Artist description The One and Only Festus Partins & His Gang. Berkinsville's own homegrown music and comedy.

Music Style Free Wheeling Garage Stand Up Comedy

Musical Influences Spike Jones & His City Slickers, Frank Zappa, Homer & Jethro, Grandpa Jones, Sheb Wooley

Similar Artists Frank Zappa, The Residents

Artist History Formed in 1974, Festus Partins ran into Hec Shuckins, they immediately set to making music. Hec's older brother Professor Adnoids joined shortly after during the recording of their first EP 'Fess Partins & His Gang Rides Ag`in'. During the recording of their thrid album, the ambitious 'ButtJamm; A Journey Through The Butthole Of The Earth' they recruited the talents of Merle Hergins, and Buck Fuk. Later participants included Buck's cousin Berk Ferkins, and a friend of Adnoids named Scroid Berkins. The boys narrowly avoided fame and fortune and eventually the troupe whittled itself back down to the original members Fess and Hec, and finally disbanded in 1981. Rumours of a reunion tour persist.

Group Members Festus Partins, Hec Shuckins, Professor Adnoids, Merle Hergins, Buck Fuk, Ferk Berkins, Scroid Berkins

Instruments Guitar, Drums, Bass, keyboards, harmonica, kazoo, violin, pots & pans, glasses, hairdryer, bb's, human heads

Albums The EP CD 1974-1976, Festus on the High Seas, A Whole Mess o' Fess

Press Reviews Listen.com review of the album 'bits': Homemade experiments from Utah, comprising drug-related Song Parodies, foul-mouthed love songs, rambling monologues, and an instrumental that sounds like Javanese Gamelan played on household objects. Will Y.

Location Salt Lake City, UT - USA

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