Artist description Kitchy punk/metal/ragtime with a twist of lemon

Music Style Damn Fool Punk Rock

Musical Influences the Everly Brothers

Similar Artists Sunny Day Real Estate, Diesel Boy

Artist History WELL LETS START AT THE BEGINING......BERT AND DAIV HAVE KNOWN EACH OTHER FOR OVER 20 YEARS.WHEN BERT FIRST WANTED TO SWITCH FROM DRUMS TO GUITAR, HE GOT DAVE TO HELP BY PLAYING BASS IN THEIR FIRST BAND"SELF ABUSE".EVENTUALLY THEY BOTH PLAYED IN SEVERAL BANDS. WHICH REALLY WERE JUST RE-ARANGEMENTS OF FRIENDS THEY BOTH KNEW. BERT MOVED AWAY FOR SEVERAL YEARS AND UPON HIS RETURN FOUND HIS OLD CHUMS DOING THE SAME THING. PLAYING MUSIC SO THAT OUR FRIENDS COULD COME OVER AND PARTY. "BONEHEAD" 1, 2, 3 , 4 AND 5, MADE QUITE A NAME FOR THEM SELFS IN THE LOCAL PARTY SCENE.AND BERT JUMPED IN W/ BOTH FEET. KICKING OUT MIKE ROTCH...BONEHEADS ORIGINAL DRUMMER BERT SET INTO MOTION A CHAIN OF EVENTS THAT WOULD BECOMESMIRK.NOW DON'T GET ME WRONG HERE. BERT IS A PRETTY GOOD GUY. BUT HE IS ONE CONTROLING SON OF A BITCH. SO BY THE END OF HIS FIRST YEAR BACK IN TOWN, THE PARTIES WERE PRETTY MUCH A FUCKING "BERT FEST". "MORE ME, MORE ME " HE CRIED AND ALL THAT LISTENED WERE SUCKED IN BY HIS EVILWAYS....(OK MAYBE NOT EVIL...JUST SELF INDULGENT....BUT HEY, HE'D BEEN GONE FOR FOUR YEARS)SO AFTER THE 15 MINUTES OF FAME THAT " SPEED MAGGOT" BROUGHT HIM (W/MIKE ROTCH ON DRUMS .SEE BERT AIN'T SO BAD)THE HOUSE THAT JEFF AND BERT LIVED IN. THE HOUSE THAT HAD BROUGHT US SO MANY KEGGERS.....WAS SOLD FOR A SUB DIVISION.ENTER DON GRISWALDDON MET BERT AND DAVE ONCE IN THE 80'S WHEN HIS BAND "ART BLAZZO" PLAYED W/ BERT'S THEN BAND "LONGHORN SEVILLE"SMIRKS PRODUCER KEVIN WAS THE BASSIST AND HE MET HIS WIFE THROUGH "BLAZZO'S" GUITARO JEFF. BUT I DIGRESSDON NOW LIVED 7 BLOCKS FROM DAVE IN RIDGEFIELD WA.AND HAD A THEATRE TO PRACTICE IN. WELL.....FOR KICKS THE THREE GOT TOGETHER AND IN THE MOST UNSELFISH ACT OF HIS LIFE BERT SAID TO DAIV...."DAYV...WHATS YOUR VISION FOR A BAND" AND THUS SMIRK WAS BORN.DAVES IDEAS TO PUT ENTERTAINMENT ABOVE ALL ELSE HAS FUELEDSMIRK TO THE PANTHEON OF THEIR CAREER. STYLE OVER SUBSTANCESHOWMANSHIP OVER CRAFTSMANSHIP, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY,FUN OVER MONETARY GAINS. NOT THAT SMIRK IS A LONE WOLF EFFORT BY DAVE.NO NO. WITHOUT DON , THERE WOULD BE NO SMIRK, WITHOUT BERT, THERE WOULD BE NO SMIRK AND WITHOUT DAVE......WELL YOU GET MY POINT.

Group Members Bert Pegg - Guitar, vocals -- Dave Standal - Bass, Vocals -- Don Griswold - Drums, Vocals

Instruments Guitar, Bass, Drums

Albums In the Shadow of a Really Big Rabbit

Location Ridgefield, WA - USA

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