Screeching Weasel
Left to Right: John Jughead, Dan Vapid, Ben Weasel, and Dan Panic
Background information
Origin	Chicago, Illinois, USA
Genre(s)	Punk rock Pop punk Hardcore punk
Years active	1986–1989 1991–1994 1996–2001 2004
Label(s)	Underdog Records Roadkill Records Lookout! Records Selfless Records Fat Wreck Chords Panic Button Records Asian Man Records
Website	Official website
Former members
Ben Weasel John Jughead Vinnie Bovine Steve Cheese Warren Fish Brian Vermin Dan Vapid Douglas Ward Dave Naked Scott "Gub" Conway Dan Panic Johhny Personality Mike Dirnt Mass Giorgini Dan Lumley Zac Damon Phillip Hill

Screeching Weasel was an American punk band from Chicago, Illinois. They were formed in 1986 by Ben Weasel and John Jughead. Starting out as a heavily Ramones influenced band playing local all ages shows, the band gained prominence in the early 90s after signing a record deal with the East Bay punk label Lookout! Records. After Weasel and Jughead, who were in the band for its entirety, the two most prominent members in the band were, Danny Vapid on guitar and bass and Dan Panic on drums. However since their formation, the band went through many line-up changes and, at times included such notable musicians as Mike Dirnt and Mass Giorgini. ^{[1] [2]} Image File history File links RamonesLP.jpg‎ album cover posted on ramonesdiscography. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_States. ... This article is about Illinois largest city. ... 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Many of today's popular pop punk bands cite Screeching Weasel as influential, including Green Day, blink-182, and The All-American Rejects.^{[3] [4]} Pop punk is used for two separate subgenres of punk rock music: the kind typically found on Lookout! Records, which stray very little from the three-chord formula that The Ramones pioneered, as well as a newer subgenre of melodic, more emotional punk, which includes by bands like NOFX and... Green Day is an American rock band consisting of three core members: Billie Joe Armstrong (guitar, lead vocals), Mike Dirnt (bass) and Tré Cool (drums). ... The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ... The All-American Rejects is an American synth driven pop-rock band that formed in Stillwater, Oklahoma. ...

History

Early years (1986-1989)

In 1986 teenage friends from the Chicago area, Ben Foster and John Pierson, were inspired to start a band after attending a Ramones concert. Foster who played bass and sang, rechristened himself Ben Weasel, while Pierson who was a guitarist, decided to call himself John Jughead. The duo recruited a drummer who went by the alias of Steve Cheese, to fill out the group. The band originally called themselves "All-Night Garage Sale", but changed their name to Screeching Weasel, a variation of the name a friend suggested, Screaming Otter (which itself was a reference to a t-shirt that read, "I'VE GOT A SCREAMING OTTER IN MY PANTS!)^[5]. Shortly after their formation, Ben Weasel decided it was too difficult to play bass and sing at the same time, so Vinnie Bovine (aka Vince Vogel) joined as the group's bassist. The band recorded their first album, 1987's, Screeching Weasel, for only $200 in one night, on Underdog Records. In 1988, Vinnie Bovine was kicked out of the band, and was replaced with Warren Fisher, better know as Fish. The band recorded their second album Boogadaboogadaboogada!, which featured Ben playing second guitar (he would later say that he only played on about a quarter of the songs) and made a name for themselves by opening a show for Operation Ivy, at 924 Gilman Street. Shortly after the recording Steve Cheese was kicked out the band due to his unwillingness to tour outside of Chicago, Brian Vermin replaced him on drums. Boogadaboogadaboogada! appeared in late 1988 on Roadkill Records, a label run, in part, by Ben and Jughead. After what Weasel described as a "disastrous" tour with Spongetunnel^[6], Fish quit, and was replaced by Danny Schafer, who was originally called "Sewercap" but later renamed Danny Vapid. The new band members recorded an EP titled Punkhouse for Limited Potential Records soon after that. The band ended up recording two more songs in 1989 that ended up on compilations (these recordings featured second guitarist Douglas Ward, who also joined the band for several live shows) but broke up when Vermin and Vapid stated that they wanted to quit the band to concentrate on their side project, Sludgeworth. Screeching Weasel was the self titled first album by the punk rock band Screeching Weasel. ... Underdog Records was a Chicago based independent record label during the late 1980s and early 1990s. ... Boogadaboogadaboogada! is the second studio recording by the pop-punk band Screeching Weasel. ... Operation Ivy was an influential ska punk band that originated from the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area. ... The 924 Gilman Street project, aka the Alternative Music Foundation, is the Berkeley, California street address, and the official business name of the all-ages, non-profit, collectively organized music club usually referred to by its fans simply as Gilman. ... Punkhouse was recorded between the bands first and second major tours. ...

