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	Jug band (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		A jug band or spasm band is a band employing traditional and homemade instruments, such as rhythm guitar, washtub bass, washboard, jug, mandolin, and kazoo.
		Jug bands were a popular and widespread form of musical entertainment until supplanted by big bands and swing in the 1930s.
		Perhaps the best known traditional jug band was Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers, whose song "Walk Right In" was a hit in the 1920s and 1930s and was reprised by folk musicians in the 1960s.
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/j/ju/jug_band.html (510 words)

	Nihilist Spasm Band - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Nihilist Spasm Band (NSB) is a London, Ontario-based band.
		The band was formed in 1965 by Hugh McIntyre, John Clement, John Boyle, Bill Exley, Murray Favro, Archie Leitch, Art Pratten, and Greg Curnoe.
		The term spasm band refers to a band that uses homemade instruments.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nihilist_Spasm_Band (236 words)

	spasm
		The band has existed in the same room for a total of 10 hours.
		The similarities between the vibe surrounding early Pigface and SPASM are not lost on us.
		"Spasm is a combination of the incredible talents of Curse Mackey(Evil Mothers), Martin Atkins(Pigface), Mark Spybey(Dead voices on Air) and Eric Pounder(Pounder, Lab Report).
	www.invisiblerecords.com /bands/spasm (309 words)

	Straight.com Vancouver \| Offbeat \| Spasm Band still twitching
		You might think that after 40 years of playing together, the members of the Nihilist Spasm Band would be pretty good musiciansâ”but youâd be wrong, at least in terms of their technical ability.
		The band subsequently found considerable acclaim in Japan, and has won praise from influential rock avant-gardists Sonic Youth and Negativlandâ”not surprising, given the older performersâ love of unclassifiable sounds, mutant instruments, and extreme volume.
		According to Boyle, thereâs no such thing as a typical Nihilist Spasm Band set; one of the side effects of its membersâ studied ignorance is that nothing is repeatable.
	www.straight.com /content.cfm?id=13316 (787 words)

	wam
		By day the band members, now in their sixties,work as teachers, artists, and in medicine - some are now retired.
		But almost every Monday night, the Nihilist Spasm Band, an international phenomenon after successful tours in Japan and the United States, make "noise," a brand of music freely improvised using homemade instruments not tuned to any scale.
		Now, their new and old recordings are distributed on a label in Japan, where they seem to be legends, touring and performing on television variety shows for their rabid fans.
	www.roughage.org /wam.html (171 words)

	Robert Fulford's column about the Nihilist Spasm Band
		Several members of the band wear ear plugs while "playing." One of them has nevertheless grown quite deaf and is often mistakenly thought to be surly because he frequently doesn't answer when spoken to.
		The Nihilist Spasm Band has been issued on CD in Japan as well as in North America, and in 1996 performed in Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto.
		In quality, Asher's film runs parallel with the band's, which could be intentional: He seems to believe that when you deal with a chaotic and annoying subject, the best thing to do is make a chaotic and annoying film.
	www.robertfulford.com /NihilistSpasmBand.html (976 words)

	The Nihilist Spasm Band Information
		On the other hand, if you are open and sensitive to the other band members so that you can respond to them, you cannot help but be sensitive, to a lesser degree admittedly, to anyone else present.
		The average age of the band is almost forty.
		Each member of the band has his own separate career, and with one exception, each member is married with children.
	www3.sympatico.ca /pratten/NSB/information.html (1775 words)

