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Coz the Shroom

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About Me

Madman punk rocker Coz the Shroom, known for collaborations with SUCKDOG and an extensive home cassette recording career (ala Daniel Johnston) Now signed with a small indie label from Hawaii, continues to alarm parents throughout the land.

I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V3.6 !

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/11/2006
Band Website: girlrobots.com
Band Members: Coz the Shroom is a solo artist, backed by Tyler Jones (drums/vocals) and Chris Miles (bass). Sometimes you get the whole band, sometimes, just Coz!
Influences: Warsaw, David Bowie, Captain Beefheart, Ramones, Buzzcocks, Elvis Presley, the Cramps, Liberace, Redd Kross, Bauhaus, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, ST-37, Alice Cooper, Black Sabbath, Iggy Pop, X, Frank Sinatra, the Bee Gees, Plasmatics, the Germs, Nick Cave, PJ Harvey, the Velvet Underground, New York Dolls, MC-5, Devo, GWAR, Big Black, KISS, Lords of the New Church/Dead Boys, Wire, Turbonegro, NWA, Gary Numan, Black Flag,Einsturzende Nuebaten, X-ray Specs, the Monks, Syd Barrett, Getto Boys, Circle Jerks and many, many more...
Sounds Like: "...Bowiesque garage creature...a younger Roky (Erickson)?" -- Austin Chronicle 1987
Record Label: Pugfugly
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Changing status from "single" to "In a relationship"... how on a band page?

The edit profile functions are very different for bands than for personal pages. I find that I can't change my status from 100 years old and single, to the fact that I'm 40 and now am in a relationsh...
Posted by Coz the Shroom on Fri, 16 May 2008 06:59:00 PST

Reishis!!!!!!!

I've suffered allergies since 1985 and nothing has EVER, EVER helped them. I even tried the allergy shots at the clinic for four years (supposed to take 5 years to work, but my insurance went away wh...
Posted by Coz the Shroom on Tue, 16 Oct 2007 02:13:00 PST

Caving

Today I went into a cave, a very large cave. It is a cave where you need permits to get into and where people do scientific studies... of caves.There were two crawls-- one where I had to crawl on my ...
Posted by Coz the Shroom on Sun, 14 Oct 2007 08:18:00 PST

Coz the Shroom now with video! Check it out!

I now have some live footage of a recent performance that I'd like to tell you a little bit about. I went to the Ruidoso Downs Founders Festival, celebrating 60 years as a... village? City? What? ...
Posted by Coz the Shroom on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 09:54:00 PST

40th birthday hike to the peak!

Well, almost!Set out on a hike this weekend hoping to attain the peak, 12,003 feet above sea level, Sierra Blanca!  Yay! Backpacked with about 40 lbs of food and gear, 2 miles uphill to base camp...
Posted by Coz the Shroom on Mon, 03 Sep 2007 12:13:00 PST

Garden? Hell summers coming to an end, why not?

Yeah, its a little late in the year, but I've been missing having a garden, being an apartment dweller... then it dawned on me I could just keep potted plants and put them out on the doorstep.Duh! Ho...
Posted by Coz the Shroom on Tue, 14 Aug 2007 09:15:00 PST

Sonny Bono's funeral

Have you ever seen Cher eulogizing Sonny Bono?  Long before I saw it, I was moved to know she was reported to have cried.  When I saw it I was awestruck.  I would U-tube it and watch it...
Posted by Coz the Shroom on Tue, 10 Jul 2007 01:56:00 PST

Boston: less than on week left

Well, in less than a week I'm going to return home.  Lots of feelings, both vague and manifestly clear are begining to overwhelm me.  My family got together and bought me a newer car than my...
Posted by Coz the Shroom on Thu, 31 May 2007 10:02:00 PST

The Queen of England

You know, I like it when the Sex Pistols sang "God Save the Queen," but all irreverence aside, I kind of admire Elizabeth II.  She has come to our country to commemorate Jamestown and I have a fe...
Posted by Coz the Shroom on Sun, 06 May 2007 04:37:00 PST

Planets we could live on

I've been thinking of that planet they're calling "another earth."  Kind of presumptuous, since they're going on mass and the so called "goldilocks zone" range of stellar climate.  There's a...
Posted by Coz the Shroom on Wed, 02 May 2007 11:53:00 PST