Jeffrey Sim

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Can life get any worse for the Jews?

Got this band's backstory while browsing through Metal-Legions' torrents forum.

The origins of Noothgrush date back to 1962, in a predominantly Jewish ghetto of New York City. At the time, a young Don Kirshner was putting together one of the first of many pre-fab pop groups, better known today as 'boy bands'. While he would a few years later find success with The Monkees, Kirshner's ill-fated idea of an all-Jewish band called Shtup Goyim was one of his many failures. For Shtup Goyim's last performance, a crowd of 200 gathered at the B'nai B'rith for Herschel Krustofsky's mid-Hanukkah Bar Mitzvah. During the performance, a giant menorah at the back of the stage toppled over, igniting the petroleum jelly in the group members' hair. Tenors Saul Tobin and Joshua Klein both died in the fire, and Shlomo Cohen, the young heartthrob of the group, was so horribly disfigured that he became a recluse and left the country.

The surviving duo, Ira Feldman and Sidney Gluck moved to California and started a short-lived surf band called The Beach Bubbys. The band got little attention outside of a few high schools, and the failure of their dream split the duo for good. Somewhat frightened by Ira's increasingly odd behavior and attempted suicide, Sidney gave up music and moved back to New York in 1965. Ira stayed in California and, intent on success in the music industry, changed his name to Johnny Smoke and formed a pop band called The Reefers. The Reefers jumped onto the psychedelic bandwagon and they quickly changed their name to Super Hippy. Super Hippy released a single in 1966 called "Lets all drop acid, shall we?", which failed to chart. By 1967, the band had faded into a drug infested commune with little being done in the way of music and Johnny was arrested for selling LSD through his 15 year old girlfriend and her high school friends. The commune was raided and Johnny was indicted as a communist spy, drug king pin and pedophile. He spent 3 years in prison where he attempted suicide repeatedly.

After his release, he hooked up with his ex-cell mate Leroy Jackson at a billiard hall and started a new band called Sugar Booger, heralded far and wide as nothing more than a Funkadelic rip off. After three years of failed attempts to be derided by George Clinton in song, Sugar Booger was going nowhere. In 1973, desperate for some modicum of success, Johnny finagled a European tour from a shady promoter, but after arriving in Paris for the first show, they found they'd been swindled. There was no tour. The rest of the band flew home, leaving Johnny behind to become a heroin addict. Johnny roamed the continent for the next few months before ending up in a UK rehab. In 1975, after another attempt at suicide, Johnny finally went clean and met up with some musicians in need of a singer. Hobbitron, a seven piece prog outfit, would be the most successful band he'd ever participate in, but two years and two concept albums later, he was kicked out after assaulting members of the crowd in New York City. Back where he started, Johnny became a club DJ at Studio 54 and lived a life of casual sex, mounds of cocaine and hot hot disco dancing. Three years, two suicide attempts and several venereal diseases later, Johnny went back to music. After failing an audition for a job as one of the first MTV veejays, he started a new wave band called Stynx. The band tried a variety of names, styles and pills over the next few years before Johnny moved back to California and joined a glam metal band called Wantin' Ax of Perversion in 1985. The band released 9 demos over the next 6 years before disbanding in 1991, never having left L.A.

A raging alcoholic by this point, Johnny blew off his cheekbone, an eye and an ear in yet another failed suicide attempt. He spent a year in a mental institution before getting turned on to rave culture and becoming a club DJ and Ecstasy dealer. One night, after attempting to hang himself from the DJ booth, Johnny was taken outside and beaten to within an inch of his life. After spending a year in traction, Johnny made one last effort to get his life back together. In 1994 he started another band with some people he'd met at the Black Sabbath reunion show a couple of years earlier. High on grass one night, he dubbed the band Noothgrush, after a character in a Dr. Seuss book he was reading at the time. Realizing how truly meaningless his life had become, Johnny made one last attempt to take his own life and finally succeeded. Russ, Gary and Chiyo, the remaining members of the last band in this tragic human's long and futile career, refuse to acknowledge ever having met him.

In 2000, Noothgrush relocated to Berkeley and are currently writing and rehearsing material for their next LP.