We even conned a lot of our friends into doing it, or into being unwitting participants by stealing their cameras, doing our 'thing', and leaving them to discover our pure genius later when viewing their photos.
Some call it Shake Face, some call it Jiggly Face, but whatever the name, everyone acknowledges the inventors, and that together, we made it 'famous' within this town and beyond.
My favorite of me became my myspace default photo. Paloma calls it Duckface:
One of my favorites of Dan:
My friend Erin emailed me a link to a website the other day. Jowlers.com rips us off, and gives us absolutely no credit.
Total, and utter, bullshit. *We* invented it. *We* made it funny. someone else takes credit.
Years ago, the Knockoffs played at the Troubadour in L.A., and after the gig (we were still pretty wound up) Dan, Tom, and I invented something else.
It started as a simple request; "Hey Dan, suplex me onto the bed." With that, we cracked ourselves up at 3:00 a.m. capturing each other on film in mid-flight from bed to bed.
Ted Angel made a book about the Knockoffs, with people close to the band telling their favorite Knockoffs stories. I told the story of the night our brilliant concept came together at the Farmer's Daughter Hotel.
Here's proof that we were/are the funniest band on the planet. A couple of photos, one of Tom H. flying effortlessly, and another as he's about to administer the dreaded Flying Elbow Drop.
Years later, I stumbled upon this site, bedjump.com.
Again, total and utter bullshit. *We* invented it. *We* made it funny. someone else takes credit.
Originators rarely get their due, I suppose, but the originals are always, without question, seen as the best by those truly in the know.
13 comments:
mickie took a shake face pic of me the other day! when is this knockoffs book coming out so people can buy it!??!?!
-matt dgaf
I think the moment has come and passed for the book, unfortunately. It turned out pretty great, and it's a shame it never saw the light of day.
Getting Ripped Off...plagiarism...kopy kats.....
DUDE, you gotta trademark and copyright!
well, if there are a copy or two laying around somewhere, i'd LOVE one, i wrote something to be in there, wonder if it ever made it!!
Genius isn't appreciated until death. be patient.
No Bobby, Jon Sebat of Harvester is the master bed-jumper. Not only were his jumps ceiling scrapers, but they were done nude. Go to http://www.latherrecords.com and click on "bands". Go down to the icon for Harvester and you can see Jon. A better version of the picture is on the Harvester "Mud is My Ally" CD. I believe said bed dive took place around '97 at a tour stop in LA. So when you get trademarking all worked out, please send us the check.
Jeddy B
Susana,
I'm too busy being an 'artist', man. Like, I gotta leave all that legal mumbo jumbo to the Man. Dig?
Matt,
I'd like one too, and who knows, maybe a new pressing will happen sometime. Stranger things have happened in Knockoffs World.
James,
Perhaps I can fake my own then, and get to witness humanity fall over themselves marveling at my brilliance.
Jed,
Amazingly, you were the first to call b.s. on my 'inventions'. I really expected more people to say "I've been doing that for years...", but then again, I think about ten people at most read this thing.
I will take credit for both Dan and I for the current wave of Jiggly Face going on around town, but will defer that naked bed jumping is superior to the mere underwear laden adventures that the Knockoffs took part in. Nudity makes anything better.
Thanks for reading.
Bobbles
I think there are more bed jumpers, and some nude ones among them, but people still aren't ready to come forward on this quite yet. Like any kind of alternative culture, it can remain underground for years before its accepted on a shopping mall/mtv level.
Speaking of Jon the nude drummer, he was recently spotted/heard on NPR as the lead researcher on an autism study in NY. The guy continues to amaze me. One minute he's bro-ing out, getting into fights, and doing nude hotel dives, the next he's a legit scientist.
Jed
Yeah BJ, you get the Shake/Jiggly face credit but I must take exception with the Knockoffs/bedjump one. Why, it was cold, dark Reno night in 1982 when about 15 of us Skeeno punkers piled into a room at the old Ponderosa Hotel on So. Virginia St (rented by this girl Joy who seemed to have been the only one of us with any proper sort of ID at the time) for an all-nighter of getting shitfaced (not me, of course), making out and bed-jumping. It was masterful.We were impressing the shit out of ourselves.
And then it happened.
I leapt off bed #1, caught some pretty good air, did a complete flip and landed perfectly in the center of bed #2. Unfortunately, when my legs came down, my size 12 Doc Martens ended up kicking 2 giant holes in the wall.
That party was over. Mr. "Straight Edge" ruined it for everybody.
And while we're callin' b.s., I think I called you "Duckface" WAY before you replaced me with Paloma (boo hoo, sniff snoff). I guess it's true, originators rarely get their due : (
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