Like a 5th grade science experiment gone awry - put Johnny Cash, Motorhead, Russ Meyer, Bob Barker & a polka band in a plane then crash it into a brewery ... Bondo is what rises from the wreckage.
Summer of '97 ... Roscoe Village in Chicago ... a group of friends got together to mess around on a bunch of different instruments, drink some beer & have some fun. 7 months later we recorded a cd called 'Fistful of Biscuits' with Johnny K. at Groovemaster studio.
Our first show was at "The Damen" in Roscoe Village and was a rowdy 5 song set that featured the original line-up. Over the years members changed but the core remained the same. We even had some guest players who showed up every once in a while. Anyhow - we played places like Big Horse, Beat Kitchen, Morseland, The Gallery (in Normal IL), Lincoln Square Lanes, The Note, Mutiny, O'Malleys, Lounge Ax & Double Door. The shows were more of an event ... circus style ... with prizes for the audience. The key was having fun.
Once - we set up a show at the Gallery with Ruth Buzzy ... since our shows were boozefests for the band & the audience, we hired a schoolbus to drive us & 38 fans down to Normal, IL for the show. Of course we had to get a keg for the ride! That show was outrageously fun!
So why the mySpace page now?
Well, folks have been telling me "hey, I miss Bondo" ... and although we only released the one full length cd and a self recorded X-mas E.P., there's a bunch of practice tapes & demos & live tracks that we never got around to releasing. I figured - what the hell, why not pop some of those up on mySpace! So I'll be rotating songs every couple of months for anyone who cares.
Fuck you it's Ours
I have a feeling many of you have been at a party, or received a comp from someone with a song called Fuck You I'm Drunk . And I'd be willing to bet it's credited to Flogging Molly, Dropkick Murphys, Dr. Demento, The Dubliners, The Pogues, etc etc etc. Well, that is wrong. We wrote that song in 1997 & it appears on Fistful of Biscuits as F.Y.I.D.
How'd it happened? We entered a contest at beer.com back in '98 and did pretty well (14 out of 500 or so entries). The mp3 was free to download not only from beer.com, but from thedailydirt.com as well. Somewhere along the line, the mp3 id tags got munched & it's been traded all over the internet as someone else.
If the song starts out "I bang on the door ..." then you know it's Bondo. Although, there have been some nice folks out there who have covered F.Y.I.D. - The McRyatts & Spew who gave credit where credit is due - Thanks Guys.
Oh - check out Youtube as well ... the song has inspired some raucous videos as well.
Anyhow ... I hope you enjoy the songs & pics, and once I figure out how to convert VHS to a lil mpeg video I'll post clips of us on the " Rock My Ass " tv show & at Meatfest '01 & other various stuff.
