Subject: a Halo Called Fred EVENT ALERT
Date: February 8, 2006 11:10:42 PM EST
The totality of your senses will be engulfed by goodness
as you experience the...
A HALO CALLED FRED / WORDS PICTURES MOVIES / MULTIMEDIA
EXTRAVAGANZA!!!!!
HEAR! The original 2-man Halo play unplugged versions
of old 90s classics!
SEE! Short films and Halo videos projected before YOUR
VERY EYES!
TASTE! The excitement as A Halo Called Fred and Last
Robot films collide into the BLAZING FIREBALL that is WORDS PICTURES
MOVIES.
FEEL! Your heart palpitate as you witness the launch
of WORDS PICTURES MOVIES, ushering in a new era of high-quality, low-budget
(and visa-versa) independent filmmaking.
SMELL! Your own sweat as you participate (if you dare)
in the filming of a BRAND NEW HALO VIDEO!
TELEPATHICALLY RECEIVE! Cheese, possibly.
This Saturday, February 10th at the Wicked Renaissance
Faire
The New Jersey Convention and
Expo Center
Raritan Center, Edison
The event is from Noon to Midnight, featuring acts from
all fringes of society
Attend at your own risk!
WE ARE SCHEDULED
to perform between 3 and 4pm
(but this event plays it very fast and loose)
MORE INFO...
The event:
http://www.wickedfaire.com
Directions:
http://www.evenfalsethingsaretrue.com/wickedfaire/directions.html
The New Jersey
Convention and Expo Center
Words Pictures
Movies
Questions? Email us at:
wordspicturesmovies@gmail.com
or
ahcf@brushwoodart.com
Tuesday November 22, 2004
Don't Ask, Just Eat It
Greetings friends, Fred-Heds, and those who’s enemies
signed them on our list as a joke…
We’re A Halo Called Fred. We love you all. It’s
been a long, long time, but after a two year lull we’re here to
welcome your holiday season with FOUR new fascinating pieces of news!
1. We’d like to wish you the best this holiday season with our
brand spankin’ new song, STOMPING ON YOUR CHRISTMAS CHEER!
- recorded painstakingly, 1 bar per week over the past two years at Fneeebort
Studios east!
- Download it for free here!
- Play it constantly!
- Send it to radio stations and request it!
- Annoy your neighbors!
2. For film buffs, A Halo Called Fred is now featured
on the soundtrack of STANDING TALL, a new short film by Ludicrous Films!
- It also stars two handsome devils who look remarkably like Geverend
and Brushwood of A Halo Called Fred!
- Download it for free at here!
- Watch it constantly!
- Submit it
to the academy for Oscar consideration!
- Annoy your neighbors!
3. The Halo’s Classic album SGT. PEPPER’S
LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND is now available on Amazon.com!
- Check it out here!
- See it listed with The Beatles, The Bee Gees, and Big Daddy here
- Rate it!
- Review it!
- Recommend it along with your other favorite songs on Amazon!
- Annoy your neighbors!
4. Chicken Boy, the video by Eric
Vitner of the Halo Called Fred song is coming to a bigger screen!
- Check out at www.firstsundays.com!
- The show is Sunday, December 5 the Improv, 318 W. 53rd St. (just West
of 8th Ave)!
- Download it for free here!
- Annoy your neighbors.
As always,
We love you all.
The Fred Hed Gazette
December 29, 2002
Haaaaaappy Nü Year
NEW VIDEO NEW VIDEO NEW VIDEO STUNNING NEW VIDEO by Eric
Vitner
"Mexican Love Song Or Love Song For (insert your name here)"
Not one, but TWO unbelievable versions.
Now on the Fredsite home page
and to celebrate...
It can't be sugarcoated, so we'll come right out and say it:
A Halo Called Fred's masterful musical classic, SGT.
PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND, often called the greatest album in
rock history, is now SHAREWARE!! Download the uncut, remastered, full-stereo,
brillant 128 kbps-encoded MP3s today!!!!!!
Also, download the full CD artwork, including the classic
liner notes. Burn a CD for yourself, burn a CD for friends. All for FREEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!
