Meet The Creeping Cruds New Singer - Jimmy 2Beards

Greetings Fright Fans – Dr. Gangrene here, Nashville’s Physician of Fright, and tonight it’s my  pleasure to introduce you to the newest member of Nashville’s premiere horror band, The Creeping Cruds. They have a lot of big news on the horizon, so put your paws together and give a very cruddy howl of welcome to the Cruds new singer, Jimmy 2Beards.

Welcome, Jimmy! How did the gig with the Cruds come about?
Well, Doc, my path to becoming officially Cruddy started with accepting a frontman position leading the mighty Tinglers (actually The Cruds in misleading disguises) at last year's Shock Hop Tribute Show. Being a constant front row Creeping Cruds maniac (and therefore knowing a good deal of the songs) couldn't have hurt.

What did you do musically before the Creeping Cruds?
Prior to this, musically, I fronted the underrated TwoBeards Shower Time Singers.

What are your favorite/most influential bands?
Favorites include The Boils, The Ramones, The Misfits, and Screeching Weasel. Influential, well, Metallica was the band that started everything thing for me, took me out of oldies rock radio, which was all I knew as a kid. But the Glenn Danzig fronted bands and the mighty Cramps, with their masterful mix of rock and horror have made the biggest impact.

What’s your favorite Cruds song to sing?
I Was A Teenage Werewolf. My favorite part of the Cruds live set for years.

You’re trapped in a secluded castle and can only take one movie with you. What would you choose?
Dawn of the Dead. Not my favorite (that would be Return Of The Living Dead) but the one I can see myself never tiring of.

 Fulci or Argento?
Lucio Fulci, by far. The Godfather Of Gore's mastery of what nauseates and terrifies is legendary.

Zombies: shamble or run?
The shambling dead are the dead for me. In my opinion, zombification is a reset button. Zombies are hungry babies.

I’ve heard the new Cruds song, and think it turned out great! Is it true you almost got arrested making the music video?
Thanks for the kind words, the creative and recording process has been an incredible, as well as surreal experience. As for life in the big house. We came close. Peeping eyes took offense to "objects" being put on the graves. They had no idea they were calling the fuzz on some rather respectful ghouls who left the graveyard as it has been for centuries. As we say at the Cruds Crypt, "Just 10 minutes earlier..."

Does this mean there is a new Cruds album on the horizon?
There's enough Cruddy live favorites that are just itchin' to be finally recorded and a tomb full of new terror tunes being worked on, so a new Creeping Cruds album is definitely showing signs of life, starting to react to the 2-4-5 Trioxin.

What are you going to be for Halloween?
With my home being the yet-to-be infamous Creepsville Cabin, I'm sure my Halloween costume this year will be slasher related, perhaps one of those hockey players, or the homicidal burned caretaker or that little girl that turned out to be a boy.

Ok, fangs and beast of luck to you, Jimmy, and I’ll see you at the next Cruds show, and the Horror
Hootenanny this October! And now, without further adieu, here is the brand new video from The Creeping Cruds - I Eats The Dead.

Dr. Gangrene's Horror Hootenanny 11

The details for the 11th annual Dr. Gangrene's Horror Hootenanny are officially announced, and we're excited to announce a new venue this year, as well as a slightly different format. This year we'll be showcasing 3 bands early on in the evening, with a special 40th anniversary/Marilyn Burns tribute screening of Texas Chainsaw Massacre at Midnight, with special guest John GRANDPA Dugan.

As always the event is a costume party, with special prizes for winners, plus a dollar discount at the door for all who come dressed in costume. There are 2 separate areas at the new venue, the CULT FICTION UNDERGROUND. One is the screening room where the bands will play and the movie at midnight. The other room is the bar area where the Halloween party will rage until the wee hours of the morning.

The Horror Hootenanny has been howling for over a decade - this is the eleventh annual Hootenanny, Nashville's premiere Halloween event. make plans now - it's gonna be a scream!

Dead Dick Hammer and the T.B.A. – Four Play by the 8-Track Player

“Not everybody loves Dick, but Dick loves everybody…”

I have been meaning to tell you folks about a fantastic new CD for a while now. It’s called FOUR PLAY BY THE 8-TRACK PLAYER, by Dead Dick Hammer and the T.B.A. Band. I first ran across Dead Dick and company a few years back while searching for a headliner for our annual Horror Hootenanny show. I was immediately blown away when I heard the track LAST CALL, of their album RES-ERECTION. I checked out more of their music, then quickly found a contact for Dead Dick. The rest was Horror Hootenanny history, as they’ve played three Hoots since!
 

