Thursday, 7/02/09 Megasound Megashows Megahelp
Want free tickets, promo goodies, and the envy of all your friends while putting a little scratch in your pouch? We have some street marketing positions open for the Central Valley and Santa Barbara Counties. Fun-loving, hard working, open-minded individuals can inquire at info@numbskullshows.com
All has been quiet on the Ventura County venue front lately since the closures of the beloved Alpine and Kung Fu Corner last year. The punk/hardcore/metal sect have been sorely neglected, not by choice but merely by circumstance. Well fans of aggressive music rejoice...enter Megasound Studios, conveniently located on Main Street in mid-town Ventura, this intimate all purpose rehearsal/recording spot is gonna play host to some hefty shows that will test the limits of human flexibility. First off, we have monster death metal grinders JOB FOR A COWBOY pulverizing the joint on July 7. Then NYC gutter-punk vets THE CASUALTIES take charge on August 26. Buy tix in advance to guarantee execution, err I mean entry.
Our Calendar be poppin' this summer, check out the cornucopia of bomb-ass shows
including poetic Canadian folk-punks THE WEAKERTHANS 7/21 in SLO, the original BONE THUGS N HARMONY at Downtown Brew 7/25, and shoot-first, no questions later hip hop activist IMMORTAL TECHNIQUE at Ventura Theater 8/15.
All has been quiet on the Ventura County venue front lately since the closures of the beloved Alpine and Kung Fu Corner last year. The punk/hardcore/metal sect have been sorely neglected, not by choice but merely by circumstance. Well fans of aggressive music rejoice...enter Megasound Studios, conveniently located on Main Street in mid-town Ventura, this intimate all purpose rehearsal/recording spot is gonna play host to some hefty shows that will test the limits of human flexibility. First off, we have monster death metal grinders JOB FOR A COWBOY pulverizing the joint on July 7. Then NYC gutter-punk vets THE CASUALTIES take charge on August 26. Buy tix in advance to guarantee execution, err I mean entry.
Our Calendar be poppin' this summer, check out the cornucopia of bomb-ass shows
including poetic Canadian folk-punks THE WEAKERTHANS 7/21 in SLO, the original BONE THUGS N HARMONY at Downtown Brew 7/25, and shoot-first, no questions later hip hop activist IMMORTAL TECHNIQUE at Ventura Theater 8/15.
[Posted by: Eddy]
Thursday, 1/15/09 VEGAS BABY VEGAS
This weekend Team Numbskull will be partaking in the 2009 Punk Rock Bowling & Poker Tourney in Las Vegas. Now in it's 11th year, movers and shakers in the independent punk community from all over the globe gather in sin city for a weekend of gamblin, bowlin, networkin, and no-holds-barred debauchery. Providing the soundtrack for the weekend's festivities with special intimate performances will be The Dwarves, Circle Jerks, Pennywise, The Casualties, American Steel, Manic Hispanic, The Vandals and countless others. Please send posi vibes, well wishing support, and thoughtful prayers our way so we can rep the 805 well, and more importantly come back alive to bring you more shows.
[Posted by: Eddy]
Sunday, 8/31/08 JERRYS R.I.P.
It saddens me to say that after nearly two decades of shows, the infamous Jerry’s Pizza in Bakersfield will close it’s doors as a live music venue. Jerry's will still operate as a pizza parlor, but sky rocketing expenses and sagging attendance has ended the club facet. The very last Numbskull show will be White Chapel on Tuesday, September 2nd. Come bid fond farewells.
Plagued with unpleasing aesthetics, deafening acoustics, hades-like temperatures, demented management, zero amenities and cockroaches the size of rodents, Jerry’s Pizza still was the pillar of rock and roll for the Central Valley. I love Jerry’s pizza to no end and despite all of the above it’s still one of my favorite venues we have ever run. I loved the element of danger that accompanied each and every show from the downtown bako riff raff and the tweekin pawn shop regulars to the fist first diplomacy of the locals, not exactly ideal conditions for live music but entertaining nonetheless.
My Chemical Romance, AFI, Buckcherry, Fallout Boy, Weezer, Thrice, Murder City Devils, Against Me! and thousands of other bands have graced the stage/floor of Jerry's basement at one time or another. This venue is truly stuff of legend. Thank you Jerry for all the phenomenal memories.