(Just don't make any money on it or we'll sue your sorry ass, all songs
and collections (c) A Halo Called Fred)
Or screw it, just download the songs you like: includes "Mexican
Love Song", "Blymy The Pyrate", "Butt!", "Aliens".
GO GET!!
No, still not playing live but thanks for asking.
Representing A Halo Called Fred,
Melvin Toast
THE FRED HED GAZETTE
Oct 1, 2002
The Corpse Twitches!
Is it alive?? No!!!! It moves, it talks, but like a zombie
has NO SOUL!
Bond with the UNDEAD Halo this Halloween season at www.aHALOcalledFRED.com
SEE: the frightening video for "Butt!", featuring
Geverend, Brushwood and Jim Bob in a visual masterpiece by Eric Vitner!
EXPERIENCE: the terrifying early 90s in a rarely-seen
HALO documentary from Daryle Lamont Jenkins, Esq.!
HEAR: once again, the last known studio recording of
the HALO: I FOUND ME A RUBBER PUSSY IN A TRUCKSTOP IN VEGAS, a song so
ambiguously filthy that MP3.COM itself REFUSES to carry it!!
KNOW: the lies that are the NEW BIO of the HALO, and
learn why asking when they are playing is ALMOST useless!!
REPLACE: your worn copies of HALO tapes with EVIL but
perfect sounding CD copies!!!
(A moment of silence for our recording label, Powerbunny4x4,
apparently destroyed by a malignant force.)
That is all. I must stop writing and go now.
...TO EAT YOUR BRAINS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Melvin Toast
representing,
A Halo Called Fred
The Fred Hed Gazette
December 17, 2001
ABSOLUTELY
POSITIVELY
SIGNED BY THE PRESIDENT AND APPROVED BY CONGRESS
LAST HALO SHOW EVER
BE AMAZED as Jim Bob joins the Halo on stage for the
first time in over
three years!
BE DUMBFOUNDED by the first new Halo song in two and
a half years!
BE FLABBERGASTED as Chester performs death-defying stunts
hundreds of
feet above the ground, without the aid of a safety net!
New costumes!
New props!!
New gimmicks!!!
The END!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
At the climax of the night, A Halo Called Fred will spontaneously
combust
in a blinding flash, NEVER TO BE HEARD FROM AGAIN.
A Halo Called Fred / Alice B Talkless / and unannounced
guests
Saturday December 22 10:30 pm (if we go on first - call for info)
The Court Tavern, New Brunswick, NJ (21 and over)
<www.courttavern.net> for directions
Please stay for our wrap party, where our enemies dance
circles around
our smoldering ashes.
The Fred Hed Gazette
December 1, 2001
"I wish my brother George were here" - Liberace & Bugs Bunny
We promised, and it is so: Jim Bob returns. He really,
really promises this time. And afterwards, Jim Bob will leave the country.
Just like that. It's really no use talking to him about it.
A Halo Called Fred at The Court Tavern
New Brunswick NJ, 732-545-726
Saturday December 22, 10pm
21 and over
The classic three-visible man trio. We mean it this time.
The greatest something-resembling-rock show ever. The loudest acoustic
band on Earth. Tupperware and broken guitar strings. Songs your friends
don't get. Incomprehensible stage banter. Unending love.
And afterwards, we break up, make solo albums and sue
each other. Never perform again. Swear to God this time. Really and truly.
Honest to frikkin' Christ.
-Brushwood
The Fred Hed Gazette
September 19, 2001
Many thanks to all those who came out last Saturday to
witness the second coming of the original 2-visible-man Halo. It was
tons of fun, and we hope it managed to lift some understandably weighted
spirits. For those who missed it: fear not, we hope to post video clips
soon. We'll let you know.
And Jim Bob may yet return in December, in which case
we'll have another go.
***Classic Halo Now On CD***
The end of cassettes. From the original "master" tapes. Perfect in
their imperfection. Here is the new lineup:
Chester's Dozen - the classic first album now including
the "lost" first Halo demo (known to some as The Yellow Tape)
Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - the greatest album
ever recorded (of course), also including the EP Body Parts & Flying
Things.
