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About Me

Born: early 1992
Deceased: late 1997
We released two full-length records with Caroline, and one post-humous record with Wingnut.

Along the way we were fortunate enough to perform with/tour with/play poker with/enjoy haiku with/fawn over and/or sneer at many amazing bands, including but not limited to:

American Sensei Archers of Loaf Barkmarket Ben Folds Five Big Drill Car The Buzzcocks Counting Crows Cracker Creeper Lagoon Flop Gang of Four Green Day The Gigolo Aunts Hammerbox Jawbox Jawbreaker Joe Henry The Meices Nada Surf Overwhelming Colorfast The Posterchildren Samiam Seam Shonen Knife The Sneetches Spoon Supernova Tanner Tilt Van Gogh's Daughter Wilco

It was fun.

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May 24, 2006 - Damon gets the keys

Wow, wow wow. You just never know who's out there. This is so cool.

Keith Carbone put this together for us -- so cool -- and like a gentleman, handed over the keys. You rock. I reckon we'll drive it from here, best we can. Thanks, Keith. Also, big thanks to David Hornbuckle , who has been instrumental in keeping us from slipping entirely into the void.

Keith's gracious original bio for us was such:

This is just a fan site. There is tons of info both at www.engine88.net (the official site) including a free download of the album Flies 'N Death 'N Stuff. Then there are more free downloads at Horbuckle.org Enjoy. Engine 88 was a punk rock band in the 1990's. They came from the East Bay (Berkeley, San Francisco) scene. They are on of the most under rated bands of the past 100 years.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/6/2006
Band Website: engine88.net
Band Members:
thuh band circa 1992 - 1998 (l-r):

eric knight - bass, backing vocals dave hawkins - drums, backing vocals tom barnes - lead vocals, guitar, no glasses damon wood - guitar, backing vocals More out of date info & pics on the Where They Are Now page
Influences: Beef Jerky
Sounds Like: Though they don't sound much like any other artist in particular, they should appeal to fans of Jawbreaker, Nirvana, REM, Heatmiser, Pixies, Dinosaur Jr and Neutral Milk Hotel.

and just because he loves her
she eats him up with mustard
Record Label: Caroline, Wingnut.
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Rare Engine 88 track on benefit compilation CD

Folks, please go here and read this.
Posted by Engine 88 on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 10:35:00 PST

How the heck do you know about little ol' us, anyway?

Okay, I've been wondering about something. As lame as this Murdoch-owned piece-o-crap MySpace thing is -- and by that, I mean MySpace as a whole, not anyone's individual page or profile or anything --...
Posted by Engine 88 on Thu, 30 Nov 2006 01:22:00 PST

YouTube

Nice. From http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53DqixLIrf0...
Posted by Engine 88 on Mon, 30 Oct 2006 03:31:00 PST

88 Friends

Utterly meaningless, but noteworthy. As of this morning, we have 88 friends. Huzzah!
Posted by Engine 88 on Mon, 23 Oct 2006 11:38:00 PST

Bottom of the Hill -- GET THERE EARLY

All, I just found out that Engine 88 will be going on either first or second at the show on the 27th. The other band we'll be good-naturedly arguing with will be Carlos, so early attendees win out ei...
Posted by Engine 88 on Thu, 19 Oct 2006 12:04:00 PST

Yes, we're playing

It's true: Engine 88 is playing a show. The deal is it's our old friend Peter Ellenby's book release party (the book is Every Day is Saturday), and he managed to contact a bunch of us old farts and co...
Posted by Engine 88 on Fri, 22 Sep 2006 10:35:00 PST

Demos

Hey, some folks have asked about demos. There are some demos out there, but they're stashed in a crate somewhere, deep in someone's attic (maybe mine). You know how that is. I'll ...
Posted by Engine 88 on Sat, 01 Jul 2006 02:58:00 PST

Engine 88 at 9Up

Oh, BTW not long ago I stumbled onto NineUp, which has our in-studio session with them. It was really fun, done at a time when we were still pretty good. It includes an interview of us done by one of ...
Posted by Engine 88 on Wed, 24 May 2006 10:39:00 PST

Woah! Thanks to Keith.

Keith, dude. This rocks. You get big hugs and slobbery kisses for setting this profile up. This is something I've been meaning to do for some time, but have frankly lacked the inspiration and time to ...
Posted by Engine 88 on Wed, 24 May 2006 10:23:00 PST

Mangos Video

Voila....
Posted by Engine 88 on Wed, 24 May 2006 11:46:00 PST