Chris went back to NYU in the fall while Adam stayed to attend UCLA.

1988
Blake and Chris opted to take the year off from school in the hopes that they could do something with the band in L.A. The foursome continued as Rise, recording another demo that they sent off to Maximumrocknroll and Flipside. Blake eventually found his voice and they decided to try it as a trio.

1989
"Shield Your Eyes" was brought to the attention of Shredder Records. There was already a band called Rise, so a name change was necessary. "Jawbreaker" wasn't vehemently opposed or found to be too offensive, which is to say the name was born by a relatively uninspired process of elimination. Its definition suited them- a hard candy; a machine used for crushing rocks; a name hard to pronounce. The World's In Shreds Volume Two 7" was Jawbreaker's first appearance on vinyl. Its cover art is adorned with fliers from shows they had never played. Jawbreaker made a third demo and started playing out. Their first show was at Club 88 on March 16, 1989. They played the club circuit in the following months, recorded the Busy 7" single for Shredder and put out the three song 7" Whack & Blite E.P. on their own Blackball Records. Two summer mini tours to Northern California and another tape made for posterity marked the end of Chris and Blake's sabbatical. They returned to New York to continue their studies. The band vowed to write, practice, record and tour during school vacations.

1990
Jawbreaker's first full-length release, Unfun (Shredder), was recorded with Richard Andrews over winter break. Blake and Chris had flown back west, taught Adam the new songs and recorded in about a week. The record helped Blake book Fuck '90, their maiden U.S. tour the following summer, after which they took time off to finish school. Adam re-mixed some of the old demo songs and released them to various independent labels.

1991
After a much needed recuperation period, a reunion show was staged at CBGBs. All three members graduated by June. Blake earned his degree in English literature and creative writing; Chris in philosophy and literature and Adam in history. Jawbreaker moved to San Francisco's Mission District, where they worked and played. Soon after relocating, Jawbreaker recorded Bivouac, their second LP for Tupelo/Communion Records.

1992
Despite a string of hospitalizations (Blake had surgery to remove a benign tumor on his vocal chords; Adam had arthroscopic knee surgery and Thoracic Outlet Syndrome that collapsed a vein in his arm), Jawbreaker toured incessantly through 1992. The Hell is On the Way tour took them to Europe for the first time.

1993
Jawbreaker's third LP 24 Hour Revenge Therapy (Tupelo/Communion) was recorded in three days with Steve Albini. It was followed immediately by the When it Pain, It Roars national tour, by which time the band had found a way to make rent while enjoying relative obscurity. Jawbreaker ended the year opening a weeklong leg of Nirvana's InUtero tour.

1994
A series of mini tours as well as national and European 24 Hour Revenge Therapy tours brought more press and major label interest.

1995
Jawbreaker signed to DGC and recorded Dear You with producer Rob Cavallo. (Green Day, Muffs, that dog.). The record was widely dismissed by both the mainstream press and many fans, who felt the band sold out.

1996
After two national tours and a trip to Australia, the band broke up, stating that the band had run its course. Blake formed Jets To Brazil after moving to Brooklyn. Chris played in a few bands and continued his graduate studies in history. Adam opened Lost Weekend Video in Sf's Mision District and played with J Church, the Moons and now Whysall Lane.

1999
Live 4/30/96 is released on Blackball Records. It was the band's last Bay Area show.

2002
Etc., a collection of b-sides, rarities and unreleased songs is Blackball's second posthumous offering.

2004
Dear You had been enjoying a second coming in the punk rock/"emo" zeitgeist. Countless bands cited Jawbreaker as an influence and deemed Dear You an underrated classic. Adam Pfahler ended up licensing Dear You from Geffen and releasing it on Blackball.

Two Jawbreaker tribute albums followed, and the band continues to get named-checked and covered by the likes of Foo Fighters, AFI, Fall Out Boy, Jimmy Eat World, Lucero, Dashboard Confessional, Sparta, Lagwagon and shitloads of other diehard supporters.

