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The Gibbons

Post post-mortem: We're playing a reunion show August 17, 2013 at
the Silent Barn in Brooklyn, for a 10th Anniversary Party for Salinas
Records.

Post-mortem updates:
Someone added us to Last.fm
Some of us are in a band called the State Lottery.

The Gibbons were a punk band from Detroit that played between 2001
and 2006. We had a lot of great times, met a lot of people,
and got a first hand look at what people are doing to make their
communities better places. For records and contact info, see below.

These people/bands/entities deserve a special thanks for being
directly involved in vital stuff: Marco, Shawn Quinn,Josh Quinn,
Norm Andresen, Erik Ladendorf, North Lincoln, Caulfield, Frame,
Tina Dykehouse, Andy Fizzle, Blackbird Suite, Whiskey Diaries,
Attack of the..., Ridgemont, Original Invasion, Kevin and Paul McCoy,
the Trumbullplex, Karate for Kids, Lemuria, One Reason, Dom Armao,
Dave Bearling, and everyone who ever helped us with a show or a
place to stay on tour.

Complete Show List (Quite a bit of this was done from memory,
so sorry if a show or band was forgotten, it was accidental.)

2006

May 20th, Detroit (The Trumbullplex) *Our Final Show*
w/ North Lincoln, Caulfield

May 19th, Louisville, KY (Old Louisville Coffee House)
w/ North Lincoln, Go Static, One Small Step

May 18th, Bloomington, IN (Ducks in a Stack)
w/ North Lincoln, Heads Up!

May 15th, Madison, WI (Mierda Verde)
w/ North Lincoln, Modern Machines, The Midwest Beat

May 14th, Minneapolis, MN (The Alamo)
w/ North Lincoln, Off with Their Heads, I Dare You

May 13th, Milwaukee, WI (Riverwest Commons)
w/ North Lincoln, Period 3, Bob Uecher

May 12th, Wonder Lake, IL (WL House)
w/ North Lincoln, The Brokedowns

April 18th, Detroit (The 2500 Club)
w/ Stranger on a Train, the Modern Machines

March 10th, Lansing (Gone Wired Cafe)
w/ Rick Johnson Rock'n'Roll Machine, Shoelace, The Mayday Suits

February 16th, Detroit (The Trumbullplex)
w/ Defiance,Ohio and Boxcars

February 8th, Ann Arbor (Natural Canvas)
w/ Monarch, Boxcars

January 19th, Ann Arbor (Natural Canvas)
w/ Frame, Lemuria, Monarch

2005

November 7, Ann Arbor (Natural Canvas)
w/ Bent Outta Shape

October 25, Detroit (The Trumbullplex)
w/ Monarch, Junesey, Renee

October 14, Grand Rapids (bachelor party)
w/ North Lincoln, The Ergs, Freshman Rhetoric

September 20, Ann Arbor (Natural Canvas)
w/ The Unlovables, That’s Him, That’s the Guy

August 14th, Cleveland area, OH (Libby's house)
w/ Frame, Lemuria, Delay, The Merkurs

August 13th, Jamestown, NY (warehouse)
w/ Frame, Itchy Boy and the Cobras

August 12th, Williamstown, NJ (house in woods)
w/ Frame, lots more

August 11th, New Brunswick, NJ (house)
w/ Frame, The Ergs, The Carpetbaggers

August 10th, Huntington Station (Long Island), NY (Hobo House)
w/ Frame, more

August 9th, Brooklyn, NY (North Six)
w/ Frame, Basement Black

August 8th, New Paltz, NY (The Rug Room)
w/ Frame, Laser Awesome

August 7th, Binghamton, NY (Kyle’s House)
w/ Frame, more

August 6th, Buffalo, NY (Kitchen Distribution)
w/ Frame, Lemuria

July 17th, Detroit (Trumbullplex)
w/ Karate for Kids, Latterman, Slingshot Dakota, Basement Black

June 18th, Plan-It-X Fest Detroit (Trumbullplex)
w/ One Reason, Defiance, Ohio, This Bike is a Pipe Bomb, Madeline,
Erin Tobey, Ghost Mice, Rosa, The Door-Keys, Two Dollar Breakfast, more

April 10th, Detroit (Trumbullplex)
w/ Toys that Kill, Off with Their Heads, Attack of the…

