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Jazzin' Hell

Arguably the best band of all time

About Me

"Jazzin' Hell are the best band in the world" - Moby, 1988
"Possibly the best concert I've ever seen." - Moby, 2004
"It's the most-played tape in the van on this tour." - Sim Caine, Rollins Band
"Jazzin' Hell are gods - 'Chris Had a Degenerative Muscle Disease' is the best song ever written." - Rodney Anonymous, Dead Milkmen
"Funny as hell - this is exactly the kind of stuff I love." - Eugene Chadbourne
"After a Jazzin' Hell show, mere rock 'n' roll bores me." - Carmelita, WBCN/WAAF
"Reminds me of old Boston hardcore, but with a Casio." - Lou Barlow
"I have to fight my roommates for the right to take the tape to work every day." - Brother Cleve, Del Fuegos / Combustible Edison
Moby, Phish, Dinosaur Jr., the Lemonheads, Eugene Chadbourne, Birdsongs of the Mesozoic, the Neighborhoods, and many other bands were fortunate enough to play with Jazzin' Hell over the years. Just as Janice Dickinson "gave" her career in modeling to Cindy Crawford, we happily "gave" our career in music to these bands.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/02/2006
Band Website: www.jazzinhell.com
Band Members: Hilton Dier III - famous renewable energy guru
Peter Katis - famous recording guy (Interpol, the National etc.)
James Kochalka - famous musician and comic guy
Chris Omnipotent - famous guitarist for the band Spectris
Eric Bradford - not famous
Influences: None
Sounds Like:
Record Label: Thicker / Tarquin
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Happy New Year

I'm sorry for the tease but I don't think there's going to be any reunion shows.Here is something about each member of JH that I haven't mentioned yet, in chronological order.Matt "Museum" Winston sta...
Posted by on Wed, 02 Jan 2008 12:13:00 GMT

1986 Video

JH Alumnus Chris Omnipotent came up big with a copy of a 1986 show at the Channel. I believe this was one of the early ones, like a sunday afternoon or something. It's hard to believe after watching t...
Posted by on Sun, 28 Oct 2007 12:45:00 GMT

Happy Birthday Eli

James' son Eli's birthday is on a date close to this one, so in his honor I point you to this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MWi7MPQBKQ which features Eli. It also portrays the depths of James...
Posted by on Fri, 31 Aug 2007 18:42:00 GMT

Hilton

Here are a couple of things about the elusive Hilton http://www.lcmm.org/our_fleet/Ships%20Log%2005/ships_log_05_ 08_01.htm http://www.yestermorrow.org/instructors/dier.htm Hilton is a frickin' genius,...
Posted by on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 06:14:00 GMT

Sax

I bought a sax today. It wasn't that expensive but it's pretty nice compared to my last one, which I played for years after someone threw it across a room and bent most of the keys. The guy from birds...
Posted by on Sun, 01 Jul 2007 17:59:00 GMT

Only read if you're very bored

I posted a couple more videos on youtube from that same show. I really wish I could find one of the videos from the Channel because those shows were amazing. We opened for Lou Miami (RIP) there one Fr...
Posted by on Thu, 07 Jun 2007 20:30:00 GMT

Videos

I finally got off my ass and encoded a video of one of our shows for youtube. Search for Jazzin' Hell on there or my username, reidfleming2k6. I threw some other interesting tidbits in there as well, ...
Posted by on Fri, 01 Jun 2007 19:00:00 GMT

James in Rolling Stone

James' song "Britney's Silver Can" was #90 in RS' top 100 songs of the year. Holy crap! http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/12769472/the_100_best _songs_of_2006/9 Also, Pete played in the Philistine...
Posted by on Fri, 29 Dec 2006 12:18:00 GMT

New JKS Video

James has a new video on youtube, it's the title track from his new CD "Spread your evil wings and fly." He recorded it with a gameboy. That is hardcore. Our old buddy Pistol Stamen did a great job ed...
Posted by on Thu, 31 Aug 2006 06:35:00 GMT

Update

You can go to americanelf.com to read James' web comic, and check his message board for updates about his CD and everything else. In other Jazzin' Hell news, some girl from Malaysia emailed us that "u...
Posted by on Tue, 02 May 2006 13:59:00 GMT