Flexible Head @ TT Reynold’s - Fairfax, VA - May 28, 2004
Channel: Flexible Head
Date: 2020-04-11

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Flexible Head @ TT Reynold’s
Fairfax, VA
May 28, 2004
Audio: Flexible Head – Whatever (rough basement recording)

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**It’s 2020 and Flexible Head finally decided to shut down our website and move some old content to YouTube.**

If it's honest, then it's cool! England, New York, L.A., Belgium, Germany, Finland, Baltimore - tons o' great punk over the years. Luv' em all! But it don't stop there. 50's Rock 'n Roll, 60's girl groups, pub rock, surf, garage, glam, glitter, power pop, britpop, shoegazer - you name it. Raw, Real = Rocks. The poseurs can pogo in traffic! (slightly borrowed from Shock Nagasaki…check ‘em out)

So who was Flexible Head?

Flexible Head was a punk band based in Baltimore and Frederick that played gigs from 2001-2004.

FH sucked but we had a lot of fun playing gigs throughout the Baltimore/DC/Annapolis/Waldorf/Frederick corridor.

FH also played shows as The Starts because there were times when opening bands never showed and the venue owner asked us to play an extra set…so we played a bunch of covers under the name The Starts.

FH appeared on a few punk compilations with better-known, more accomplished bands than us (as well as some bands that sucked as much as we did).

FH made some great friends over the years with many of the bands we played with (in particular, Missing Gef), especially in the Annapolis and Waldorf scenes.

Flexible Head was:
Jump Start: Vocals and Songwriting and Occasional Stringed Instrument
Head Start: Guitars and Songwriting
Kick Start: Drums
Re-Start: Bass (there were many restarts…with songs and bass players)

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If you found us (again), thanks for thinking of us!

If it's honest, then it's cool! England, New York, L.A., Belgium, Germany, Finland, Baltimore - tons o' great punk over the years. Luv' em all! But it don't stop there. 50's Rock 'n Roll, 60's girl groups, pub rock, surf, garage, glam, glitter, power pop, britpop, shoegazer - you name it. Raw, Real = Rocks. The poseurs can pogo in traffic! (slightly borrowed from Shock Nagasaki…check ‘em out)

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Trivia

And, here is a bit of trivia for you...Jump Start got the name of the band from a song by Ned's Atomic Dustbin (who got the name of their band from an episode of the British radio show - The Good Show). In fact, years after first using Flexible Head, Jump had a conversation with Jonn of Ned's regarding the name...here's how it went...

Jump: "Hey Jonn, hypothetically, let's say someone was so inspired by thee Ned's that he decided to use one of your song titles as a name for a band...hypothetically, of course?"

Jonn: "Oh Jump, you're Flexible Head...I've been to your website...no problem...absolutely...I'm humbled...I'm humbled."

Jump: "Rock on! I'll send you some Flexible Head T-shirts and sweater vests and pillow cases."

...and so I did.

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Songs covered by Flexible Head

Let me start this section by reminding you that Flexible Head created our own music. We were an original's band.

With that said, we did enjoy throwing in some cover songs by bands that influenced us.

So, here you go, a list of songs that we covered at one time or another...some many, many times and others not so many times.

Rancid
- Roots Radical
(This was our closing song for quite some time)

Skid Row
- I Remember You
(This was our closing song for quite some time, too, but we did a punk version of this classic metal ballad…a crowd favorite.)

Ming Tea (The Austin Power’s Band with Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs)
- BBC
(This was our soundcheck song and we frequently tossed it into our set)

Outkast
- Hey Yah (Jeff worked this in during Flexible Head Theme Song)
The Clash
Police on My Back

New Edition
- Mr. Telephone Man
(We played this quite a bit…usually threw the crowd off…they had no idea what we were playing…except an occasional musical elitist – like ourselves - who would stop by after our set and thank us for playing it!)

Green Day
- When I Come Around
- Basketcase
- Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)

Blink 182
- Dammit
- Small Things
- First Date

The Ramones
- Blitzkrieg Bop
- I Wanna Be Sedated

Good Charlotte
- Festival Song
(Electric & Acoustic - just Dan & Jeff)

Bouncing Souls
- True Believers
- Hopeless Romantic

Lynyrd Skynyrd
- Sweet Home Alabama (we work this in during Country Punk Rock Girl)

The Misfits
- Turned into a Martian

Eminem
- The Real Slim Shady

Operation Ivy
- Knowledge

Veruca Salt
- Volcano Girls

Social Distortion
- Bad Luck

Too Much Joy
- Crush Story

Tommy James and the Shondells
- I Think We’re Alone Now (you may remember the Tiffany version)

Nirvana
- Smells Like Teen Spirit
- Rape Me

Smashing Pumpkins
- Today
- Bullet with Butterfly Wings