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Special Edition Farewell Note from Jim Bob
Filling in on bass for the forseeable future is the man known only as Tiny. Rumor has it he was in the "Halo Babies" TV series with Jim Bob and Gerrymiah. Either that or a Rush cover band. That is all we can tell you for now. Meanwhile, here is Jim Bob's farewell address: To whom it may concern: I've come to a point in my life that I felt I needed to get out New Jersey, where I've spent the first 26 years of my life, and head out west, to a small city of religious fanatics that hang out in the mountains, drink low alcohol beer, and have multiple wives. I'm really excited and happy to get away from the New Jersey pollution, the hour+ one way commute to corporate America just sit in unproductive meetings, horrible traffic, and slum lords. But while I'm happy to get out of here, I am extremely sad to be leaving my friends in New Brunswick behind, especially the members/friends/and fans of the Halo. Halo has definitely been the best musical experience of my life, and the friendship and times I've have with the band members have been some of my greatest over the past 5+ years. The new CD should be awesome when we finally finish the mixing and mastering - all my tracks & bass parts are recorded and I am very proud of them. I wish my best for the Halo to keep going, and I know that they already have a few candidates for fill-in bass players that can handle the parts and also add their own creativity and style into the band. My last full night as a New Jersey resident will be Friday, October 30th. I invite everyone to join me & the rest of Halo for drinks in the basement of Tumulty's Pub on George St. in New Brunswick on that night starting at 9:30 PM. I will also be in town to finish up moving and things during Thanksgiving Week, November 23rd to 27th, and will be playing with Halo for the show at the Fez in NYC Monday Nov. 23rd, and possibly a New Brunswick show the day before of after Thanksgiving, TBA. Again, thanks for everything. PS. I will be keeping my Halo Email address - HaloJim@aol.com - so I can stay in contact with everyone while I'm living Salt Lake City. 8/14/98 Is there any point to being clever anymore? Does anyone care that my head feels like mush and my nose has cement in it? Do I? Huh? What was I just saying? Never mind the bullocks, here's a Halo show: Friday August 21st Fez, under Time Cafe NYC 9pm $8 I believe it's 18 and over, but call and check. Reservations suggested. Wear something on your feet. Like gloves. I sure hope I haven't misspelled or misrepresented anything... Tell us if you want off the list. Please enjoy http://members.aol.com/ahcf Our NEW full length CD is scheduled for the fall. Thank you one and all Brushwood Newsletter of Life What were you expecting, another personal letter forwarded to everybody? Come see us at the Ale 'n 'Wich Pub in New Brunswick
NJ. It's located at the tiny and entirely unparkable
corner of Hamilton and Louis Streets. Nobody will open for us, just one long set until either you or we fall down and don't get up. We have heard that Bionic Rhoda, our favorite New Brunswick band and frequent lender of extra musicians, has broken up. Now, we've heard that one several times before, so we still hold out hopes it will become a false rumor again. But for now, a few lines of silence...
The continuing saga of the new Halo CD: Working and Possibly Changing Title: "Necessity
is the Motherf----r of Invention" Songs definitely known to be included: Thank you -- come again! JULY 5, 1995 Wow! With respect to our wonderful colleagues and competitors Fatty Lumpkin and Furious Styles, we KICKED MAJOR BUTT!! We are, according to Rankit.com, the number one local band in New Brunswick, NJ. Or someone with a very similar name is. 71% of the probably stuffed vote! We're cryin like babies ovah heya. In a world where the Halo AND Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf can sweep an internet poll, what isn't possible? SHOW!! ============================= Once again, we will answer the question "when's the next album coming out?" The reason it's so slow is partly because we only do this one day a week (unless we have something better to do) and partly because we're damned perfectionists and our own worst critics. So everything takes too long. But here's what we've done since the spring of 97: In the can: Minuet In F (available on the Powerbunny Kitra vol. 2 CD), Dig, King of Bean, Clown Nose, Chicken Boy, Satan's Lullaby, Wil Test, Normalize It. Started or Stalled: Lil' Asshole Me, Naked Hoedown,
Hypothetical Twist, Pitiful Song, Zoom Zebatab, Caveman. If that were the whole album, we could release it cheaply, retire and then wait for Rykodisk to reissue it when we become a "seminal influence" on the next generation. Long about 2008 or so. We can wait. Thank you one and all A Halo Called Fred Howdy opera fans Just let me say: we're sickly. So close to death it's not funny. Okay, it's not that bad but have you noticed how few places there are to play in New Brunswick and Jersey in general that aren't bars? Yes, we miss all the nice coffeehouses that let us play for the nice kids that never had money to buy their coffee. Now all the coffee places are either closed or won't let anything more rockin than a single acoustic guitar play there. Teens don't have money, old people who like quiet music or no music (oh, and don't drink), they gots the bucks. And how in the heck do you shut off the function in Word 98 that puts evil squiggly lines under all my colorful colloquialisms?? Anyway, flying in the face of despair, we are playing a spontaneous and secret set at Café 52 in New Brunswick NJ on Monday night. That's the 22nd. On Easton Ave, across from Stuff Yer Face, where that other coffee shop used to be. At 10pm SHARP or the cops close it down. It's an open mic, maybe only a 15 minute set. Be there if you're under 21 or hate bars. And it's secret, so don't tell anyone!! Item! We Predict the Future: I'm starting to like the evil squiggly lines now. Brushwood Thicket Farmer