Johnny Vomit I knew about from when I worked a year long stint at Motorola in ’00. They let us listen to walkmans and people used to stash CD’s in the desks. One of my co-workers found a CD by this band called
Johnny Vomit and it showed a dude puking like 4 feet out of his mouth
and he was holding a beer bong. It was called ‘Projectile’. It had 5 or 6
songs and sounded like DRI without major label production. It was fucking
raw and every song was about alcohol. It fucking rocked. I didn’t keep
the CD, it must have been owned by another dude who working midnight-8:00AM. Chainsaw Johnny we played with at Smiler Coogan’s ‘Inkfest’ when I got my first tattoo. They are a very garage raw, 3 piece. They are as punk as fuck and they make me look like a poser. All of their songs are about drinking as well. They cover GG Allin and they are into that shit. We played our tribute to GG ‘Excessive’ at Inkfest and their singer Steve came up on stage and sang it with me. He had never heard the song before so I literally taught him the part of the song on stage live.
I got laid off from Motorola in Fall 00 and i started searching the net for ‘johnny vomit’ in Yahoo one night, I knew the band was local. I found Mr. Vomit’s email and wrote him. He sent me the CD free of charge. The note he sent with the CD was on back of a flyer: Johnny Vomit and DRI. Unfortunately the show was passed.Now thats a sign of a real band. I can’t count the times I’ve used unused flyers as scratch paper. I have quite a supply right now. I mentioned playing a show with him and he said hed check out our shit on mp3.com.
We booked this gig and had to get 2 bands. Hilger recommended Chainsaw Johnny, he got their CD at Inkfest and it had their address, they are from Joliet-area. I brought up Vomit. Emailed them, they were down. We realized that these bands actually knew each other and were all crew. In Chainsaw Johnny’s CD we noticed that they thanked Vomit. When I spoke with Mr. Vomit and told him about Chainsaw he said that he knew him. That is some twilight zone shit.
We got to the gig, it was awesome.
hobo got his shirt ripped off, my cousin showed up, there was a drunk guy who got crazy to all the bands and said shit that no one could understand.vomit used a smoke machine,we were all knocking each other down and tackling each other at the end of vomits set. (they played last)
we got paid 50 for all 3 bands and we didnt take any, i gave them 25 each, i was so fucking impressed by both bands, they are real. playing again with them may 24…….
