Talk:Less Than Jake

message: No mention of Howie J. Reynolds??   He was an iconic part/act/guy in the early days of the band.   I went to shows and loved to hear him 'tell his stories' (i.e. rant?).   I ran into him after one of the early albums came out, and he was pretty unhappy that he didn't get anything from being recorded...(must have been Loosing Streak).   It might be nice to have a little section about him, since he is part of LTJ's history...
OJGanesh 19:31, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Howie J. Reynolds

message: Alright, here's a few things that can be added to make this a better article - I'll be working on some of it, but I am going to need some help.
*A picture of the band. Nice to know we know their names, but a visual would really help. 
*More information about tours, contributions within the ska punk community (Ska Against Racism, anybody?), and chart positions.
*Articles for the albums (and do we know if the album Hello Rockview is a story album or concept album of some kind? The comic book layout of the lyric leaflet makes it seem that way).
*More citations.
LTJ is a really cool band - I think they deserve a decent Wikipedia article. :) Wanderer 21:23, Jun 11, 2005 (UTC)
matt churchley: hello rockview is a story album theve toured over the years with bands like: ALL, DECENDANTS, TEEN IDOLS, ALLISTER, FRENZAL RHOMB, THE AKAS, CAPDOWN, BOUNCING SOULS, GOLDFINGER, REEL BIG FISH, mest and many others. its chris semakes not demakes sorry,lol. rodger has a side project called rehasher, the vynils that make up losers, kings and things we dont understand are: pez kings, making fun of things we dont understand, smoke spot and unglued. the song help save the youth of america from exploding was featured in the film drive me crazy, theres just a few things seens as they are my most favourite band of all time.
um actually it IS demakes so stop your lol's
and anyway, i don't really think they would want their last names. oh well
i'm going to make a section on past members--Haberdasher 07:37, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Improving This Article

message: Is this story credible?  Aside from anything else, it would be a huge coincidence, given the reasonably common phrase "everything's Jake", meaning "everything's fine". --Mel Etitis  (Μελ Ετητης) 08:42, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, it is true.  On a side note, I have never encountered "Everything's Jake" before! Rlove 13:02, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Try Googling — you'll find about 1,700-1,800 uses of that precise phrase (), including the film Everything's Jake, of which I don't think I'd heard before); there are probably variants. --Mel Etitis  (Μελ Ετητης) 09:06, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Band's name 

message: A quick look at the band's myspace shows they don't even consider themselves this anymore. Also, their new album is devoid of upchords and horn lines. I propose chaning the genre to the side and saying something akin to the No Doubt and Smash Mouth pages (originally third-wave ska but etc etc.)
--Mathew Allen
They are clearly still a ska/punk band.  Even though there is less of it, there are obvious ska songs on even their newest album.  P.S. Shock the World is clearly a 3rd wave ska song.  I think is wrong to just call them a punk band.  LessThanClippers 17:37, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ska Punk - Accurate? 

message: I saw this was marked for copy-editing, so I jumped on that. Does anyone think I made any mistakes? I would also suggest that the "miscellaneous info" section is a bit bloated in my opinion, but I didn't want to offend anyone by removing stuff. Philmcl 15:40, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copy-Edit 

message: Does anyone have any official sources (besides AbsolutePunk.net) confirming that LTJ are touring with Reel Big Fish?
 
Check fueledbyramen.com they are currently saying they're touring with Reel Big Fish and Streetlight Manifesto. there in buffalo ny the 7th o0f July and Quebec city Quebec on the 8th I believe. Wish I could go, but no one else could make it this year. :( 70.49.252.14 22:42, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Touring with Reel Big Fish? 

message: Does anyone else believe Spoken Idiocy belongs in the discography section under other?  They released it in 2002 sold at shows only.  It is recordings of the Asian portion of their 2001 A Space Idiocy tour, but only what they say to eachother between songs, no actual music, hence the title. LessThanClippers 17:40, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discography/Spoken Idiocy 