	The Horse Hospital: The Nihilist Spasm Band / Roughage / (sic)
		The Horse Hospital: The Nihilist Spasm Band / Roughage / (sic)
		The Nihilist Spasm Band / Roughage / (sic)
		The Nihilist Spasm Band emerged from Canada's avant-garde art scene in the 1960s, and its founding members include three of Canada's most prominent artists: the late Greg Curnoe, painter John Boyle, and sculptor Murray Favro, all of whom have work in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada.
	www.thehorsehospital.com /archives/000197.html (694 words)

	alibi . november 10 - 16, 2005
		Over the years, the band collected and fashioned relative oddities from customized intruments made from PVC pipe, kazoos (some attached to megaphones), violins, guitars and pots and pans.
		In appropriate nihilist form, the band regards none of the instruments as "precious." Instead, they are sources of noise and are subsequently abused as such.
		Aside from footage of the NSB, there are no annoying cultural parallels drawn here—no shots of hippies protesting (lately what every documentary with a remote connection to the '60s is obliged to toss into the heap) and no mention of similar artists from the aforementioned decade.
	www.alibi.com /index.php?story=13301&scn=film (316 words)

	Montreal Mirror : Music : Nihilist Spasm Band
		By today, a good four decades later, the Nihilist Spasm Band have, however accidentally, become a major influence in avant-garde music, thanks in no small part to the diligence of tape-traders, difficult-listening enthusiasts and collectors of original and unpredictable music worldwide.
		After performing their first show, an all-kazoo soundtrack to a silent film, the Nihilist Spasm Band quickly expanded their sound with found objects and homemade instruments that could not be shackled to fixed scales or leashed to common time signatures.
		Their band was almost entirely unknown, however, until at least the late ’80s, when small releases managed to find their way to the trendsetting noise scene in Japan, transporting the NSB outside London’s safe confines.
	www.montrealmirror.com /2006/040606/music2.html (723 words)

	Smallmouth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		"When you eliminate the scale, the key, the repertoire, the category, the traditional rules, and even the breaking of the rules, what is left?" Bassist Hugh McIntyre wrote that in the liner notes to the Nihilist Spasm Band's second album, 20 years ago.
		There's one notable exception to their absence of a repertoire: whereas most of the Nihilist Spasm Band play whatever they feel like, their songs have formalized lyrics intoned by Bill Exley in his stentorian schoolteacher's voice.
		As McIntyre suggests, collective musicianship is everything to the Nihilists: for a band who tend to sound like a herd of warring bull elephants and eschew melody and rhythm altogether, they're remarkably sensitive to one another's playing, underscoring their fellow members or stepping back from the spotlight as the moment demands it.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/music/99/05/13/SMALLMOUTH.html (535 words)

	Over the Top Fest 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		In 1997, their Nihilist Spasm Band - Live In Japan cd on Alchemy was released, and in the same year they made their first ever appearance in the U.S.A. at the Empty Bottle in Chicago with extensive interviews and articles appearing in The Chicago Tribune, The Chicago Reader, CMJ, Bananafish, and Muckraker.
		In 2001, The band released a 2cd collaboration with American jazz virtuoso of the trumpet and sax Joe McPhee on Non Musica Rex, No Borders, and a consortium of American labels released No Tribute with 24 covers of NSB songs by an international mix of artists.
		In May of 2004 the band made an appearance at the Festival de Musique Action in Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France and at the Kunstencentrum BELGIE in Hasselt, Belgium.
	www.overthetopfest.com /may5d.html (439 words)

	Zoilus: Hugh By Nature: RIP, Hugh McIntyre (Nihilist Spasm Band)
		Hugh was the band's fulcrum, wielding his handmade three-and-a-half-string bass, giving rhythmic drive to its shrill anarchic whirl, and declaring where each "song" would start and stop.
		The Nihilist Spasm Band was founded in 1965 by Greg Curnoe, the well-known London visual artist, as a kazoo chorus to provide the soundtrack to an experimental film.
		The NSB sound was inspired in part by the New Orleans "spasm bands" that made street-corner music on jerrybuilt instruments amid the ferment of early jazz, and by the dadaists and futurists of modernist art (besides Curnoe, drummer-"guitarist" Murray Favro and Boyle himself were all painters).
	www.zoilus.com /documents/news/2004/000290.shtml (2562 words)

