Know Yer Band: New Bomb Turks

Band: New Bomb Turks

Members
Vocals - Eric Davidson
Guitar - Jim Weber
Bass - Matt Reber
Drums - Bill Randt/Sam Brown

Releases
1991 - Split w/Gaunt 7" single (Datapanik)
1992 - So Cool, So Clean, So Sparkling Clear 7" single (Datapanik)
1992 - Trying To Get By 7" single (Sympathy For The Record Industry)
1993 - Split w/The Sinister Six 7" single (Bag Of Hammers)
1993 - Sharpen-Up Time 7" single (Bag Of Hammers)
1993 - So Young, So Fair, So Debonair 7" single (Empty Records)
1993 - Drunk On Cock EP (Engine)
1993 - Bottle Island 7" single (Damaged Goods)
1993 - Split w/The Devil Dogs 7" single (Helter Skelter Records)
1993 - I Wanna Sleep 7" single (Demolition Derby)
1993 - Dragstrip Riot 7" single (Munster Records)
1993 - I'm Weak 7" single (Get Hip Recordings)
1993 - !!Destroy-Oh-Boy!! album (Crypt Records)
1994 - Information Highway Revisited album (Crypt Records)
1995 - Live At Cas Rock, Edinburgh, Wed. 26th Oct. '94 video (Barn End Productions)
1995 - Live '93 album (Anyway Records)
1995 - Split w/Entombed 7" single (Earache)
1995 - (Gotta Gotta) Sinking Feeling 7" single (Sympathy For The Record Industry)
1995 - My Hopes Are Copacetic 7" single (Rise Records)
1995 - Pissing Out The Poison (Singles & Other Swill '90-'94) compilation album (Crypt Records)
1996 - Stick It Out 7" single (Fat Wreck Chords)
1996 - Professional Againster 7' single (Wallabies Records)
1996 - Split w/Red Aunts 7" single (Epitaph)
1996 - Scared Straight album (Epitaph)
1998 - Veronica Lake EP (Epitaph)
1998 - Raw Law 7" single (Epitaph)
1998 - Snap Decision 7" single (Sympathy For The Record Industry)
1998 - At Rope's End album (Epitaph)
1999 - Berühren Meiner Affe EP (Overcoat Recordings)
1999 - Split w/The Hellacopters 7" single (Anyway Records)
1999 - Split w/Onyas 7" single (Full Toss)
1999 - The Big Combo compilation album (Dropkick)
2000 - Spanish Fly By Night/Chip Away The Stone 7" single (Safety Pin Records)
2000 - The Blind Run EP (Epitaph)
2000 - Nightmare Scenario album (Epitaph)
2002 - The Night Before The Day The Earth Stood Still album (Gearhead Records)
2002 - Pression Live! EP (Pression Live)
2003 - Pretty Lightning 7" single (Sweet Nothing Records)
2003 - Switchblade Tongues, Butterknife Brains compilation album (Gearhead Records)
2013 - Tapeworm Blues: The 1992 Demos EP (Crypt Records)

Willi Phoenix Tribute Machine

Back in 2015, a group of notable Columbus musicians got together to pay tribute to Columbus legend Willie Phoenix. Featuring Sam Brown (Drums), Colin Gawel (Vocals, Guitar), Andy Harrison (Guitar, Vocals), and Matt Reber (Bass), the group recorded a pair of covers and posted them to Bandcamp.

Wex Q&A - Matt Reber of New Bomb Turks interviews Amy Fusselman of The Bread Group

New Bomb Turks bassist and Wexner Center Store Manager Matt Reber interviewed writer/author/publisher Amy Fusselman last year for the Wex website, and dug deep into one of the lesser known Columbus bands of the 1980s, The Bread Group. Here is some of the interview:

Amy FusseIman was the guitarist in The Bread Group. I have been familiar with her writing since the Pharmacist’s Mate was published by McSweeney’s in 2001. Eventually, a thread on the Facebook page “Columbus Music Scene 1975-1985” led to our connecting, and to the reading and book signing coming up.  

What year did The Bread Group form and how long did you play together? 
I graduated from OSU in 1986 so it must have been a couple years before that. Our band was me, vocalist Frank Snider, lead guitarist Richie Athy, bassist Patrick Roetzel, and drummer Andy Izold. I played rhythm guitar. Patrick, Frank and I were all undergrads in the English department and the band stayed together until we graduated. We played mostly at a place called the IP Lounge, which was a bar on High Street run by a Greek gentleman named Louie. He also sold one-dollar gyro sandwiches which were the source of much morning remorse for me.  

What were your perceptions of the OSU/Columbus, Ohio scene at the time?
I was obsessed with music at OSU. That was my real focus of study. I was a DJ at the OSU radio station along with Frank, who was then my boyfriend and is now my husband. We saw bands constantly, mostly at Stache’s. Some of the most important audience-member experiences of my life were at Stache’s: The Butthole Surfers, Big Black, Pussy Galore, Agent Orange … I also vividly remember seeing The Cramps and X at The Newport and The Gun Club at a little bar called Crazy Mama’s. I was so lucky to see those shows!! 

I didn’t really appreciate how rich the scene was at the time. It was just people I knew doing interesting things. I saw Scrawl come into their power and that was really important for me to witness. I saw The Great Plains and The Gibson Brothers develop. Frank and I still quote Gibson Brothers lyrics: Big Pine Boogie!

Know Yer Band: Belreve

Band: Belreve

Members
Vocals/Guitar - Matt Reber
Bass - Elizabeth Young
Drums - Jenny Mullin

Releases
1992 - 7" split single w/V-3, Greenhorn and Gaunt (Anyway Records)
1993 - 7" single Nothing (Anyway Records)
1994 - 7" split single w/Guided By Voices (Anyway Records)
1995 - 7" single Ron (Slumberland Records)
1995 - Belreve album (Slumberland Records)