Akimbo was a Seattle rock band. We played real hard, real loud, and crushed shit all over the world. The members continue to play kick ass shit in other bands and still think indie rock sucks.
Our buddies LORDS are coming back through this summer. It'll be at Comet on June 16th. Crazy shit occurs when we are around Lords. Potential happenings:
Jon gets punched in the arm enough to form a bruise resembling a quasar shift.
Dudes and Babes, Some shameless self promotion here. My Bearded Cyclops shirt is up on www.threadless.com. Please vote for it. The shirt is metallic silver and white on black shirts. It only takes a sec to vote and its free. There are tons of other cool shirt and print designs on the site too.
A fond farewell to our brothers in noise and rehearsal, These Arms Are Snakes who have officially called the bitch off. I will never forget you guys opening for us in 2002 and thinking "Awww... I miss Botch... But at least it's not as bad as that Minus the Bees band or whatever...", and then seeing you guys in 2007 and after 5 years realizing well shit, they're actually pretty fucking good.
Regardless of whether or not you liked their music, I think we all can congregate and appreciate their true gift to the underground community which is perhaps the best band name to make jokes with. The Abodox hit a fucking line drive with the song title "These Arms are Arms" released on their first record (I believe the same year their Snakes' first album came out), and less officially we'd use it on tour all the time to describe any number of situations: these dudes are tired, these beers are hot, these bands are shits, these waffles are stales, these drives are brutals, etc. I truly believe the art was perfected in the White Jazz song title "These Arms Are Snakes On A Plane", penned by one Jared B. Eglington.
On a more sober tone, a sincere tip of the hat to some excellent musicians and a great rock band. It's a shame to see another of our ilk bite the dust, and unless they all go on to lucrative careers as bar-room DJs spinning ipod play lists I'm curious to see where things go for our boys. Brian, I hope you continue to ground Russian Circles in the way that only you can, and that The Stranger continues to employ your skills and insights in observing many otherwise ignored bands and trends in today's music. Steve, I hope you find new microphone cables to choke yourself with, and I'm sure that steady stream of poon will keep flowing. Ryan, you are awesome and Narrows will dominate as hard as you allow it. Chris, get your goddamn drums out of our practice space.
Mr. Ben Verellen is working on a special Jon-only bass amp for me at the moment. Stopped by the shop today to give it a test run but there were some technical difficulties so I still haven't heard the beast sing her song yet. Grabbed a pic of the frame though!
My new years resolution is to mosh like an asshole to Rusty Cage.
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
The Biafra show was a good time. Thanks for coming out. I was especially thrilled when they played 'Police Truck', one of my favorite classics. We were honored to be on the show and glad you people didn't mind watching us do our thing before Jello hit the stage.
Stumbled onto some footage of Botch playing in Slovenia in 1999. Real good quality, and aside from the tard in the black hat standing around waiting for the skate punk to start the visuals are awesome too. Brings back memories!
We're playing a last minute show at Neumos Wed Dec 29th with Jello Biafra's new band. We played one of their first shows a while back at the Biafra 5-0 and they are really fucking good. If you like Dead Kennedys and thought Jello kicked ass with the Melvins, you will enjoy.
Jello sings of course, and playing the instruments are:
Guitar - Ralph Spite // Victim's Family
Guitar - Kimo Ball // Freak Accident
Bass - Billy Gould // Faith No More
Drums - Jon Weiss // Men of Porn
Tickets available through Ticketwest.com, Moe Bar, Rudy's Barbershop, and select QFC's (lol).
For all intents and purposes this is our new 'website'. Our URL expired and we didnt renew in time and some cock gobbler took it and made it into a table top gaming blog which I find to be equal parts awesome and lame.
Personally, I can't take another day on myspace so I've left that to Nat and Aaron to manage. That site is true and utter dog shit.
