Check out some live clips on youtube !!!! Just search Muddpiggs !!!My name is Jamie Miller (aka Jamie James) and I play lead guitar,bass, and drum program for the Muddpiggs.
The MuddPiggs are a "raunch rock" band that was created by Al Hodge and Jamie Miller back in the late 80's or early 90's. We originally would get together at my place and write songs that consisted of only a cheap Yamaha keyboard with a sampling device and guitar. We put out a demo tape (just to see if someone would buy it) at a few record stores in Chalmette,LA. I think that we may have sold 1 or 2 copies total. Al and I have been like brothers ever since those days. Al moved on to form a band called "Sam Snot" which would eventually turn into Chalmette's premiere heavy metal band "Tungsten". They put out some great stuff that you can check out at www.tungstenmusic.com. I went on to join a band called "Psychodance" which was an all cover band that played for college crowds. After Psychodance ended...I formed a band called "King Friday" which was more of a dark,psychadelic rock band...kinda like the Cult meets the Smashing Pumpkins meets the doors. I really loved this band and thought that we could've done so much more with it but things just didn't work out with some of the members and it soon ended. We did get about 10 great songs recorded before we split up though. One of them can be heard on this site.
After King Friday, my little brother (Brandon) picked up the guitar and began writing some great tunes in the same vein of KF,but in many ways even better. We bagan to write songs together with him playing guitar and I would do all of the drums, keys, lead guitar, and bass. We have about 12 songs written and are still going. You can hear one of them on this site (Miller Bros.). To this day, we have not come up with a band name, or many of the song titles. The music that we create is the most important thing and when we are ready to start playing live, we'll cross those bridges.
And then enters the MuddPiggs phase 2. Al and I were sitting in my studio one Sunday and decided to write a quick and simple rock n roll song. While in process, Brandon showed up and created some lyrics. We wrote and recorded that song (simply called "Rock n Roll") all in one Sunday afternoon. After that, we began to hookup on every Sunday and have a few beers,eat, and write/record a song. We decided that all of our songs would only be about the fun things in life...Drinking,Saturday nights,Sexxx,etc. Next up was a song called "Rock, Drink, and F..ck" (which has become our anthem) and then "Stoned to the Bone" (about me in my heavy smoking days). Then we wrote a song about our local watering hole...the Daquiri Shack of St.Bernard. This is a great place where all of us hang out with all of our friends and get ripped, play pool/darts,crank up AC/DC , Van Halen,to Snoop Dogg, 311, to Slayer, and all sorts of crap on the jukebox. The crowd there is very mixed...I think that's what is so cool about this place. Everyone gets along and everyone is welcome...from old school to new school...from Snoop Dogg to Tool. We liked it there so much that we wrote a song about it called "the Shack". It's a rock song with some dirty slide guitar in it. After we recorded this song (again,in one day),we brought the demo of it and our other songs to our friends there. They loved it and immediately put it into the jukebox where it now gets played a zillion times a night and everyone sings along "let's go get drunk at the shack".
We really never planned on playing live since we are only 3 people and I do all of the drums, bass and most of the lead guitar. But then everyone began to ask us to play there and we decided F..ck it...we'll do it without a drummer and bassist. I then retracked our songs for the live show and we played our first gig there in front of about 175 people there on June 3rd,2005. This was my first time playing live in about 9 yrs. and I was as nervous as Michael Jackson at a Chuck E Cheese. Our first show was rough...the CD skipped once, Al's guitar went out...but it came together and when we played songs like "the Shack" and "Rock,Drink & F..ck", everyone sang along and the girls were all dancing around. That made it all worth the while.
The owner asked us to play on July 16th , so we did. This time we went all out...We did our own sound, lighting, smoke, backdrops,etc. We got an even better reaction this time.
We have been playing regularly now since June and are gonna do a few more live shows and take a break to re-record our songs for a new CD.
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What happened to us in 2005....here's an old bio of it...
In 2005 Hurricane Katrina hit our hometown and destroyed everything that we own including our studio and live gear. We are currently living in Spring, TX (N.Houston) and are gonna be here for awhile. We are probably going to restart here and hope that Texas rocks as much as New Orleans did. I think that once New Orleans gets up and running again, we will go back to play there. All of our friends and family are spread out across America and we miss them very much. If anyone is in the Houston area, get in touch with me and maybe we'll hook up and have a few drinks. We lost all of our drinking buddies and there's always room for more anyway. We had to cancel our best gig to evacuate. Everyone was excited and what should've been a night of music, beer, and friends...turned into everyone going there seperate ways with no goodbyes only to watch as Katrina ripped through all of our houses and destroyed EVERY HOUSE IN OUR PARISH ! WTF ... I thought that we'd be home in a few days. Our houses flooded past the rooftops and the water stayed for over a week. Then Hurricane Rita came through and flooded us for a second time ! When I did go back,(a week after H Rita) I couldn't get into my front door and had to use an axe to enter my house which was covered in water and mud. There was atleast 16 inches deep of sludge on my front lawn and I had to wear all kinds of protective clothing to get in. IWhen I finally got into my house, I was so devastated that I just wanted to walk right back out. The sheetrock from the ceilings and the insulation from the attic was all over everything on the floor and there was mud and sludge covering EVERYTHING. I realized that everything that I've owned throughout my life was destroyed. The only thing that I was able to salvage where some MuddPiggs CD's from the studio. Oh yeah, take a look at my pics and you'll see what my studio looked like. I was so disgusted at what the neighborhood looked like, I just wanted to leave and never go back to that day and place again. So My buddy Al and I got in the car and headed back.
