JUNK POET FAMILY TREE « Thread Started on Mar 3, 2008, 12:11am »
This sounds like a fun project, so I'm gonna kick this off. I'm going to start threads for the following bands:
ATOMIC OPERA
REDWING
JUNK POET
SMILIN' JACK
As this progresses, we can compile the who - what - where - and when. It'll be a lot simpler than the sheets of notebook paper I had all over the place.
DISCLAIMER: feel free to add whatever info you have, and I'm sure not everyone will be infallible... I could be wrong about some things from a long time ago too. Everyone bear with each other.
I worked security at Buddafest & I don't think Stone Sour played. The only bands that I do remember are Vivid, Deadfront, Vent(2nd stage), 35 Mudder & Junk Poet. I can't remember any of the other bands.
Re: JUNK POET FAMILY TREE « Reply #7 on Mar 5, 2008, 1:12am »
I knew there was somebody missing, thanx Joey.
That show at Clearwater was a different show than Buddafest. I can't remember the details but there was a couple of strange shows out there. I remember a SLIPKNOT set out there at one point with somebody... 12 GAUGE FLOSS or SMILIN JACK maybe?
I worked both Buddafests ... that first one was a blast.
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Re: JUNK POET FAMILY TREE « Reply #9 on Mar 5, 2008, 10:58am »
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That show at Clearwater was a different show than Buddafest. I can't remember the details but there was a couple of strange shows out there. I remember a SLIPKNOT set out there at one point with somebody... 12 GAUGE FLOSS or SMILIN JACK maybe?
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Re: JUNK POET FAMILY TREE « Reply #11 on Mar 10, 2008, 10:14pm »
Hey folks, Jay here ... let me see if I can fill in some of the gaps.
My brother Rich and I played together since we were wee. We'd had a couple bands, but the one that became Junk Poet originally started out being called Bone Grind. We had a few bassists but finally found Joel Grau who stuck. We'd written a bunch of songs and set up some recording time at Cellar Records in Dixon IL. Between the time of the booking and the actual date we got rid of the singer (Brian Anderson), but went and recorded instrumental tracks (early 1994) for several songs anyway with hopes of finding a singer to continue on and finish up the album.
Later in 1994, we eventually found Jon Fullerton (Fu) who surpassed our expectations... We (the instrumentalists) would jam all the time and pull material out of creative free flow sessions on a regular basis, but Fu was the first vocalist I knew who could keep up with us, often coming up with lyrics and melodies on the fly. Later that year we made our second trip to Cellar to finish up the album adding the vocals and recording some new stuff we'd collectively come up with in the meantime. We retained the name Bone Grind for a while until it was clear it didn't make sense for the band we'd become. One of the song titles Fu came up with (Junk Poet) was the name we eventually took and kept as the band's name.
(holy shit this is going to get long if I keep going like this. )
We supported that first album (self titled) regionally as much as we could and continuously wrote for the next year or so through 1995. One particularly good show that stands out in my memory was one that Sliver @ KDPS(?) arranged at Central Campus with Stone Sour, Vivid, Modifidious, Salt of Society, and the Rejects. Another equally memorable for how bad it was happened at at Davey's Uptown in KC. EVERYTHING went wrong on that adventure.
The first week into 1996 we started recording our second album and put our previous year's work onto ADAT tapes at Brian Vance's studio in Ankeny. By the time we were done recording a few months later, things had become pretty turbulent in the band. As I recall, we did not play one show that year until August 17, 1996 at Clearwater Beach where we had our CD release party for "CHICKEN? ALL YOU CAN EAT!". There were a ton of great local bands who graciously played the show for/with us (including the pre-Corey Slipknot).
Within a couple months of releasing "CHICKEN? ALL YOU CAN EAT!" Rich told us he wanted out. We all knew if it wasn't going to be Rich back there with us, we wanted our friend and local legend Paul Thompson to be our drummer. We asked, he accepted, and we began to ready up for our biggest show yet... opening for Helmet that fall at Super Toad (a day I considered the best day of my life for a while).