Necessity is the Motherfucker of Invention - final Halo
album of the last millenium, on CD then and on CD now. Some things never
change.
All CDs are $11 (postage included). We now accept PayPal.
See the Ludicrous Records page for details.
The Fred Hed Gazette
September 13, 2001
On Saturday September 15, 2001 A Halo Called Fred planned
to host a reunion performance in honor of Jim Bob Rubbernecker returning
to NJ from his stint in the Southwest. Due to the recent acts of terrorism
in our country, Jim Bob has been stranded in England and will be unable
to join us on stage.
Brushwood Thicket Farmer and Geverend Dee (and Chester)
have decided to go on, despite the tragedy that has affected us all.
We see this performance as a celebration of life and the unity that can
be found through music ...even music played on Tupperware. This show
is respectfully dedicated to those who lost their lives or loved ones
in this catastrophe.
We will also arrange for donations, and ask that our
fans and friends bring canned goods and clothing to the show that will
be used towards the relief effort.
Sat. Sept. 15 10:30pm
Court Tavern
Church Street, one block off George St.
New Brunswick, NJ
(732) 545-726
The Fred Hed Gazette
Thursday, August 16, 2001
HALO LIVE HALO LIVE HALO LIVE HALO LIVE HALO LIVE HALO LIVE
Holy motherfucking shit.
You wanted the best.... You got the best.....
For one night only, the planets will align, the sun will
burn out and all life as we know it will be destroyed.
And from the wreckage will emerge... A Halo.
The classic three-visible-man Coffeehouse-Era lineup
-- as Jim Bob returns triumphant from his Holy Quest from the scorched
earth of the Midwest.
Not a dream. Not a hoax.
A Halo Called Fred with 100 Pounds Of Porn and The Little
Kingz
DATE: Saturday September 15
TIME: 10:30 (take it seriously)
PLACE: The Court Tavern: New Brunswick, NJ
PHONE: (732) 545-726
The greatest Rock and Roll event of our generation.
Holy motherfucking shit.
The Fred Hed Gazette
Tuesday, July 10, 2001
spam for the common man
I'm getting old. You're getting old. Youth is washing
away leaving you with a soapy film all over your soul. But on the internet,
we can all be 15 year-old girls forever. Just like A Halo Called Fred.
And yet, the Halo is manly enough to let you see beyond
its vulnerable exterior to the molten iron core within. It flows with
UNRELEASED live tracks and outtakes on MP3, free and exclusively at the
still-somehow-alive IUMA. The Internet Underground Music Archive: the
web's original music showcase, and the Halo's original web showcase.
They even pay us.
http://ahalocalledfred.iuma.com
Also, with Napster dead as we know it, try searching
for Halo mp3s on Aimster instead. They may get sued too, but hey, grab
the TVs from the storefront while the power's still out...
And check out mp3.com for our "hit" song samples.
We've just added some different selections to keep things interesting.
Here's the rundown of the new tracks from IUMA:
Aliens (45 version)
The original mix by from the 45 rpm vinyl, with lyrics coincidently about a
dimension at a 45 degree angle to our own. You can still buy this on vinyl
from us. You know, for DJs making a club mix of Halo..
.
Blooga Blooga Blooga
From the same session as The Essence of Comedy, an outtake from Sgt. Pepper.
We never quite agreed on a proper arrangement for the song, and it shows. Notable
for Geverend's spectacular harmonica solos.
Blymy the Pyrate
From the same session as Hub City Spoke Repair, no mandolin or Gerrymiah. Outtake
from Sgt. Pepper.
Heinously Inconsiderate
Full band version of the Sgt Pepper song, originally intended for Chester's
Dozen. Our bad intentional guitar distortion further proves Halo will never
be Sonic Youth.
Halo Rap
We get "jiggy" with "it" live at Quantum X Records in NJ
in July 94. A little out of context, since usually played as an intro to a
full song, such as (Hat).
Cindy
A live favorite never officially recorded. Cindy used to live in Geverend's
college dorm, and you could hear her boyfriend loudly on her answering maching
through her door. He really did stop a crime. Intro by a totally different
Cindy.
