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ELECTRIC FRANKENSTEIN IS ON A MISSION: "TO HELP REVITALIZE THE CORPSE OF ROCK AND ROLL". DRAWING INSPIRATION FROM SUCH BANDS AS THE DEAD BOYS, NEW YORK DOLLS, AND AC/DC, HOW CAN THEY FAIL?

ELECTRIC FRANKENSTEIN HAS BEEN CRANKING OUT THEIR OWN UNIQUE BRAND OF ROCK SINCE THEY FORMED IN NEW JERSEY IN 1992. THE ELECTRIC FRANKENSTEIN SOUND IS REALLY HARD TO DESCRIBE. BASICALLY WHAT ELECTRIC FRANKENSTEIN DID WAS TAKE EVERY SOUND THAT WORKED OVER THE PAST 40 YEARS AND PUT IT ALL TOGETHER. FROM 50'S R&B TO ROCKABILLY, FROM POP TO METAL, FROM GRUNGE TO GLAM. ITS ALL IN THERE. HOW DO THEY MAKE IT WORK? THEY JUST DO.

EVER WONDER WHAT AC/DC WOULD SOUND LIKE IF THEY SHOWED UP DRUNK AT A BACKYARD BARBEQUE AND STARTED TO PLAY? PROBABLY A LITTLE SOMETHING LIKE THE CRIPPLE CREEK FAIRIES.

LEGEND HAS IT THAT THE CRIPPLE CREEK FAIRIES FORMED IN THE SMALL TOWN OF MULLET, ALBERTA WHEN RIVAL CROP-DUSTERS LES IZMOORE AND TOMMY DOUGLAS COLLIDED IN MID-AIR AND NEARLY DIED. THE TWO FORMED A TIGHT BOND BASED ON ROCK AND ROLL, FAST CARS, AND FAST WOMEN, AND PROMPTLY FORMED THE CRIPPLE CREEK FAIRIES.

THE FAIRIES HAVE RELEASED THREE INDEPENDANT EPS WHICH ARE SOLD STRICTLY AT THEIR SHOWS, SO IT MAY BE TOUGH TO FIND A COPY. BUT WITH THE EXPOSURE THESE GUYS ARE GETTING, A RECORD DEAL MAY NOT BE FAR OFF. THEY OPENED FOR TRICKY WOO AND NASHVILLE PUSSY ON THEIR RECENT TOUR. NOT BAD FOR A BUNCH OF CROP-DUSTERS FROM ALBERTA.

IF THERE WERE EVER A BAND THAT WAS BEFORE ITS TIME, THE SONICS WERE THAT BAND.

THE SONICS WERE DEFINING PUNK ROCK WHILE THE RAMONES WERE STILL IN THEIR DIAPERS. WELL, NOT EXACTLY, BUT BACK IN 1963 WHEN THE SONICS FIRST FORMED, PUNK DIDN'T EVEN EXIST. THEY WERE ONE OF THE RAWEST GARAGE BANDS OF THEIR TIME, AND THEIR MUSIC STILL HOLDS UP TODAY.

THE SONICS WERE A BIG HIT ON THE EAST COAST WHERE THEY ORIGINTATED. THEY SCORED LOCAL HITS WITH 'THE WITCH', 'STRYCHNINE', AND 'PSYCHO'. BUT THEIR SOUND NEVER REALLY CAUGHT ON AND THE SONICS WOULD DISBAND IN 1966 WITHOUT SCORING A NATIONAL HIT.

BUT THE SONICS DID LEAVE AN IMPRESSION ON THE FACE OF ROCK 'N' ROLL. SOME BELIEVE THAT THEY WERE THE PIONEERS OF PUNK. OTHERS JUST CLAIM THEM AS A MAJOR INFLUENCE, INCLUDING THE SEX PISTOLS AND BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN.

BUM IS A BAND THAT REALLY LIKES TO WEAR THEIR INFLUENCES ON THEIR SLEEVES.

THE BAND CAME INTO EXISTENCE IN THE EARLY 90'S WHEN THREE FRIENDS WORKING AT A RECORD STORE IN VICTORIA DECIDED TO FORM A DESCENDENTS-ESQUE BAND. THROUGH THEIR CAREER BUM CONTINUED TO LET THEIR FANS KNOW EXACTLY WHICH BANDS INFLUENCED THEM, COVERING BANDS SUCH AS DMZ, THE FLAMIN' GROOVIES, THE ROLLING STONES, AND THE WHO. AND EVEN AFTER BUM CALLED IT QUITS IN THE MID 90'S, TWO OF ITS MEMBERS JOINED ASTROZOMBIE, A MISFITS TRIBUTE BAND.

IF THAT DOESN'T GIVE YOU AN IDEA WHAT BUM SOUNDS LIKE, GO OUT AND PICK UP ONE OF THEIR FOUR FULL-LENGTH ALBUMS.

THE SPACESHITS WERE THE PRODUCT OF A SCREAMING HOT GARAGE ROCK SCENE IN MONTREAL IN THE MID-90'S. THEIR INFLUENCES INDLUDE THE SONICS, THE STOOGES, AND THE ROLLING STONES.

LINE-UP CHANGES OCCURRED ALMOST ANNUALLY, OR SO IT WOULD SEEM. MEMBERS OF THE SPACESHITS HAD A HABIT OF CHANGING THEIR STAGE NAMES TO KEEP THE MEDIA ON THEIR TOES. IN 1999 THE SPACESHITS BROKE UP, LEAVING BEHIND THEM TWO FULL-LENGTH ALBUMS AND SEVERAL EPS.

THE FORBIDDEN DIMENSION ROSE FROM THE ASHES OF CALGARY-BASED 'COLOR ME PSYCHO' IN 1988. ORIGINALLY A ONE-MAN-BAND, LEAD SINGER JACKSON PHIBES RECRUITED SOME NEW BLOOD FOR HIS UNIQUE BRAND OF HORROR ROCK. THE LINE-UP CHANGED REGULARLY, WITH PHIBES REMAINING THE ONLY CONSTANT.

OVER THEIR 11 YEAR CAREER, THE FORBIDDEN DIMENSION RELEASED 3 FULL-LENGTH ALBUMS, AS WELL AS A HANDFUL OF SINGLES BEFORE DISSOLVING IN 1998.