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Jeff Ott is an activist, musician, author, and longtime member of the Berkeley punk community, having fronted such seminal bands as Crimpshrine, Basic Radio, and Fifteen. Berkeley is a city on the east shore of San Francisco Bay in northern California, in the United States. ...
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. ...
Crimpshrine was a punk rock band from Berkeley, California, United States, formed by seminal punk rock zine Cometbus founder, Aaron Cometbus and Jeff Ott. ...
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Partial history
At age 12 he started playing music with his friends Jesse Michaels and Aaron Elliot. At the age of 15 Ott first used a needle to intravenously inject methamphetamine, an addiction that followed him for 10 years. Since releasing his first 7" at the age of 16, he has released 27 albums under various names/groups. His most noteworthy groups included Crimpshrine and Fifteen. As of the year 2000, Ott has been unable to consistently sustain a touring band, primarily due to financial restraints and increased dedication to his family. However, he has toured and performed as a solo artist since then, albeit rarely and for limited durations. He is married and has two children. Jesse Michaels (born 1969) is a songwriter, guitarist and artist from Berkeley, Californias East Bay. ...
Aaron Elliott, better known as Aaron Cometbus, is the author of Cometbus, a seminal punk rock zine. ...
Crimpshrine was a punk rock band from Berkeley, California, United States, formed by seminal punk rock zine Cometbus founder, Aaron Cometbus and Jeff Ott. ...
Fifteen may refer to: 15, the cardinal number between 14 and 16 The year 15 Fifteen, a chain of restaurants created by Jamie Oliver Fifteen, a teen soap on Nickelodeon during the 1990s (known in Canada as Hillside) Fifteen, the punk rock band Fifteen (15), the movie Fifteen, 2006 Buckcherry...
Songwriting Ott's lyrics are politically influenced and he writes about such controversial subjects as racism, homophobia, misogyny/male supremacy, classism, drug abuse, needle exchange, and civil rights. Other topics frequently the subject of his lyrics include gender roles, homelessness, addiction, environmentalism, social injustice, and conspiracy. Because racism carries connotations of race-based bigotry, prejudice, violence, oppression, stereotyping or discrimination, the term has varying and often hotly contested definitions. ...
A protest by The Westboro Baptist Church; a group identified by the Anti-Defamation League as virulently homophobic. ...
Misogyny (IPA: ) is hatred or strong prejudice against women; an antonym of philogyny. ...
Classism (a term formed by analogy with racism) is any form of prejudice or oppression against people who are in, or who are perceived as being like those who are in, a lower social class (especially in the form of lower or higher socioeconomic status) within a class society. ...
Drug abuse has a wide range of definitions related to taking a psychoactive drug or performance enhancing drug for a non-therapeutic or non-medical effect. ...
A needle exchange programme is a controversial public service endorsed by some governments which give clean needles to intravenous drug addicts, in exchange for education of the drug user. ...
Civil rights or positive rights are those legal rights retained by citizens and protected by the government. ...
A bagpiper in military uniform. ...
A homeless person in Paris. ...
An addiction is a recurring compulsion by an individual to engage in some specific activity. ...
For the psychology topic, see Environmental psychology. ...
Social injustice is a concept relating to the perceived unfairness or injustice of a society in its divisions of rewards and burdens. ...
In a political sense, conspiracy refers to a group of persons united in the goal of usurping or overthrowing an established political power. ...
Solo music and books Since becoming a solo artist, Ott has traded punk's tearing guitars and rapid tempos for traditional singer/songwriter fare (i.e. a single acoustic guitar); his lyrical content, however, has changed very little, if at all. He continues to play Fifteen and some Crimpshrine songs, though, but in this new style. Ott has released two albums under his own name: 1998's Epithysial Union, an album also featuring songs by Amanda Ketchum (billed only as 'Amanda'), and 2003's Will Work For Diapers. The latter, his most recent musical work to date, was accompanied by the release of his first book, My World: Ramblings of an Aging Gutter Punk (ISBN 0-9677287-0-3). The bulk of the content consists of excerpts from his self-published zine of the same name. His 2005 book Weapons of Mass Destruction and the Real War on Terror (ISBN 0-9677287-1-1), focuses on domestic violence, police brutality, sexual abuse, and how he sees these issues as more urgent and credible than the War on Terror. Both books are published by Sub City Records, a sub-label of Hopeless Records. A zine—an abbreviation of the word fanzine, and originating from the word magazine—is most commonly a small circulation, non-commercial publication of original or appropriated texts and images. ...
The war on terrorism or war on terror (abbreviated in U.S. policy circles as GWOT for Global War on Terror) is an effort by the governments of the United States and its principal allies to destroy groups deemed to be terrorist (primarily radical Islamist organizations such as al-Qaeda...
Sub City Records was created by Hopeless Records to raise funding and awareness for non-profit organizations. ...
Hopeless Records is an independent record label located in Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California. ...
Links and organizations Ott also supports and is involved in a number of non-profit organizations including:
External links - Jeff Ott official website
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