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About Me

In the great tradition of The Monkees, The Partridge Family and Josie and the Pussycats comes a band actually built around a TV series. Not only does Flabby Hoffman star in their own weekly television series in Chicago (Thursday nights from 11:30pm to 12:30am on CAN-TV Cable Channel 19), but the titular figurehead of the band, Flabby H. himself, has his own weekly radio series as well ("The Flabby Hoffman Radio Extravagonzo" Thursday nights 7:00pm to 10:00pm at fearlessradio.com).One can of course find the Flabby Hoffman Trio as well tooling around at nearly every decent club in town once in a while, where Flabby Hoffman is responsible for booking each of the bands that perform at the club for the evening in what is called the Flabby Hoffman Caravan which is a series of shows throughout the Chicago rock circuit with about 300 gigs under its belt. The Caravan features tons of great organically driven music as well as prize giveaways, comedic and acoustic tweener acts, a freaky host, customized event programs, all of which is videotaped to gather footage for the Flabby TV series.The Flabby Hoffman Trio itself, unlike the TV bands mentioned at the top of this description who were primarily designed for teeny boppers and lumberjacks, looks to appeal to all of the disenfranchised of the world. Those pushed to the side by a mainstream media which seems like an electronic Spanish Inquisition forcing us to conform or be tortured. A mainstream cultural indoctrination device that seems more concerned with turning everyone into a mindless robot than encouraging truly creative people to create. With their hard rock, riff oriented, axe blistering antics and soul stirring lyrics, there is no doubt that this band is not in the mood to compromise. Will this trio get crushed by the weight of the imposing forces in control of our culture, or will they learn how to thrive in a world run by sociopaths that seek to crush every last vestige of individuality...If you would like to be part of this effort, join us on the TV series, join us on the radio show, fool around at a Flabby live show, do some original productions and help make this thing resonate...be my guest.

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Member Since: 9/19/2005
Band Website: flabbyhoffman.com
Band Members: Flabby Hoffman - Guitar, Vocals; Pierre Le Deluge - Bass Guitar; Eddie The Chest - Bass Guitar; Dr. Werner Von Groovulus - Drums; Orange Julius - Drums; Joe Glachenmachen - Drums; Jerry Rubinesque - Drums
Influences: Neil Sedaka, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Queens of the Stone Age, Sandy Duncan's Eye, The Soundtrack from the original version of Willie Wonka and The Chocolate Factory, Fugazi, old Traffic, dog whistles, the sound of one hand clapping, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Captain Beefheart, the solo organ music of Lurch from The Addams Family, Stravinsky, the jaunty sea chanties from the early Popeye cartoons, Iggy and the Stooges, anything with Adrian Belew on it in the 1980's, the song "Witchita Lineman" by Glen Campbell, Tommy Bolin, Mars Volta, the theme song to the TV series "Love American Style," Schoolhouse Rock, the song stylings of Leonard Nimoy, early Chicago, Live at Leeds, The Fifth Dimnsion, Michael Bolton (only during time when he had his super mullet), Hydrock Cocoa and Joe, Hendricks Lambert and Ross, The Shaggs, The Gurus, Joni Mitchell, Alan Sherman, Cursive, Q And Not U, Melt Banana, Don Caballero, Sonny And Cher, The Flaming Lips, Probot, Muse, The Bonzo Dog Band, Kate Bush, The Bloody Stools, Flatts and Scruggs, Zoobombs, the sound of a tree falling in the forest when there's no one around, Slavic Soul Party, Either Orchestra, Herb Alpert, Blood Brothers, The Letterman, Bongwater (actually the sound of bongwater swishing around and bubbling in the pipe...not the band "Bongwater"), Naked City, pre-disco Bee-Gees, Big Tiny Little, Raymond Scott, Howlin' frickin Wolf baby, Nancy Sinatra, Drive Like Jehu, Dillenger Escape Plan, Zappa, Rick Astley (not), Al Caiola, Zappa, The Delta 72, Brainiac, Lonnie Mack, Nell Carter singing the theme song from her TV series "Gimmie A Break," Bang Tango, Wango Tango by The "Nuge," Menudo, Wayne Newton (when he was a little kid doing "Shangri-la" not the old Leatherface lookin creep), the soundtrack to the movie Escape From Planet of the Apes, The Minutemen, Jesus Lizard, classical music played on toy pianos, The Ventures, Enland Dan and John Ford Coley, Rage Against The Machine, Faraquet, gregorian chant, Liberace, Thinking Fellers Union, old Roxy Music (Eno/Jobson years), The Polysics, Minnie Pearl
Sounds Like: Marijuana on acid
Record Label: The Bush Regime blew up the World Trade Center?
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Harvey Wallbanger

This is the story of Harvey Wallbanger. He was a pillar of society A modest man, a hard worker, caring, a penitent man and Chemically addicted to methamphetamine, PCP and sex with Circus clowns. &nbs...
Posted by Flabby Hoffman on Sat, 21 Apr 2007 12:16:00 PST

Synchronize The Buzz Kill

It's time to synchronize the frickin buzz kill people So that the candy wrappers and the cigarette butts Collect in the same space time continuum. I'm off on my way to the corner coroner To fetch my s...
Posted by Flabby Hoffman on Sat, 21 Apr 2007 11:05:00 PST

The King Of The Low Lifes

As our culture became more and more surface minded, a unique biological process took place called Visceral Stratification. This was a process that happened naturally as people endowed with phys...
Posted by Flabby Hoffman on Thu, 20 Jul 2006 07:36:00 PST

Imaginary Disappearances

Somewhere between the realms of loss, ignorance and denial exists an astral plane upon which we smear the finest of intellectual road apples. An activity exists there which we must call imaginar...
Posted by Flabby Hoffman on Wed, 05 Jul 2006 11:05:00 PST

Stairway To Fecal

So many times have I watched a Joe Montana thumb his nose at the odds; and with literally seconds to go, drive his team down as if the opposition wasn't even there, to cross the goaline and reach into...
Posted by Flabby Hoffman on Sun, 19 Feb 2006 07:04:00 PST

Dumpster Baby Makeover

I watched a show the other day on American television. It was called Watch and Obey: Meet Your New Dumpster Baby. The program was scheduled to take place over the course of a half an hou...
Posted by Flabby Hoffman on Wed, 16 Nov 2005 02:41:00 PST

The Infallible Mistake

On the day that I became the infallible mistake, some bitch walked up to me and slapped my dogma. I turned into a pronoun and sucked the life out of a souvenir snow globe that I keep in my pants...
Posted by Flabby Hoffman on Wed, 19 Oct 2005 05:05:00 PST

Babies Stole My Dingo

Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous bong loads, or by opposing them drop trou and make your way to the local leather bar and make a mound of spaghetti usi...
Posted by Flabby Hoffman on Sat, 01 Oct 2005 01:43:00 PST