	Nihilist Spasm Band : Original Agitators : Soul Shine Magazine
		The band also features Bill Exley on vocals and pot—the kind you'd find in your kitchen, not the kind you'd find squirreled away in your son's sock drawer— John Boyle on kazoo and drums, and John Clement on guitar and drums.
		Together, the Nihilist Spasm Band have positioned themselves as one of the longest running bands in all of Canada, a remarkable feat considering their inauspicious beginnings.
		Aside from the studio, the band was able to use its clout internationally to curate the No Music Festival in their hometown of London (although the 2001 version of the festival took place in New York City).
	www.soulshine.ca /features/featuresarticle.php?fid=55 (1206 words)

	BadLit » 2001 CUFF–What About Me: The Rise of the Nihilist Spasm Band
		While the band members are all retired now, they have been in their “real” careers influential high school teachers, respected librarians, acupuncturists (my fave!) and talented painters.
		There a lot of performances of the Nihilist Spasm Band, including a tour they did of Japan and a concert with alt-music gadfly Thurston Moore at the Knitting Factory in NYC, a pretty righteous venue, one of my favorite places to see bands in the city.
		One of the most telling and moving lines in the film is when the sons of some of the members of NSB, who had formed their own band, said that they were raised to be friends with their parents, unlike most other families they know.
	www.badlit.com /?p=131 (543 words)

	disques hushush inc. \| news
		The Nihilist Spasm Band are known as the world’s oldest noise band.
		Nihilist Spasm bass player dies The bass player with the Nihilist Spasm Band, a London noise music ensemble with fans around the world, has died at the age of 68.
		McIntyre, a jazz fan, was seen as the Spasm Band member with the steadiest concept of a beat.
	www.hushush.com /2_index_details.php3?id_article=74 (624 words)

	Velvet Spasm brings quirky sound to Jazz Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Recently I was given the opportunity to interview John Rickman of Velvet Spasm about the local band’s long Huntington history.
		Velvet Spasm is one of my favorite bands to watch perform, because they never do the same thing the same way twice, keeping to the spirit of rock ’n’ roll, but on a jazz tip.
		They all relate to Spasm in that each band is experimental in nature.
	www.herald-dispatch.com /2005/January/13/ETmusic.htm (497 words)

	CD Review of The Nihilist Spasm Band & Joe McPhee - No Borders on non musica rex @ jazzreview.com
		The Nihilist Spasm Band, since 1965, has pioneered what has been deemed “noise”.
		No doubt such classification of their music is a means to escape grappling with it to assimilate its many facets.
		McPhee often plays his sax or cornet at a distance and bolsters the band’s improvisation that is loud, over-miked sometimes fuzzy, but that does not matter.
	www.jazzreview.com /cdreview.cfm?ID=569 (495 words)

	Jug Band Afficionado GuestBook (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		The Jug Band is a band that is going forward in no particular direction and backwards in both.
		Sasquatch(Eric) :: Sasquatch and the Charley Foxtrot Jug Band
		The Dirty Butter Jug Band is celebrating its 30th Anniversary on June 2nd, 2001 in the Brookdale Lodge at 11570 Highway 9 in beautiful Brookdale, California which is about 14 miles north of Santa Cruz on the Central Coast.
	www.jugband.org /JugGuestBook/JugGuestBookB.html (11474 words)

	An Idiot's Guide to Dreaming: This is a test recording… (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		In true outsider fashion, The Nihilist Spasm Band (formed way back in 1965 and still going strong believe it or not) had no desire to learn to play traditional instruments – just listening to the tracks on this United Dairies release could tell you that.
		The title (I'm guessing here) refers to the fact that the band for many years had seven members, then one died.
		So the band, even without Greg Curnoe, is still the band.
	loki23.blogspot.com /2005/09/this-is-test-recording.html (276 words)

	Zoilus: 'A Tumbleweed of Grumbly Noise'
		As I reported yesterday, Hugh McIntyre, bassist of the granddaddy of all noise bands, the Nihilist Spasm Band, died on Monday.
		But true to Nihilistic form, on occasion he would hammer out a tumbleweed of grumbly noise (my favourite moment in the Spasm Band documentary What About Me, The Rise of the Nihilist Spasm Band is the clip from Rochdale College in the 1960s when Hugh is positively wailing on his bass!).
		The Spasm Band is such a family that it seems like they/we need our regular time together now as much as ever, with the weekly sermon of music, humour and insight.
	www.zoilus.com /documents/news/2004/000292.php (1137 words)

