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About Me

Janine grew up under a mushroom in the small German village of Bielefeld. After realizing that there was not much room there she decided that she needed a larger canvas. She came to the slightly larger Amerikan village of San Francisco. There she found a place for her and her dogs to live, a large tin can on wheels. One day she ran into John. When she said did that hurt he said "No, I’m used to being a VKTM ". Realizing that they both had music in their blood along with other things they thought to band together.Since she was always beating on things, like her head against walls, Janine knew that she must be a drummer. She said " Do you want to try your hand at guitar?" John spoke back, as he sometimes does,"Well, which one?" After that silly beginning they knew that they were jelly brains so they became D’Jelly Brains.Of course, they needed something to base this on as well as having a bass. So they began turning over stones, leaves and seeds and stems to find such a thing or person. Finding a spore from space and opening it revealed a being named Jasret. He somehow knew bass but couldn’t stay on Earth. Exploring further they found a wee sprout known to all as Austin and then a demon known as Dez. But all began to make sense when out the swamp came a Hessian named Tim! He was bassically from the same jelly mold and so came into the fold. Sadly Tim got Bit by something and was taken away for a spell but he’s back. The legendary Andy Henning, who D’JBs had known for years came to the rescue for a while. Thanks Andy! It all works out for the best. We’re back onto finishing our CD and have been writing songs faster than ever.And so it was to be, the happy tribe of punkedelic pranksters played on ’til dawn.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/15/2005
Band Website: jellybrains.com
Band Members:

John Binkov: guitar and vocals

Janine Arnold: drums and vocals

Tim Garafola: bass and vocals

Influences: Never play without them. Whisky, pot, etc.
Sounds Like: Early Punk. Punkedelic? Heavy, Melodic, Twisting, Groove. Here's some cool links:

United Punk Mohawk Radio
Record Label: Bury Good Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

DJelly Brains at Hotel Utah this Friday, a reunion of sorts and Diary returns

Hey!Been awhile huh? Hope ya'll are well and doing good.We are jes fine. Thank you.Lots to share with you but first....Wicked Annabella Productions invited us to play withCandy Apple (farfisa organ dr...
Posted by D'Jelly Brains on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:59:00 PST

Janine’s new Design page on Myspace

Janine has a new myspace page for her business Beauty & Beast Design. She designs and makes custom clothes and fixes/repairs/customize motorcycles seats. Multi-talented she is. That’s to be expe...
Posted by D'Jelly Brains on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 09:53:00 PST

Tim is BACK!!!

Some families can't be torn apart. Even by themselves. We are back together, it was natural.Anyone who knows us could have seen it. Tim is just natural with us. Sometimes you just know.We're back to o...
Posted by D'Jelly Brains on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:05:00 PST

D’Jelly Brains oozing over D’East Bay and Party for Janine!

We're playing The Stork Club in Oakland for the first time years. The club has gone through a lot of changes since then and has really gotten cool again.D'Jelly Brains are playing with our friends Dee...
Posted by D'Jelly Brains on Fri, 14 Dec 2007 07:37:00 PST

Mabuhay Gardens show cancelled but....

John is playing with the Fab Mab All Star Alumni Band on Sunday Nov. 11there. It's a benefit for Ness Aquino the original owner.The band includes members of VKTMS, Lewd, Contractions, Translator,Sympt...
Posted by D'Jelly Brains on Sun, 04 Nov 2007 10:35:00 PST

We’re on D’Tube - YouTube!

WOW! The show at Parkside was really, really good. All the work, both personal and musical,has paid off. Things are so much better now. Not that things were actually bad before. D'Jelly Brains have ha...
Posted by D'Jelly Brains on Wed, 10 Oct 2007 08:26:00 PST

Scene of the crime, with miles of smiles

We last played Annie's in March of 2006. Lots of water under the bridge, lots of fire in the sky.Times were not so good. We fought terribly back then and that night was nearly the end of us.For better...
Posted by D'Jelly Brains on Sat, 29 Sep 2007 09:22:00 PST

D’Fab Mab Review and more

Hey there,So we shoulda sent ya'll a note sooner after we played butour heads were spinning so much. Second show with Andy.And it was at Mabuhay Gardens!Well, playing the Mab (with D'Jelly Brains) aga...
Posted by D'Jelly Brains on Thu, 20 Sep 2007 08:13:00 PST

The Mab is Reopened! OMG Were playing Mabuhay Gardens!!!

D'Jelly Brains playing at The Mab (!)Friday Sept. 7th.It's the very first show at thereopened club. Check the page for info.Mabuhay GardensHard to believe. Went by there to check it out the other nigh...
Posted by D'Jelly Brains on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 08:34:00 PST

News

We passed 10,000 views.We are mixing this weekend.John and Janine have started a side project. A cover bandbut doing off the wall choices. The Wipers, Husker Du, Sponge, Troggs, Electric Prunes,Seeds ...
Posted by D'Jelly Brains on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 10:56:00 PST