Discography: none
Upcoming Shows: none
Mommy
Andrew Huffstetler
Mark Hughes
Clark Vogeler
Mark Reznicek
Originally a tape made by Clark (Funland/Toadies) with Andrew sometime around when the Toadies were recording their as of yet unreleased album, early 1998. There are plans to add new material and do shows, but packed scheduling by both the Toadies and Baboon make it difficult.
If anything does happen, the Mighty Two Marks will most likely fill out on bass and drums.
Discography: "Mommy" demo tape
Upcoming Shows: none/unknown
Rock Lotteries
Codename Fuck
Mike Rudnicki
Jon Cunningham--Corn Mo/Dooms UK
Lisa Dirocco--Butterfly Nation/Wayward Girl
John Freeman--The Dooms U.K./The Dutch Treats
Melissa Rooney--Smart Horse
Dong
Steve Barnett
Jacob Duncan--Little Jack Melody/Two O'clock Lab
Will Kapinos--Jetscreamer
Rob Peters--Greenella
Deron Pulley--Breadbox/The Banes
unknown band name, November '99
Andrew Huffstetler
Kyle Cheatham--Ditch Kids
Bill Ivy--EFF
Chris Wheat--Bedhead
Alex Sargeant--Gospel Swingers
The Rock Lottery is an occasion for the Good/Bad Art Collective. The G/BAC enlists members of local bands and randomly puts them together in a spontaneously created band. The created band must come up with and perform original music that day. For better or worse, I have not seen a rock lottery myself, so I can't tell ya if it works out well, but everyone who takes part in it is a definate name in the Denton world (Ted Wood, John Freeman, Brent Best, Dave Willingham, etc.).
Budapest One
Steve Barnett--drums
Keith Killoren--guitar, vocals
William Pollard--bass
I'm not too firmiliar with Budapest One, but Steve's role was as a temporary one as a sit in drummer until BOne finds a permanent one. As of now, I believe that the Budapest have found their drummer.
Discography w/ Steve: Goodnight Little Girl of My Dreams LP
Upcoming Shows w/ Steve: none
Six Hard Brothers And A Dog
Steve Barnett-drums
Chris Ice-guitar
Jimmy Smith-lead guitar
Joey Edwards-bass
Dylan Thompson-vox
Monk-backing vox
My introduction and entire experience of Six Hard Brothers And A Dog simply begins and ends with the absolutely great One Ton Records compilation Hell's Lobby.
Steve was gracious enough to drop a line about the band, and it went something to the effect of:
We started out as a group of guys who all shared the same dorm wing, which was known as the Ghetto. We knew each other because we were neighbors, and because, being ghetto-ites, there was sort of a gang mentality. We put on performances right there in the hallway, irritating everyone, and at that point we were called 'SWING WEENIE.'
Swing Weenie included a drummer (not me) that had a home-made drumset made out of cardboard boxes, buckets, tin cans, etc. I usually played guitar. The membership was sort of nebulous, and we never really played any actual shows, but we were voted "Favorite Bruce Hall Band" anyway, just on the strength of our "legend" and our truly amazing series of fliers. The day after we were voted best band, we put on our first actual show, which in many respects failed miserably. After that, the group re-assessed itself, rehearsed with some line-up changes and some instrument switching, and at that point we became Six Hard Brothers And A Dog.
The members of this extraordinary band were one Chris Ice, who played guitar, Jimmy Smith who played lead guitar, a guy named Joey Edwards who played bass, the incredible Dylan Thompson on vocals, "Monk" on backing vocals, and me (Steve) on drums. This was the first band that I was ever the official drummer for. We wrote a couple dozen original tunes, and recorded a fine demo called "Have Some Snacks." There was also a "Snack Manifesto," but it's too complicated to explain. Besides the musical projects, this group of freaks also created a full length video rockumentary about the band, which mixed real life with some amazing dramatic acting and on location footage (for instance, part of the storyline called for an assassination attempt, so we drove to the Grassy Knoll in Dallas, realistic fake-gun in hand, and shot the scene right there, in broad daylight, while pedestrians passed by in absolute horror). This band, unlike Swing Weenie, played many shows, and since we "broke up" we've had a couple reunion shows, too. There is a slight chance that maybe, just maybe, the group will reunite again at some point, but not in the forseeable future. The reason I bring this up is because I ran into Jimmy the other day, and he felt bad upon reading "NONE! EVER!" under the 'Upcoming Shows' category. If you could include the above information, and maybe change the "NONE! EVER!" to "WHO KNOWS?" it would make some old friends of mine happy.
Thanks,
Steve
Discography w/ Steve: Have Some Snacks tape
Upcoming Shows w/ Steve: WHO KNOWS?
Dooms UK
Mark Hughes--bass
Mike Rudnicki--guitar
Steve Barnett--drums
John Freeman--well, hell he IS Dooms UK
James Henderson
Jon Cunningham
DJ Geeky C
Ian Bjornstadt
cast of thousands
John Freeman, artist extraordinaire's band. Unfortunately for the sake of info on this page, I know more about John the artist than I do John the musician. What I do know is that Dooms UK is one of the quirkiest, most hilarious, and actually addictive bands on the planet. If anyone knows who else was in Dooms UK *whilst* Baboon members were in, let me know!. Also, I personally am interested in finding out more on the Dooms for myself, definately let me in on the poop if you have any info. Newest record can be found at Hot Link Records.
Discography w/ Baboon members: Greasy Listening
Upcoming Shows w/ Mike and/or Steve: none/unknown.
.357 Lover
Steve Barnett--drums
James Henderson
Jon Cunningham
Know little about this band outside of the fact that they rarely play. I believe that Sam McCall, one time Brutal Juice member has sit in with them before, but I can't confirm that.
Discography:none
Upcoming Shows:none/unknown
Chomsky
Actually, I think Mark Hughes--bass has just filled in for the folks of Chomsky maybe once or so.
Website: www.chomsky.com--Clever, aye?
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