About Me
Jerk Alert was one pretty amazing experience. We were all between the ages of 14-17 when we got it started in a garage in Walpole, MA. We were just 4 kids who absolutley loved music and it showed. J.A. got started in the mid 90's and broke up after a long effort to keep the dream alive around 2000 or so. We got our name from the film, The Goonies. A line that "Mouth" yells out. We even got into an online war with some other band called Jerk Alert! But i'm pretty sure we won and told them to go fuck themselves. They were some southern piece o sit punk band. whateva- fuck em! When we were playing out regularly, we shared the stage with Dow Jones & The Industrials, Moment, Pushing For Summer, The Bends, and many more i cannot remember for the life of me.Since the break up, all of the members (Dan Calden, Tony Gemba, Dave Pezzone, and Chris Lyons) have stayed busy doing other awesome bands and solo projects. There were also multiple fill ins during the time that Dave moved to Florida and Chris quit. The other Jerx were Sal Medrano(trombone), Jason Caira(gits), Gregg Poulin(bass), Greg Pedula(gits), Mike Volpe (gits), Jay ?(bass), Dana "Title-Bomb"(sax), and Evan Parker (he played t-bone at a practice or two). All of these people played in awesome MA bands after and before Jerk Alert as well. But Jerk Alert was truely the original 4 core members. No one matched that chemistry.Here's a list of all the bands the other members took part in (i'm sure this will be updated frequently, cuz there's a shit load)-Dan Calden- Kicked In The Head, The Boston Jolly Pirates, Untitled We Stand, Shit Outta Luck, The Sellouts, and MTBA.Tony Gemba- The Boston Jolly Pirates, Shit Outta Luck, A Fine Line, The Pluggers, The Daggetts, Rancor, and MTBA.Dave Pezzone- MTBAChris Lyons- Count Fistula, These Are, and MTBA.(fill in members never on a legit recording)-Sal M.- Dead Ellington (formerly The Knockout Kings), and MTBA.Jason Caira (at jasoncaira.com)- Dead Ellington and MTBA.Dana T-Bomb- Up The Ante and MTBA*and that's all i can think of for now- FUCK OFF! God, i was not even old enough to buy butts during most of this.Anyways, i don't regret Jerk Alert! at all. It was a great learning experience and i had a lot of fun practicing with my friends, recording in Norwood with Dave Zolla (at Zolla Productions) and i met a ton of cool musicians i still talk to to this day (like Big D & The Kids Table, Kicked in The Head, N8, The Sellouts, Drexel, Kevin Delaney from Professor Plum out of Jersey- he played keys on "Skalloween", & so on, so forth).But most of all, i watched and heard myself mature as a musician. We started off like ur typical 3rd Wave Ska-Punk band (Slapstick, Jack Kevorkian and The Suicide Machines, Less Than Jake) and became this crazy mix of ska and punk with lots of Metal, and Thrash, and Reggae, and Hardcore. Like Chim Chim's era Fishbone or Full Throttle era Blue Meanies. It was sweet. It really is a shame we no longer exist. But HEY!, all good things come to an end. And if Jerk Alert never broke up, where would all of our current bands like The Boston Jolly Pirates and These Are be?- Tony Gemba of The BJ Pirates. CHEERS!!! and thanx for reading this obnoxious bio!!!
