Gumball: Don Fleming (vocals, guitar); Malcolm Riviera (keyboards, guitar, programming); Eric Vermillion (bass, vocals); Jay Spiegel (drums, percussion, vocals). Additional personnel: Albert Bouchard (vocals), J Mascis (gtr), Teenage Fanclub (vocals), Thurston Moore (keyboards).
Influences
Discography
· "All the Time" 7" & 12" Paperhouse 90
· Special Kiss CD, LP (Produced by DF) Primo Scree/USK 91 · "Under My Wheels" 7" compilation with Sonic Youth Sup Pop 91 · "Light Shines Through"
CD single Paperhouse (UK) 7" Waterfront (Australia)
91 · "Girl Don't Tell Me" b/w
"Strawberry Fields Forever" 7" Vinyl Get Hip 92 · "Accelerator" CD single Columbia/ CD-3 Big Cat 93
· Super Tasty(Produced by Butch Vig) CD, LP, CS Columbia (US) Sony (Japan)
93 · Real Gone Deal (Produced by Butch Vig) CD-2 Columbia 93 · The Damage Done (Produced by Butch Vig) CD-6 Columbia 93 · Revolution on Ice (Produced by DF with John Anyello) CD, LP, CS Columbia
94 · "Nights on Fire" (Produced by DF with John Anyello) CD Single Columbia 94 · "Tokyo Encore CD Gumball Ink 95 · "Germs (Tribute) "Caught in My Eye"CD, LP Grass Records 96
Gumball - Upsetter's Theme - 9:30 Club Washington DC:
Sounds Like
GUMBALL - "THE DAMAGE DONE" -- Directed by Dave Markey
GUMBALL - "NEW ROSE" -- Directed by Dave Markey
GUMBALL - "ACCELERATOR" -- Directed by Dave Markey
Don Fleming, Eric Vermillion and Jay Spiegel recorded Special Kiss in 1991. The album is a locomotive blur of abrasive pop and gnarly guitar psychosis. "You Know," in particular, recalls the singalong corrosion of Teenage Fanclub, a sense amplified by the appearance of all four Fanclubbers on the track. Having been previewed abroad with the four-song Gumball EP, Special Kiss was followed in the UK by Light Shines Through: three album tracks (one an alternate take) and four non-LP numbers.
To mark time before their full-length Columbia debut and show off their catholic musical taste, Gumball went the covers route on the five-song Wisconsin Hayride. Besides Foetus, Black Flag and Small Faces material, "New Rose" is a frisky carbon of the Damned's debut single.
Super Tasty is exactly that, a snappy commercial effort produced by Butch Vig with the polished hum'n'snarl of classic '70s pop-punk clatter by Cheap Trick and Blue Öyster Cult. Gumball's attack is, if anything, a little too slick for the times, but Fleming's boyish tenor and the chrome-torpedo riffing guards the manifest kick of discontent in "The Damage Done" (neatly disguised with an exuberant intro of guitar-drums clamor and bright, wheezing harmonica) and the bittersweet ballad corn of "Marilyn." Super Tasty is a buzzin' good time, heightened by the extra guitars and keyboards of new recruit Malcolm Riviera (an old Velvet Monkeys crony).
Revolution on Ice... The title and cartoon artwork are a combined blast at the corporate co-opting of the alternative-rock revolt; with songs like "Revolution on the Rocks" and "Nights on Fire". The album's open-wound air, however, makes it Gumball's strongest effort to date. Revolution on Ice... crackles with a dark, seductive intensity. The BÖC connection is reinforced by a letter-perfect rendition of "She's as Beautiful as a Foot," complete with guest vocals by that band's original drummer, Albert Bouchard.
[David Fricke/Ira Robbins] Trouser Press Online
i spent alot of teenage time listening to you & then came the "BOC" cover... that took me by storm! honour to be added as a friend. check my band through my page maybe u'll like it...
Years ago I bought your CD Revolution on Ice only for the drawings on the cover...but I was lucky, because of the music inside. Funny I've found you on myspace!
Hey guys the song Marilyn has been hunted me since high school for some reasons...and finally I have the pleasure to hear it again after 12 long years....right on
THANKS FOR THE ADD
