Gas Huffer

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Gas Huffer
Country	Washington, USA
Years active	1989 – 2006
Genres	Garage rock Grunge
Labels	Empty Records, Epitaph Records, Estrus Records, Kill Rock Stars Records, Sympathy for the Record Industry
Members	Tom Price - Guitar Don Blackstone - Bass Matt Wright - Vocals & Guitar Joe Newton - Drums

Gas Huffer was a band from Washington state that played a sort of rockabilly punk, with lyrics both formal and comical, with antic stage presence. The classified themselves loosely in the Garage punk genre. The band created comic books with each album (drawn by all four members of the band, including Joe Newton, now deputy art director for Rolling Stone magazine), that contain the lyrics to the songs. This was done for every album up to (and including) "Just Beautiful Music". They are contemporaries of many, much more famous, Pacific Northwest rock groups.

Gas Huffer played its final show - dubbed "The Last Huffer" - at Seattle's Crocodile Cafe on January 14, 2006. Opening the show were Girl Trouble from Tacoma, Washington, and Canned Hamm [1] from Vancouver, British Columbia. At the conclusion of Girl Trouble's set, K.P. Kendall called Gas Huffer's Tom Price (who has been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease) to the stage and presented to him a "Certificate of Achievement".

Prior to Gas Huffer, Tom Price played with The U-Men.

The term "huffer" often refers to a form of substance abuse known as huffing.

1 Discography
2 External links

[edit] Discography

[edit] Full-Length

Janitors of Tomorrow (1991) on Empty Records
Integrity, Technology & Service (1992) on Empty Records
One Inch Masters (1994) on Epitaph Records
The Inhuman Ordeal of Special Agent Gas Huffer (1996) on Epitaph Records
Just Beautiful Music (1998) on Epitaph Records
The Rest of Us (2002) on Estrus Records
Lemonade for Vampires (2005) on Estrus Records

[edit] EPs

Beer Drinkin' Cavemen from Mars (1992) on Empty Records (European release only)
The Shrill Beeps of Shrimp (1993) on Empty Records

[edit] Singles

Firebug (1989) on Black Label Records
Ethyl (1990) on Black Label Records
Mole (1992) on Sympathy for the Record Industry
Washtucna Hoe-down (1992) on Hayseed Records
Beer Drinking Cavemen from Mars/Hotcakes (1992) on Sub Pop
Ooh Ooh Ooh!/Flaming Star (1996) on Lance Rock Records
Rotten Egg/Old Summertime (2000) on Au Go Go Records

[edit] Splits

King of Hubcaps (1991) split with Fastbacks
Knife Manual (1992) split with Mudhoney (You Stupid Asshole) on Empty Records (pressed on saw-shaped clear vinyl)
Bad Guy Reaction (1992) Gearhead magazine split with Supercharger
Teach Me to Kill (1994) split with Red Aunts