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		Unseen he sang and moaned as the band committed its violence among presious pieces of sculpture devoid of interest insisting on their space on the maple floor under the demented gaze of the artist in rubber booths, among the bounding and bowling punkers in this strange and complete little city in southwestern Ontario.
		Inspired by the examples of fl American traditional musicians like Tampa Red and by New Orleans street jazz bands known as spasm bands whose players made their own instruments, the kazoos were amplified by soldering on klaxon horns front and top, and extended by adding lengths of tubing.
		In whole or in various parts the band has played at least once a week, year in and year out, for twenty years.
	www.brainwashed.com /common/htdocs/discog/ud016.html (1245 words)

	MILESAGO - Groups & Solo Artists - The Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band
		Billed as “Australia’s loudest jug band”, the unique, irreverent Matchbox style was a hit on the theatrically inclined Melbourne underground scene and they became a regular attraction at venues like the TF Much Ballroom and the Thumpin' Tum, alongside acts such as Spectrum, Daddy Cool and Jeff Crozier.
		The band signed to Image Records in 1972 and issued their debut single My Canary Has Circles Under His Eyes, which was a Top 40 hit in Melbourne in November.
		The bands last single was "Juggling Time/ Dirty Money", of which I have about forty mint copies, and there is a brilliant live tape recorded by 3RRR in 1979 which may be released soon as part of a boxed set for Louis.
	www.milesago.com /artists/matchbox.htm (3196 words)

	www.myspace.com/adjoseph
		The Spasm Band provide the musical component of Joseph's African Origins of UFOs.
		Flung far future, on the planet Kunu Supia, the Spasm Band are the house band at Houdini's Hideaway, a seafront brothel/nightclub.
		Joseph is the author of two poetry collections, Desafinado in 1994 and Teragaton in 1997) and two spoken-word CDs Liquid Textology and Anthony Joseph & The Spasm Band which combined poetry and Afro-Caribbean free jazz.
	www.myspace.com /adjoseph (1400 words)

	Nihilist Spasm Band - Last.fm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		The Nihilist Spasm Band is world-renowned as the original noise band.
		Formed out of London, ON, (circa 1965) the band is still active and plays every Monday night out of the alternative music club dissent (www.dissentlondon.com).
		Nihilist Spasm Band isn't available on Last.fm radio yet.
	www.last.fm /music/Nihilist+Spasm+Band (207 words)

	LM025
		BAKU - We Are Not The Nihilist Spasm Band
		This CD is for fans of the Nihilstic Spasm Band as well as fans of these artists who should get familiar with NSB.
		Two dozen top acts of the international noise underground pay homage to the legendary Nihilist Spasm Band in their own special, and not always flattering, way.
	www.littlemafia.com /lm025.html (144 words)

	Spasm - Band page with free MP3 music downloads on SoundClick
		Spasm - Band page with free MP3 music downloads on SoundClick
		Spasm are: Billy Ambulance, who write & produce the music & Shoam Rasta who joins for the Dj act.
		When we started DJ, we had to write some name on the invention so the name Spasm came up.
	www.soundclick.com /bands/pageartist.cfm?bandID=108337 (131 words)

	Browse by Artist: NIHILIST SPASM BAND (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		A truly weird noise band, they released their debut LP in '67 for Allied (home of the Plastic Cloud and Intersystems), and have also released LPs on Music Gallery Edition and, more recently, United Dairies.
		With often self-built (or modified) instrumentation including electric kazoo, electric guitar, bass, drums, vocals & "prat-a-various", these guys create a destroyed racket that is completely wild and as weird as anything you can name in the world of noise, improv and what-the-fuck.
		The selection was done by the band from their last Japanese tour in March 1996.
	www.forcedexposure.com /artists/nihilist.spasm.band.html (133 words)

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