The WEIRDOS

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General Info

Genre: Other
Location US
Profile Views: 179366
Last Login: 12/19/2009
Member Since 1/10/2005
Website punkrockers.com/weirdos
Record Label Frontier Records
Type of Label Indie
Bio
In early 1977 The WEIRDOS mighty sound and singular style were the big-bang igniting the L.A. punk rock scene. In a 1977 interview for SLASH magazine they proclaimed "we're not punks, we're weirdos from Hollyweird!". This wasn't just goofy sloganeering, this was a stance intended to distinguish The WEIRDOS as a band apart from the burgeoning punk rock scenes in New York and London. After all, The WEIRDOS were dwelling in their own urban wasteland (L.A.) which they embodied in their songs, graphics and clothes. In 1990, after releasing records on BOMP, DANGERHOUSE and RHINO, The WEIRDOS released the acclaimed CONDOR LP and the crucial WEIRD WORLD Vol. I on FRONTIER. In 2003 The WEIRDOS released the long-awaited WEIRD WORLD Vol. II; a collection of studio and live recordings. Dateline: July 7, 2004--- The WEIRDOS are declared winners of the 2004 L.A. WEEKLY Music Awards for Best Punk Rock/Hardcore Band. .. .. .. I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V4.4 (www.strikefile.com/myspace) ..........
Members
Vocals- John Denney. Lead Guitar- Dix Denney. Vox Guitar- Cliff Roman. Bass- Dave Trout, Bruce Moreland, Willy Williams, Flea, Zander Schloss. Drums- Nickey Beat, Art Fox, Cliff Martinez, Jerry Angel, Sean Antillion
Influences
Wynonie Harris, Stringbean, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Robert 'H-Bomb' Ferguson, Professor Irwin Corey, Maynard G. Krebs, Dr. Strangelove, Alfred Jarry, Buddy Love, Marcel Duchamp, Wallace Beery, James Cagney, Errol Flynn, Salvador Dali, Antonio Gaudi, Robert Johnson, New Orleans, Kid Ory, Lafcadio Hearn, Jelly Roll Morton, Bukka White, Scott Joplin, W.C. Fields, Eadweard Muybridge, Louis Armstrong, Henry Miller, Brigette Bardot, Mondo Cane, Lord Buckley, Aldous Huxley, Fernando Pessoa, Django Reinhardt, Arthur Rimbaud, Joao Gilberto, Orson Welles, Charles Baudelaire, Big Joe Turner and His Fly Cats, Jack Kerouac, Kansas City, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Woody Guthrie, Buddy Bolten, Charlie Parker, Allen Ginsberg, Miles Davis, William Burroughs, Pull My Daisy, Nat King Cole, Ella Fitzgerald, Stan Getz, Josephine Baker, Federico Fellini, New York, Neal Cassady, Charles Bukowski, Leadbelly, Hadda Brooks, Chicago, Big Mama Thornton, Willie Bobo, Dave Brubeck, Billie Holiday, Marlon Brando, Anna Magnani, Ernest Tubb, Muddy Waters, Joseph Beuys, Guy Dubord, Bud Powell, Jean Genet, Ken Kesey, Hank Williams, Cab Calloway, Los Angeles, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Desmond Dekker, Bill Monroe, Louis Jordan, Spike Jones, Mae West, Professor Longhair, Buddy Guy, The Showmen, Bobby Darin, Charlie Christian, The Ray-O-Vacs, Spade Cooley, Sammy Davis Jr., San Fransisco, Lee Morgan, Jimmie Logsdon, Anita Ekberg, Lionel Hampton, Andy Warhol, Stanley Kubrick, Yvonne de Carlo, Nino Rota, Akira Kurosawa, Claus Oldenberg, Louis Prima, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Rio de Janiero, Ruth Brown, Ferlin Husky, Lefty Frizell, Fats Domino, Merle Travis, Johnny Horton, Amsterdam, Slim Harpo, Ornette Coleman, Howlin' Wolf, Flatt and Scruggs, Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys, Willie Dixon, Hank Ballard, Les Paul, Bo Diddley, James Dean, Lightnin' Hopkins, Bill Doggett, John Lee Hooker, Elvis Presley, The Coasters, Elmore James, Wanda Jackson, The Girl Can't Help It, Marilyn Monroe, Scotty Moore, Gary U.S. Bonds, Gene Vincent and the Blue Caps, Johnny Burnette and the Rock n Roll Trio, James Booker, Chuck Berry, Little Walter, Eddie Cochran, James Brown, Bo Diddley, Chet Atkins, Buenos Aires, Johnny Cash, Patsy Cline, Jerry Lee Lewis, Link Wray, Duane Eddy, Bob Dylan, Dave Van Ronk, The T.A.M.I. Show, Brian Jones, Dick Dale and The Del-Tones, The Chantays, Steve McQueen, The Ventures, The Surfaris, The Beach Boys, The Trashmen, The Beatles, Wilson Pickett, Detroit, Russ Meyers, The Rolling Stones, The Byrds, The Bobby Fuller Four, The Kinks, The Yardbirds, The Who, Them, The Animals, Small Faces, Cream, Love, The Seeds, 13th Floor Elevators, ? and the Mysterians, Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs, Thee Midnighters, The Music Machine, Count Five, The Doors, Bill 'Zoot Horn Rollo' Harkleroad, Janis Joplin, Pamela Des Barre, The G.T.O.'s, Pink Flamingos, Mardi Gras, Dr. John, Martin Denny, Jim Morrison, Tony Clifford, Tom Waits, Taj Mahal, The Equals, The Faces, Free, Iggy and the Stooges, A Clockwork Orange, T-Rex, The Velvet Underground, Zolar-X, David Bowie, Slade, Silverhead, The New York Dolls, Mean Streets, The Ramones, The Clash, The Sex Pistols, The Buzzcocks, Captain Beefheart and His Majic Band, Jimi Hendrix and Zorro.
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