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Basement Beast

Bouncy, bouncy, bouncy, rama lama ding dong ding !

About Me



This is the sound of a bunch of guys who have known each other for far too long. They have spent countless hours in various basements making these noises they call the jam. The songs are all only played once. Each jam has about 4 or 5 special moments that will be shared right here for your listening pleasure. Some songs are offensive and most contain realistic language.The musicians change from week to week.They all try to sing sometimes and most succeed. There is no lack of talent or effort here. These people came from good families. It's hard to tell just where everything went wrong. Crack a coldy golden bubbles bottle and stick a pinch between your cheek and gum! Park your butt in the recliner your neighbor left out on the curb and enjoy. Every tune provides lasting flavor and a stale after taste that just won't go away. Very addictive, kind of like a tobacco habit.-Basement Beast

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Member Since: 11/5/2005
Band Website: This is the Website, Ding Dong!
Band Members: Smize, Waldy Chewstien, Chip "Loads of Fun" Hemps, Rev. Jim, Pink Eyed Pete, Moore Bitz, Brenda Brenda, Ken Ball, Chuckles , Sleepy Jay , Camping Cathy, Atom Z, Glenda Lyn, Billy the Ill. Boy, Nasty Nate, Kris Teeter Totters, Tiny Tim, Waldric, Fezzy and many many more.

Influences: Wings, Belle and Sebastian, Charlie Daniels, Robyn Hitchcock, Pink Floyd, True West, Joan Jett, Freak Water, Steely Dan, Gang of 4, Carpenters, Del Fuegos, Replacements, Husker Du, Soul Asylum, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Billy Bragg, Black Sabbath, Ramones, the Mekons, Grateful Dead, Phish, Handsome Family, Tom Petty, Guns and Roses, Loretta Lynn, REM, U2, The Doors, Suburbs, Head East, Don Henely, Big Star, MC-5, Barry Gibb, Styx, Flying Burrito Brothers, The Silver Bullet Band, The The, Mumbala Bugs, Gear Daddies, Hank III, The Jayhawks, Curtis A., Willie Nelson...

Sounds Like: The Hatfields and McCoys go down to the cellar for a little dueling banjos in the dark. When they get to the bottom of the stairs they are beaten and pinched in unpleasant places. Eventually selected members of these fueding famalies are forced to make up three chord pop songs on friday nights for the rest of their lives. You wonder why we're too ashamed to show our faces? What's in the jug?

Record Label: clip and save barcodes from label for rebate
Type of Label: None

My Blog

another one climbs over 40

Basement Beast played out in the hinterlands before a live studio audience and a nice spread of potluck, jello, chips etc. last weekend. Waldric and the Family Smize hosted a gathering of friends, nei...
Posted by Basement Beast on Mon, 18 Aug 2008 11:47:00 PST

Jam

There was finally a jam at Chuckles' on Friday night.  The stairway to the attic is under construction, but we had fun sitting on the roof reminiscing about aunt Gale's noodle salad and making fu...
Posted by Basement Beast on Mon, 11 Aug 2008 01:33:00 PST

Kenny Kenny Kenny

Strange little Jam with Gwendalyn, K-Ball, Pete and Hemps...Songs about jail, songs about Robots. 
Posted by Basement Beast on Sun, 13 Jul 2008 08:46:00 PST

old roommates...

according to the usual round-up of unreliable sources Hemps had his old roomies over for a rare Saturday night jam on Saturday. I have no independent confirmation that this ever occured. In other news...
Posted by Basement Beast on Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:47:00 PST

stayed up late

The boys were up wailing way past their usual bedtimes last night. Hemps basement was a tight squeeze for Atom, Smize, Hemps and Pete. Summer laziness hung over the evening like a cloud of fragrant sm...
Posted by Basement Beast on Sun, 22 Jun 2008 07:11:00 PST

One of Basement Beasts Own

Waldychew ...
Posted by Basement Beast on Sun, 27 Apr 2008 12:30:00 PST

Two Man Jam

Hemps and Pete filled a couple friday night hours in the belly of the Basement Beast.Hemps started things off with his version of an old Derek Ecker song about flowers in the graveyard and Pete (not t...
Posted by Basement Beast on Sat, 26 Apr 2008 03:33:00 PST

Toxic Shock

We had ourselves a good little jam in Hemps's basement featuring a long overdue reunion of the mash potato sandwich eating, roof top guitar strumming, cheesy candybar lane living Colfax Aven...
Posted by Basement Beast on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 06:50:00 PST

New Jam Space

After many years of planning and construction, the jam room in Smize’s Basement is now operational.  Smize, Waldrick, Atom, Sleep Jay, Waldychew, and Chuckles were all in on Smize’s B...
Posted by Basement Beast on Sun, 06 Apr 2008 04:00:00 PST

Banjo Fever

Well as far as I can tell, there was a regular Basement Beast ho-down going on the other night.  Thank you Jeff for the great banjo playing.  Smize, Hemple, Pete, Chuckles, Jay, and Ato...
Posted by Basement Beast on Fri, 29 Feb 2008 07:13:00 PST