Pinhead Gunpowder (named after a very strong tea) are a sort of Gilman Street super-group, the Blind Faith of NoCal punk, if you will. After all the band is centered around uber-sceneststr Aaron Cometbus and prominently features Green Day's Billie-Joe Armstrong and other Gilman/Lookout Records (more HERE) vets. Fortunately, the band always played it low-key - releasing records sporadically, rarely playing live - thereby avoiding any vestiges of hype. They've released a string of albums, singles, split releases and compilation appearances in their twenty-plus year existence without ever becoming widely-known. The group's songs (mostly written by Cometbus but some written by Armstrong under the pseudonym Wilhelm Fink) consistently offer a cool mid-temp punk with sharp-eyed, narrative lyrics, as this live show from 2010 goes a long way to prove.
Let us know what you think of this low-key super-group in the COMMENTS section (which is where you'll find the Live at Gilman St. link)
the first 2 seven inches I still play to this day...."Sometimes it's what you love most that suffocates you..." I still by cometbus whenever I find it.
Brilliant band! If you like older Green Day this is for you. Bill the bass player was in Monsula and the Influents. Thanks for the post! SoCal!?!? That's NoCal Berkeley and Oakland all the way!
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Let us know what you think of this low-key super-group:
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I recall that they put out a pretty good 7"...
ReplyDeletethe first 2 seven inches I still play to this day...."Sometimes it's what you love most that suffocates you..." I still by cometbus whenever I find it.
ReplyDeleteSaw them once at the Velvet Elvis in Seatle some time in the 90's. Lost interest after that 10" on Very Small.
ReplyDeleteBrilliant band! If you like older Green Day this is for you. Bill the bass player was in Monsula and the Influents. Thanks for the post! SoCal!?!? That's NoCal Berkeley and Oakland all the way!
ReplyDeleteCorrection made, face suitably red!
DeleteThanks. Sounds real nice too!
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