March 24th, Ypsilanti, MI (The Elbow Room)
w/ North Lincoln, Glass and Ashes

January 9th, Grand Rapids (The DAAC)
w/ North Lincoln, Frame, Zero Dependence

January 8th, Columbus, OH (24/7 House)
w/ Karate for Kids, Frame, Zero Dependence

January 7th, Louisville, KY (hall)
w/ Pocket Bomb, Hazard County, One Small Step

January 6th, Lexington, KY (Holwyn Underground)
w/ Olympus Mons, more

January 5th, Asheville, NC (The Big Idea)
w/ Drunken Boat, The Terribles

January 4th, Chattanooga, TN (Antarctica)
Drunken Boat, ADD/C, The Terribles, Mister Blister

January 3rd, Cleveland, MS (Farmhouse)
w/ Hot New Mexicans, The Florence Nightingales, the Ghostwood

January 2nd, Bloomington, IN (Dave Dean’s House)
w/ Dave Dean, The Thing that Always Explodes

January 1st, Ferndale, MI (Real McCoy House)
w/ Caulfield, North Lincoln, Karate for Kids

2004

November 27th, Detroit (Idle Kids)
w/ North Lincoln, Hell or Highwater, Helen Keller

November 26th, Cleveland, OH (Tower of Treason)
w/ Before I Go, Signs of Collapse

July 22nd, Lansing (The Diaper) *Last Diaper Show*
w/ North Lincoln, Rosa, Meneguar, Gospel, lots more

June 25th, Detroit (Trumbullplex)
w/ Blackbird Suite, Dubphonics

May 28th, Detroit (The Magic Stick)
w/ The Amino Acids, Joiya

May ??, Lansing (Brighter Days Infoshop)
w/ Prospera

April 15th, Grand Rapids (Division Ave. Arts Cooperative)
w/ One Reason, Hell or Highwater

March 20th, Athens, GA (Tite Pockets)
w/ North Lincoln, Ceramic Duck

March 19th, Gainesville, FL (Wayward Council)
w/ North Lincoln, Army of Ponch, Towers of Hanoi

March 18th, St. Petersberg, FL (The Emerald)
w/ North Lincoln, The Tim Version

March 16th, Cleveland, MS (The Farmhouse)
w/ North Lincoln, Matty Pop Chart

March 14th, St. Louis area, MO (Grandma’s house)
w/ North Lincoln, Bright Calm Blue, Camp Climax…

March 13th, Louisville, KY (Legion hall)
w/ North Lincoln, Pocket Bomb, Rome Fell, more

March 12th, Lansing (The Diaper)
w/ North Lincoln, Picasso Triggerfish, Freshman Rhetoric

February 6th, Detroit (Idle Kids)
w/ Caulfield, Prospera, Rosa, Hoppin’ Mad

2003

December 19th, Detroit (Idle Kids)
w/ Caulfield, Patsy Motherfucking Cline, Mumbler, Megan Kott, The Know-How

December 13th, Grand Rapids (The DAAC)
w/ North Lincoln, Mumbler, Rick Johnson

November 28th, Lansing (The Diaper)
w/ North Lincoln, I Farm, The High Life

November 11th, Detroit (Radnor House)
w/ Fifth Hour Hero, etc.

September 20th, Lansing (The Diaper)
w/ Marco, Alpha Control Group C

August 28th, Bloomington, IN (house)
w/ One Reason, Matty Pop Chart, Rachel Jacobs

August 27th, Milwaukee, WI (Endless Nameless)
w/ Motorcycle Prom Dates, The Servos, Hillyard, U.S.S. Horsewhip

June 26th, Roseville, MI (Legion hall)
w/ Bidwell, Caulfield, Mumbler, Patsy Motherfucking Cline

June 25th, Lansing (The Diaper)
w/ North Lincoln, Parkherst

May 25th, Detroit (The Gardenbowl)

April 6th, Dearborn, MI (Desirable Discs)

March 29th, Hamtramck, MI (Roadrunner’s Raft)
w/ Caulfield, Student Driver, Crashing Atoms

March 7th, Hamtramck, MI (Jean’s)
w/ Caulfield, Demon Sweat, The Book Was Better

February 8th, Roseville, MI (Legion Hall)
w/ Caulfield, Zero Dependence, Mumbler, Bidwell