A Straight Line In Curved Space-Time
Another never-studio-recorded nugget. The Aluminum Falcon is an old grey Plymouth
Horizon, the car Halo drove to gigs in. Both this and Cindy were captured
by S. Sebastian Petsu at the Palmyra Tea Room in Bound Brook NJ in August
1995 and include Gerrimiah.
Fred (Sam Cooke version)
Gevered wanted to record a different version of this song for every album.
Never went through with the threat, although we played it live this way several
times.
Sensitive
Always slightly more maniacal live, and always fun to play when paired with
actual sensitive singer-songwriters. Luckily, most had a sense of humor,
or refused to believe the song was about them. This and Fred played live
on WRSU radio in June of 94.
Tip Toe Thru the Tulips
Made most popular by Tiny Tim in the 60s, but there are SO many versions of
this song dating back to the 1920s. Featuring Paul Rieder on mandolin, recorded
in a backyard party in New Brunswick NJ in 1994.
Okay, that's it. Go back to your lives.
Brushwood
Halo
A Halo Called Fred neither casts a shadow, nor affects
the season.
THE FRED HED GAZETTE
FEB 2, 2001
Hate the music and art of A Halo Called Fred? Outgrown
it? Signed the mailing list out of guilt? Your ex was the real fan and
not you? Send us a message to remove, and we'll do it. That'll be maybe
2 less junk emails you'll get all year.
THE DRAMA YOU'VE BEEN CRAVING
"Chicken Boy" is the first official video from A Halo Called Fred.
It features Geverend and Brushwood doing many silly things against many silly
backgrounds. It's an odd song from the now-legendary "Necessity" CD.
QuickTime format, 10 MB and the size of 3 fingers -- big enough for art. The
whole furshlugginer contraption was put together by one Eric Vitner, who has
previously contributed various Halo whatnot under nefarious means. Trust him
not.
See it at the Fred Site
and get more info on Mr. Vitner here: www.vitner.net
OUR HAPPINESS IS GUARANTEED
Speaking of the "Necessity" CD: although not in stores, it's available
at many fine online outlets such as Barns & Noble (bn.com) and Amazon.com
using apparently safe credit card transactions.
In fact, Amazon lets one REVIEW any album (opinions
within reason, kids) so any wanna-be Fred Hed journalists could be pouring
out their hearts about how wonderful or lame our CD is. (For ourselves
to do it would be unethical, of course.)
put your virtual pens here
HEARD ABOUT YOUR FAME
Here's a secret: many of our most popular tracks are all over Napster! This
is a blatant disregard for copyrights, and we encourage it wholeheartedly.
Some of the users sharing might actually even be HALO MEMBERS. Feel free
to add "ahalocalledfred.com" to the MP3 tag comments for luck in
future lives.
Share the glory! Before you have to pay for it.
SUPERFREAKY MEMORIES
The Fred Site does have a guest book, so go ahead and read, write and abuse
the privilege. See how damaged your fellow Halo visitors are. Make it the
only guest book on the web WORTH reading!
CHECKING IN, CHECKING OUT
MP3.com is pretty much our main musical sample outlet. Newest stuff to check
out includes "Damaged" (rare pre-Jim Bob version) and "(Hat)"(from
Chester's Dozen). Also completely remixed and improved versions of "Butt!" and "Aliens" (the
NEW Zamboni Mix -- all new story, old if you've seen us live). If you like
them, consider buying Body Parts and Flying Things on an official MP3.com
CD. All your multiple personalities will thank you.
www.mp3.com/ahalocalledfred
...and we may change the selection at random. Just 'cause.
**************
Well, that's it. Now go answer your emails and surf
the web till your nostrils steam up. And for heaven's sake, eat something.
I mean just look at you.
Affectionately,
Brushwood Thicket Farmer
A Halo Called Fred
THE FRED HED GAZETTE
OCTOBER 17, 2000
You haven't heard anything since January. For A HALO
CALLED FRED has been buried deep in the ocean, just off of Japan, like
so many tragic nuclear mutations before them.