Newsletter Supplement The Halo appearance of Wednesday May 20 at Arlene Grocery is hereby cancelled for the reasons listed below. Apologies to all. We regret to inform you of the loss a close relation. Geverend Dee's beloved appendix has gone to the great beyond. We are all quite sad, yet we feel that this is also a time of celebration, of remembering the organ who many derided as "useless" and "just waiting to go bad". We whose lives were enriched by the appendix will choose to remember the good times, the smiles, and the happiness it brought us. Geverend will be sitting Shiva for his appendix for the next week or so and will not be able to attend any concerts or strenuous social activities. The appendix is survived by a spleen and a bread-making machine. Thank you. A Halo Called Fred May 6 1998 A Halo Called Fred is pleased to announce 2 major performances where important revelations and changes will be made for the betterment of all our fans. May 9 This Saturday 7:30pm NYC May 20 Wednesday 8:30pm NYC Everything about your lives will improve during these shows and will continue to evolve towards a spiritual and physical perfection of a sort only dreamed about by prophets and holy men. We do not believe this to be an idle boast. Our revelations will all be made via music using backwards lyrics cleverly disguised as subversive social and personal observations. We will also use specific harmonic frequencies to alter your very corporeal form. If you choose not to attend, your lives will most likely stay the same as it always was. For many people, this is fine. But those of you who receive this announcement via the internet have a very special opportunity. We think these shows will be a pivotal moment in the lives of all Fred Heds they won't want to miss. The Halo FredSite had a big overhaul recently
and you might want to check it out. Easy links to info about gigs,
recordings and ourselves. Lyrics and music samples. Online shopping
with a fully automated "write it down and mail it in" catalog
page. And more to come! We guarantee the most sprawling band page
in New Brunswick, NJ. A Halo Called Fred Hello, this is Brushwood. It's unusually hot and humid. I've been too hard at work remaking the furshlugginer web site to write a complete newsletter. So please enjoy the distinguished informative tones of Mr. Jim Bob Rubbernecker. OK - Who: Cost: OK - bye. A HALO CALLED FRED Greetings - From Crackers! the Corporate Crime Chicken - no wait - It's Jim Bob being in a sentimental mood - looking at all the Emails on the Web site that I wrote back in '95 when I was a broke student. Not much as changed - besides selling my soul to corporate America (I did it for the Kids! man) - I was equally as depressed and cynical on Valentines day '98 as '96 - except this time I got to watch practically every South Park Episode. Please feed the elephants !!! Oh wait - this was supposed to be a Newsletter - that's right - we're supposed to tell you what wacky things are going on with A Halo Called Fred, and tell you how to buy our merchandise so we can fund our CD. Well, We love you all, PS. We're still playing at the Fez (NYC) Wednesday
April 1st - come out and see us and join in on the holiday spirit.
THE FRED HED GAZETTE Hello. I'm dizzy. We're playing. Maybe we'll all fall down. Okay. Hello. Feb. 22 WHTG 106.3 NJ Feb. 28 The Cooler NYC 14th St./9th Ave. I'm too dizzy to be clever and write interesting stuff. So just buy things from us. We love you all Brushwood THE FRED HED GAZETTE Music Samples and updated news always on the web
site! What are you gonna do, the middle of the week, you need some kinda wacky entertainment... Stop thinking about it and just GO to New York!! The big city. It never sleeps and neither should you. WHO cares about getting up for work or school the next day. Boss making you work late..? Got a late class on Thursday night (!??)? Ta Heck with ALL A' THEM!!!!!!!! Humbly now: A Halo Called Fred w/ John S Hall / Bionic Rhoda
/ Andy Dowding located: 313 Bowery and Bleeker St. New York City Do it now before we get too old, break up and
move to Florida. One last chance... You're all still meat. A Halo Called Fred *********** Like it or not, here's the Top 10 Favorite Recordings We're Reasonably Sure We Bought or Pirated Last Year (in the order we think of them): Brushwood Thicket Farmer: Geverend Dee: Gerrymiah T. Bullfrog: Jim Bob Rubbernecker: Invisble Friend Chester: |
The
Rumors Are True... Mr. Jim Bob Rubbernecker, bassist for the Halo
for nearly 6 years, has left for the greener pastures of the midwest.
The symbolic photo was taken by ace Fred Hed Carol Miller of Austin
TX.|
2000-2006 A new millenium arrives. Most computers fail to explode. 2 songs are released with Tiny. Halo coasts on old glories, sits around watching TV and surfing the internet. Videos mysteriously appear, as the legend grows. 1999 The long awaited CD is released, and .00001% of the world rejoices!! Tiny brings his bass to the Halo, and tries to make it Y2K complient. Well, he tries... Grunge is like so over, but being played on Dr. Demento is cool. 1998 A long and torturous home recording process results in the year-end completion of our first actual CD. Along the way we become dissatisfied with our day jobs, but we still don't quit to go on a cross country tour. Except for Jim Bob who takes his bass to Salt Lake City, leaving Halo with totally different band arguments. 1997 Starbucks forces New Brunswick coffee houses into the bunker. Halo open several shows in NY with John S Hall / King Missile, and begin recording an album that doesn't see the light of day for over a year. 1996 Brushwood buys a computer and takes over the newsletter. The Halo web site makes its official debut. Sgt Pepper becomes the best selling tape yet. Some of Halo get real jobs. And even get married. (not to each other) 1995 The Gazette is started by Jim Bob on a tiny b/w Mac SE. Sgt. Pepper is recorded. Gerrymiah T. Bullfrog joins the Halo full-time. The manager is dumped, even as Halo makes a bit of money... or at least breaks even. The band is 3 years old. Goo. |