Big Dirty Band
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The Big Dirty Band is a Canadian
supergroup
composed of Rush
's Geddy Lee
(bass) and Alex Lifeson
(guitar), Thornley
's and Big Wreck
's Ian Thornley
(vocals and guitar), Three Days Grace
's Adam Gontier
(vocals and guitar), Die Mannequin
's Care Failure (vocals) and The Tea Party
drummer Jeff Burrows
.
The Big Dirty Band was put together in support of the Trailer Park Boys: The Movie, which premiered October 5, 2006, where Bubbles (Mike Smith
) and Alex Lifeson performed their co-written song "Liquor and Whores" with their aptly named back up band "the Shit Rockers".
at a music store looking at the CDs (with Rush's "Tom Sawyer
" playing) and Bubbles notices the Big Dirty Band CD and wants it, but Julian tells him that they can't afford it. Ricky says that he wants to steal the CD, because Alex still owes him for the "green and black" (referencing the episode "Closer to the Heart"). When he tries to steal it, the alarm is set off, causing the boys to be chased by the security guards. The boys try to escape via a motor scooter when Julian gives an old man some hash for it, but fails. However, they manage to stall the guards with help from a woman that was watering her lawn, football teams, and a bunch of girls whose bikes were taken by the boys. In the end, the security guards catch them underneath an overpass where the band is playing a cover version of the 1959 Sonny Curtis
and The Crickets
' song "I Fought the Law
". Bubbles then comes to the camera and shows the CD cover. Anthony Useless, previously guitarist, songwriter and backing vocalist of Canadian punk/metal outfit Kill Cheerleader
, also features in this video as a bass player. He would later become permanent bassist for Care Failure's band, Die Mannequin
.
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
supergroup
Supergroup (music)
In the late 1960s, the term supergroup was coined to describe "a rock music group whose performers are already famous from having performed individually or in other groups"....
composed of Rush
Rush (band)
Rush is a Canadian rock band formed in August 1968, in the Willowdale neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario. The band is composed of bassist, keyboardist, and lead vocalist Geddy Lee, guitarist Alex Lifeson, and drummer and lyricist Neil Peart...
's Geddy Lee
Geddy Lee
Gary Lee Weinrib, OC, better known as Geddy Lee , is a Canadian musician, best known as the lead vocalist, bassist, and keyboardist for the Canadian rock group Rush...
(bass) and Alex Lifeson
Alex Lifeson
Aleksandar Živojinović, OC, better known by his stage name Alex Lifeson, is a second generation Serbian-Canadian musician, best known as the guitarist of the Canadian rock band Rush. In the summer of 1968, Lifeson founded the band that would become Rush with friend, drummer John Rutsey...
(guitar), Thornley
Thornley (band)
Thornley is a Canadian post-grunge/hard rock band formed by Ian Thornley in 2002. The band was started when Ian Thornley returned to Toronto after the breakup of his earlier band, Big Wreck. With the help of Chad Kroeger of Nickelback, Thornley signed on to Kroeger's 604 Records...
's and Big Wreck
Big Wreck
Big Wreck is a rock band formed by Ian Thornley in 1994. They disbanded in 2002 and Ian Thornley went onto a successful solo career with his own band Thornley. In 2010, Ian Thornley and Brian Doherty reunited for a cross-Canada tour, playing both Big Wreck and Thornley songs. Doherty then...
's Ian Thornley
Ian Thornley
Ian Thornley is a Canadian rock guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter.Born and raised in Toronto, Thornley studied jazz music at Boston's Berklee College of Music in the 1990s, and formed the band Big Wreck in 1993 with classmates David Henning, Brian Doherty, and Forrest Williams. They soon...
(vocals and guitar), Three Days Grace
Three Days Grace
Three Days Grace is a Canadian rock band, formed in Norwood, Ontario, Canada in 1992, originally under the name Groundswell. After a breakup in late 1997, the band regrouped in the same year under its current name and with a line-up consisting of guitarist and lead vocalist Adam Gontier, drummer...
's Adam Gontier
Adam Gontier
Adam Wade Gontier is a Canadian musician and songwriter. He is the lead singer, rhythm guitarist, and main songwriter of the rock band Three Days Grace...
(vocals and guitar), Die Mannequin
Die Mannequin
Die Mannequin is a punk rock band from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. They are fronted by 23-year-old guitar player and singer Care Failure . They played the "Next Big Thing" Stage at Edgefest 1 in 2006, have toured across Eastern Canada several times on their own as well as opening for Buckcherry on...
's Care Failure (vocals) and The Tea Party
The Tea Party
The Tea Party is a Canadian rock band with blues, progressive rock, Indian and Middle Eastern influences, dubbed "Moroccan roll" by the media. Active throughout the 1990s up until 2005 when the band broke up, The Tea Party released eight albums on EMI Music Canada, selling 1.6 million records...
drummer Jeff Burrows
Jeff Burrows
Jeffrey John Burrows is the drummer and percussionist for Canadian rock band Crash Karma, and formerly for The Tea Party....
