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About Me

Crawling out of the sewers of New Bedford, Massachusetts, Chris Evil & The Taints come to resurrect the primitive sounds of classic rock & roll and punk rock without the usual bullshit of the genre. Our entire demo can be downloaded for free at http://chrisevilandthetaints.cjb.net Long live rock and roll!!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 7/4/2004
Band Website: this is it!
Band Members: Chris Evil - Guitar and Vocals
Greg "The Carbomb from Lebanon" Furious - Bass
Eric Shun - Drums

Jay Hawkins - played Guitar and did Backing Vocals on "Got No Soul", but is currently in Japan doing Japanese things.

Influences: The Oblivians, Compulsive Gamblers, The New Bomb Turks, Rolling Stones, The Devil Dogs, James Brown, The Misfits, The Angry Samoans, New York Dolls, Johnny Thunders, Roky Erickson, The Rip-offs, The Ramones, Black Flag, The Sonics, Turbonegro, The Dwarves.
Sounds Like: Garage/Drunk Punk Rock
Record Label: Blood Moon Records
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Episode 2: (Snack) Attack of the Bones

So the last time I wrote was pretty much about all the cool music related stuff we (me and the missus) saw in Memphis. Now it's time for food! We ate so much stuff that's bad for us, like corona...
Posted by Chris Evil & The Taints on Thu, 21 Jun 2007 11:14:00 PST

Episode 1: The Phantom Memphis

Let me preface this by saying, I will probably do a few blogs because we (me and my lovely wife) did a shit load of stuff on our honeymoon (as in my lovely wife just recently became my wife and we wen...
Posted by Chris Evil & The Taints on Thu, 21 Jun 2007 06:28:00 PST

Thanks to all!!!

I haven't written one of these in a while so here it goes... Thanks to everyone that came out for my birthday party/show. Somehow I managed to not get too drunk and I think it went pretty well.&...
Posted by Chris Evil & The Taints on Tue, 05 Sep 2006 09:00:00 PST

Chicago Horizontal Action Blackout Fest.

So I went to Chicago this weekend to see the reunion of the mighty Oblivians. They were amazing. But I'm getting ahead of myself. Let's start from the beginning.... Me and the missus...
Posted by Chris Evil & The Taints on Tue, 30 May 2006 12:47:00 PST

No more Music

This is to let everyone know that there will be no more Taints songs up on Myspace. Greg and I talked about it and we got a little nervous about this (from the terms section of myspace.com, the ...
Posted by Chris Evil & The Taints on Mon, 08 May 2006 02:02:00 PST

You don't have to be a dick about it....

....is a pretty kick ass song, technically it's called "Dick About It". For those that don't know, it's by a band from Chicago called M.O.T.O. and I was lucky enough to go see them a couple week...
Posted by Chris Evil & The Taints on Fri, 05 May 2006 12:03:00 PST

Greg Furious wants me to tell you something.

To all interested parties: Our beloved Greg Furious is doing instrument repairs and modifications in his workshop. If anybody needs an instrument fixed or whatever, send me a message a...
Posted by Chris Evil & The Taints on Sun, 26 Feb 2006 08:22:00 PST

Taints need a drummer!

It's true. We had a couple people in my mind but it didn't pan out, so if there are any drummers that want to play shows and are interested in what we do, send me a message....
Posted by Chris Evil & The Taints on Tue, 14 Feb 2006 11:16:00 PST

blah blah blah part 2

So it seems I can upload songs again. Hurray for us. I put up four songs off our album. Talk to everyone later
Posted by Chris Evil & The Taints on Tue, 18 Oct 2005 01:29:00 PST

Blah blah blah

To anyone that cares: I've been trying to put a few mastered versions of our not so new songs up but to no avail, I keep getting an error message. Oh well. Hopefully soon.
Posted by Chris Evil & The Taints on Tue, 18 Oct 2005 12:09:00 PST