Members vladoicho Posted January 7, 2009 Members Share Posted January 7, 2009 Years ago, some guy on some IRC channel introduced me to an (apparently Canadian) band called "Bill's Psychotic Mother". Have you ever heard of them? Do you know if they're still active? He sent me their (only?) album, and I remember I really, really liked it... I've been trying to find it in my mp3 archives, but to no avail... Any idea if it's possible to buy/download it from anywhere? Google didn't help much. The guy who sent it to me was apparently playing guitar... I think... in Punchdrunk, which was one of Gene Hoglan's projects at the time... which probably doesn't help much, but who knows. It would be great if you know anything more about that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Bonoman Posted January 7, 2009 Members Share Posted January 7, 2009 Apparently they were Swedish. I just got this off the CBC Radio website: Born in Bung River, Arkansas, Benjamen James Burlap was raised by unknown sources after his mother Elvetta, was trampled to death in a riot at the local banjoe factory. His father Dwight Henry, perished soon after in a homemade hash oil explosion and young Ben was thought to have wandered off into the backwoods horribly disfigured and parentless. He emerged several years later, mysteriously unscathed, wearing a balaclava and "ready for a go at the music industry." His first band was Bill's Psychotic Mother, a hillbilly grindcore outfit from Sweden. Ben fit in nicely as a replacement for the former lead singer, Sven Spunkenfelch who disappeared while ice fishing at a clothing optional resort. The incident spawned the tribute album, Farewell to Frauzennut which charted well but was dismissed by critics as being "noisey" and "hard to understand". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members vladoicho Posted January 7, 2009 Author Members Share Posted January 7, 2009 hmm, maybe Bill has many psychotic mothers http://www.minotaurmedia.com/freeload/bpm.htm it says "LOCALE: Based in Vancouver, B.C. and ready to travel" - that seems to be the one I'm looking for, but still, no music The album's name is "Meat to Please You" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Renfield Posted January 7, 2009 Members Share Posted January 7, 2009 Years ago, some guy on some IRC channel introduced me to an (apparently Canadian) band called "Bill's Psychotic Mother". Have you ever heard of them? Do you know if they're still active? He sent me their (only?) album, and I remember I really, really liked it... I've been trying to find it in my mp3 archives, but to no avail... Any idea if it's possible to buy/download it from anywhere? Google didn't help much. The guy who sent it to me was apparently playing guitar... I think... in Punchdrunk, which was one of Gene Hoglan's projects at the time... which probably doesn't help much, but who knows. It would be great if you know anything more about that If you are referencing Gene's old band Punch Drunk (there are more than one band called that, so dropping his name helped immensely) then you are talking the Vancouver music scene. Doesn't mean the band you seek is from there, but Punch Drunk definitely is, and it's where Gene has called home for quite some time now. A Quick trip to YT yielded this result, is this who you are after? [YOUTUBE]_NYPsB5p_Z0[/YOUTUBE] In fact, typing their name into Google got me a lot of info about them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Renfield Posted January 7, 2009 Members Share Posted January 7, 2009 hmm, maybe Bill has many psychotic mothers http://www.minotaurmedia.com/freeload/bpm.htm it says "LOCALE: Based in Vancouver, B.C. and ready to travel" - that seems to be the one I'm looking for, but still, no music The album's name is "Meat to Please You" Yeah, the more I think about it, the more I think I may have seen the name on a gig poster or 3 way back when I lived there. (So going back 9+ years now) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Bonoman Posted January 7, 2009 Members Share Posted January 7, 2009 Renfield is clearly a lot better at using the internet than I am. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members vladoicho Posted January 7, 2009 Author Members Share Posted January 7, 2009 That was about the same time when I discovered Strapping Young Lad and Devin Townsend's numerous insane reincarnations and, by association, Gene Hoglan (I never liked Death and the other bands he played with before Devin). I thought it was pretty cool that I had found somebody who actually played in the same band as him (meaning the guy that sent me the mp3s) So, yeah, ~9 years ago seems about right... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Renfield Posted January 7, 2009 Members Share Posted January 7, 2009 That was about the same time when I discovered Strapping Young Lad and Devin Townsend's numerous insane reincarnations and, by association, Gene Hoglan (I never liked Death and the other bands he played with before Devin). I thought it was pretty cool that I had found somebody who actually played in the same band as him (meaning the guy that sent me the mp3s) So, yeah, ~9 years ago seems about right... I was working for Devin/SYL as their Lighting Director when he brought Gene into the fold. Bloody hell did that guy make my life difficult, all the bpm's of their songs went up by about 50 overnight. Devin hired him because he had the fastest double kick at the time. He wanted his tunes faster, but they were always limited by the either the drum machine not going fast enough, or the guy behind the kit. I moved here in Jan of 2000, I started working for Devin shortly after he released the first SYL album that he made mostly by himself in his basement, "Heavy as a really heavy thing." I think that was around '95-96. Gene came in for the next album, City. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members vladoicho Posted January 7, 2009 Author Members Share Posted January 7, 2009 and another great thing about Devin (besides the obviously awesome music) is the skullet I'm gonna get one when I start going bald! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Renfield Posted January 7, 2009 Members Share Posted January 7, 2009 and another great thing about Devin (besides the obviously awesome music) is the skullet I'm gonna get one when I start going bald! Devin rocks the skullet like no other. The man's a walking ball of stress. His heart is going to explode by the time he hits 40. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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