jackassworld

Now we’re talking. Scandinavian corpse paint in your face! Another fine last minute costume idea should you be drawing a blank at two minutes to midnight. Trust me, you wouldn’t be the first Hank von Helvete to do so on Halloween, but if you already have your costume picked out, then shit, stick around for a history lesson if you’d like. It’s not about some dusty old wigheads prancing about France at the turn of the 17th century, so it’s not completely boring. Useless, perhaps, but then so is calculus to about 96 percent of mankind. Good? Okay. Our first encounter with Turbonegro came in 1995, I think, when Marc McKee reviewed the band’s 8 x 10 black-and-white publicity photo. Normally it’s not a good thing to be reviewed in the pages of Big Brother, especially back then, but Turbonegro received high marks all around on their 8 x 10, which featured Hank lounging shirtless and solo on a couch, proving that the band must not suck (based on the tried and true “Suck at a Glance™” methodology of review). I should note that at no time did we ever listen to their music then (as was typical with most all Big Brother music reviews), and it wasn’t until 1999 that Dave Carnie and I realized the true listening greatness and glory of Turbonegro after receiving the Apocalypse Dudes promotional CD release. Little did we know it then, but in just over three years time “The Age of Pamparius” would be used for the opening lick to Wildboyz on MTV and Jeff Tremaine would be selected to direct a music video for a song off Turbonegro’s 2003 release Scandinavian Leather. Oh, and should that bear look familiar, that’s because it’s Bam-Bam, the very same grizzly that damn near busted Johnny Knoxville’s back in a wrasslin’ match on jackass and almost gobbled some wiener eaters on Wildboyz. He’s what you could call a “signature” Tremaine element.