Paul was with us until mid 1997 when we parted ways and brought in old buddy and jamming partner Greg Stravers. This lineup stuck for maybe another nine months until one day in the spring of 1998 when I had been served the final straw as I saw it personally and I refused to work with Fu anymore.
We went singer-less for a little while, but didn't want to miss out on the kick ass summer of playing we had ahead of us. As luck would have it, pretty soon my phone rang with Matt Biegger on the other end. Matt became our singer and we got to play some really killer shows that I will always remember like Budhafest and Mancow's Lazer Luau, but it eventually became clear to Joel and I, who were the two constant members, that Junk Poet was on its death bed for a handful of reasons. That October we went our separate ways and put Junk Poet to rest.
We were always jamming and writing throughout our time with Rich, Paul, Greg, and Matt and had always intended on another release, but we'd been continuously interrupted by one thing or another (insert drugs, booze, jail, divorce, etc. randomly throughout the story) so no third album would ever materialize.
One year we won one of Cityview's awards and I got a call to do an interview about it. I remember being really honored and a little perplexed because there were some great bands out at the time, but also I tried to tiptoe around the fact that they couldn't talk to Fu because "uhh well he's actually in jail right now."
That's the short story anyway. Anybody else got any good bits?
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Re: JUNK POET FAMILY TREE « Reply #12 on Mar 10, 2008, 11:18pm »
wow Jay, good one bro!
i think one of my fave junk poet memories was one of the shows we played together, that was also the first time i ever puked on stage. April 26th 97 at Safari's. You know, when the stage was on the other side of the building, and it was right after Clown bought the joint...
i felt it coming on, and went over to puke behind joey's amps, but you guys had all your video shit over there, so i bailed outta that idea and tried to make it off stage, but that didnt work either. Ended up spewing all over the stage.
Memorable also in the fact that Duane Peters from US BOMBS was right there up front. US Bombs were and are one of my favorite bands, and to see him up there was great. He has great "color commentary" about my spewage on the video of that show.
Great great times for sure. I really dug Junk Poet back then. It was always fun to play shows with JP and the guys were always very cool.
Thanks for digging up the memory of that show at Central. My first ever show as a singer. It sucked. First time I ever met Corey as well.
And oh shit...you brought up the Vance's. Or at least one of them. I had been trying to figure out those kids' last names since we started this mess....were'nt the brothers Vance in Typhoid Mary??
Ahhh memory lane...gotta love it!! Thanks for the great post man!
Re: JUNK POET FAMILY TREE « Reply #14 on Mar 11, 2008, 8:22am »
Hell yeah Dizzy I remember that first show you puked at!! I am pretty sure Greg would remember that one too. It seemed to make an impression on him. It was always going to be a fun night playing with the Rejects. If that was the US Bombs show, I seem to recall Mick Thompson running sound that night?
Years later, when I was in Devil With Cheese, a similar puking incident occurred by another singer. That time things were a little messier, with chicken quesadilla, booze, and other miscellaneous stomach fillins coating a good share of whatever was on the floor at the front of the stage (pedals anyone?). But while we are on the subject of puking I'm reminded of a show at which a rather young girl had apparently drank too much and, as I was told, puked all over the top of my big blue road rack... I say I was told because it happened in my absence and my ever-quick thinking buddy Taco sacrificed a shirt to clean it off before I ever saw it and started to kill people.
There was another sort of memorable show we did in the fall of 97 (that few people from DSM got to see) with our friends Ballistic in their hometown of Aurora IL. It was at a place called Riley's Rockhouse. We opened, Ballistic was in the middle, then here comes this cheeezy cover band all leather pantsed out, with a singer they carried on stage in a straight jacket... they were called Disturbed. I guess they showed us.
The Vances were in Stonefish. I'm not sure of other bands they did before that, except for Brian being in Filthy Wilma...
(this has taken some unexpected turns)
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I'm reminded of a show at which a rather young girl had apparently drank too much and, as I was told, puked all over the top of my big blue road rack... I say I was told because it happened in my absence and my ever-quick thinking buddy Taco sacrificed a shirt to clean it off before I ever saw it and started to kill people.