Bloodhound Gang

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The Bloodhound Gang
Background information
Origin	Quakertown, Pennsylvania
Genre(s)	Post-Punk/Fun-Punk/Crossover
Years active	1992 - present
Label(s)	Geffen Records
Associated acts	Bang Chamber 8, Wolfpac
Website	http://www.bloodhoundgang.com
Members
Jimmy Pop DJ Q-Ball Evil Jared Hasselhoff Lüpüs Thünder The Yin
Former members
Daddy Long Legs M.S.G. Spanky G Willie The New Guy

The Bloodhound Gang is an American rock/hip-hop band with a punk-influenced sound. They are originally from Quakertown, Pennsylvania. The group formed in 1992.^[1]

1 History
2 Recent history
3 Scandal
4 Members
- 4.1 Current line-up
- 4.2 Former members
5 Infamy
6 "Yellow Fever"
7 Discography
- 7.1 Demos
- 7.2 Albums
8 References
9 See also
10 External links

[edit] History

The Bloodhound Gang first started out as a small alternative band in 1992 called Bang Chamber 8. The band consisted of Jimmy Pop and Daddy Long Legs. They released one known tape, which was self titled. Soon they changed their name to the Bloodhound Gang, and changed their musical style. Their new name referred to The Bloodhound Gang, a segment on the 1980s PBS kids' show 3-2-1 Contact!. This segment featured 3 young detectives solving mysteries and fighting crime.

Unable to get booked at any clubs, The Bloodhound Gang first performed in the extra room at Evil Jared Hasselhoff's house, in exchange for Schlitz, Marlboros, and a chance to hand out their first demo tape, entitled Just Another Demo. When the floor caved in one night, they began performing every month at CBGBs in New York City.^[1]

In April 1994, the band released their second demo tape, The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack to Hitler's Handicapped Helpers. This landed them a record deal with Cheese Factory Records. In November 1994, they finally released their first EP, Dingleberry Haze.^[1]

In the summer of 1994, Jimmy Pop had a small role in the short independent film The Chick That Was Naked by independent filmmaker Kurt Fitzpatrick. Also, a song by the band was used on its soundtrack.^[2]

In March 1995 The Bloodhound Gang signed a record deal with Columbia Records. They put out their first full-length album, titled Use Your Fingers. They began touring around the United States. At this time Daddy Long Legs and M.S.G., angry with Columbia Records, left the band to form another rap group, Wolfpac. Evil Jared Hasselhoff and Tard-E-Tard joined the group as replacements. When the tour ended, the deal with Columbia Records was dropped and band member Skip O'Pot2Mus left to pursue a career in the customer service industry.^[1]

In March 1996, the band, complete with a new line-up, recorded their second full-length album, One Fierce Beer Coaster, released on Geffen Records. They embarked on their first "real tour" of the United States and Europe (they are quoted as saying this was "the first tour where nobody's parents had to drive out and pick up the band after the van broke down"). In 1999, they released their third album, Hooray for Boobies. Powered by hit single, "The Bad Touch", they embarked on two more tours of Europe, where they had begun to get quite popular ("The Bad Touch" and Hooray for Boobies reached #1 in Germany, where "Along Comes Mary" was also a Top 10 hit). They returned after selling over five million albums.^[1] In the summer of 1996 Jimmy Pop Ali had a supporting role in the independent film Kin by director Kurt Fitzpatrick and starring Fitzpatrick, Marie Hans and Ben McVoy. Several Bloodhound Gang songs were used for the soundtrack for the film.

Perhaps the bands most well-known song is "The Bad Touch" off of their album Hooray for Boobies. The video for the song shows the band members running around Paris in monkey suits and harassing various people. Another well-known song is "Fire Water Burn." The song was featured in the movie Fahrenheit 9/11 as a song that is popular among US troops in Iraq.

[edit] Recent history

In 2003, the band released a DVD entitled One Fierce Beer Run, which chronicles their One Fierce Beer Coaster tour of 1997.^[1]

The band's newest album, Hefty Fine, was released on September 27, 2005. The title comes from a phone conversation in which Lupus told Jimmy Pop he would have to pay a "hefty fine" if he did not speed along work on the album. Its original title, Heavy Flow, was scrapped when it was noticed that fellow musician Moby had a song with the same name. The first single, "Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo," has already gained heavy rotation on music video channels. Although the track "No Hard Feelings" recently broke into the Modern Rock Top 50, their second single is "Uhn Tiss Uhn Tiss Uhn Tiss" (which is featured in a Blaupunkt ad), and it has recently started radio circulation with a music video underway. Another song from the new album is part of a campaign by the Bloodhound Gang to change the Pennsylvania state anthem into their appropriately titled "Pennsylvania."^[1] The bands current members can also be found on a few episodes of Viva La Bam including the episode in which bam divides his friends into teams that go out and do outrageous stunts in order to earn points in a "scavenger hunt" to decide what happens to April Margera's {Bam's mother} piano that she wishes to get rid of. Bam Margera also makes a guest star appearance on their Hefty Fine album on a hidden track.