First reformation (1991-1994)

After the break-up, Weasel and Jughead formed a new band called The Gore Gore Girls. Ben also performed, briefly, in the original incarnation of The Vindictives. In 1991, the members of Screeching Weasel re-united for what was intended as a one-off gig to pay off debts the band incurred from the recording of Boogadaboogadaboogada!. The line up consisted of Ben, Jughead, Vapid, Vermin, and Ward. Afterwards Dan Vapid brought up the idea of reforming Screeching Weasel to Jughead. All the members but Brian Vermin agreed (presumably, Ward was not invited), so new drummer Dan Panic (born Dan Sullivan) was brought in. Before recording the album, 1991's My Brain Hurts, Ben Weasel decided he wanted to focus on singing, and would no longer be playing guitar in the band. Vapid switched instruments from bass to guitar, and former Gore Gore Girls bassist, Dave Naked, joined the band. The new album marked the band's first recording for Lookout! Records. The recording sessions for the album also produced the Pervo-Devo EP. After recording the album, Dave Naked was fired from the band and Scott "Gub" Conway, Panic's former bandmate, was brought in as the band's bassist for a tour. After the tour, Johnny Personality of The Vindictives became the group's bassist, as Gub was committed to another band. By late 1992, the band had recorded the follow up to My Brain Hurts, Wiggle. With the album finished, Johnny Personality quit the band to focus on The Vindictives. Instead of adding a new member, Weasel moved back to guitar, and Vapid moved back to bass. The new incarnation of the band was asked to record a cover of an entire Ramones album, this resulted in 1992's, Ramones. This was followed later that year by Anthem For A New Tomorrow. Shortly after the record's release, Ben decided that he no longer wanted to play live and later that year, Dan Vapid quit after falling out with the rest of group. Screeching Weasel enlisted the help of Green Day bassist, Mike Dirnt, to record what they intended to be their final album. After 1994's, How To Make Enemies And Irritate People, was released, Screeching Weasel broke up for the second time. The Vindictives were a Chicago-based punk rock underground group during the 1990s. ... Boogadaboogadaboogada! is the second studio recording by the pop-punk band Screeching Weasel. ... My Brain Hurts is an album by Chicago, IL based punk band Screeching Weasel. ... Lookout! Records is an independent record label based in Berkeley, California. ... Wiggle is the fourth full length album by Chicagos Screeching Weasel, and their second for California-based Lookout! Records. ... This album is Screeching Weasel covering the first album by The Ramones in its entireity. ... Anthem For A New Tomorrow is Screeching Weasels fifth full length album. ... How To Make Enemies and Irritate People was meant to be Screeching Weasels last album. ...

Second reformation (1996-2001)

