Crimpshrine

Seminal Berkeley, California Punk rock band, featuring Jeff Ott, later lead singer of Fifteen, and Aaron Cometbus, the author of the zine Cometbus Song writer and drummer for many bands, most notably Pinhead Gunpowder.

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Berkeley, California - Punk rock - Jeff Ott - Fifteen - Aaron Cometbus - Zine - Cometbus - Pinhead Gunpowder

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Crimpshrine grew out of the East Bay scene centered around 924 Gilman Street, and were an important infuence on later East Bay bands such as Green Day and pop-punk in general. Their incredible touring ethic, which often consisted of playing with used equipment and hitching rides from city to city, made many people look up to them and their D.I.Y. approach.

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924 Gilman Street - Green Day - Pop-punk

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The cover of their EP Quit Talkin' Claude features a drawing of some punks leaning against a concrete structure. This structure, called "clob" was located in a swampy area of Benicia, California. "Claude" was supposedly a young punk colleague of the band who talked "a lot of shit."

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