Beloved friend and Producer extraordinaire Jerry Finn passed away this week, falling victim to a brain hemorrhage. Jerry was hands down the producer of our generation, manning the dials for Morrissey, Green Day, Rancid, Jawbreaker, Blink 182, AFI, Tiger Army, Alkaline Trio and countless others. Jerry and I took part in many mischievous escapades growing up as teenage suburban punks during the fetal stages of hardcore. He never let the rigid punker-than-thou rulebook that most teens subscribe to dictate his musical taste. We bonded in our worship for Queen, Kiss, and Cheap Trick, the same way we bowed down to Glenn Danzig and Ian MacKaye. Our punk glam band 21 Guns, only had 2 proper songs and never made it out of the garage but watching Jerry wail on the skins was always a delight, as were his witty puns. His knowledge and passion for music was unrivaled. To say the guy had gifted ears would be a severe understatement. Best of all Jerry was as real as it got in this sometimes superficial world of music business opting to work only with bands he loved and believed in. I remember he turned down an offer from Pearl Jam cause he wasn’t into it. I will always remember Jerry for his keen sense of humor, his open-mind, kindness and colossal talent. Rest in Peace Hucklejerry. You will be sorely missed.
Plagued with unpleasing aesthetics, deafening acoustics, hades-like temperatures, demented management, zero amenities and cockroaches the size of rodents, Jerry’s Pizza still was the pillar of rock and roll for the Central Valley. I love Jerry’s pizza to no end and despite all of the above it’s still one of my favorite venues we have ever run. I loved the element of danger that accompanied each and every show from the downtown bako riff raff and the tweekin pawn shop regulars to the fist first diplomacy of the locals, not exactly ideal conditions for live music but entertaining nonetheless.
My Chemical Romance, AFI, Buckcherry, Fallout Boy, Weezer, Thrice, Murder City Devils, Against Me! and thousands of other bands have graced the stage/floor of Jerry's basement at one time or another. This venue is truly stuff of legend. Thank you Jerry for all the phenomenal memories.
Beloved friend and Producer extraordinaire Jerry Finn passed away this week, falling victim to a brain hemorrhage. Jerry was hands down the producer of our generation, manning the dials for Morrissey, Green Day, Rancid, Jawbreaker, Blink 182, AFI, Tiger Army, Alkaline Trio and countless others. Jerry and I took part in many mischievous escapades growing up as teenage suburban punks during the fetal stages of hardcore. He never let the rigid punker-than-thou rulebook that most teens subscribe to dictate his musical taste. We bonded in our worship for Queen, Kiss, and Cheap Trick, the same way we bowed down to Glenn Danzig and Ian MacKaye. Our punk glam band 21 Guns, only had 2 proper songs and never made it out of the garage but watching Jerry wail on the skins was always a delight, as were his witty puns. His knowledge and passion for music was unrivaled. To say the guy had gifted ears would be a severe understatement. Best of all Jerry was as real as it got in this sometimes superficial world of music business opting to work only with bands he loved and believed in. I remember he turned down an offer from Pearl Jam cause he wasn’t into it. I will always remember Jerry for his keen sense of humor, his open-mind, kindness and colossal talent. Rest in Peace Hucklejerry. You will be sorely missed.
[Posted by: Eddy]
Friday, 7/20/07 ANNIVERSARY
It was exactly 18 years ago today this Numbskull show operation was born. The place a dilapitated Mexican discotheque called El Tapatio located smack dab in the middle of seedy downtown Oxnard. Nardcore legends Agression and fellow Mystic Records label mates Habeas Corpus kicked off the very first ever Numbskull show to a mixed bag of homeless punks, latin farmboys, nazi skinheads, surf rats, and whatever riff raff that happened to stumble across a flyer. Fists flew, bottles broke, the 4 channel PA buzzed incessantly and three cars got broken into. The exasperated crowd, all 74 of them were the sacrificial lambs of our debut offering and despite the usual misgivings that accompany such inexperienced DIY affairs, they came back in full force the next show...and the next show, and the next. You just can't keep a good fan down.
3,143 shows later that commitment to live music stands stronger than ever. Not just with us, but in all of you as well...and for that we are very grateful.
3,143 shows later that commitment to live music stands stronger than ever. Not just with us, but in all of you as well...and for that we are very grateful.
[Posted by: Eddy]