A new album is already in the works and is expected to be released within a year; it is rumored they will record it in Germany.

Drummer Willie the New Guy was recently released from his position, by mutual agreement between him & the band. He was replaced by Adam Perry (The Yin) from the band A on their recent tour.^[3]

The band has also made several appearances on the MTV show Jackass, as well as CKY4.

[edit] Scandal

The band arrived in the middle of a media storm medium 2006 when they started using a golden shower onstage during a rendition of Depeche Mode's "Enjoy the silence" cover at Rock Am Ring^[4].

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g History 101. BloodhoundGang.com. Retrieved on 2006-08-07.
^ That Chick Was Naked (1995). IMDb.com. Retrieved on 2006-08-07.
^ Bloodhoung Gang: Tour mit neum Drummer (German). Laut.de (2006-01-18). Retrieved on 2006-08-07.
^ Bloodhound Gang's Golden Shower

[edit] Members

[edit] Current line-up

Jimmy Pop - vocals, guitar, programming
Lüpüs Thünder - guitars, backing vocals
Evil Jared Hasselhoff - bass, backing vocals
DJ Q-Ball - turntables, vocals
The Yin - drums

[edit] Former members

[edit] Infamy

Known for their humorous, obscene, and often offensive lyrics, the Bloodhound Gang is not afraid to make quips about taboo subjects such as ethnicities, sexual orientation, child abductions and incest in bizarre, stream-of-consciousness, hip-hop influenced lyrics. A common theme in the band's lyrics are elaborate pop culture references, metaphors, similes, and puns.

The group's hit single The Bad Touch is a song made up of sexual euphemisms that also happen to be pop culture references. It became a staple on MTV's Total Request Live and propelled the album Hooray for Boobies to platinum sales status. The band is also known for the single "Fire Water Burn" which is featured on their album, One Fierce Beer Coaster which contains the chorus of "The roof/The roof/The roof is on fire/We don't need no water/Let the motherfucker burn/Burn motherfucker burn." (This lyric was borrowed from the 1985 hit "The Roof is On Fire" by Rock Master Scott and the Dynamic Three.) In 2004, it was featured in the film Fahrenheit 9/11, playing while showing a Bradley Fighting Vehicle firing missiles on a city.

Bass player and nude enthusiast Evil Jared Hasselhoff recently stripped nude on a live German television appearance on the show TV Total on the network Pro7.

The Bloodhound Gang is also famous for their live performances in Europe : Evil Jared Hasselhoff regularly urinates on Jimmy Pop on stage, or drinks a whole bottle of Jägermeister.

[edit] "Yellow Fever"

The band has been accused of racism in the US and UK.^[5]^[6] Geffen Records refused to release the song "Yellow Fever" due to its lyrical content about Asian women.^[7] Examples of the lyrics from "Yellow Fever" include "She's like an oriental rug 'cause I lay her where I please, then I blindfold her with dental floss and get down on her knees" and "Oh me chinky she's so kinky got me hot like nagasaki burnin' up like napalm burstin' like an a-bomb."

In response, Jimmy Pop told Yahoo! Launch that the Gang's lyrical matter was not meant to be taken seriously

"I think on the first record there's stuff that [offended people]… Really we're not trying to shock anybody, we're just saying things that we laugh at," he explained. "That was always the idea. The same things that we talk about on the bus are the same things we put on our records. On the first record we had lyrics like, 'There's little children unattended, let me get some poison candy,' which to me, that isn't very good."^[5]

[edit] Discography

[edit] Demos

Album Cover	Date of Release	Title
	1991	Bang Chamber 8
	1993	Just Another Demo
	April 1, 1994	The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack to Hitler's Handicapped Helpers

[edit] Albums

Album Cover	Date of Release	Title	Label
	November, 1994	Dingleberry Haze	Cheese Factory Records
	July 18, 1995	Use Your Fingers	Columbia Records
	December 3, 1996	One Fierce Beer Coaster	Republic Records
	October 4, 1999	Hooray for Boobies	Interscope
	September 27, 2005	Hefty Fine	Geffen