bugs

by smokstik

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Seven edgy, moody and quirky tunes about love, life and frustration featuring VEGAS on the Chapman Stick.

Genre: Rock: Funk Rock

Release Date: 1998

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3. Trampoline	Share this song! X Twitter Facebook Google Stumble Email	4:33	$0.99
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6. Damn	Share this song! X Twitter Facebook Google Stumble Email	6:53	$0.99
7. Fuck	Share this song! X Twitter Facebook Google Stumble Email	3:54	$0.99
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SmokStik's EP Bugs offers up seven quirky tunes about love, life and frustration that range from aggressive to moody to jazzy.

Featuring John Kiehne's fiery Chapman Stick playing and unique vocal style and Hillary Koogler's powerful and tasteful drumming, Bugs is a treat for the ears, heart and mind.

Reviews

SmokStik	FUNKY AND CHIC CD Review from the Worcester Phoenix, Worcester, MA Boston's SmokStik are an anomaly on the groove and jam circuit. Songs like "Alternative" take aim at chain-smokers equipped with dreadlocks, piercings, oversized pants, skateboards, and courier bags. It's hard to tell whether John Kiehne (who performs on the part guitar/ part bass Chapman Stick) and drummer Hillary Koogler are serious, sarcastic or moody by nature. They can be jazzy ("Dinosaur"), groovy ("Fish"), or angry ("Fuck"); which makes their Bugs EP more eccentric than the genre's typical releases. [This message has been edited by SmokStik (edited June 07, 1999).] Read more...
SmokStik	CD Review from the Spotlight weekly arts supplement from the Portsmouth Herald newspaper from Portsmouth, NH. (12/10/98) SmokStik-Bugs Just how much noise can two people make? A hell of a lot apparently. Especially if one of them has a Chapman Stick. Huh? Sit tight. We'll get to that first. First things first. SmokStik are John Kiehne and Hillary Koogler, a pair of New Englanders who have been playing together for almost three years. Bugs is their first CD, an EP containing seven tracks of high-octane vibes. What kind of music is this? Well, imagine a bicep that's been injected with about 100 CD's of a battery-acid peyote cocktail and that's your visual. This is powerful stuff. Meaty/ Skating through a spectrum that runs from vintage Black Sabbath/Rage Against the Machine/Suicical Tendencies through to, believe it or not, licking of jazz and funk. But all with a trademark force not usually found in those latter forms. Mark that up to the players. Kiehne's Chapman-which looks like a chunk of floorboard with strings but yields sound like a bass guitar- is like a one-man onslaught. Koogler's drumming, meanwhile, augments the big Stick perfectly, filling and accentuating and daring Kiehne to go further all the time Take a listen to the bitingly sardonic opening track "Alternative" and you'll get the message quick. The Stick roars like a beast while the lyrics snap fillings loose. Then there's the funky and kooky "Fish", the disturbing "Trampoline" and the jazz-laced "Dinosaur". Dark, psycho, witty, fun. Bugs is all that stuff and more. A yard glass of molten lava. But if you like the hard stuff, check this one out. They'll stick it to ya.[/b] (Adrian Zupp) [This message has been edited by SmokStik (edited June 07, 1999).] Read more...

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