Big Ass Truck
Big Ass Truck( BAT) was an American rock band from Memphis, Tennessee which incorporated elements of hip- hop, rock, funk and psychedelia in their music.
The band included a DJ spinning records, that provided beats, loops, and samples during recordings and live performances.
The group disbanded sometime after the release of the 2001 album," The Rug".
Spastic Ink
Spastic Ink was a progressive metal band from the United States.
Mud Boy and the Neutrons
Mud Boy and the Neutrons was a Memphis rock music band who influenced the Memphis alternative rock scene in the 1970s through the 1990s.
They released three albums on labels like New Rose Records( France) and Koch International.
The group featured Jim Dickinson on keyboards, vocals and guitar, Sid Selvidge on acoustic guitar and vocals, Lee Baker on electric guitar, and Jimmy Crosthwait on washboard.
Baker, who made a guest appearance on Big Star's" Third/ Sister Lovers" album and led his own Lee Baker& The Agitators group, died on September 10, 1996.
At that time Mud Boy and the Neutrons temporarily disbanded, but reformed in 2005 to perform at a festival of Memphis music held at The Barbican in London.
This concert was filmed but to date remains unreleased.
The group has always been known for deliberately making their offbeat public performances rare, special events; they never toured.
Their music style included elements of varying Southern United States- oriented music styles including blues," swamp" music, R&B, folk music, gospel music, and country.
Tav Falco's Panther Burns and others from the area were inspired by the band.
Two sons of Dickinson( Luther and Cody), influenced by the group, formed the North Mississippi Allstars with other musicians in the 1990s; Selvidge's son Steve founded a group called Big Ass Truck in the same period.
Dickinson died on August 15, 2009.
Sid Selvidge died from cancer on May 2, 2013, at the age of 69( he was born Jul 21, 1943).
Blotto (band)
Blotto was a rock band from Albany, New York, known for mixing music and humor.
They formed in 1978 out of the Star Spangled Washboard Band, a" post-hippie" comedy jugband.
Blotto's music combined new wave and soul/ R&B, but with comedic themes.
It began as a pick- up band in Saratoga Springs at a club then known as 17 Maple Ave.( later The Metro), with three Washboard Band alumni( who took the stage names Bowtie Blotto, Sergeant Blotto, and Broadway Blotto), plus a drummer and a bassist( Lee Harvey Blotto, and Cheese Blotto).
They were joined by Blanche Blotto, who contributed vocals and keyboards and inspired the band's drumhead lady logo.
She was later replaced by keyboardist Chevy Blotto.
They began to amass a following and played in the New York City area at clubs such as The Ritz, SNAFU, Eighty- Eight, and My Father's Place.
DJ Vin Scelsa of WNEW- FM picked up on their initial recording of" I Wan na Be A Lifeguard," which soon became the theme song of the Jones Beach Lifeguards.
Their songs were played on the" Dr. Demento Show", and they appeared on television's" Uncle Floyd Show".
They toured frequently and were popular primarily in the northeastern United States, especially among college students.
After releasing two EPs on their own Blotto Records label, they produced an early music video for" I Wan na Be A Lifeguard" with video production students at SUNY Albany.
The video was played on MTV's very first day on the air in 1981, and continued in frequent rotation.
This exposure helped the band produce their album" Combo Akimbo", which was released with assistance from Peter Pan Records, as well as a" Video 45" on VHS from Sony with three videos of Blotto songs that also received wide exposure from airplay on MTV, including" Metalhead," with Buck Dharma from Blue Öyster Cult on lead guitar.
Blotto worked with producer Bob Clearmountain on one song on the album.
North Lake Sound Chief Engineer, Chris Cassone, produced and engineered the rest of Combo Akimbo.
Cassone was also working with Don Roeser( Buck Dharma of BOC) at the time and suggested he hear the homage Blotto had recorded," Metalhead."
Because of a one- time mistaken erasure of a guitar track, he was dubbed" Eberhard Blotto."
The group disbanded in 1984, with the players pursuing more profitable interests.
Drummer Lee Harvey Blotto( Paul Rapp) graduated from Albany Law School, became an attorney specializing in intellectual property law, and continued to play with the band as" F. Lee Harvey Blotto"( a pun on the names of famous lawyer F. Lee Bailey and JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald).
Bassist" Cheese Blotto"( Keith Stephenson) died suddenly in October 1999 of cardiomyopathy brought on by a liver condition.
Sarge Blotto( Greg Haymes) died April 10, 2019 soon after being diagnosed with metastatic cancer.
All of Blotto's studio recordings( with one exception, the song" Bud ... Is After Us") were reissued on a 1994 compact disc compilation," Collected Works."
In 1999, the band released" Then More Than Ever," a CD comprising previously unreleased live concert recordings, excerpts from a 1982 appearance on the" BBC College Concert" radio series, and tracks recorded for the never- completed follow- up album to" Combo Akimbo."
The band in its current incarnation( Broadway, Bowtie, Sergeant, F. Lee Harvey, Clyde and Hammerhead Blotto) is still active, and has reunited for occasional concerts in the Albany area, including an appearance at the 2008 4th of July celebration at Empire State Plaza, and several shows in 2011 at local festivals.
On August 6, 2015, the band opened for Blue Öyster Cult at an" Alive at Five" concert in Albany.
In 2005, a DVD was released, assembled by Bert Blotto and containing all the video material in the band's vaults.
Included are appearances on" The Mike Douglas Show"( as The Star Spangled Washboard Band)," The Uncle Floyd Show", MTV with VJ Martha Quinn," The Joe Franklin Show" and" Carmine's Table", among others.
Founding member and lead vocalist Sarge Blotto( real name Greg Haymes) died on April 10th, 2019.
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Welcome (band)
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Tri-State (band)
Tri-State is an American rock band from New Jersey.
The M's
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June (band)
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Contra (band)
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Question: Are Big Ass Truck and Blotto (Band) from the same country?
Answer: yes