Keith Schieron, producer of the Minutemen documentary We Jam Econo, is in the process of making a Jawbreaker documentary.

The rest, as they say, is totally irrelevant.

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MusicThatJumpedTheShark.Com Online Now!	Feb 8 2010 12:35 AM THANKS!!! [MusicThatJumpedTheShark.com]
Angele	Feb 5 2010 2:19 AM Good morning, I just stopped by for a visit and to say "HI". Have a great week ahead! defow.com :)
Waking Nixon	Feb 1 2010 10:01 PM If it wasn't for you guys, we wouldn't be a band.
CHRISSY’S MAGICAL MUSIC BOX (MJ FOREVER)	Jan 31 2010 5:36 AM Jawbreaker...forever
Expansive Heart	Jan 29 2010 10:22 PM Adam, how are you? Whats the update with the Unfun reissue?
sanawon	Jan 29 2010 10:18 PM ADAM! Get up on this bus. xoxo
.Sink To The Beat.	Jan 29 2010 10:16 PM im 20 years old, and you guys have had one of the most major musical impacts on me. please get back together. short and sweet. long live the legends. your started emotive rock.
Jack 86	Jan 27 2010 9:30 AM Legends. Please do one last tour for us. I feel cheated, I never saw you guys
Mr. Davis	Jan 26 2010 2:53 AM So stoked for the reissue of unfun!
Wirepony	Jan 24 2010 3:46 PM i love jawbreaker... O
The Dispensed	Jan 23 2010 8:29 PM Stoked about the re-release. You guys always will be the best!
- Cameron -	Jan 21 2010 4:45 AM Ya I turned it in last week but it's ok no worries. And what's your regular email address?
JDaniel	Jan 20 2010 10:34 PM fuck... you are definitely one of my favorite bands! why dont you get together again? Greets from Costa Rica
JANE DOE 1 year on Myspace today!	Jan 16 2010 8:36 PM Cheers from Sweden and thanx for the friend-accept! Awesome stuff! Love ya' tunes! Cheers Jane
Eating Butterflies	Jan 12 2010 5:37 PM Thank you all for playing music. I appreciate you guys so much!!!
- Cameron -	Jan 7 2010 4:31 AM Hey Adam I've got a family project for school due on the 12th and I need you to answers some questions if you can. Can you message me back when you get this please?
simpson	Jan 2 2010 9:12 PM FACE DOWN!!!!!! PLEASE?
matty	Jan 1 2010 12:37 AM Condition Oakland is the best song ever written...Jawbreaker, still my fav. band
Alyssa	Dec 15 2009 11:32 PM http://fuckyeahblakeschwarzenbach.tumblr.com/ Jawbreaker fans on Tumblr check it out and follow. And thanks again to this band, always and forever.
Doofy	Dec 15 2009 3:51 PM Thaks for the add! AWESOME BAND!! greetings from Venezuela
i ♥ rock!!	Dec 2 2009 9:15 PM hi !! how are you?? :D
Kevin	Nov 25 2009 10:59 AM So I understand the reunion will have to come at the right moment, but please make it happen at some point. I've been into you since I was 17 and I'm now 32. I missed you guys the first time around. Don't let me die without seeing Jawbreaker. Don't pull a Beatles on me (not to be a dick, but nothing is promised, right?) Someone had to say it. Love your band and always will.
.Sink To The Beat.	Nov 20 2009 12:53 AM Brand New covered you on Jesse Lacey's Live at The Downtown Set. Accident Prone. said "if you guys don't own this album, go out right now and get it, because ALL of the artists you listen to today, listen to these guys. You were also my tattoo artists favorite band. Thanks for leaving a good mark in history.
jeanne	Nov 16 2009 9:07 PM love still.....
LozaStudio	Nov 14 2009 10:56 AM Never get sick of it, always in the mood...for an against the grain band, they followed the number one rule of show business..."always leave them wanting more". Thanks guys for the endless hours, relating to those words, sketching to those chords.

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