Killdozer (band)

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Killdozer
General information
origin Madison , Wisconsin , USA
Genre (s) Post rock , noise rock
founding 1983, 1993, 2006
resolution 1990, 1996
Founding members
Voice, bass
 Michael Gerald
guitar
 Bill Hobson
Drums
 Dan Hobson
Last occupation
guitar
 Jeff Ditzenberger
guitar
 Paul Zagoras
bass
 Tom Hazelmyer
Drums
 Erik Tunison
Drums
 Scott Giampino

Killdozer was an American noise rock band from Madison , Wisconsin .

history

The band was formed in 1983 by Bill and Dan Hobson and Michael Gerald. The name is borrowed from a 1974 television movie that was remake of a 1944 novella by Theodore Sturgeon . The first album Intellectuals are the Shoeshine Boys of the Ruling Elite was released that same year. In 1989, Tom Hazelmyer , who had founded Amphetamine Reptile three years earlier and played in Halo of Flies , replaced Bill Hobson, who later played again for a short time in Killdozer. In 1990 the band disbanded, but was reformed in 1993 for three years with Paul Zagoras instead of Bill Hobson as guitarist. The farewell tour was called "Fuck you, we quit". The tour was held with Erik Tunison from Die Kreuzen instead of Dan Hobson on drums and Jeff Ditzenberger (second guitar ).

Killdozer released nine albums, including a posthumous live breakup CD entitled The Last Waltz . In 2006 they played at a Touch and Go Records 25th birthday event in Chicago, Illinois under the title "Fuck you, we reunite!" For 2008 a few follow-up concerts by Touch and Go have been announced. In the meantime Dan Hobson played in different bands (for example Cement Pond ). The band released on Touch and Go during the 1980s / 1990s and toured with other bands on the label such as Butthole Surfers , Scratch Acid and Big Black . Killdozer was also produced by Butch Vig ( Geffen Records , see also Nirvana ) and Steve Albini (Big Black). Twelve Point Buck was the album that gave Butch Vig its breakthrough when it was discovered by Kurt Cobain and Billy Corgan ( The Smashing Pumpkins ). Michael Gerald is now a lawyer in Los Angeles and sang again in 2007 for the band Hunchback (for a cover version of Christina Aguilera's hit Beautiful ), Bill Hobson works in film production in Los Angeles.

style

The band was known for their extra slow, crazy songs and their black humor. Michael Gerald (bass and vocals) roared the pieces rather than he sang them, the whole habitus of the band was emphatically rowdy and gritty, the music was warm and well mixed. Killdozer became known as one of the first grunge bands, even if this style was first and foremost associated with the Seattle music scene. The sound is partly comparable to the American band Flipper , the Melvins , as well as the band The Birthday Party and - through the use of brass parts - the classic rock of the 1970s can be counted among the influences. A number of cover versions were also made , including Don McLean's American Pie (one version is on her 1989 album For Ladies Only , which contains only covers), Lynyrd Skynyrd's Sweet Home Alabama , Deep Purples Hush , Lee Hazlewood's Poor Man and Jessi Colters I'm not Lisa (on Burl , 1986, later included on the 1994 CD Uncompromising War on Art Under the Dictatorship of the Proletariat , 1994). For Killdozer's oversized pieces , stupendous text ideas up to the submission of text suggestions by fans were created. The texts are partly carried by a parodic distance that reflects the living conditions (not only) of American society like a false floor. The whole gesture of the band is based on a comment on the real-cynical circumstances of Homo Consumus , which in part may be understood as cynicism , for example on Twelve Point Buck (produced by Butch Vig) in an action film parody ( Man vs Nature ).

Discography

Albums

  • The Last Waltz (1997, Man's Ruin Records, re-released 2006 on Crustacean Records)
  • God Hears the Pleas of the Innocent (Touch and Go, 1995)
  • Uncompromising War on Art Under the Dictatorship of the Proletariat (Touch and Go, 1994)
  • Twelve Point Buck (Touch and Go, 1991)
  • For Ladies Only (Touch and Go, 1989)
  • Little Baby Buntin ' (Touch and Go, 1987)
  • Burl EP (Touch and Go, 1986)
  • Snake Boy (Touch and Go, 1985)
  • Intellectuals Are the Shoeshine Boys of the Ruling Elite (Touch and Go, 1984)

Singles

  • Go Big Red ( Sonnet '96 / I Saw The Light ) (-ismist Recordings, 1996)
  • Michael Gerald's Party Machine (Touch and Go, 1996) with Alice Donut
  • We Will Crush You 10 "collaboration with Ritual Device (Man's Ruin Records, 1995)
  • The Pig Was Cool / Unbelievable (Touch and Go, 1993)
  • Her Mother's Sorrow / Short Eyes (Amphetamine Reptile, 1989)
  • Yow! ( Lupus / Nasty ) (Touch and Go, 1989)
  • Short Eyes (with Tom Hazelmyer)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ James Rotondi: Butch Vig: 20 years after Nevermind ( Memento of the original from February 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.izotope.com
  2. ↑ Interview with Mark Prindle