 

Dead Dick Hammer is made up of Dead Dick on guitar/vocals, Dead Doreen on bass, and Doc Kong on drums. They play their own unique style of horror rock – part metal, part punk, part rockabilly – all spooky. On their previous CD we learn the sad fate of the DDH band, who died tragically on their way to a gig in the 50s, their van swerving off the road into the Green River where their water-soaked corpses lay until re-awakened in the 2000s by the god-awful, unearthly, inhumane sounds of “Boom-Boom” music. Dead Dick, Doreen, and Kong now travel the countryside playing their own version of shock and roll, determined to bring quality rock and roll back to an unsuspecting public grown accustomed to auto-tuned garbage.

Four Play by the 8-Track is as full of Dead Dick’s twisted sense of humor as it is his kick-ass guitar riffs, and is not for the easily offended. The tracks are:

Farmer Dick’s Fun Time Acres

The Devil’s a Dick

Green River

What’s the Emergency

Four Play by the 8Track Player

Psycho Pussy Sideshow

Lil Children Shouldn’t (Play with Dead Thangs)

Baby Lives in Batesville

Rubberneckers

Confessions (of a Truckstop Cowboy)

The Attack of the Music Makers

Dead Air for Dead Dick Hedz

It is impossible to pick a favorite track, but some of the highlights of this CD include:

Farmer Dick’s Fun Time Acres - If you have any doubt what you’re in store for with this CD, the opening track makes it quite clear. It’s Dead Dick leading an inquisitive group of kids on a tour of his Fun Times Acres farm, a tour that ends in a real blast!

The Devil’s a Dick - actor John Dugan (of Texas Chainsaw fame) plays the Devil in this one – fun!

Green River is one of my favorites on the CD, it tells the story of how Dead Dick became dead, at the bottom of the Green River.

What’s the Emergency is a grooving jam played over a collection of 911 calls about a strange dead looking guy pleasuring himself outside these various individuals’ houses.

Four Play by the 8-Track Player rocks, singing about exactly what the title implies – this one has some of the heaviest guitars and grooves of any song on the album – plus a cool theremin effect throughout.

Psycho Pussy Sideshow is a hilarious trailer for a fake movie.

I know I said it’s impossible to pick one, but Lil Children Shouldn’t is probably my very favorite track. It is amazing. The story of a kid who takes a bag of dead puppies home as an initiation to a gang – with horrifying results…

And that just scratches the surface. I love the packaging - made to look like an old LP, the cd itself even looks like a little vinyl record - with blood spattered across it, that is. Four Play is a terror-ific CD – unless you’re not an uptight, easily offended, judgmental non-fun havin’ prude, that is. If so you’ll want no part of this one – there’s way too much unadulterated rockin and perversion going on for you. Jackie. JACK-ie.

If you are of less delicate persuasion, however, and enjoy a walk on the dead side, then grab a heapin’ slab of anti-boom-boom music to keep your undead groove going till next Halloween.
Find it at deaddickhammer.com

Horror Hootenanny 9 a huge success!

 

We had the largest turnout ever for our Horror Hootenanny show last night, with people traveling in from as far away as New York and Michigan to see FORBIDDEN DIMENSON! The bands were all excellent - Alucard, Forbidden Dimension, The Creeping Cruds, and Hellfire Revival! Amazing costumes abounded and there was a great vibe throughout the building. It was great to be back at THE END again, and a big thanks to all our sponsors - LONEWOLF BODY ART, EVIL PUMPKINS, and UNHOLY APPAREL for the great prizes donated for the costume contest!

 

El Retorno del Hootenanny Horror

Thinking ahead a good bit here toward this year's Horror Hootenanny - we have a date booked - Friday October 13, 2012. I posted the list of bands below on the Horror Hoot facebook page yesterday. Quite the rockin group of bands we've had so far - who will be the headliner this year? Stay tuned to find out - who would YOU like to see play the hoot this year?

2004 - Psychocharger, The Creeping Cruds, Monster Zero, The Exotic Ones

2005 - All American Werewolves, The Creeping Cruds, The Codenames, The Exotic Ones
2006 - Psychocharger, The Creeping Cruds, The Lava Men, Cretin Grims
2007 - Psychocharger, The Creeping Cruds, Butcher Priest, Radio Death Wave
2008 - Daikaiju, The Creeping Cruds, The Coffin Bury's, The Exotic Ones
2009 - Psychocharger, The Mighty Shrill, The Creeping Cruds, Spookhand, Radio Death Wave
2010 - Psychocharger, The Creeping Cruds, Spookhand, Alucard
2011 - Dead Dick Hammer, The Creeping Cruds, Spookhand, Alucard

Hootenanny Just 11 Days away!

