The Braineaters-7 inch EP
1979 (Wrong World Record)
By Request!
"Amazing punk rock out of Canada. Badly mastered. Low volume all around. Sloppy and hectic instrumentation. Short songs. What more can you ask for?" - The Flakes // Drummer
"Its quite hard to explain just what the Braineaters do, besides working and playing very hard, but visually their art is a bizzare melange of science fiction and sword and sorcery, flavoured with punk mythology." - The Georgia Straight
"Fucking great record! Good shit! Short songs rule." - Slobodan Burgher
"Better known as Canada's Legendary Punkrock & Art Icon, Braineater is the master mind of Jim Cummins from Vancouver. The 1979 'Braineaters' EP was a punk manifesto and featured guest appearances by Buck Cherry (Modernettes) and "Art Bormann" (aka Art Bergmann) of K-Tels/Young Canadians fame.
Jim was the designer of album covers for many bands, including The Pointed Sticks - Skinny Puppy - Itch - Pure - Dog Eat Dog. He has had more than 40 art exhibits and over 100 gigs in Vancouver, Toronto, Seattle, Montreal, and Amsterdam over the last 30 years . .....his music videos show up on MUCHMUSIC and Bravo!" - official fanclub page
. . . and their [Braineaters] new record is simply the best thing to emerge from Vancouver, musically, conceptually, and in its packaging. this record is the best buy on earth." - Dense Milt
"There was a young artist who grew up in horse racing tracks up and down the West-Coast. This kid saw comic books collide with canvas at an early age. Jim Cummins ( aka I, Braineater, to the world at large) lived a life full of cartoons, rock n' roll and kicks. He made art of this comic book life. And he still does. The spirit of Braineater has always been the juice and verve of a larger than life pop parody. His music, films, artwork and performances are as entertaining as a Merry Melody cartoon, and just as amazing. Like the best pop artists, say. Lichtenstein, Warhol, Oldenburg, Big Daddy Roth or R.Crumb---Jim Cummins has made the common extraordinairy." - Art Perry
"It's only when you hit a nerve that you know you're on the right track." - Jim Cummins
The Braineaters:Jim Cummins
Steve La Violette
Trevor Jones
guest musicians:
Art Bergmann
Buck Cherry
4 comments:
thanks D. I've been missing this.
That photo with Trevor and Jim has Ivo Zanatta, not Steve in it.
Thanks for the info.
It's the only pic of that-era Braineaters that I could find tho.
Anyone have a pic of this lineup?
THIS IS NOT THE BRAINEATERS!!! THIS IS THE CANADIAN PUNK BAND "I,BRAINEATER"..THE BRAINEATERS WERE A NEW YORK CITY PUNK BAND ACTIVE FROM 1985 TO 1987..WHOS LINE UP INCLUDED DAMIEN FROM SAMHAIN AND WORLD FAMOUS TATTOO ARTIST JOE TRUCK. THEY TOURED WITH ANGRY SAMOANS AND RELEASED ONE 7 INCH AND AN UNRELEASED EP. THEY ARE INCLUDED IN THE ONLINE MISFITS ARCHIVE AT MISFITSCENTRAL .COM
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