By 1996 the classic line up of Ben Weasel, John Jughead, Dan Vapid, and Dan Panic decided to reunite, and recorded the album Bark Like A Dog for Fat Mike's Fat Wreck Chords label. Bark Like a Dog reached 34th place on the Billboard Heatseekers list, making it their highest charting album. ^[7]However both Vapid and Panic left by mutual decision after the recording and Weasel and Jughead decided to go on without them, adding bassist Mass Giorgini (who had served as the band's producer in the past), and drummer Dan Lumley. Weasel also decided for the second time that he no longer wanted to play guitar, so guitarist Zac Damon was also added. In 1998, this new line up recorded the Major Label Debut EP (the first release on Panic Button Records, a label Ben and John had formed that year) and quickly followed it with Television City Dream. 1999's Emo featured the same line up, minus Zac Damon, who unable to record due to school commitments at the time and would later relocate to California. The band brought in Phillip Hill as a second guitarist and recorded what would be their final album Teen Punks In Heat. After the album, Screeching Weasel made their first live appearances since 1993, playing 30 minute matinees at Chicago's House of Blues. The band broke up for the third - and allegedly final - time on July 6, 2001. Bark Like A Dog was Screeching Weasels first album back after their second breakup. ... Michael John Burkett, more commonly known as Fat Mike, is the lead singer and bassist of the popular punk band NOFX, as well as bass player for Me First and the Gimme Gimmes. ... Fat Wreck Chords is a San Francisco, California based independent record label, focused on punk rock, which was started by Fat Mike the lead singer and bassist of the punk rock band NOFX and his wife Erin, in 1990. ... Bark Like A Dog was Screeching Weasels first album back after their second breakup. ... On January 4, 1936, Billboard magazine published its first music hit parade and on July 20, 1940 the first Music Popularity Chart was calculated. ... Panic Button Records was a record label which was formed in Chicago, Illinois in 1997. ... Television City Dream was the 11th album released by the Chicago, Illinois pop-punk band Screeching Weasel. ... Emo is an album by Screeching Weasel. ... Teen Punks In Heat is the eleventh and final studio album by the punk rock/pop punk band Screeching Weasel. ... House of Blues Sunset, in West Hollywood The House of Blues is a chain of music halls and restaurants founded in 1992 by Hard Rock Cafe founder Isaac Tigrett and his friend and investor Dan Aykroyd. ... July 6 is the 187th day of the year (188th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 178 days remaining. ... 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Post break-up

Members of Screeching Weasel have gone on to form bands such as: The Methadones, The Mopes, Even in Blackouts, and Sweet Black And Blue. For a short time after the 1994 break-up, Weasel and Vapid also formed the Riverdales. ^[8] Additionally, Ben Weasel released a solo record in 2002 entitled Fidatevi^[9], and is currently recording a second one. The Methadones were formed by Dan Schafer (Danny Vapid) of Screeching Weasel, Sludgeworth, and The Riverdales in the mid 1990s as a side project. ... Even in Blackouts, known occasionally by the acronyn EiB, are an acoustic pop-punk band from Chicago, Illinois. ... Sweet Black and Blue was a very short-lived project featuring Ben Weasel (of Screeching Weasel) and a number of other Chicago musicians. ... The Riverdales are an American punk rock music group. ...

In 2004, Ben Weasel rescinded all of the Screeching Weasel and Riverdales masters from Lookout! Records in the wake of long-running financial and personal conflicts. The masters were subsequently licensed to and reissued by Asian Man Records.^[10] 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Riverdales are an American punk rock music group. ... Lookout! Records is an independent record label based in Berkeley, California. ... Asian Mans Logo resembling the South Korean flag Asian Man Records is a small, DIY record label run by Mike Park out of his parents garage in Monte Sereno, California. ...

Both Ben and Jughead have authored books seemingly related to Screeching Weasel. In 2001, Ben Weasel published Like Hell, the account of a fictional punk band called the Pagan Icons and the life of their frontman, Joe Pagan, who narrates the story. Many have assumed that the book was a thinly-veiled biography of Screeching Weasel, but Ben has denied this. Jughead released Weasels in a Box, his admittedly fictionalized account of Screeching Weasel's history. Both books were published by Hope And Nonthings, which is run by Jughead. Ben Weasel (born Ben Foster in Chicago, Illinois) was the lead singer of punk rock bands Screeching Weasel and The Riverdales. ... 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 line-up consisting of Ben Weasel, Jughead, Dan Vapid, Mass Giorgini, and Dan Lumley came together briefly in 2004 to play surprise sets at the Chicago club The Fireside Bowl^[11] however there are no plans to reunite again.^[12] Fireside Bowling Alley The Fireside Bowl, established in the 1940s is located at 2648 W Fullerton Ave in Chicago, Illinois. ...

