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spongomummagummabullybeef+microchips
CD (Honest Tooth / G.I.C.S.N.) 2003
dodgem / nuclear attack / white nigger / anten / mummagumma / lawn boy / pearl roun' yo' neck / uh huh! / anti / hot cakes / assault and battery / can't get no peace / cats unfinished symphony / bone balls / g.o.g. / successorist / baboon / do the stuka / motherload / live white nigger
Recorded at Frisbees #1-4 by Bob between 1992-96
Video: Dodgem
The rainy days first came together as the members of gestalt found themselves embattled in recording their "motherlode" album and were looking for an outlet to perform live in a setting that did not require the personnel for their increasingly bizarre arrangements and strict instrumentation demanded by their principal songwriter Davy G.
The drummer went semi-autistic and the singer took to bellowing through an orange road cone. The rainy days live performances varied between teenage house parties, primary school show and tells and mostly unannounced performances at other people's rock shows at such venues as the North Shore Netball association, Mount Eden's powerhouse and grunge's own bob bar.
At some point members of the mount albert municipal orchestra were added, namely Tom Dale, John Athon, Stuart Page and legendary fifteen year old tuba player Jackie Carley. Spongo and Smak burgers were sold, Slak was given away and yet cassette sales were slow.
The band reached its physical limit when they played at the aforementioned Mt. Eden venue in competition with the headline act, U.S.A's Fugazi. An overly ambitious use of guitar amplified through transistor radios and further amplified through the venue's enormous sound system along with the additional ten singers/percussionists led to an audioly compromised performance causing much controversy amongst the founding fathers of American hardcore and audience alike.
Jackie had School C and had to quit the band, bob had to shift frisbees one more time, Lance had to join King Loser, Rich got pregnant and Dave had to move south-west to Millerton and return to the motherlode, anten the pre prozac, assault and battery at dominon road KFC, do the stuka off the town hall balcony, white niggers franchising the disenfranchiseed, Big day out 1 was just around the corner.
This is a record of those times.
motherlode
Dave (guitar+sing) Rich (bass+sing) Steve (drums)
Recorded at Frisbee #1 (Mayoral Drive) by Bob, 1992
previously unreleased
white nigga / nuclear attack / dodgem / pearl roun' yo' neck
Dave (guitar+sing) Rich (bass+sing) Steve (drums)
Recorded at Frisbee #1 (Mayoral Drive)? by Bob, 1993
from the Spongo cassette
mummagumma / anten / lawnboy / ante
Dave (guitar+sing) Rich (bass+sing) Steve (drums) Phil (piano)
Recorded at Frisbee #2 (Bacon Factory)? by Bob, 1993
from the mummugumma cassette
white nigga (live)
Dave (guitar+sing) Rich (bass+sing) Steve (drums) + cone choir
Recorded in High St., Auckland by Bob, 1994
previously unreleased
do the stuka
Dave (guitar+sing) Rich (bass+sing) Lance (drums)
Recorded at Frisbee #2 (Bacon Factory) by Bob, 1994
previously unreleased
assault and battery / can't get no peace / cats unfinished symphony
Dave (guitar+sing) Rich (bass) Lance (drums) Stuart (bongos) Tom (sax) Johnathon (trombone) Phil (piano) Ron+Dion (percussion)
bone balls
Dave+Rich+Tom (sing+stomp)
Recorded at Frisbee #2 (Bacon Factory) and #3 (Bond St.) by Bob, 1994
not quite released as the BullyBeef cassette
hot cakes / uh-huh! / g.o.g.
Dave (guitar+sing) Rich (bass) Tony (drums) Tom (sax) Johnathon (clarinet) Jackie (tuba) Glenn (sax) Alan (piano)
Recorded at Frisbee #4 (BNZ Symonds St.) by Bob, 1995
from the Uh-huh! 7" (Flying Nun)
successorist
Dave (guitar+sing) Rich (bass) Tom (sax) Ron (drums)
Recorded at Frisbee #4 (BNZ Symonds St.) by Bob, 1996
previously unreleased