Know Yer Band: Gibson Bros

Band: Gibson Bros

Members
Vocal/Guitar/Banjo - Jeffrey Evans
Guitar/Vocals/Bass/Drums - Don "Chet" Howland
Guitar - Dan Dow
Drums - Ellen Hoover/Cristina Martinez/Rick Lilash
Guitar - Jon Spencer/Jack Taylor

Releases
1986 - Keepers 7" single (Okra Records)
1986 - Build A Raft album (Old Age)
1987 - Big Pine Boogie album (Okra Records)
1989 - Dedicated Fool album (Homestead Records)
1990 - Emulsified 7" single (Siltbreeze)
1990 - The Man Who Loved Couch Dancing album (Homestead Records)
1990 - Southbound 7" single (Glitterhouse Records)
1990 - Split album w/Workdogs, Punk Rock Truck Drivin' Son Of A Gun (Homestead Records)
1991 - Mean Mistreater 7" single (Homestead Records)
1991 - My Huckleberry Friend 7" single (Giant Claw)
1991 - White N*gger 7" single (Sympathy For The Record Industry)
1992 - Knock Down My Blues 7" single (In The Red Recordings)
1993 - Memphis Sol Today! album (Sympathy For The Record Industry)
1996 - Columbus Soul 85 album (In The Red Recordings)

Bela Blog: Monster Truck Five & Jack Taylor

Because of the short existence of Monster Truck Five (or 005), there is hardly anything written about the band, and coming up with articles was a tough get this week. However, Bela of Anyway Records has an eloquent and stark recollection of High Street in the 1990s, and wrote several times on the band, including the short life or Richard "Jack Taylor" Violet. Here's a bit of that:

A great deal of the decorating was done on several spastic afternoons by Jack Taylor (birth name Richard Violet), who was fired and rehired by Dan Dow. Jack, like the décor of Used Kids was a living example of a life half finished, this is not just for the fact that Ritchie (as I first knew him as) died young in an unremarkable fashion. While giving up the lures of the city, Richie moved home to lonesome Urbana, Ohio and got a job at a local United Dairy Farmers convenient store. A long drop from the coolness of playing CBGB’s and getting name checked on an Unsane record. It was there in the vast flatness of western Ohio that Richie took a shot of dope too deep for his veins and died behind the UDF store, proving that heroin can be found everywhere.  Richie, was a cross between  Bluto from “Animal House” and a tarnished flannel shirt, he could be devastatingly charming and brilliant on one hand and on the other he could stab you with an insult that could bring the worst of high school back in a flutter of embarrassed red cheeks. He was the first member of Monster Truck 005 to die.

Know Yer Band: Monster Truck Five

Band Name: Monster Truck Five

Members
Vocals - Christopher Wilson
Guitar - Christopher Wilson, Vince Falcone, Jack Taylor
Bass - Pat Humphrey
Drums - Michael Dermody, Mark Deane

Releases
1990 - Split 7" w/Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments (Datapanik Records)
1993 - Aintneverbeen 7" (Anyway Records)
1993 - S.F. Sister 7" (Chrome Frog Records)
1994 - Gimme Five 10" (Chrome Frog Records)
1994 - Vandal-X 7" (Sympathy For The Record Industry)
1995 - Columbus Ohio album (Sympathy For The Record Industry)
1996 - Dry Leaves...Hot Wire (Sympathy For The Record Industry)