El Camino - Speedball JR

Speedball JR consists of Frantic Fre on guitar, Beatgirl AleXandra on Bass, Freaky Frank on drums and Nitro Nikky on hammond.

The band was formed in the summer of 2000 during Ghent’s (surfcity Belgium) famous surf explosion.

They originally played more traditional surf rock like Dick Dale, Bobby Fuller Four, The Chantays, Surfaris, the Ventures, Lively Ones and Blue Hawaïians. You can hear these influences on their first studio session which was recorded at the end of 2000 at yellow tape studio.

Later on they developed a more trashy sound with more garage and sixties influences and started to write their own tunes. Some of which were even used for publicity clips and for soundtracks by a local cinema chain and a German hot rod magazine.

The High spot of 2001 for the band was when they did the support for British Garage Gods The Prisoners, but the band also gigged with a number of surf bands like Jon & The Nightriders, Slacktone, The Wangs among others, all the time they were honing their sound and finding their own place among these contemporaries.

The first full CD “Whiplash” was recorded in 2003 at Zamans Catfarm studio and was released by Drunkabilly Records. The Sleeve design is a masterpiece of hotrod trashart by Mighty Sam the renowned graphic artist. This album also includes a video which was shown on the TMF, the Belgian MTV.

The second album “For the broad Minded”, recorded 2006 at CCR and released by Green Cookie records is to be for sale very soon. The album consists of eight self penned tracks, and four covers from the dutch Treble Spankers, Huevos Rancheros, Dick Dale & the Chantays. The artwork, again, by Mighty Sam.


www.speedballjr.com/
www.myspace.com/speedballjr
www.greencookie.gr
www.myspace.com/greencookierecords

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