The 7th annual Horror Hootenanny in Nashville at The Muse is just 11 days away!
Make plans now!

For those folks in Atlanta we're holding the 1st annual Horror Hootenanny south on the 24th at The Shelter! Come join us for a rockin good time!!

Dr. Gangrene's Horror Hootenanny 7

Horror Hootenanny 7 - Make plans now!!
Bands TBA...

 

Gettin Cruddy - interview with Jeano Roid of the Creeping Cruds

Nashville, Tennessee may be the home of country music, but for the better part of a decade one band has kept the horror flag flying high in Music City. I am of course talking about The Creeping Cruds, widely known as Nashville’s Scariest Band. I recently sat down with Jeano Roid, Cruds lead guitar shredder (sometime vocalist) and monster-kid extraordinaire and discussed his horror influences, background and generally all things horror in the Middle Tennessee area.

Doc G - So Jeano – thanks for rapping with me a bit. You’re not originally from the Nashville area – where did you grow up and when did the horror bug first bite you?

Jeano - I grew up in West Palm Beach, Florida and started my obsession with Horror at around 7 or 8 years after seeing the original The Fly. I scoured TV Guide to make sure nothing was aired that I would miss. By the time I was 12 I had seen tons of old Horror and amassed a large collection of Famous Monsters mags and other Horror books.

Doc G - I understand you had a horror host in your area growing up… who was it and were you a fan of his show?

Jeano - Actually we had two Creature Feature shows - one in WPB and one in Ft. Lauderdale. Neither had a host but the WPB show had a super-creepy intro with a narrator who was never shown. Saturday nights at 11:30pm! I missed Saturday Night Live for a decade over that time-slot!

Doc G - When did you first pick up a guitar and were you in many bands in your youth?

Jeano - I got my first guitar at around 18. It wasn't like it is today where every kid at school has a bin-account at Guitar Center. We scoured pawn shops and bought old beaters. I was in several long-lived bands and a few side projects.

Doc G - You later moved to Florida and were in a couple of other bands down there, the best known of which was The Roidz, (which is where the moniker Jeano Roid comes from). Tell me about The Roids.

Jeano - The Roidz was a ultra-nerdy hardcore band that challenged the world! It was the 80's and we blew up right as the SoFlo hardcore scene peaked. Boomer (who was also in The Roidz) have discussed doing a new Roidz record in the near future - time permitting.

Doc G - So when did you first move to Nashville and how long before you formed the Creeping Cruds? How did you meet your fellow Crudsters? Was the band a horror band from day one?

Jeano - I moved to Nashville in 02, but I had already met McNasty and the original bass player Manthon prior to moving. Once we came up with the band name it was a consensus to go all-horror, which is something I had always wanted to do..

Doc G - Are the rest of the Cruds big horror movie buffs too?

Jeano - Yes, to varying degrees. We all love Horror flicks but I'm definitely the most obsessed..  

Doc G - I know you’re a huge horror fan like me, so it’s hard to narrow down a favorite film – but if you had to choose, what are a couple of your favorite horror movies?

Jeano - Night of the Living Dead, The Evil Dead and Texas Chainsaw are my top three, but I'm a major fan of Karloff and Vincent Price as well. I could make a list but it would be LONG!

Doc G - Your first CD was called “The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who stopped Living and Became the Creeping Cruds.” You sang lead vocals on that one in addition to playing lead guitar. Is singing something you like to do or do you prefer to focus mainly on playing guitar?

Jeano - Actually our original frontman Travis left the band in the middle of recording so I had pretty much no choice but to do the vox myself. Finding a singer was a priority after the CD was done - and we were lucky to find Wolfie almost immediately. I like writing lyrics and recording, but live vocals are best left to someone else!

Doc G - It’s been a couple of years now since the second Cruds CD, “Tennessee Bloodbath.” Any chance of a new album anytime soon?

Jeano - It's been a little over a year now and we're crawling in that direction. We have some new music but we don't usually add new things to the set unless it's tunes and are having fun with covers etc.. We'll wait until the fans just can't take it anymore!

Doc G - I know you are always working on a variety of projects. Tell me about the music you recently did for a Herschell Gordon Lewis movie.

