Rubber Room Rock

About the Artist
The Spectres: Jesse James - guitar, vocals

Austin Frankenquist - double bass

J.R. Vermin - drums

Don't be fooled. You may see the greasy hair, the double bass, and the leather jackets and think you're in for some kind of Sha-Na-Na nostalgia kick, but you ain't. Believe me. The Spectres take rock & roll and strip away all the extraneous junk: no choirs, no orchestras, no extended dance remixes. They boil down raw rockabilly, fuzz-bomb garage punk, and speed-addled surf n' drag into a butt-kickin' elixir of prime-evil, gutbucket rock & roll.

The Spectres started annoying neighbors with their unholy racket in early '97, and shortly after started making a name for themselves in any old dive that would have them. They've since managed to play in most of the local clubs, as well as a few up North, and in March '98 they decided to spread their rock & roll infection down the Western seaboard. The tour was a smash, with a trail of destruction from San Francisco to San Diego and all points in between, not to mention Sin City itself, Las Vegas ("Our second home" sez the band) and a brief stop in Utah to frighten the locals. The whole shebang ended up in Denver for Mile High Mayhem, the US's first ever psycho-billy festival! Two nights of nitrous-fueled rock & roll with such like-minded bands as Deadbolt, the Hellbillies, and Hayride to Hell, plus bands from as far away as the UK and Sweden. The boys then returned to Seattle older but not wiser, to resume where they'd left off.

Back home, the Spectres resumed lurking in the dark basement that spawned them, venturing out only to play gigs around the Northwest. In August they started work on their first full-length disc, 'Rubber Room Rock', unleashed Halloween Night, 1998. They also managed to fit in a few more shows including trips to Canada and a riotous appearance at NXNW in Portland . . . for booking and other info call:

Places We've Played: (Seattle) The Crocodile; The Showbox; The Tractor; The Colourbox; Uncle Rocky's; Gibson's; The Mad Dog Alehouse . . . (Bellingham) The 3-B (now the Doublewide) . . . (Vancouver) The Pic; The Marine Club; The Gate . . . (Portland) Jimmy Mak's (NXNW show) . . . (San Francisco) The Paradise Lounge / Transmission . . . (Santa Cruz) The Catalyst . . . (Anaheim) Linda's Doll Hut . . . (San Diego) Tio Leo's . . . (Las Vegas) The Wet Stop . . . (Provo) ABG's . . . (Denver) The Bluebird

Bands We've Played With: Demented Are Go; The Twistin' Tarantulas; Deadbolt; The Hellbillies; Hayride To Hell; Barnyard Ballers; Buddy's Riot; The Hooligans; Godless Wicked Creeps; Klingonz; The Deadcats; Los Disastros; The Flapjacks; Justin Curtis; The Rootes Group; The Maxx Average Corp.; Rocky Craig; Los Gatos Locos, Billy Bacon, Alien Fashion Show.

Product Description
13 Burnin' slabs o' fuel-injected punk rockabilly mayhem for all you nitro junkies and dragstrip demons.

Tracks:

Rubber Room Rock
(I Can't Be) Satisfied
Comin' Home
Hot Li'l Hellcat
Jesse James
Rockabilly Macabre
Tombstone Boogie
Bad JuJu
Shark Bait
(Me & My) Cannibal Baby
The Chainsaw Song
Bullit Train
Hot Rod To Hell

Album Description

13 Burnin' slabs o' fuel-injected punk rockabilly mayhem for all you nitro junkies and dragstrip demons.

Customer Reviews:

Gonna rock, gonna roll, gonna take my head and drill a hole.......2000-12-25

This debut from the Spectres is one of the best out the first wave of west coast psychobilly bands. Like their peers they take some of the best elements from European psychobilly legends like The Meteors, Guana Batz, and Sharks. However they mix these mix these influences with raw American rockabilly heroes like the Cramps, Rev. Horton Heat, and Hasil Adkins to create their own unique greasy, should-be-locked-away-in-a-mental-institution-but-that-would-mean-no-booze-or-girls-or-fast-cars rock 'n roll. Plus, the first 1,000 of these printed comes with a limited edition rub on tatto of the band's logo.

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