February 1st, Detroit (Jacoby’s)
w/ Rivethead, Caulfield, Hoppin’ Mad

January 4th, Detroit (Trumbullplex)
w. Mumbler, Megan Kott, Mikey Sharbatz

2002

December 26th, Hamtramck, MI (Slackjaw Social Club)
w/ Caulfield, Mumbler, Hoppin’ Mad, the Big Spit

November 17th, Ypsilanti, MI (The Elbow Room)
w/ Zero Dependence

November 2nd, ?up north?, MI (Johnny Appleseed Cider Mill)
w/ Hoppin’ Mad, Crazy Flying Giants, Red Eye Flight

August 2nd, Hamtramck, MI (Slackjaw Social Club)
w/ Rivethead, Caulfield

July 25th, Detroit (Detroit Contemporary)
w/ Caulfield, Aura, Helen Keller, Horatio Alger…

July 19th, Hamtramck, MI (Slackjaw Social Club)
w/ Caulfield, Aura

July 16th, Roseville, MI (legion hall)
w/ Hoppin’ Mad, Three Balls Green

March 15th, ?Utica?, MI (Rockabilly’s record store)
w/ Hoppin’ Mad

February 22nd, Hamtramck, MI (Slackjaw Social Club)
w/ Abe Froman, The GC5

2001

December 26th, Hamtramck, MI (Slackjaw Social Club)
w/ Caulfield, Abe Froman

December 1st, Warren, MI (hall)
w/ Caulfield, Zero Dependence, The Consolation Prize

November 23rd, Detroit (Trumbullplex)
w/ Caulfield, Red Emma, The Skinny Fists

September 21st, Hazel Park, MI (The Dougout)
w/ Caulfield, 45 Cents, Nowadays, The Consolation Prize, Citizens Arrest

August 23rd, Hazel Park, MI (The Dougout)
w/ Caulfield, No Alternative

July 30th, Hazel Park, MI (The Dougout)
w/ Never Heard of It, Nowadays, 1090

July 29th, Warren, MI (Italian American Cultural Center) *Punk Fest II*
w/ lots of bands

July 26th, Roseville, MI (legion hall)
w/ Caulfield, Lazy American Workers, The Come-Ons, The Lynnwoods

July 21st, Grosse Pointe, MI (Toby’s Basement)

July 15th, Roseville, MI (Hot Hits record store)
w/ The Satchel Paige Rage

June 16th, Rochester, MI (Jenny’s garage)
w/ Caulfield

Releases/Merch

Salinas Records (linked below) carries all this, and has a list of distros
that do as well.

Split 7" with North Lincoln (Salinas, May, 2006)
-----------The last songs we'll ever record. We have three, they have two. It's for Michigan.

"Hope, inc." CD (Salinas, January 1, 2005)
-----------Our first full length. The songs are more political and more aggressive
(dare I say, more mature?) than earlier stuff. Easily our favorite songs.
Erik recorded it, and it has a cleaner sound than previous recordings.

"Hope, inc." LP (Salinas/Grateful, March 2005)
-----------Same as the CD but it's on vinyl. There are some corrections in the
liner notes and the artwork is a bit different.

"The Gibbons" 7" (Salinas/Neon Boombox Records, March 11, 2004) *OUT OF PRINT*
-----------Our first solo release. Four old songs rerecorded, but some of our favorites
that we never released. Recorded with longtime partner Erik Ladendorf,
it is an accurate representation of us over our first few years of existence.

"The War on Terrorism" 4-Way split 7" (Salinas Records, December 19, 2003)
-----------The Gibbons, Megan Kott, Caulfield and Mumbler get global, each
contributing one song about the current political situation.

Split CDEP with Caulfield (Storm Records, February 1, 2003)
-----------4 songs from each band, recorded at 40 oz. studio in Ann Arbor.

Demo Tape (Fall, 2001)
-----------Our first release. 4 songs.

T-Shirts
-----------Mail us a shirt (email us (below) to get an address), and we'll screen it for
you. It's the building on the cover of "Hope Inc.".

E-mail us.

Links

Gibbons Music (MP3s)
Salinas Records
Storm Records

Email: losgibbons@yahoo.com