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Female Bass Player wanted!
Our band is the Last Four Digits (now renamed the Last Digit) and we first played in the early 80's. After we stopped playing for a gazillion years, we got together about 6 years ago for a benefit show at Radio Radio for...
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- Guitar, Bass, Voice, Other
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- I like to travel. I enjoy all types of cuisine, and I love to cook. I'm almost obsessed with golf, but I'm not very good at it. I still enjoy seeing live music, but I am getting increasingly intolerant of cigarette smoke, that's why I love Radio Radio. I started Rusty Cow records with the money I made from selling a car that I won on the Price is Right! I put out seven limited edition E.P.s (colored vinyl of course) from some amazing bands! The moment in my life I will always cherish is when the Last Four (5) Digits played CBGB's on Valentines Day. We booked this week long tour ourselves and had played 2 great shows already in Philly and in D.C. Johnny Ramone was sitting at the bar listening to us. It was what they called Audition nite, and even so the place was very crowded. After we were done Hilly came and told us we were "the best new band that had played there in a long time", and offered us a regular show. But we only had a week out, and had to decline, but what a memory! We finished up with another small show at an art college in Manhattan and another amazing show at Maxwells in Hoboken. We played our final show together at the Vogue shortly after returning. If I remember correctly Paul Mahern joined us on stage that night for a song or two! Oh, I'm a Virgo!
- What bands are you or have you been in?
- The Last Four (4) Digits, The Last Four (5) Digits, We're Jimmy Hoffa, Men Working in Trees, Wheezing Combo, The Cheeses From France, The Carmel Police, Your Grocer's Freezer, Cast of Thousands, Bone Donor, Hemp Bidet, Dandelion Abortion, Roy Orbitron (my current project).
- What city are you from?
- Indianapolis
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That's amazing.
A good $20-worth of 9V batteries in that chain.
I'm down to a DOD Flashback Fuzz, a Rat, a Maxon overdrive (generic Tube Screamer, used for a clean boost) a Boss 6 band footswitch EQ, and a Morley volume pedal. I sure would like to have a Memory Man.
No more electric mistress?
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Drummer Yukki and Bassist Jakki provided the raw horsepower to drive the monster sound. Lumpy's virtuoso performances were legendary. Dave, the singer ( who was mildly retarded and who suffered from attention deficit syndrome) would frequently fly into a rage for no apparent reason and dive onto patrons table , upsetting both the patrons and their drinks.
Down in hill-jack land, in Newport, Kentucky, The Jockey Club was the center of the Cincinnati underground music scene in those years, and The Repellents quickly found a home there. In the early years of the band, lack of money and drugs kept the quartet from traveling much. The Repellents found a way to play a short tour of Ohio.
The first line-up of The Repellents recorded and released some songs on the master tape, thanks to punk rock maverick Bill " tricksie" Levin. It was well received in the national punk press and fanzine network and even garnered some airplay on college radio stations throughout the United States and Europe. Locally, The Repellents gained notoriety for being the first band to make no apologies for habitually being too drunk to perform well. Legendary disk jockey Handsome Clem Carpenter regularly featured the the Repellents on his weekly punk show, Search and Destroy, on WAIF in Cincinnati.
As members changed and the musical interests of the members evolved, The Repellents moved away from the thrash sound of D.C. toward the metallic appeal of Motorhead. This direction was an appropriate one, as guitarist Lumpy had matured into an accomplished lead player. In their later days, singer Dave Repellent Jr., having completely overcome his initial shyness, put on an extraordinary show by leaping around the stage with a sweaty face while Lumpy displayed his virtuoso guitar work. The Bassist for this line up was the legendary Julie Huffaker ( She lives, Last four (5) digits,etc.) and Eric Stouder ( Ivan ) on drums.
The Repellents had a Reunion show on Aug. 8th at Radio Radio in Indy. It was truly a knock-your-socks off performance. Several people in the audience were stunned (stoned).
The second and third incarnations of The Repellents each produced studio recordings that for a variety of reasons were never released. Fortunately, the master tapes survived the intervening years and they have been digitally re-mastered, now sounding better than ever. These second two tapes, along with the original " Rocker Bob" EP, also digitally remastered, will all soon be available to the public. Stay tuned.
How do I get one of these Repellents DVD's?
how about after we release a CD?
also great getting together with you dude
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