Aaron Elliott, better known as Aaron Cometbus, is the author of Cometbus, a seminal punk rockzine. Cometbus is a punk zine, started in Berkeley, California in 1983 by Aaron Elliot (now Aaron Cometbus). ... Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ... A zineâa contraction of the word magazineâis most commonly a small circulation, non-commercial publication of original or appropriated texts and images. ...
Aaron is also drummer for the band Pinhead Gunpowder, was a founding member of early East Bay band Crimpshrine, and plays in a multitude of short lived bands that generally release just a seven inch or two before breaking up. Pinhead Gunpowder is an East Bay Punk Rock band consisting of Aaron Cometbus (drums, lyrics), Bill Schneider (bass), Billie Joe Armstrong (guitar, vocals) and Jason White (guitar, vocals). ... Seminal Berkeley, California Punk rock band, featuring Jeff Ott, later lead singer of Fifteen, and Aaron Cometbus, the author of the zine Cometbus Song writer and drummer for many bands, most notably Pinhead Gunpowder. ...
Aaron Elliott (born 1968), better known as AaronCometbus, is a drummer, lyricist, and author of Cometbus, a seminal punk rockzine.
Aaron became an active participant in the Gilman Street Project and was a founding member of Crimpshrine, a highly influential East Bay punk rock band, which also featured Jeff Ott.
Aaron has also played in a multitude of short lived bands that generally release just a seven-inch or two before breaking up, some of which include Astrid Oto, Cleveland Bound Death Sentence, Scooby Don't, Shotwell Coho, Harbinger, The Blank Fight, EFS, Redmond Shooting Stars, Mundt and The Retard Beaters, and Colbom.
Pinhead Gunpowder is an East Bay Punk Rock band consisting of AaronCometbus (drums, lyrics), Bill Schneider (bass), Billie Joe Armstrong (guitar, vocals) and Jason White (guitar, vocals).
Mike Kirsch (guitar, vocals) was part of the original band formed in 1991 but left the band citing personal differences with Green Day (the band for which Billie Joe Armstrong is most famous).
AaronCometbus, who releases the "Cometbus" fanzine, has played in many East Bay area bands such as Crimpshrine.