Austin Sound

Given today’s Wall Street news, we probably couldn’t have picked a better time to feature the Good Times Crisis Band. The trio lives up to its name, unloading an urgent punk scrawl that is fevered and fun, their aggressive riffs and forceful drums pushing the serrated but upbeat songs. While the group claims below to want to be champions of “music for music’s sake,” their sarcastic and playful spite in songs like “Cyber Freee” or “Luddites” from last year’s debut LP, Select a Gather Point on the Australian Cattle God label, are ripped with the kind of commentary that calls out the ludicrous world around us. Good Times Crisis Band will be heading up to the CMJ Festival at the end of October, but before then you can catch them at Emo’s inside this Friday, September 19, with Boxcar Satan, Red X Red M, and Megazilla. When everything else is falling apart, at least we can still dance, dance, dance.

Profile: The Good Times Crisis Band

Year Formed:

2005

Members/Instruments played:

*David Hobizal : Drums
Steven Mullins : Bass
Bill Corsello : Tar / Vox

Former Bands/Side Projects:

Bill : Monkeyspank, Stress Magnets, Ye Olde Castletons, Swarm, Vodka Family Winstons, Blister Freak Circus, The Tinys, Billy Down & The Syndromes, Truckload of Fuckers
Dave : Catch Catch Perfect, Panic In Detroit
Steven : A Covert Operation, Catch Catch Perfect, Kaleb

Albums:

“Select A Gather Point” Australian Cattle God Records 018

Influences:

The Fall, Popol Vuh, Billy Childish, Jawbox, MC5, J.S Bach, The Jam, Neil Young, The Damned, David Bowie, Buck Owens, Udi Hrant, Small Faces, Le Mystere de voix Bulgares , Grand Funk Railroad, Mission of Burma, Lungfish, Nick Cave, John Cash, Trini Lopez, Celtic Frost, Paco Pena, The Who, Os Mutantes, The Cherubs, Thin Lizzy, Pink Floyd, Leonard Cohen, Wire, Bloodrock, Sir Douglas Quintet, Love, Fela Kuti, Can, Oneida, Ramones, Scratch Acid, Kansas, Shiner, Dmitri Shostakovich, Traffic, too many more to mention

Strangest comment or comparison ever made about your music:

1.someone classified us as Math/Garage 2. someone told us we suck

Favorite local bands:

Red X Red M, The Pons, Crack Pipes, Eddy Hobizal Trio, Mr Lewis & the Funeral 5, Ringo Deathstar, Ignitor, Hex Dispensers, Elias Haslinger Quartet, Manikin, Explosions in the Sky, Ugly Beats, Cartright, Desconocidos, Foot Patrol, Pack of Wolves, Strange Boys, Apeshits, Mediums, Amy Bobruck, We’ll Go Machete, Horse + Donkey, T Bird & the Breaks, Serious Tracers, Red Leaves, Power Squid, Lick Lick, Yellow Fever, High Tension Wires, Lions Of Tsavo, Gospel Truth, Those Peabodys, Black Joe Lewis, 1 Mississippi, Snake Trap , Militant Babies, Eric Hokenin , too many to mention.

Favorite local venue:

Emo’s

Upcoming shows scheduled:

Sept 19th at Emo’s
Oct 10th at Hole In The Wall
Oct 23-Nov 5th CMJ and short tour

Shows over the next month that you’re excited to see:

Excited to see Night Marchers, Pierced Arrows, Yellow Fever, Tsushimamire, Quintron

Some of your favorite albums from the past year:

Bill hasn’t bought any new releases this year. He works at a night club so he listens to public domain books on tape at librivox. org. Likes the Sharon Jones “100 Days” . Likes the Black Angels new record for watching paint dry, and
Dave’s picks are Bonnie Prince Billy “Lie Down In the Light”, Exploding Star Orchestra “We are All From Somewhere Else”, Channnels “Waiting for The Next End Of the World”, The Bad Plus “ Prog”

Ideal band (past or present) to open for on a national tour:

Jr. Senior or Einstürzende Neubauten

Austin Sound questions:
What’s the biggest good times crisis y’all have experienced?

Playing after a DJ at the Whiskey Bar , the place cleared out as a cold front whipped through the open front door, dropping the temperature at least 20 degrees. . The Gods pointed their fingers at us and exclaimed “ did you guys really think you could do this show? Ha, such hubris ”!!!!

Best options for selecting a gather point?

Pensic Wars Pitts PA
Clock Shop In Towson Md
Castle remains at St Augustine Fla.
Blacks Beach, La Jolla Ca.
Any hidden keg road rally
Historic French legation , Austin Tx
Temple Of Diana , Cefalu Sicily
Hermits Pond, Watchung Reservation , Nj
Plains of Abraham , Quebec City P.q.
Abandoned Boathouse, Carlton Island , Ny.
The Buried Howitzers, Paradise Valley, Mt.
Too Many more to mention

Song Introduction:

“This Will Pass”. I wrote about my young niece, who kept seeing the replay of the jets hitting the Twin Towers on Tv. It was traumatizing to a kid that was not old enough to understand that it wasn’t happening to hundreds of planes and hundreds of buildings. It’s a song of comfort to a child but also one of resolve and strength.

Sound Off:

The Good Times Crisis Band is about what makes us want to play music. Luckily, we never had much commercial success in prior efforts so we still purely love this thing and hold it sacred. If it became bread & butter that would change. We play what we want. I guess we could be accused of genre hopping a little. But it is all with one unique voice which I think maintains an intense consistency. It is music we would want to hear from bands in any era. It’s fun , it’s scrappy, a little technical, sarcastic, loud, and soft. We want to be the champions of the much promised and anticipated “Music For Music Sake” era . When it finally arrives.

Mp3 from Select a Gather Point:
This Will Pass

Website:
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