Bloodhound Gang
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| Background information | |
| Origin | Collegeville, Pennsylvania |
| Genres | Alternative rock, Comedy rock, Punk rock, Rapcore |
| Years active | 1992 – present |
| Labels | Columbia/SME Records Geffen/Interscope/Universal Records |
| Associated acts | Bang Chamber 8, Wolfpac, The Dicamillo Sisters, A |
| Website | www.bloodhoundgang.com |
| Members | |
| Jimmy Pop DJ Q-Ball Jared Hasselhoff The Yin Daniel P. Carter |
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| Past members | |
| Daddy Long Legs M.S.G. Skip O'Pot2Mus Tard-E-Tard Spanky G Willie The New Guy Foof Bubba K. Love Lupus Thunder |
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Bloodhound Gang is a Collegeville, Pennsylvania-based American comedy alternative/punk band, although it began as a rap group and gradually changed their genre throughout the years. Their songs typically have humorous and off-beat, satirical lyrics that often deal with sexual subjects and contain many puns and innuendos.
They are best known for their hit singles "Fire Water Burn" and "The Bad Touch". Formed in 1992,[1] Bloodhound Gang has sold more than 6 million albums.[1][2]
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History
Early days
The Bloodhound Gang began as a small alternative band called Bang Chamber 8. It consisted of Jimmy Pop and Daddy Long Legs, both graduates of Perkiomen Valley High School. They released an eponymous tape before changing their name to the Bloodhound Gang, a reference to "The Bloodhound Gang", a segment on the 1980s PBS kids' show 3-2-1 Contact that featured three young detectives solving mysteries and fighting crime. Unable to book shows anywhere else, the Bloodhound Gang first performed an extra room at Evil Jared Hasselhoff's house, in exchange for Schlitz, Marlboros, and a chance to hand out their first demo tape, entitled Just Another Demo.[1] When the floor caved in one night, they began performing every month at CBGBs in New York City. When asked about the band's tenure at the club, Jimmy Pop was quoted as saying, "I've seen cavemen with better clubs."[1]
In April 1994, the band released their second demo tape, The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack to Hitler's Handicapped Helpers. This resulted in a record deal with Cheese Factory Records.
In summer 1994, Jimmy Pop had a small role in the short independent film The Chick That Was Naked by independent filmmaker Kurt Fitzpatrick. Also, a song by the band was used on its soundtrack.[3]
In November 1994, the Bloodhound Gang released their first EP, Dingleberry Haze.
Use Your Fingers
In March 1995 the Bloodhound Gang signed a record deal with Columbia Records. They released their first full-length album, titled Use Your Fingers. They began touring around the United States. At this time Daddy Long Legs and M.S.G., who were angry with Columbia Records, left the band to form another rap group, Wolfpac. Bass player Evil Jared Hasselhoff, Drummer Spanky G and Turntablist Tard-E-Tard joined the group as replacements. When the tour ended, the deal with Columbia Records was dropped and band members Skip O'Pot2Mus and Tard-E-Tard left to pursue a career outside of the music industry.[1]
One Fierce Beer Coaster
In March 1996, the band, complete with a new line-up, recorded their second full-length album, One Fierce Beer Coaster, first released on Cheese Factory Records (now Republic Records), and re-released on Geffen Records in 1998. The original release, designed by Michael Calleia at Industrial Strength Design in New York City, had an actual beer coaster as part of the packaging. They embarked on their first "real tour" of the United States and Europe. This album contained "Fire Water Burn".
Hooray for Boobies
On February 29, 2000, they released their third album, Hooray for Boobies. Powered by the hit single "The Bad Touch", they embarked on two more tours of Europe, where their popularity had increased dramatically ("The Bad Touch" and Hooray for Boobies reached #1 in Germany, where "Along Comes Mary" was also a Top 10 hit). They returned after selling over five million albums.[1]
In 2003, the band released a DVD entitled One Fierce Beer Run, which chronicles their One Fierce Beer Coaster tour of 1997.[1]
Hefty Fine
The band's newest album, Hefty Fine, was released on September 13, 2005. The title came about after Evil Jared Hasselhoff was fined during work on MTV's "Viva La Bam" (The Scavenger Hunt episode). Jared was fined $10,000, which Jimmy Pop allegedly had to pay (this is discussed in the "Un-commentary" Of the Viva La Bam DVDs). Jimmy has stated that Jared was arrested after attempting to urinate into a dixie cup that he (Jim) was holding, from the top of a parking lot.[4] The CD's original title, Heavy Flow, was scrapped when it was noticed that fellow musician Moby had a song with the same name. The first single, "Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo", gained heavy rotation on music video channels. Although the track "No Hard Feelings" recently broke into the Modern Rock Top 50, their second single "Uhn Tiss Uhn Tiss Uhn Tiss" (which is featured in a Blaupunkt, a BGL Grand Wizard ad) has started radio circulation with a music video airing limitedly on a few music channels. Other songs from the new album are part of a campaign by the Bloodhound Gang to change the Pennsylvania state anthem into their appropriately titled "Pennsylvania"[1], which is often incorrectly believed to be titled "Do You Even Know What a Wawa Is?", from that song's last stanza, as well as "Something Diabolical," featuring HIM's Ville Valo.
