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Active from
  
1985

Genre
  
Rock

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Members
  
Biff Blumfumgagnge, Geoff Brady

Albums
  
Mike Zirkel The Album, Sofa King Good, Gomerica, Salt And Sugar

Record labels
  
Beeftone, Beeftone Records, Beeftone Music

Similar
  
The Zombeatles, Reptile Palace Orchestra, Natty Nation, Tar Babies, Killdozer

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The Gomers are a Madison, Wisconsin based comedy rock/experimental music/progressive rock band. Former Madison Mayors Dave Cieslewicz and Sue Baumann both proclaimed February 1 as "Gomer Day" in Madison. Their name was taken from Gomer Pyle.

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Career

In April 2006, Maximum Ink noted the "longevity, durability, or diversity" of the band, and the Mayoral Gomer Day Proclamation.

Madison Magazine did a film feature in 2006 of karaoke in Madison, and documented the Gomers' 'Gomeroke' live karaoke show.

The group got its start playing weekly at Madison's popular but ill-fated Club De Wash, and currently plays eight times or more monthly with its live band karaoke show, 'Gomeroke', at the High Noon Saloon.

The group also spawned the internationally notable Zombeatles.

Awards

The Gomers have won several Madison Area Music Awards: 2006 Unique Artist, 2006 Unique Song, 2005 and 2007 Best Cover Band, 2008 Unique Album and Unique Artist. The reader poll of Madison weekly newspaper, The Isthmus has awarded them "Madison's Favorite Cover Band" and "Madison's Favorite Dance Band" from 2000-2009.

Guest stars

The Gomers played with Les Paul at his Wisconsin Foundation for School Music Lifetime Achievement Award dinner, on October 27, 2004.

Members

  • Dave Adler (Willy Porter, Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine, Zombeatles, Sigtryggur Baldursson)
  • Biff Blumfumgagnge (Reptile Palace Orchestra, Zombeatles, Sigtryggur Baldursson)
  • Geoff Brady (Madison Symphony Orchestra, Zombeatles)
  • Stephen G. Burke (Zombeatles)
  • Mark Hervey (Dog the Bounty Hunter, Parking Wars)
  • Gordon Ranney (Zombeatles)
  • Gregg Rullman (Zombeatles)
  • Andy Wallman

    • Singles

  • "Joey Saturn & Bob Uranus - Like the Planet" (Adler/Blumfumgagnge, ASCAP/BMI 1992)

    • Albums

  • Comin' Atchya (US, 1988)
  • Basement Tape (US, 1991
  • Sofa King Good (US, 1999)
  • Live Gome Boot (US, 2001)
  • Live at The Witz End (US, 2002)
  • Salt & Sugar (US, 2003)
  • Basement Tape CD (US, 2005)
  • Mike Zirkel The Album CD (with Adrian Belew & Robert Fripp) (US, 2008)
  • Meat The Zombeatles (US, 2009)

    • Songs

    Foolish Youth On BikeGomerica · 2012
    It's Not UnusualSofa King Good · 1999
    I Been Over DereMike Zirkel The Album · 2008

    References

    The Gomers Wikipedia
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