Why on earth are most of Killdozer's cd's now out of print???

"I could make a better hamburger with my ASSHOLE!"

They are, but quite notably, not with Touch and Go.

Knuckles the Dog (Who Helps People), and some of the finest liner notes known to man.

CD also features "Burl", which contains the best cover of "I'm Not Lisa" EVER. Maybe the best cover ever...

http://cgi.ebay.com/Uncompromising-War-On-Art-Under-The-Killdozer_W0QQitemZ4826510390QQcategoryZ307QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

http://www.hmv.co.uk/hmvweb/advancedSearch.do?ctx=12;-1;-1;-1&searchType=12&label=TOUCHANDGO

I'm Not Lisa:

http://s57.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2MDD8OENRNRUX2CFNB15DUKPP3

Knuckles...

http://s57.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2JGQTKH5B3QVD3V8I48CG2YULZ

New Pants And Shirt
http://s64.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1UUAWHIHPTG6Z2I4XQ5K3NQ5Q6

They are, but quite notably, not with Touch and Go.

-- Ned Raggett (ne...), January 28th, 2006.

Was there some kind of a falling out that I missed?

killdozer are pretty good. this kid i work with--they're his favorite band, basically. so we listen to them. what a funny voice that guy has!! good stuff, and there was a LOT of it! picture discs and junk. for me, it's definitely in the category of "don't need it all." but it's pretty fun stuff all around.

-- xgurggleglgllg (lamewa...), January 28th, 2006 8:36 PM. (xgurggleglgllg)

you're kidding right?

Touch and Go's side of it

The band's side of it (towards the end)

The relevant court decision

I appreciate there's a first time for everyone to learn something and all. Still, call me surprised that you had not heard at least the basics of the situation in talk about the band -- it IS pretty common knowledge about folks who are aware of the group in my experience.

In your response, you quote from a decision made by the CRTC regarding a rap song entitled, "Hamburger Martyr", by the group Killdozer that was aired on CHSR-FM in Fredericton. The Commission reviews each complaint received individually, having regard to the specific fact secenario in each case. In that instance, the Commission also determined that the broadcast did not breach the Act or the Regs. The lyrics in question, however, were broadcast at 10:15 p.m., a time which the Commission considered appropriate in the circumstances.

Anyway, Little Baby Buntin' - classic!
For Ladies Only - classic!
God Hears Pleas Of The Innocent - a bit pointless by that time, apart from "The Nobbies" and "Paul Doesn't Understand Jazz".

This wasn't really a job handicap because most bands had zero desire to do anything when having their pictures taken other than stopping having their pictures taken. This meant that small talk was limited. However, photographers are often paired with writers and you know how we love to talk shop.

He would often find himself in conversations about bands that he had zero idea about. None whatsoever. So he devised two pat answers that he said were useful in nearly all of the discussions he wound up in:

"I like their earlier stuff better."

and

"They remind me of Killdozer."

This thread reminded me of this and it made me smile, so thanks.

Best song is impossible to pick. That's like asking me to pick one Happy Flowers song.

I can't believe this is the guy I last saw when standing next to him in the urinals of Leicester Princess Charlotte, dressed in rhinestone-studded faux-cowboy get-up. (That's Gerald not me, btw).

I've been looking for Killdozer shirts on ebay for years. Mostly I give up and buy something that looks like what they're wearing in the above photo (which has been hanging over my desk for ten years).

Killdozer - For Ladies Only 7" picture disc box set anyone?

i've been called lucifer
i've been called satan
but my name is richard
and you, you can call me dick

Viva Madison punk!

http://citypages.com/letters/detail.asp?TID=1068

Also, mike wants everyone here to know that the Last Waltz (the mans ruin record) is back in print and there is a Killdozer tribute record in the works. Go here for more info: http://www.crustaceanrecords.com/bands/index.php?BID=35&UID=

you mean Butch?

The last line of my show review (a slam, natch) hinted the beer spillage was intentional. I heard later that Mike Gerald thought the review was really funny until he got to the beer part - then he got pissed off.

Killdozer's shtick was a little too musically schematic for me to appreciate - but Gerald is a hell of a writer. I remember reading some of his childhood recollections in a fanzine in the late 80s, great stuff. Some of it became the basis for Killdozer lyrics, I think - something about a dad who accidentally shoots himself in the stomach with a shotgun?

I used to know a man named Burt
When I was but a lad
He was an old acquaintance
Of my mom and my dad

I don't think that I met him
More than just once
But I still recall him well
I'm not goddamn dunce

And you would not believe
What it was that he had done
He blew his own fucking guts out
With his own fucking gun

Yeah, mom and folks
They were shocked as you can imagine
When they heard about old Burt
And I said to myself
I said "Ouch, that's gotta hurt!"

It happened in the driveway
Right next to Burt's Cadillac
The shot entered through his belly
And it went out through his back

Make no mistakes
No if's and's or but's
All over the brand new asphalt
Were Burt's fucking guts

Burt's bitch stood screaming
As Burt ate the dirt
And I said to myself
I said "Holy fuck, that's gotta hurt!"

OOOOOOOUUUUUUUCCCCCCCHHHHHHH!

But you know what's funny
About Burt's loss of life
Is that he was getting gun out
So that he could kill him wife

But there he lay bleeding
His head next to a hub
And all I can say to myself
Is "Therein lies the rub!"

I like coffee, it likes me
I'd like to have some Maxwell House coffee
What'd you call this cup of shit's going to be
Why I'd rather drink from the dick of a goat
I tell you motherfucker that's all she wrote
I like coffee, it likes me
A cuppa cuppa cuppa cuppa coffee
And Maxwell House is the best coffee
I like coffee, it likes me

I wish I still had that fanzine, it had a bunch of midwest indie rockers writing for it, like Gerald and one of the guys from Urge Overkill. Gerald's piece was more wistful in tone than those lyrics, like the Prairie Home Companion crossed with Gummo. Ah well, lost to the sands of time, or in the stacks of the library at Bowling Green U...

Fuck - they had great lyrics ...

This begs a question or two.

esp. because every song has the line "let me tell you" in it!

Now for the rest of those rarities, somehow. I AM ON THE MISSION.

Maybe try to find me on slsk (sbsweaty).

ha ha I just thought their records after *Snakeboy* weren't as good as *Snakeboy*!

Anyway, by some crazy coincidence, I just noticed this this morning (in Tony Jasper's and Derek Oliver's *The International Encyclopedia of Hard Rock and Heavy Metal*:

>Killdozer (France)

Despite being French, this band sing only in English. Their music is subdued and the LP is only worth buying if it is cheap.

*Killdozer* (CBS) 1980

They must have played with Bad Brains a lot:

http://www.divinerites.com/b_houll.htm

I'm hearing this phrase in michael gerald's gruff, coarse voice, just before some steamroller sludge-rock riff in some insanely tricky time signature kicks in.

Killdozer were the best, and I feel privileged to have seen them. The twofer CD w/"12 point buck" and "Little baby bunting" is the best, though I'm a big big phan of "uncompromising war on art under the dictatorship of the proletariat", coz they play it so damn str8-faced.

ENTER THE 49 GATES OF UNCLEANLINESS.

if you need an attorney...

http://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/michael-gerald.html

"...in this case, clearly, the pig was not cool."