Years active 1976-1978, 2014 Website slippytown.com Members Dale Lawrence | Active until 2014 | |
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Past members Rick Czajka, Dave Medlock, Dave Sulak, Jim DeVries, Steve Feikes, Phil Hundley, Shadow Myers, Dale Lawrence, Billy Nightshade, Tim Carroll, Crash Kinser, Robbie Wise. Albums Hoosier Hysteria, The Studio Recordings (1976-1977) Similar Dow Jones and the Industrials, Dancing Cigarettes, The Vulgar Boatmen, Zero Boys, Nervous Eaters | ||
The gizmos pay simulated garage rockin
The Gizmos were a protopunk band that formed in Bloomington, Indiana in 1976. The original band was made up of Ken Highland, Eddie Flowers, Ted Niemiec and the members of a band called Cerberus; Rich Coffee, Dave Sulak, Rick Czajka, and Jim DeVries. The Gizmos released three 7-inch EPs on Gulcher Records in 1976, 1977, and 1978.
Contents
- The gizmos pay simulated garage rockin
- The gizmos 1978
- After the Gizmos
- Cerberus
- Gizmos 1
- Gizmos 2
- Gizmos 3
- Gizmos 4
- EPs
- Compilations
- Songs
- References
In late 1977 the band broke up. Then Ted Niemiec recruited new members to form a new version of the Gizmos. This version of the band released one EP, "Never Mind The Sex Pistols Here's The Gizmos".
After Niemiec left the band, new member Dale Lawrence carried on using the band name with new members.
The gizmos 1978
After the Gizmos
Ken Highland later relocated to Boston, Massachusetts, where he has been in a long string of garage-oriented bands over the years, including the Hopelessly Obscure, Johnny & the Jumper Cables, the Kenne Highland Clan, The Goody Goody Gumdrops, and the Vatican Sex Kittens.
Eddie Flowers and Rich Coffee would move to Los Angeles in the late 1970s and become active in the underground rock scene there. Flowers would start Crawlspace with members of the Lazy Cowgirls in 1985. The early cocô-punk, but soon developed into an improvising rock band and eventually turned to other experimental forms. Coffee sang and played in Thee Fourgiven and the Tommyknockers, influenced by late 1960s pre-punk hard rock bands like the MC5 and The Doors as well as more recent acts like The Cramps, The Gun Club, and Billy Childish. The bands of both Coffee and Flowers were associated with the Sympathy for the Record Industry record label.
Cerberus
Gizmos #1
Gizmos #2
Gizmos #3
This version of the Gizmos was one of the first corn punk bands in the U.S.
Gizmos #4
This is a re-union of the original 1976 line up.
Main members
Rhythm section #1
Rhythm section #2
Rhythm section #3
EPs
Gizmos #1
Gizmos #2
Gizmos #3
Compilations
Songs
Rock & Roll Don't Come From New York1980
Human Garbage DisposalLive In Bloomington 1977-1978 · 2006
Bible Belt BabyGo To Purdue Live 1979 · 2013