The Eureka Garbage Company history as of now....
The origins of the Eureka Garbage Company dates back the the year 1999, when Aaron Cometbus (Cometbus Zine) was making his yearly trek through Eureka Ca. I had known Aaron since I was a kid in Berkeley, Ca. where I used to go see his band Crimpshrine play at the Gilman Street Progect. So when I moved to Eureka, Ca. in the early 90's, he would frequently visit for a week or so at a time. One of his main objectives was to form a band for the duration of his stay, record it, and then break up. So it was my job to assemble a group of freaks to become "The Band" of the week.
Most of my friends were into music that was "artsy, noisey, and fucked up", while Aaron on the other hand, was some sort of "God of Eastbay pop-punk". Needless to say, the combination made for some interesting recordings that were eventually put out under the name, The Cosmetic Puffs, on a compilation released by No Idea Records called "Down in Front" (featuring Pinhead Gunpowder, Sweet Baby, etc.). To make an already long story short, the band stayed together when Aaron left and The Eureka Garbage Company was born.
We eventually changed our name to The Audio Wreck and put out the independently released "Children's Chewable Razors". We desribed our music at the time as "avant garage" or some slogan ripped off of a Pere Ubu album cover. After a few tours and line-up changes (one member, Nick Davis, moved to Brooklyn, NY and joined The Detachment Kit, and another member, Robb Rierdan, has passed away). We decided to change the name back to our original moniker of The Eureka Garbage Company, due to the overwhelming amount of crappy bands with the word "audio" in their name. Plus, no one outside of our geographical area knew who we were anyway.
Over the past 4 years or so, there have been countless line-up changes, disasters, personnal crisises, tours, and a revolving cast of bassists, including Will Staler of Defience Ohio, etc... We took off nearly 6 months to do a northcoast production of "Hedwig And The Angry Inch", and have recently gotten back to recording and playing shows. We are currently presenting to you "The Myspacer" four songs that should be included on a soon to be released record.
So, welcome to the wonderful and frightning town of The Eureka Garbage Company 2007. In this town, John Waters is the mayor, Jim Baker is the pastor, David Lynch is the weatherman, Jim Jones is the bartender, Dr. Calagari is the physician, and the teletubbies are our neighbors. The soundtrack to this fucked up town is the bad trip with a smile sounds of early 90's Flaming Lips, the discombobulated jazz punkof No Means No, the fuck it all attitude of the early Replacements, the noisy freak out of the Boredoms, and the campy pop of the Electric Light Orchestra.
This town is all in my head, of course, but this is the best that I could do to give you, the reader, somewhat of an idea of what our band is supposed to be about. Since the rest of the band would probably disagree with all of this shit.... I'll get back to the basic bio facts.
Over the past, we have played shows with the likes of: The Plot to Blow Up the Eiffle Tower, Lou Barlow and the Folk Implosion, The White Stripes, Why?, The Gossip, Dead Meadow, The Slits, Joggers, The Apes, Romanteek, Shellshag, Lightning Bolt, and Tulsa (isn't that impressive?). We hope to have our new record out, and be on tour, by this summer. I love you.
-Chris
hi i feel bad sending these things and all but i feel like it's the only way to get feedback. we've got a few songs and music videos up and it would be excellent if you could check them out and let us know what you think even if you don't think anything of them. sorry again. thank you
hey we've recorded a record called Harlem and we have some of its songs on our myspace. it would be awesome if you could check it out and we hope you like it because we really do. thank you
Hey Chris-- It was great to see you and catch up a bit while I was in town. I'm sorry I didn't get a chance to hang out more. I'd still love to get that crazy Health Care commercial video from you. Maybe you can mail it to me? Call me when you can.....
I've been having some really strange dreams of Josh C. for the past three nights....WHY???!!! Sometimes C.C. is there too....(In my dreams). Haunted for life by Eureka and All it's Garbage!!! You can run but you can't HIDE!
Hey...I give your new song our official double thumbs up. Hope you all had a happy Samhain! We'll be seeing you (a.k.a The Zac Institute)this eve at The Vista.