The Later Years
In October 2008 Lupus Thunder quit the band; this was announced on a blog on the band's MySpace by bassist Evil Jared.[5] Daniel P Carter from A has been confirmed as the new lead guitarist.
Jimmy Pop recently announced during a radio interview in Boston that the new album will feature 14 songs and that the name of the album would be called "Getting Laid on a School Bus" with a possible release date of early 2011.
Controversies
Geffen Records refused to release the song "Yellow Fever" due to its lyrical content about Asian women.[6] Examples of the lyrics from "Yellow Fever" include "like an oriental rug 'cause I lay her where I please, then I blindfold her with dental floss and get on my knees" and "Oh me Chinky, she's so kinky, got me hot like Nagasaki, burnin' up like napalm burstin' like an a-bomb."[7][8] In response, Jimmy Pop told Yahoo! Launch that the Gang's lyrical matter was not meant to be taken seriously.
| “ | I think on the first record there's stuff that [offended people]… Really we're not trying to shock anybody, we're just saying things that we laugh at," he explained. "That was always the idea. The same things that we talk about on the bus are the same things we put on our records. On the first record we had lyrics like, 'There's little children unattended, let me get some poison candy,' which to me, that isn't very good.[7] | ” |
The band arrived in the middle of a media storm mid-2006 when they started using a "golden shower" act onstage during a rendition of Depeche Mode's "Enjoy the Silence" at Rock Am Ring and Pinkpop.[9] On a Radio Bam show, Ant'nee (one of the band's crew members) mentioned in one of the Belgium shows, Evil Jared used feces instead of using urine as an alternate.[10][11]
Members
Current line-up
- Jimmy Pop – lead vocals, rhythm guitar (1992–present)
- Evil Jared Hasselhoff – bass guitar (1995–present)
- Q-Ball – keyboard, synthesizer, turntables, backing vocals (1995–present)
- The Yin – drums, percussion (2006–present)
- Daniel P. Carter - lead guitar (2009–present)
Former members
- Foof – vocals (1992)
- Bubba K. Love – Drums (1992–1993)
- Daddy Long Legs – vocals, bass guitar (1992–1995)
- M.S.G. – turntables (1993–1995)
- Skip O'Pot2Mus – vocals (1993–1995)
- Tard-E-Tard – turntables (1995)
- Spanky G – drums (1995–1998)
- Lupus Thunder - lead guitar (1994–2008)
- Willie The New Guy – drums (1999–2006)
Discography
- Use Your Fingers (1995)
- One Fierce Beer Coaster (1996)
- Hooray for Boobies (1999)
- Hefty Fine (2005)
- Getting Laid on a School Bus (2011)
See also
- One Fierce Beer Run
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 "History 101". BloodhoundGang.com. http://web.archive.org/web/20071011130845/http://bloodhoundgang.com/history101/history101fn.html. Retrieved 2010-08-12.
- ↑ Gavalis, Richard. "Staff/Bios". Dome Sound Studios. http://web.archive.org/web/20080119054104/www.domesound.net/staff.html. Retrieved 2010/08/12.
- ↑ "That Chick Was Naked (1995)". IMDb.com. http://polish.imdb.com/title/tt0449577/. Retrieved 2006-08-07.
- ↑ "Interview With The Bloodhound Gang". Optuszoo.com.au. http://www.optuszoo.com.au/channel/music/mtv_interviews/mtv_interviews_block/35. Retrieved 2009-03-03.
- ↑ "The announcement nobody has been waiting for...". 2008-10-10. http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=6096731&blogID=439692964. Retrieved 2008-12-07.
- ↑ Ma, Jason (2000-04-27). "'Yellow Fever' Lyrics Roil Students". Asian Week. http://www.asianweek.com/2000_04_27/news_yellowfeverlyrics.html. Retrieved 2006-07-08.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Rosen, Craig (2005-05-02). "Bloodhound Gang Targeted For Alleged Racist Lyrics". Yahoo! Music. http://music.yahoo.com/read/news/12044816. Retrieved 2006-08-07.
- ↑ Brooks, Caryn B. "Be Aggressive Be, Be, Aggressive". WWeek. http://www.wweek.com/html2/urbanpulsed.html. Retrieved 2006-08-07.
- ↑ "Google and piss on Depeche Mode... literally on video". Side-Line. http://www.side-line.com/side-line_blog_comments.php?id=19414_0_45_0_C. Retrieved 2010/08/12.
- ↑ Radio Bam. December 3, 2007. No. 141.
- ↑ Ambrose, Anthony. "inTuneMusic Online: Bamboozle Day 1 @ East Rutherford 5/2". http://intunemusiconline.com/2009/06/09/bamboozle-day-1-east-rutherford-52/. Retrieved 2009-06-09.
External links
- Bloodhound Gang's official site
- Bloodhound Gang lyrics at BloodhoundGang.com
- MySpace site
- Bloodhound Gang at Allmusic
- Up-Load UK Get Happy Tour Nottingham 2007 Review & Galleries
- Up-Load UK Get Happy Tour Newport Review & Gallery
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