Jimmie's Chicken Shack

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Jimmie's Chicken Shack is an American alternative rock band from Annapolis, Maryland. They emerged through MTV as one of the first Post-Grunge bands of the era. Jimmie's Chicken Shack was discovered in 1994 and subsequently managed by their producer Richard James Burgess.

Pushing the Salmanilla Envelope

Singles from Pushing the Salmanilla Envelope were "High," "Dropping Anchor," "Blood," and "Another Day." "High" and "Dropping Anchor" both have music videos. The video for "High" was shown fairly often on MTV's 120 Minutes. Most of the songs that were included on PTSE were included on previous releases. Three other unknown songs were considered for this record, but never made it onto the release.

Bring Your Own Stereo

Bring Your Own Stereo was released by Island Defjam in 1999. The time between the two major releases was a troubled time for the band internally. There were several changes of members and also trouble with the major label as they were shunted from Rocket/Island to Rocket/A&M then back to Rocket/Island and after the sale of Polygram to Universal Music Group, they were moved onto Island Defjam. "Do Right" and "Trash" were both singles released from B.Y.O.S. "Do Right" was the first single released and the only JCS music video to make it onto MTV's Total Request Live with Carson Daly. "Trash" never received much airplay, mainly due to lack of support by the record label.

With early releases of B.Y.O.S, there was a card to mail to Fowl Records for a free copy of the Slow Change EP. This EP is rare, but can still be occasionally found.

The tour for this album included dates playing with bands such as 311, Creed, Fuel, Finger Eleven, and Joydrop.

In January 2000, the band received arguably its highest compliment to date when it was chosen as openers for live supergroup 311^[1]. Fresh off a New Years show with the Red Hot Chili Peppers, the Omaha, Nebraska quintet announced a month-plus long, 27-show tour, spanning from February 21 to March 29, with Jimmie's Chicken Shack as the sole opening act (including one special guest appearance by Incubus at a Winstom-Salem show).^[2]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WR3gF9J0hQ

re.present

After fighting for nearly three years to get released from Island Defjam, they released re.present on Koch Records in April 2004. "Falling Out" (featuring Aaron Lewis of Staind) was the only single released from re.present. A music video was made for the single and received limited airplay through various outlets.

The title is believed to mean that this effort by Jimmie's Chicken Shack is meant to re-present the band to the public. The themes in the lyrics and music on this disc varies from comedically clever ("Gettoveritt") to serious and dark ("Happiness").

Fail on Cue

Fail On Cue was released in January 2008 on Fowl Records. The working title was "Making Babies". Some of the new songs being performed live that will appear on the upcoming album are "Mutha Luvas," "The Quiet Ones," "Another Great Idea," and the original title track, "Making Babies." The album will also include the band's second cover of a song, Fugazi's "Waiting Room". There were also rumors that the new disc would include "Confident," a JCS song that has been previously demoed for other releases, but has yet to make it onto a CD.

In 2006, the band sold its old tour van through its message board. Unknowingly, they left a CD labeled "Demos for 6" in the van. These demos are unlikely to circulate at the band's request of the van's new owner.

Trivia

• Casey Hean has a new project called News Travels Fast
• Matt Jones played in Aphile before joining JCS.
• Jerome and Christian both played in Fidel.
• The song "Do Right" was featured in the 2001 German comedy movie Lammbock.

Show Antics

JCS shows often include comedic antics by the band. Some of these include:

• Jimi Haha licking his guitar to show the crowd his "guitar licks."
• The entire band shoots Patron(tequila) on stage.
• Making fun of each other, and apparently fans as well.
• Jimi telling the entire crowd to chant a fan's name "Erik Casano"
• Jimi smoking weed on stage became a regular occurrence.
• The band sometimes pulls fans on stage to play and jam a bit.
• At HFStival 2005, after 99.1whfs flipped to a Spanish format, Jimi emerged wearing a sombrero and a shirt with Spanish writing which translated to "The Rock Is Dead". He also greeted the audience in Spanish before launching into his trademark set.

Members

Discography

Albums

• Chicken Scratch (1993)
• Spitburger Lottery (1994)
• 2 For 1 Special (1995)
• Giving Something Back (1995)
• Pushing the Salmanilla Envelope (1997)
• Bring Your Own Stereo (1999)
• Re.present (2004)
• Fail on Cue (2008)

EPs

• The Bongjam EP (1998)
• Slow Change EP (1999)

Singles

• High (1996) - Mainstream Rock Tracks (#20)
• Dropping Anchor (1998) - Mainstream Rock Tracks (#33)
• Do Right (1999) - Modern Rock Tracks (#12)

References

1. ^ http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1430628/20000119/jimmies_chicken_shack.jhtml
2. ^ http://media.www.dailynebraskan.com/media/storage/paper857/news/2000/03/28/Arts/Jimmies.Chicken.Shack.Enjoying.Wave.Of.Success-1733752.shtml

External links

• Jimmie's Chicken Shack Myspace page
• Jimmie's Chicken Shack Official Website
• Jimmie's Chicken Shack collection at the Internet Archive's live music archive
• Interview with Jimi Haha by Greg Szeto of Bmore Live