The Baseball Furies (band)
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The Baseball Furies were a four-piece punk
/garage
band formed in Buffalo, NY. The band took its name from a gang of the same name in the 1979 film The Warriors and wore similar costumes in their early live shows. The Baseball Furies' "This Is The World's Greatest Rock & Roll Record" and the Blowtops "Voodoo Alley" were the first releases from Big Neck Records
, an independent record label started in Buffalo in 1995. The Furies helped put together a two-day garage punk festival called the Rust Belt Revolt in Buffalo in April 2000. The Rust Belt Revolt featured bands originating from Rust Belt
cities. The band was last based in Chicago, IL.
Punk rock
Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...
/garage
Garage rock
Garage rock is a raw form of rock and roll that was first popular in the United States and Canada from about 1963 to 1967. During the 1960s, it was not recognized as a separate music genre and had no specific name...
band formed in Buffalo, NY. The band took its name from a gang of the same name in the 1979 film The Warriors and wore similar costumes in their early live shows. The Baseball Furies' "This Is The World's Greatest Rock & Roll Record" and the Blowtops "Voodoo Alley" were the first releases from Big Neck Records
Big Neck Records
Big Neck Records is an independent record label founded and operated by Bart Hart. It was started in Buffalo, New York, in 1995, with the release of the first Blowtops and Baseball Furies 7-inch EP records as an offshoot of The Sanctuary nightclub...
, an independent record label started in Buffalo in 1995. The Furies helped put together a two-day garage punk festival called the Rust Belt Revolt in Buffalo in April 2000. The Rust Belt Revolt featured bands originating from Rust Belt
Rust Belt
The Rust Belt is a term that gained currency in the 1980s as the informal description of an area straddling the Midwestern and Northeastern United States, in which local economies traditionally garnered an increased manufacturing sector to add jobs and corporate profits...
cities. The band was last based in Chicago, IL.
Current members
- Odie (guitar/vocals)
- Styles (Aron Orlowski) (guitar)
- Hollywood (Jim McCann) (bass)
- Billiams (Matt Williams) (drums)
Albums
- Feed Them to the Lions (2009)
- Let It Be (2004)
- Greater Than Ever (2002)
- All-American Psycho (1999)
Singles
- Lost Ones (2005)
- I Hate Your Secret Club (2001)
- Sounds of Mayhem (1998)
- This Is The Greatest Rock-N-Roll Record Ever (1996)