Jeano - It's actually Tim Sullivan's second sequel to HGL's 2000 Maniacs called 2001 Maniacs - Field of Screams. The latest update to the infamous "The South Will Rise Again" theme from the original movie. Psychocharger from NYC, who I work with from time to time cut the track and at the time their main man Jimmy Psycho was physically unable to play guitar so I laid down several guitar and vocal tracks and mixed the song for the band. My wife Tanya did some evil screams for the track as well.. The movie comes out this summer..


Doc G - What are the future plans for the Creeping Cruds?

Jeano - We're gonna bring the Rock and bring the Horror! Maybe a Creeping Cruds movie should be made.. who knows..


Doc G - I want to salute you for your years of dead-icated service bringing horror to the music city capitol of the world. Long live the Cruds.

Jeano - Thanks Dr. Gangrene! We owe ALOT to you - so thanks a bunch! Come on down to The Lone Wolf Horror Con and visit the Creeping Cruds table!

Doc G - Thanks again for hanging out in my lab for a bit. It’s time to go feed the bats down in the catacombs now, so I must be going. To find out more about The Creeping Cruds visit www.creepingcruds.com and be sure to buy some CDs and tshirts and other goodies while you’re there. Support your local ghouls, that’s my motto!You can meet them live at the Lone Wolf Full Moon Tattoo Festival in Nashville April 24-26 at the Nashville Airport Marriott hotel.

Upcoming Spookhand Gigs

For those of you in the Nashville area, make plans now for some good old fashioned shock and roll fun -
Saturday May 1st at The Muse, we're playing with US TO BLAME. All ages show...

Thursday May 13th at The Muse, playing with Alacard, Unkle Skunkle and the Scarecrow family band, and Dirty Dee and the Sweaty Meat. All ages

And I want you - to mark your calendars now for the 7th annual Horror Hootenanny!

Saturday September 25th, 2010 - at The Muse (sensing a trend here...)

So far Spookhand and
The Creeping Cruds
will be playing...

more bands to come.
Stay tuned!!

Spookhand Live @ the Horror Hootenanny - shock rock

I got a lot of requests for this one - it's a music video of the song Rock N Roll Zombi, performed live at the Horror Hootenanny 09 - in this video a "fan" runs onstage, to Gangrene's displeasure - and he deals with it in an appropriate fashion - by ripping his arm off!!

2008 Horror Hootenanny 5 pics

Big round of applause to Ray and Wendy for posting pics of the Horror Hootenenny South - it took place at The Pond in Franklin. Thanks to everyone who came out to see a kick ass show - Dave and the Country Rebels, The Creeping Cruds, Psychocharger and the Coffin Burys - fun stuff!!




See all the pics HERE:
http://raywen.org/concert/hoot102508/








Tanya Roid, in Wolf Costume!



















Psychocharger hits the stage!














The Coffin Burys in action

100th post - Woo Hoo!!

This is the 100th post here on the Gangrene blog!

Way cool - I've been very sporadic with this thing, the first post being way back on 10-26-06. But the way I see it is it's here for me when I feel in the mood or have time to write about stuff.

With Halloween over things have slowed down a bit, so I feel a bit more energy for some side activities. Speaking of which...

There are pictures up from the Horror Hootenanny now at:

http://raywen.org/concert/hoot101808/index.html

The Exotic ones rockin THE BASEMENT

Some of the costumes at the Hootenanny

Ray and Wendy, regulars at the Hootenanny shows, as well as many other events around town, took these and posted them online. This was the first Horror Hootenanny this year, October 18th 2008 at The Basement - and featured The Exotic Ones, The Creeping Cruds, The Coffin Burys and Daikaiju.

Rockin' with the Creeping Cruds

Unfortunately Ray had to leave before Daikaiju or the Coffin Burys came on, but he took some terrific shots of the Cruds and the Exotic Ones. Thanks Ray, and thanks to everyone who came out!!

Rockin with the Exotic Ones

You know, sometimes you stumble across a picture of yourself that takes you by surprise. I found this on the internet tonight by accident - it's from one of our Horror Hootenanny shows in Nashville, and I'm onstage with The Exotic Ones singing The Monster Mash. And yes, that is a guitar coming out of my crotch! Yowza!

Come Out Neville

Posted a music video this weekend for The Creeping Cruds song "Come Out Neville". This song is based on the Richard Matheson novel "I am Legend" and the film THE OMEGA MAN, and will be shown next Saturday night during our broadcast of THE LAST MAN ON EARTH. This was filmed live at the Horror Hootenanny 4 last October. Rock on!