Members

• Ben Weasel (Vocals/Guitar) (1986-2001, 2004)
• John Jughead (Guitar) (1986-2001, 2004)
• Vinnie Bovine (Bass) (1986-1988)
• Steve Cheese (Drums (1986-1988)
• Warren Fish (Bass) (1988-1990)
• Brian Vermin (Drums (1988-1989)
• Dan Vapid (Guitar/Bass) (1989-1994, 1996, 2004)
• Doug Wonderful (Guitar) (1989)
• Dave Naked (Bass) (1991-1992)
• Scott "Gub" Conway (Bass) (1992)
• Dan Panic (Drums) (1991-1996)
• Johhny Personality (Bass) (1992)
• Mike Dirnt (Bass) (1994)
• Mass Giorgini (Bass) (1996-2001, 2004)
• Dan Lumley (Drums) (1996-2001, 2004)
• Zac Damon (Guitar) (1997-1998)
• Phillip Hill (Guitar) (2000-2001)

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Music

The band's lyrics reflected Weasel's "anti-everything" apolitical orientation set to music that was melodic and derivative of the Ramones. Also much like the Ramones, common lyrical themes were girls, paranoia, and anxiety problems (which Weasel suffered from)^[13]. Many centered on Weasel's relationship with then girlfriend Portia. In historical scholarship, a primary source is a document or other source of information that was created at or near the time being studied, often by the people being studied. ... The Ramones were an American rock band often regarded as the first punk rock group[1][2]. After forming in Forest Hills, Queens, New York in 1974, they performed and played 2,263 concerts[2], touring virtually non-stop for 22 years until disbanding in 1996 after a final tour... Plural of Girl. ... PARANOiA is a fast paced song primarily appeared in Dance Dance Revolution and being transplanted in beatmania IIDX in the BEMANI SERIES of KONAMI arcade games. ... Anxiety is an unpleasant complex combination of emotions that includes fear, apprehension and worry, and is often accompanied by physical sensations such as palpitations, nausea, chest pain and/or shortness of breath. ...

Upon their first reformnation, their music transformed from the traditional punk and hardcore punk of when they began, to their long-standing, to a pop punk sound. Pop punk is used for two separate subgenres of punk rock music: the kind typically found on Lookout! Records, which stray very little from the three-chord formula that The Ramones pioneered, as well as a newer subgenre of melodic, more emotional punk, which includes by bands like NOFX and...

The middle period of the band's sound begins most distinctly with the album My Brain Hurts, reaching adolescence with Wiggle and flowering into full realization with Anthem For a New Tomorrow. These works and several of those following it are characterized by more complex, anthemic songwriting and more intelligent and metaphoric lyrics. During this time Ben Weasel frequently collaborated with Joe King, frontman of The Queers, to write songs. Joe King playing with The Queers in Oslo 2005 The Queers are a pop punk band from Portsmouth, New Hampshire, formed in 1982. ...

Through his writings in Maximum RocknRoll, fanzines, and lyrics, Ben Weasel established himself as one of the most pungent internal critics of the punk scene. As an example, in the 1999 song "Tightrope", Weasel launched a rather pointed attack on the glorification of violence and chauvinism by what he termed "tough-guy, so-called working class or street punk bands". Later, punk band Rancid referred briefly to this song in the liner notes of their 2003 album, Indestructible. Maximum Rocknroll Issue #1 Maximum Rocknroll (also known as MRR) is a a widely distributed, monthly underground punk rock and punk culture fanzine based in San Francisco, USA. Featuring interviews, columns and reviews from international contributors, Maximum RocknRoll could be thought of as one of the most important presences in... The song, Tightrope, was recorded by the Chicago pop-punk band Screeching Weasel during the sessions for their eleventh studio album, emo. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Rancid is a punk rock band, formed in 1991 in Berkeley, California, by Matt Freeman and Tim Armstrong (former members of Operation Ivy). ... Indestructible is the sixth album by Rancid, released on August 19, 2003 (see 2003 in music). ...

Discography

Albums

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EPs

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Compilations

References

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External links

• Official Screeching Weasel website
• benweasel.com - Ben Weasel's blog

• Screeching Weasel guitar tabs