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Rhythm Pigs
Punk / Blues / Experimental

"Rhythm Pigs"

El Paso, Texas
United States

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Last Login:  7/6/2008
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Member Since2/19/2006
Band Members"Rhythm Pigs-LP": Jay Smith, Greg Adams, Ed Ivey "Choke on This-LP": Kenny Craun, Greg Adams, Ed Ivey "I'm Not Crazy, I'm an Airplane-LP": Bill Atwell, Greg Adams, Ed Ivey. "El Paso- CD": Jay Smith, Greg Adams, Ed Ivey "Baby Falcon Getaway-CD": Shmeckie, Jay Smith, Ed Ivey The scene (Tampa punk documentary) 1987 Part 1

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   About Rhythm Pigs
The Rhythm Pigs were a punk band, originially from El Paso Texas later relocated to San Fransisco. Their first 7" EP is a classic example of early hardcore, welding driving rock and roll with broad melodies and the varied tempos and hooks that were to disappear from the form until reintroduced by Green Day and the like. The first two studio albums showed more "big tent" punk, with varied musical styles ("Break or we'll break your face" would not seem out of place on Licensed to Ill) happily shoehorned into melodic punk songs. The first Rhythm Pigs record, "An American Activity" 7" The Rhythm Pigs were one of the most sophisticated and musically diverse hardcore bands, and remained so throught the 1980's as hardcore became more and more musically conservative. That the wistful and melodic power-balads of "El Paso" would not be considered punk by most adherants has as much to do with the shifting definition of punk as it does with the mellowing of the band's sound. "Baby falcon getaway" saw a return to a more raw, fast-paced hard rock sound (the three out-and-out hardcore songs on "El Paso" are collected into a single track titled "The fast three") combined with the more humourous tone seen on the first album. "Baby falcon..." and included a hardcore cover to the Gordon Lightfoot's classic "Sundown", a furiously paced redition of Charles Mingus's "Boogie stop shuffle" recalling the "Peanut's theme" (Vince Guaraldi's Linus and Lucy) from the first album.
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Rebel Prince a.k.a. Superimmigrant





Jun 11 2008 1:59 AM

thanx for add!
sOTTO





May 28 2008 12:27 AM

Thanks for the add guys
Grazie mille
Ciao
DJ Zombie





May 18 2008 12:41 PM

Hi, I've always been a fan. I'm from the south of France, and I've just added one of your songs to my profile...Hope you don't mind...Keep oinking.
Cheers from DJ Zombie, deep down in the swampy reaches of southern France.
trish





May 14 2008 9:54 PM

Please post "Fire"!

Thanks!
scram





May 13 2008 1:17 AM

Hi
Thanx for the ADD and GREEtz from BERLIN!!
HELLEATER


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May 7 2008 2:53 AM

Hi,

best wishes from Bremen!

HELLEATER


AXE





May 4 2008 6:08 AM

Thanks Stu,love the Tampa Punk Documentaries!
421-67-9087





Apr 25 2008 1:19 PM

flexible pool : king of the road : Exclusive Trailer : Crank Dat
Leah





Apr 11 2008 8:40 PM

had to drop by and get my fix tonight. Come to ATX butt holes.
XOX!
kaysh





Apr 8 2008 11:40 AM

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one more from the same show
kaysh





Apr 7 2008 12:25 PM

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85 or 86 Houston, TX at Cabaret Voltaire.
Cheers
hapu





Mar 8 2008 1:00 PM

He dudes I have a question do you know a ep of the rhytm pigs that is called Construction EP released in 1995-7" on konkurent? Let me know thanx
loose talk records





Feb 28 2008 1:29 AM







INTERNATIONAL REMOVALS





Feb 28 2008 3:30 AM

Hey, thank you very much for the add!
All the best, love & respect,
Your INTERNATIONAL REMOVALS!!!
Kene Ne





Feb 13 2008 1:51 PM

dang that drummer roks.........lol
Kent Nielsen





Feb 3 2008 12:06 PM

Roger, say hi to Greg, Ed and Billy from me and Lars, if you happen to talk to them, ok?

Kent
Pecker





Feb 3 2008 12:11 PM

Like a lot of folk on this site, i loved you back in the day, nice surprise to find you.
I was in IMMOLATO TOMATOES- we supported you and the $wan$ ( weird line up!) at a show in Brighton England in 1987 or so.... "Choke on this" got everything right. You pretty much nailed it. Glad you're well. Ta for the add. X
Billy Atwell





Jan 24 2008 5:07 PM

"Baal"...

"An American Activity" STILL kicks my ass. In a good way.
Fido





Jan 23 2008 11:52 PM

oink oink oink...greetings from the Flint trough!
joey di lämma





Jan 16 2008 1:16 AM

...greetz and cheers from hamburg. we started a band called SOUNDPIGS last summer. yes. it is a kind of hommage to the rhythm pigs...noise on, joey di lämma
neanderberg





Jan 6 2008 6:16 AM

Hey,i saw this show in Kiel..funny...and i saw you 2 times at the Treibsand/Luebeck...you remember tis place?It's nearly 20 years ago...oh,my god.
Nell/Neanderberg
Phil De Grave





Dec 28 2007 4:32 PM

When was it?86?87?
Remember seeing you guys at the George Robey in London Town.
Checking out Mr Adam's
s FX to get to the bottom of that beautiful guitar sound. BOSS CE2? And that was it? And a bit of skilful kneckery too?
Still listen to your stuff in my human drama with opium balloons. Married with child in a boring part of England. I could drop the boring part and just leave England.
Tell you what though. El Paso - fuck of a place to get to - I got as far as Austin - I am a pussy!
shellydread





Dec 24 2007 12:36 PM

Ed Ivy... Now that's someone I haven't seen in 20 years or so.... and yes, Ed, I still do my makeup the same way I did in 1987!
Sharon





Dec 15 2007 8:00 PM

I've recorded w/Billy b4, & met u/caught yr live act in Morgantown, WV the winter of '87 - '88 perhaps? Good 2 know yr still out there kickin the nation's ass! Thanx 4 th add. sharonthedyslexicmess
MC Strobel





Dec 8 2007 9:45 AM

Saw you in the 80s. amazing times...
...and haven't stopped listening to your records.
Those were the days. Thanx lot for adding!
Bryan


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Nov 27 2007 9:11 PM

Thanks for the Add!
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Nov 29 2007 11:07 AM

"evrything is good in the pig"
french proverb
"tout est bon dans le cochon"
gruik gruik(oink oink)
neanderberg