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message: The caption only has 5 names, but there are 6 people in the picture.  I think either the caption should be modified to include the shirtless guy on the far left or he should be cropped out. Tdogg241 22:00, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Picture Caption 

message: The earliest Less Than Jake website was hosted at http://www.afn.org/~ltj and put together by Adam Marcus. By approx jan 1996 I was primary web maintainer, during that time I had a mirror site. While the afn site seems to be long gone, anyone deeply interested in this article, may find additional material at http://www.waste.org/~ltj  and especially in the Less Than Jake newsletter archive. The wayback machine seems to have copies so here is the earliest one from Aug 1 1995
*http://web.archive.org/web/20000424214902/http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~cariaso/archive/8-1-95.html
Cariaso 01:52, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Early website 

message: I unfortunately don't really know where to begin with this one.  I have zero knowledge of them ever playing a gay pride festival (you don't play the parade itself.)  I am a long time fan and complete nerd when it comes to LTJ, and I am gay, and I can tell you, I pretty much look at every event they are playing (trying to go to it) and I would have freaked if they played a gay pride.  Maybe they played some in early days many years ago?  I do know that Vinny's father is gay, but beyond that, the band really has never spoken much on many political ideologies at all.  I just dont think, even if it is verifiable, that it adds to the article, or is pertinent to really get who LTJ is.  If their lyrics were often pro gay rights, then addidng in their stance on it would be important.  But if we start listing every bands different political ideals, its gonna get ugly.LessThanClippers 15:20, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Considering we have no actual source(s) to indicate either their personal ideals or that they've ever played any such festival, I'm going to remove this claim from the article. The Rabbit42 22:48, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gay Rights/Parades 

message: i was wondering if any else thought it was appropriate to try and construct a full less than jake discorgraphy, i guess as a seperate page.
they have a nearly complete list on their site http://www.lessthanjake.com/discography/ although i know it's missing quite a few of the recent things, as well as one or two of the older ones, but it's a good starting point. one problem may come from trying to date some of them. but there a re a great number of records, tapes and cds from their past, as well as loads of variations of each, it might be helpful to add them in.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Paulellinson (talk • contribs) 17:00, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Full discography (7" releases etc)

message: OK, so I always looked at this page and kept thinking to myself, I have no idea who some of these listed former members are, and I've been a fan since freaking pezcore.  Chris Campisi was their old roadie, he was in a previous band with Vinny and Chris, but he never was in LTJ.  and Shauna nd Matt i have never heard of.  ALso they are all unsourced, so I expect to remove.LessThanClippers (talk) 23:45, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: You are right, I did confuse the two.  I still dont think Shaun ever played in LTJ.  I thought he was the roadie, and played in the precursor band.LessThanClippers (talk) 08:23, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Members

message: The recent suggestion that Less Than Jake could be genre classified as metal made me realize that this page should really have a section for the band's influences. The band as a whole, and individual members: their taking influence from bands like Snuff, and perhaps the Mighty Mighty Bosstones. The genres they grew up listening and playing and how those genres seep into the music, including metal points such as the tapping solo to Help Save the Youth of America, All My Best Friends Are Metalheads, The lead guitar of Gainesville Rock City, etc. The piece in the trivia about individual members fondness of metal could easily be worked into this. I'm sure someone can probably come up with a pretty good start to add on to about this facet of the band. -- The Rabbit42 (talk) 04:53, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd certainly jump in on this, but I would still never classify them as metal.LessThanClippers (talk) 22:14, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Influences

message: Okay, so I saw that under 'recent activity' it still says that LTJ are going to be touring with RBF in December, and I just thought that maybe that tour would be over already, so someone should probably update the section (I don't know enough to do it myself). Barneyandfriendz (talk) 23:58, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Updating the Page 

message: Okay, so besides Chris, does anyone know the ages and/or birthdays of any of the other band members?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.97.159.104 (talk) 00:40, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Band Members' Ages 

