I've always lumped musician
Eugene Chadbourne in with the likes of
Wesley Willis and
Daniel Johnston, but I may have been mistaken. While his songs are often absurd, experimental, and silly, he's much less eccentric than I'd always thought. In addition to having an incredible output (full discography with notes
here and in-depth review
here), he has worked with everyone from
John Zorn to
Jello Biafra, even fronting the band
Camper Van Beethoven as
Camper Van Chadbourne. He has also been a writer for
MaximumRocknRoll and
AMG and is the inventor of the electric rake (a musical instrument that would certainly annoy your neighbors).
YouTube has two awesome Chadbourne finds:
THIS is a 19-minute documentary about him and
THIS is a cable access show he appeared on called
I'm Going to Make a Drug with My Mind (if you like
cable access television, this is awesome, but please note that this video is 31-minutes long, including 60 seconds of color bars. Eugene comes on a little after the 17-minute mark). [WARNING: YouTube. A lot of YouTube in this post]
posted by elr
on Aug 11, 2006 -
34 comments
Jello Biafra calls bait-and-switch on his old bandmates. Jello Biafra states, "In my opinion, this is the real great rock and roll swindle. They have a right to play cover versions of Dead Kennedys songs. Everyone does. But I feel really badly for all the people paying ticket prices, reported to be as high as $25, thinking it's the real Dead Kennedys, and wind up getting stuck with the world's greediest karaoke band."
posted by skallas
on Jan 15, 2002 -
19 comments
