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About Me

We're NJ Drunk Rock. Basically, the Professor had been making half-assed attempts to get a band off the ground for years before a chance encounter with Fat Joe at a Skels show in 2003, who had mentioned he played guitar. The two then continued to make half-assed attempts to find a bassist and drummer with the Professor restringing Joe's old bass left-handed with the intent of playing bass and singing at the same time even though he could do neither particularly well. But he was determined.....or at least as determined as a lazy bastard could be. Enter Eddie Two-Strings, whom the Professor had known for years and whose original meeting has been lost in the mists of time. During a conversation on this very site, the Professor casually mentioned how his seemingly endless (read: lazy) search for the rhythmn section had been fruitless. Eddie Two-Strings informed the Professor that that he was taking up the bass again and knew an excellent drummer by the name of DavenJen who, as it turned out, is indeed an exceptional drummer. The Professor told Fat Joe about this fortunate turn of events and there was much rejoicing and writing of songs. In September of 2004, the first practice commenced and the first show was January 12, 2005. Since then, we have been fortunate enough to share the stage with the likes of Murphy's Law, the Adicts, the Business, Iron Cross, Darkbuster, Street Dogs, Niblick Henbane, the Wretched Ones, Hub City Stompers, Steel Toe Solution, the Skels, Headwound, Broken Heroes, Urban Riot, Step2Far, and Awkward Thought among others. We have played all over NJ, CBGBs, Boston, Pittsburgh, Delaware, and the East Coast Of OI 2006 and 2007, in Allentown PA. To Be Continued.....

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/1/2004
Band Members: Eddie Two-Strings - empanada chef extraordinnaire, bassoon; Lunchbox - Guinness Boy, obomaboe; Davenjen - now a legal drunk, tubamabob; The Professor - first mate of Captain Morgan, pi-anny.
Influences: Alcohol & Tits, Murphy's Law, Inspecter 7, Hub City Stompers, Steel Toe Solution, Niblick Henbane, The Wretched Ones, Broken Heroes, the Skels, Bouncing Souls, Darkbuster, Sheer Terror, Ducky Boys, the Truents, the Clash, CockSParrer, Sick Of It All, BadBrains, TSOL, Slayer, Turbo A.C.'s, Hudson Falcons, Danzig-era Misfits, Anti-Nowhere League....
Sounds Like: A 14 car pileup on the NJ Turnpike. Seriously. We're all over the place
Type of Label: None

My Blog

for those who wondering about the last couple of weird private ’blogs’.

they're pretty much just some rough lyrics and ideas. nothing important, nothing major. we'll probably post more as they come, 'cos i'm usually in front of a computer most of the day and i rarely have...
Posted by Turnpike Wrecks on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 08:44:00 PST

BE MORE GOOD is out of print now

Those of you who own it might get a shiny nickel on the collectors market. It will not be repressed anytime soon, however we are looking into some sort of online download type thing if there's enough...
Posted by Turnpike Wrecks on Thu, 27 Dec 2007 11:27:00 PST

R.I.P. Club Deep

For those of you who don't know, Club Deep is pretty much done as a punk venue. It seems it will be turned into some kind of a jazz club/lounge type thing. We played the last set there on Friday, Apri...
Posted by Turnpike Wrecks on Mon, 09 Apr 2007 10:57:00 PST

BE MORE GOOD now available at Two Tone

Yep, some of our limited-press EP "Be More Good" is now available at Two Tone in Passaic. So go in and support Iggy and Two Tone and buy our crap. If you are more nerdbox inclined, hit him up vi...
Posted by Turnpike Wrecks on Sat, 09 Dec 2006 04:10:00 PST

Where to buy our crap

well, not literally, unless you're into that sort of thing. in which case, i suppose we can accommodate you there, too. we'll crap in a box and ship it out to you. ok, seriously though.....here's wher...
Posted by Turnpike Wrecks on Tue, 02 May 2006 11:12:00 PST

BE MORE GOOD!!!

yes, it's finally out. those of you smart enough to come out for Pressure Drop Thursdays at Fitzgerald's Harp 'n' Bard (www.myspace.com/pressuredropsoundsystem) last week already have it. as of right ...
Posted by Turnpike Wrecks on Mon, 17 Apr 2006 11:14:00 PST

Recording Finally Done.......

so we're pretty much wrapped up with recording and mixing.......now we need to do the liner notes and whatnot..... we did 7 songs, 6 will go on an ep,the 7th will be held for a special occasion. we...
Posted by Turnpike Wrecks on Mon, 06 Feb 2006 10:55:00 PST