message: ===Trivia===
* Band member haunts have included Eddie C's (now The Backstage Lounge), the Hardback (which was transformed into the Lyric), and Insomnia (which used to be the Covered Dish, and is now the new location of Common Grounds).
* They are largely responsible for, though unaffiliated with, the Florida Ska Revival Movement in their home state of Florida, which is a movement started by a group of Florida bands to bring ska music back into the mainstream.
*Many of the band members are known to enjoy heavy metal music (hence the song All My Best Friends Are Metalheads). Roger and JR both list the legendary British heavy metal band Iron Maiden as a favorite, and Chris has frequently been sighted wearing '80s metal band t-shirts such as Poison, Mötley Crüe, Cinderella, and Black Sabbath.
*The band recently posted a song on their MySpace, which is a medley of the songs Automatic, Throw The Brick, She's Gonna Break Soon, Dopeman, Bad Scene and a Basement Show, and Anchor, although it is not available for play anymore.
:Most of these are either uncited, trivial or subjective. IMHO, it doesn't belong in the article. Wisdom89 (T / C) 22:47, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed, very pointless and random. -Inzweep (talk) 06:48, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Moved here from article 

message: * Band member haunts have included Eddie C's (now The Backstage Lounge), the Hardback (which was transformed into the Lyric), and Insomnia (which used to be the Covered Dish, and is now the new location of Common Grounds).
* They are largely responsible for, though unaffiliated with, the Florida Ska Revival Movement in their home state of Florida, which is a movement started by a group of Florida bands to bring ska music back into the mainstream.
*Many of the band members are known to enjoy heavy metal music (hence the song All My Best Friends Are Metalheads). Roger and JR both list the legendary British heavy metal band Iron Maiden as a favorite, and Chris has frequently been sighted wearing '80s metal band t-shirts such as Poison, Mötley Crüe, Cinderella, and Black Sabbath.
*The band recently posted a song on their MySpace, which is a medley of the songs Automatic, Throw The Brick, She's Gonna Break Soon, Dopeman, Bad Scene and a Basement Show, and Anchor, although it is not available for play anymore.
:Most of these are either uncited, trivial or subjective. IMHO, it doesn't belong in the article. Wisdom89 (T / C) 22:47, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed, very pointless and random. -Inzweep (talk) 06:48, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Trivia

message: I'm not sure if this would be the place to put something like this but I've started up a LTJ Wiki and am looking for editors to help with stuff. DX927 (talk) 20:29, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Less Than Jake Wiki 

message: A user has added the following records to the wiki: Birthday Cake 7", Cheese 7", Crash Course in Being an Asshole 7", G-Man Training Target 7", Rock-N-Roll Pizzaria 7", and Muppets 7". The user has identified the album type as "Vinyl and 7", which  the Infobox Album template will not accept. Can someone who knows about this subject please either change the Type to EP, or change the infobox template to Infobox Single? Otherwise, they will clutter :Category:Album_articles_with_non-standard_infoboxes until someone fixes them. Thanks!--Mike Selinker (talk) 00:24, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: User talk:Mike Selinker, I converted the 2:30 single to Cheese (song), but they may be better deleted. In ictu oculi (talk) 22:59, 13 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: help with LTJ 7" records, please

message: Any chance anyone can do a bit more research on the charity work mentioned at the start of this video? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X674AHq840 Nerter (talk) 14:08, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Charity Work 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: I just completed making changes to the Chris DeMakes page and for reasons that I cannot understand, the page is being redirected to Less Than Jake. DeMakes is the lead singer of Less Than Jake and is an accomplished artist who should maintain his own page. Moreover, Chris DeMakes is the founding member of the band.
The page was initially set up as Chris Demakes, his proper name appears in the text that I have written and should read Chris DeMakes. The capital M should be changed in the page name. However, I don't have the credentials to do so. I am requesting this change.
Please advise as to what edits or content is missing that is causing the page to revert back to a redirected page to Less Than Jake.
Thank you,
Rick MunroeRickmunroe01 (talk) 01:34, 5 December 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: The subject of this thread is currently up for deletion. Jalen Folf (talk) 05:29, 6 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Page Redirection 

message: Why isn't this album mentioned? 2601:248:8280:E3E0:49FB:2671:EA2F:C42C (talk) 13:37, 2 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Goodbye Blue and White