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Us 1st & a Gimme Gimmes occurs as punk rock cover band that formed in 1995. Drawn together by the reciprocal love of '60s & '70s music, a Gimme Gimmes operate solely as a handle band. It use cover version from either such creative person when Neil Diamond, Billy Joel, and John Denver.

A band is comprised of many super recognizable faces in the up to date-school punk scene, including Spike Slawson of the Swinging Utters, 'Fat' Mike Burkett of NOFX, Foo Fighters' Chris Shiflett, & Joey Cape and Dave Raun of Lagwagon. A band wasn't originally planning in making an album, appearing merely in compilation albums for their 1st month. Inside 1996, even so, a band began releasing singles known as when a singer it got covered. It produced Billy (Joel), (Neil) Diamond, Paul (Simon), (John) Denver, & Barry (Manilow) therein manner. Their 1st album, Have a good time, was discharged around 1997. A band however performs anytime its members aren't occupy sustaining their more elastic, & makes plenty of guest appearances in cheesy compilations.

The going joke in the punk community hwhen declared several more punk creative person as previous or even honorary members of the band, including Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day, Tim Armstrong of Rancid, Mike Watt of The Minutemen, Fletcher Dragge of Pennywise, Brett Gurewitz of Bad Religion, Pig Champion of Poison Idea, Joe Escalante of The Vandals, Warren Fitzgerald of The Vandals (who played guitar in situ of Shiflett when you took a elastic 2003 Australian tour, & two or three more days), Lindsay McDougall of Frenzal Rhomb (who played guitar in situ of Cape, when you took a Second half of the elastic 2003 Australian tour), Ben Weasel & Danny Vapid of Screeching Weasel, Ron Welty of The Offspring and Lou Italian of Sick Of It All.

Members
Spike Slawson - vocals Joey Cape - guitar, vocals Chris Shiflett - guitar Fat Mike - bass Dave Raun - drums

Discography

Have a Ball (1997) Are a Drag (1999) Blow in the Wind (2001) Take a Break (2002) ''Ruin Jonny's Bar Mitzvah'' (2004)

Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
Official site with member profiles, tour updates, an album listing with discography, and merchandise sales.

Fat Wreck Chords: Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
Record label site with MP3 samples, album sales, merchandise, pictures, and tour details.

Splendid E-zine: Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
A review of 'Blow in the Wind' in which the author says the album is not as strong as their past works, but are enjoyable.

Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
Unofficial site with a biography and history of the band, song lyrics, interviews, and photographs.






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