Video: Econothugs - Skully

New Addition: Beer Run 7" single by Econothugs

I picked all four of the Econothugs 7" singles in the fall and winter of 2019/2020. It's loud, messy, punk with a tinge of grunge. While the recordings aren't always the best, there are lots of good tunes spread out amongst the singles.

Know Yer Band: Econothugs

Band Name: Econothugs

Members
Vocals - Jake Label
Guitar - Moby Peters
Bass - Fuzzy Knubber
Drums - Humpy Wheeler

Releases
1993 - Sludge 7" (Centsless Productions)
1994 - Beer Run 7" (Centsless Productions)
1994 - Donny's High 7" (Anyway Records)
1995 - 7" Split w/My White Bread Mom (Burnt Sienna Records)

Columbus Guardian: Route 66 (1994)

Not much out there on the interwebs about Miss May '66, but I did find this over at Anne Spurgeon's page from the 1994 Columbus Guardian:

A mesmerizing quartet, Miss May 66, is turning brains on the campus circuit. Four women-drummer Tera Stockdale, bassist Kari Murphy, singer Yalan Weasner and Anne Spurgeon (sister of the Greenhorn Spurgeons) have filled their calendars with a pocket of good gigs. Wednesday, June 22 , Miss May opens for the Laughing Hyenas at Stache's. They play Bernie's (with Econothugs and the Lovin' Mouthful) on the 24th and, also that weekend, Comfest. Miss May-an outfit with rhythm, distortion and aggression-has been together only a few months. Stockdale and Murphy just started fooling around on the Econothugs gear. Neither knew what they were doing. 'When we go back and listen to our first tapes,' says Stockdale, 'that's when we realize we actually have come a really long way...We had no idea how to write a song or how to play.' Catch them soon. Murphy leaves for San Francisco later this summer; Stockdale promises the band will forge on after they locate a replacement.

Alive 2012 Q&A: Artie DeLeon and JD Dallas

Unfortunately, not a whole lot of articles on Dogrocket to share this week, however there is a Columbus Alive interview with guitarist JD Dallas, along with Artie DeLeon of the Media Whores, Martyr Colony, etc., regarding the passing in 2012 of Mark Farmiloe of the Econothugs.

(Dallas) We’re a little bit more mature. We pay a little more taxes. We’re probably not in as many bar fights as we used to be. Not as many. The one thing I heard after that show, the next day there was this silence. Everybody was like, did that really happen? Yeah, it did. And we actually took pictures this time. Everybody was like, I’m so glad there’s more to come because how depressing would it be if that was it? 

(DeLeon) I’m sure there were people who thought this was going to be a traipsing through the past and they were going to go through the motions. But every band that went up there went for the throat. It was totally for the jugular. Every band that went up there just punched everybody in the teeth. And it was succulent and you were showered in it. It was really electric and everybody went bananas for it.