And as do those monsters of horror movie legend, the
Halo RISES UP from the muck and mire... to bring you RADIOACTIVE DESTRUCTION
-- in the form of MP3s, CDs and other recorded bounty.
What is available, you might not ask? I choose to NOT
reply that the Halo classics BUTT and ALIENS are available for download
in their entirety at MP3.com. AND: While you're not there, you may also
get the entire "Body Parts and Flying Things" classic EP thingy
on CD. (REMIXED and REMASTERED with actual BLOOD from Mr. Brushwood Thicket
Farmer!)
I IGNORE your silence and refuse to inform you that
TUNA IS A UGLY FISH, a NEW (over a year old) high work of art, produced
in a mere half hour (the length of a situation comedy), was recorded
LIVE: on your radio, in your home, in bed... with you. Also at MP3.com.
The equally NEW song I FOUND ME A RUBBER PUSSY IN A
TRUCKSTOP IN VEGAS can be had as an MP3 at powerbunny.com ONLY and will
be on the new Powerbunny 4x4 compilation. Exactly one minute of aural
pleasure.
And at the original Halo website, hours of labor and
state of the art internet technology have at last brought... a guestbook!
It’s at MP3.com too! Sign it at your peril. The CIA reads it all,
as do I.
You may refuse to buy Halo recordings while you're not
there...
NOW I must bury myself out back as I am to be born tomorrow.
Ah, kind cervix, here I come.
I Care Not,
F. Scott Slimebucket
January 1, 1900
HALO APPARENTLY VANISHES AMID MILLENIUM BUG!!!!!
A HALO CALLED FRED NOT Y2K COMPLIANT
Howdy all. Been a while.
A few announcements.
One. If you can spell it, you can visit it. the Halo
website is now
www.ahalocalledfred.com
Two. "Mexican Love Song or Love Song For (insert
your name here)", one of our most popular tunes, is on MP3.com for
free download. Go here:
http://www.MP3.com/ahalocalledfred
Three. "Dig:" is on the latest Dr. Demento "Basement
Tapes" fan club CD, along with lots of great goofy songs and an
unreleased Weird Al track. Mucho giggles.
http://www.drdemento.com
Four. Having completed its last iteration of the Great
Universal Fractal, the Halo has decided to fake its own death, and reemerge
in the year 2673, temporarily relocating from the realm of the physical
to the realm of the cyber. The Halo as a tangible unit has, until further
notice, ceased to exist. Unless you're offering us a million bucks (money
is MONEY), we'll be turning down all performance offers.
Write your own "Behind the Music" specials,
scandal fans. Or blame Geverend and Brushwood, who needed some creative
and personal time away the all-enveloping juggernaut known as the "band".
All of you who live outside of NJ or NY won't even notice the difference.
Halo still to come for 2000:
A genuine old-fashioned 2-song single featuring Tiny on bass (his first officially
recorded Halo songs, sniff) soon to be available on MP3.com and IUMA for
download and CD purchase. We'll keep you posted.
And: remastered rereleases of the first Halo cassettes
on CD, including never-before released extra crap! Wait for it!!
MEANWHILE:
Gerrymiah T Bullfrog (otherwise known as "Gerry")
has his own rockin band called Akasa, featuring none other than Tiny
(otherwise known as "Tiny") on bass! Check 'em out live in
the NJ/NY area or listen in at their home page.
Tiny also plays various instruments in more bands than
he care to think about, including Buda Tribe and Rain Station. A busy
man.
Former Halo bassist Jim Bob still resides in the Midwest.
He'll be hanging with Brushwood in a few weeks at the Sundance Film Festival,
so stop by and say hi!
Chester the Invisible Friend made billions on the stock
market and now owns an invisible island.
As ever, Brushwood and Geverend continue to be the same
curious recluses with shaggy beards and long fingernails in darkened
rooms they've always been.
SO THEN.
We'll continue to keep you posted thru email and the website. You continue
to buy and play recordings from the Halo's vast catalog. It's been a long
strange bla bla bla and as ever, forever, we love you all.
A Halo Called Fred |