.
The Big Dirty Band was put together in support of the Trailer Park Boys: The Movie, which premiered October 5, 2006, where Bubbles (Mike Smith
Mike Smith (actor)
Mike Smith is a Canadian actor and musician, most famous for playing Bubbles on Trailer Park Boys.-Personal life:...
) and Alex Lifeson performed their co-written song "Liquor and Whores" with their aptly named back up band "the Shit Rockers".
"I Fought the Law" music video
The video starts off with the Trailer Park BoysTrailer Park Boys
Trailer Park Boys is a Canadian comedy mockumentary television series created and directed by Mike Clattenburg that focuses on the misadventures of a group of trailer park residents, some of whom are ex-convicts, living in the fictional Sunnyvale Trailer Park in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. The...
at a music store looking at the CDs (with Rush's "Tom Sawyer
Tom Sawyer (song)
"Tom Sawyer" is a song by Canadian rock band Rush, named after Mark Twain's literary character. The song was released on Mercury Records and PolyGram in 1981 on the Moving Pictures album and numerous compilations thereafter, such as 1990's Chronicles. It has also appeared on several live albums and...
" playing) and Bubbles notices the Big Dirty Band CD and wants it, but Julian tells him that they can't afford it. Ricky says that he wants to steal the CD, because Alex still owes him for the "green and black" (referencing the episode "Closer to the Heart"). When he tries to steal it, the alarm is set off, causing the boys to be chased by the security guards. The boys try to escape via a motor scooter when Julian gives an old man some hash for it, but fails. However, they manage to stall the guards with help from a woman that was watering her lawn, football teams, and a bunch of girls whose bikes were taken by the boys. In the end, the security guards catch them underneath an overpass where the band is playing a cover version of the 1959 Sonny Curtis
Sonny Curtis
Sonny Curtis is an American singer and songwriter. Most of his work falls into the Pop and Country genres. He was a teenage pal and band member with Buddy Holly in Lubbock, Texas...
and The Crickets
The Crickets
The Crickets are a rock & roll band from Lubbock, Texas, formed by singer/songwriter Buddy Holly in the 1950s. Their first hit record was "That'll Be the Day", released in 1957....
' song "I Fought the Law
I Fought the Law
"I Fought the Law" is a song written by Sonny Curtis of The Crickets and became popularized by a cover by the Bobby Fuller Four, which went on to become a top-ten hit for the band in 1966 and was also recorded by The Clash in 1979...
". Bubbles then comes to the camera and shows the CD cover. Anthony Useless, previously guitarist, songwriter and backing vocalist of Canadian punk/metal outfit Kill Cheerleader
Kill Cheerleader
Kill Cheerleader was a rock n' roll band whose teenage members formed in 1999 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada as "Cheerleader 666". Mainly influenced by punk and heavy metal acts such as The Stooges, early era Guns N' Roses, Mötley Crüe, Iron Maiden, the Ramones, Girlschool, Joan Jett and Neil Young,...
, also features in this video as a bass player. He would later become permanent bassist for Care Failure's band, Die Mannequin
Die Mannequin
Die Mannequin is a punk rock band from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. They are fronted by 23-year-old guitar player and singer Care Failure . They played the "Next Big Thing" Stage at Edgefest 1 in 2006, have toured across Eastern Canada several times on their own as well as opening for Buckcherry on...
.
Band members
- Care Failure – lead vocals
- Geddy LeeGeddy LeeGary Lee Weinrib, OC, better known as Geddy Lee , is a Canadian musician, best known as the lead vocalist, bassist, and keyboardist for the Canadian rock group Rush...
– bass guitarBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick.... - Alex LifesonAlex LifesonAleksandar Živojinović, OC, better known by his stage name Alex Lifeson, is a second generation Serbian-Canadian musician, best known as the guitarist of the Canadian rock band Rush. In the summer of 1968, Lifeson founded the band that would become Rush with friend, drummer John Rutsey...
– lead guitarLead guitarLead guitar is a guitar part which plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure... - Ian ThornleyIan ThornleyIan Thornley is a Canadian rock guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter.Born and raised in Toronto, Thornley studied jazz music at Boston's Berklee College of Music in the 1990s, and formed the band Big Wreck in 1993 with classmates David Henning, Brian Doherty, and Forrest Williams. They soon...
– rhythm guitarRhythm guitarRhythm guitar is a technique and rôle that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with singers or other instruments; and to provide all or part of the harmony, ie. the chords, where a chord is a group of notes played together...
, vocalsSingingSinging is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments... - Matt Walst – rhythm guitar
- Jeff BurrowsJeff BurrowsJeffrey John Burrows is the drummer and percussionist for Canadian rock band Crash Karma, and formerly for The Tea Party....
– drumsDrum kitA drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person .... - Adam GontierAdam GontierAdam Wade Gontier is a Canadian musician and songwriter. He is the lead singer, rhythm guitarist, and main songwriter of the rock band Three Days Grace...
– vocals