Lead guitar: Fre 74
Rhythm guitar: Scorchin' Sascha
Bass: Beatgirl AleXandra
Drums: Frantic Frank
Organ : El Gonk
Go Go: Miss Wednesday & Sleazy Sandra
Influences
Link Wray, Dick Dale, Slacktone, Bobby Fuller Four, The Chantays, Ghastly Ones, Surfaris, the Ventures, Lively Ones and Blue Hawaians
Speedball JR consists of Fre 74 and Scorchin' Sascha on guitar, Beatgirl AleXandra on Bass, Freaky Frank on drums, El Gonk on Hammond and Go Go Wednesday as gogo girl. The band was formed in the summer of 2000 during Ghents (surfcity Belgium) famous surf explosion. They originally played more traditional surf rock like Dick Dale, Bobby Fuller Four, The Chantays, Ghastly Ones, Surfaris, the Ventures, Lively Ones and Blue Hawaians. You can hear these influences on their first studio session which was recorded at the end of 2000 at Peter De Veires yellow tape studio. Later on they developed a more trashy sound with more garage and sixties influences and started to write their own tunes. The first full CD, “Whiplash”, was recorded in 2003 at Zamans Catfarm studio and was released by Drunkabilly Records. The Sleeve design is a masterpiece of hotrod trashart by Mighty Sam the renowned graphic artist. This album also includes a video which was shown on TMF, the Belgian MTV.
The second album “For the Broad Minded”, recorded in 2006 at CCR and released by Green Cookie records, is selling like hot cakes!
Speedball JR's TV debut!
Support Bo Diddley - Antwerp May 2007
V8 Video from album Whiplash
NGA concert - Ghent independent - March 2008
Swamproom Happening - Hannover May 2004
Just letting you know about 2 MOJOKINGS gigs this coming weekend...
Friday 29th May-live @ The Fleece in the fine not quite so chav town of Chelmsford + other bands!!
Sunday 31st May-live @ The Boundary, Norwich. This gig is with wax spinning guru Skinny Jim who will be djing the best in rockabilly, garage, trash, surf beats and everything cool inbetween!! All starts at 1pm(i think!), and finishes early evening... nothing better than spending a Sunday with a cool beer and a few cool beats! The afternoon also plays host to The Boundary classic/custom car and bike show!!
- NY ska jazz ensemble - The meteors - Boppin Benvis Brothers - Experimental tropical blues band - The turntable dubbers - Hard Resistance - Crashed Out - Turntable Dubbers - Sons Of Lioth - The Crackups - Captain Crack - Hypesquad - Blingblingsound
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