Comments for Bunchofuckingoofs, Carnival Of Chaos + Carnage

Hardcore punk rock from Toronto, always fun, alwayshard anti-dopers with an attitude.

BUNCHOFUCKINGOOFS-FROM THERE TO HERE The band was formed on a dare in late `83 when Ruth Taylor of United State heard that the Back Alley Boys, a Toronto bike gang [bicycle, that is] had been getting loaded and playing Crass and Dead Kennedy covers at their Walmer Street boozecan and offered Crazy the gig. He was pissed and said "sure, why not?" He woke up in the morning and didn`t remember a thing, but fortunately Ruth saw him at the Turning Point the weekend before and asked him if they could still do the gig. He then remembered the rest of the story and said, "of course we can do it." But a month or so earlier some cocksucker broke in and stole all their equipment, so with only garage sale instruments and amps yanked from old stereos, they called up Maddog on the phone and told him they had a gig in a week if he wanted to be in a band. He had a real drum kit, like two of everything, and brought it into Kensington Market, piece by piece on the TTC. In four days, they wrote seven songs and figured out that they should phone up Quarantine, another bunch of comedians that had seven songs, and asked them if they wanted to split a gig. They were hilarious and when Crazy Steve say the way the crowd was reacting during their potential hit "vaginal bllodfarts burst out everywhere", he said "we better call ourselves a bunch of fucking goofs before everyone else does". The place in the market became Fort Goof, headquarters, and a 24 hour a day, seven day a week boozecan and while running their first bar, the DMZ, they were approached by Jonestown Records to get involved in a vinyl compilation with about ten other Toronto Hardcore bands. The record, call QUESTIONABLE, was to be financed with two benefit gigs, one at the DMZ and the other at the Quoc Te, across the street from the Fort. In the end, BFG shared the LP with Living Proof, Animal Stags, and Madhouse. In 86, after one of the Goofs inherited 30 grand after the double, shotgun murder he committed, of his parents, and offered to lend the band some cash. Steve though that it would be a good idea to score some valiums to help him thru quitting drinking for a while, but Steve forgot he quit drinking because he did so many valiums and when he woke up, everyone he knew hated him and BUNCHOFUCKINGOOFS had a double, seven inch called THERE`S NO SOLUTION -- SO THERE`S NO PROBLEM and a record company, Back Alley Records. One nite on the way to playing the DMZ, Steve was confronted by the cops for drinking a beer on the street and they gave him a real hard time. He told them to suck his cock and that they better get ready for the day when they would be working for him. On stage that nite, he told the world that he was running for Mayor in the next municipal election, and that they better get ready to get everyone they know to vote. Of course, he woke up in the morning and said "huh, Mayor? nah, let`s try alderman". He rode his bike away with 8.5% of the vote in the core of the largest city in Canada [with no telephone for the entire campaign, spending $110, of the month allowed for campaigning BUNCHOFUCKINGOOFS did three gigs--ten days with Hillar Latioa`s play, POUNDORAMA, AND Steve did a bit part in TWIN DRAGON ENCOUNTERS. W5 heard that The Goofs were Toronto`s answer to the Bloods and Cripps and did a special on them and the CBC was daring enough to put them on IT`S ONLY ROCK AND ROLL and one of their morning shows. Then in `88 they were drinking with John Hopkins, the filmmaker, and he said that he could set them up with some free studio time as some kind of payment for being in his film, PORTFOLIO so, they released DRUNK? -- DESTROYED? -- DEMOLISHED--the demo and sold a couple of thousand of them on cassette. The BUNCHOFUCKINGOOFS were the band in the futuristic, thriller, THE CITY OF SHADOWS, played a street gang in the pilot episode of T`n T [Mr. T`s TV series], and were the bad guys [except when Crazy got to be a narc on KATTS AND DOG] in over a hundred different TV shows and feature films. The Fort had to be abandoned because the old owner had new ideas for the space so the Goofs decided to go big and stay home by renting 3200 square feet of basement warehouse space and called it GOOFWORLD.They created two sound-proof practice spaces, made T-shirts, did tattoos, sold truckloads of more beer, fixed bikes, had room for 15 live-in animals [not including couches and the floor] and dogs and set-up their Fostex 8-Track studio. They became to be expected to baby-sit Kensington Market by patrolling it on bikes, with their dogs, punching out Nazis, cokeheads, and rip-offs at every opportunity. The New Music saw that this was good and did a 20-minute spot on them and even though Crazy asked them to question him about anything but his haircut, they did anyways, and got a stupider answer to a stupid question In January 91 they packed the band, a sound man, their manager, two dogs, and two six foot plus gargoyles in flack jackets into a rented van with no odometer and fought their way across frozen Canada straight to the friendly welfare offices of Vancouver and back home to more beer. The Fort started being something it was never meant to be, so like all things that were once good, but didn`t deserve to live anymore, and in total GOOF tradition, it was put to death. The DayGlos were in town and played the wake earlier in the evening, and that day, the BUNCHOFUCKINGOOFS realized that with no Fort, there were no beer sales, and with no beer sales, how were they going to put out their next record. Angus from FRINGE RECORDS had been offering to put out a GOOF record for years and since they were broke and tight, they went for it and CARNIVAL OF CHAOS AND CARNAGE was born. They sold a couple of thousand of them in Canada, but unfortunately, Fringe only deals in Canadian currency, so the rest of the world sat idly in front of their TV sets, patiently waiting for the word of GOOF to enter their homes and lives.The present line-up is Crazy Steve 7:06 vocal assaulterMaddog skin beaterJohn Grove feedbackSted bottom endLast releasesRAW ENERGY`S "DEAD ON THE ROAD" COMPILATION `93FRINGES "A TOUCH OF FRINGE" COMPILATION `93they can be e-mailed at cs706bfg@passport.ca

Sad to fucking say i wasn't there for that one, but one things for sure when he was here in Sydney hating goof was the furthest thing from my mind, that boys a fucking stunner, should have thrown my leg over that, told me in Sydney he likes birds with tiny assses, Steve i've been working on it, i'm there!!!!!!!!wonder if you can work out what girl i was, if you have any trouble look me up.16156119@student.uws.edu.au.