Artist.......: !!!
Album........: Live au Festival Garorock
Label........: Discograph
Genre........: Indie
Catnr........: n/a
Source.......: DVBS
Rip.date.....: 2009-10-27
Str.date.....: 2007-04-08
Quality......: 166kbps/48.0kHz/Joint Stereo
Url..........: http://www.chkchkchk.net
track title time
1. All My Heroes Are Weirdos 3:57
2. Pardon My Freedom 8:01
3. Dear Can 4:47
4. Heart Of Hearts 6:16
5. Yadnus 5:06
6. Cokie 3:48
7. Me And Giuliani Down By The School Yard 10:37
Runtime 42:32
Size 50.79
Release Notes:
Performed : April 08, 2007 (Marmande)
The curiously named !!!, whose moniker can be pronounced
by repeating any one-syllable percussive sound three times
(e.g., "chk chk chk"), formed in 1996 after the demise of
the mid-'90s hardcore act the Yah Mos. While on tour,
members of the Yah Mos, including !!! singer Nic Offer,
envisioned forming a band oriented more toward danceable
music, and once they returned to Sacramento, CA, their
hometown, they decided to turn their working concept into
an actual group. The band quickly grew into an
eight-member ensemble, including Mario Andreoni on guitar,
Offer on vocals, Justin van der Volgen on bass, Dan Gorman
on trumpet and percussion, Tyler Pope on guitar, Allan
Wilson on saxophone and percussion, John Pugh on drums,
and Jason Racine on percussion. Fusing the groove-oriented
style of James Brown's backing band with the edginess of
Gang of Four and the Contortions and featuring an
expansive percussive presence, !!! spent its first few
years as a group developing its sound and playing at house
parties for friends in Sacramento. At the same time,
Offer, Pope, and van der Volgen were playing in a
dub-inflected instrumental outfit called Out Hud with
Molly Schnick and Phyllis Forbes, two musicians who used
to be in the band Raoul. After putting out a 7" on
Hopscotch Records and a split single with Out Hud in 1998,
the two bands decide to release a split full-length
together in 1999, a release jointly sponsored by the
Sacramento-based label Gold Standards Laboratories,
founded by Sonny Kaye of Angel Hair and the VSS fame, and
Zum, a San Francisco-based zine. After extensive touring
of the States, which gave them a chance to further expand
the songs they had written by placing them in the
interactive context of a live show, !!! recorded and
released a self-titled album on GSL in December 2000. Soon
after, the band re-entered the studio and recorded enough
material for a second album. Members of the band moved to
New York, but the group still remained intact, planning
regional tours and tape trades across the expanses of the
Midwest. In 2003, the band issued Me and Giuliani Down by
the School Yard (A True Story), their first release for
Touch and Go. They followed it with 2004's politically
charged Louden Up Now (mixed by Maurice Fulton) and 2007's
relatively lighthearted Myth Takes.