THE PEDS (original) (raw)
Sun, Nov. 6th, 2005, 10:32 pm
Britney Spears considered parting with her bra. Corey Haim tried to peddle a tooth. But no star appears willing to give of himself more than Vincent Gallo. The indie film auteur apparently has offered to sell his sperm. For a Dr. Evil-esque $1 million.
"Price includes all costs related to attempt at an in vitro fertilization," the listing on the merchandise wing on Gallo's official Website says.
Fertilization by Gallo the old-fashioned way will run the buyer an additional $500,000, the site says, unless the star thinks said buyer is smoking hot in which case the additional fee is waived. (We paraphrase.)
Naming rights are not included in the purchase--i.e., any baby produced from Gallo sperm may not be called a Gallo, the site says.
An email and phone call to the acting, writing, directing multihyphenate were not returned. Unknown, then, is whether the site's serious, whether Gallo has had any takers, and how he's planning to ship the merchandise.
According to Gerry McKiernan, spokesman for the U.S. Postal Service, items such as sperm are indeed, as they say in the trade, "mailable."
"I would be very hesitant to say it happens all the time," McKiernan said Friday. "I would be very hesitant to say it doesn't happen."
In the supposedly anything-goes celebrity world, sperm sales are rare. Or at least they're not publicly advertised.
Judging by a post on his Website, Gallo began peddling collectibles--previously worn clothes, signed movie posters, semen--last month. The sperm is listed under "Miscellaneous."
The site vows that the sperm is "100 percent guaranteed" to be of the loins of Gallo, best known for his 1998 art-house hit, Buffalo '66, and that said owner-operator of loins is "drug, alcohol and disease free."
The buyer is informed that Gallo is 5-foot-11, an award-winning athlete and motorcyle racer, a dashing 43 (with "a distinctively full head of hair and...surprisingly few gray hairs"), with no family history of physical deformities. Or, as the site puts it: "No cripples."
Oh, and there's one other thing: An eight-inch-long penis. According to the site, Gallo has one.
"If you have seen Brown Bunny, you know the potential size of the [baby's] genitals if it's a boy," the site says. "I don't know how a well-hung father can enhance the physical makeup of a female baby, but it can't hurt."
If the buyer hasn't seen The Brown Bunny--it received an extremely limited release in 2003--it's now on DVD. Gallo's penis shares a scene with Chlo Sevigny at the end of the movie--the film's climax.
Um, really...
Following The Brown Bunny's disastrous premiere at the 2003 Cannes International Film Festival, critic Roger Ebert declared the movie "the worst...in the history of the festival." Gallo responded by cursing Ebert, and wishing prostate cancer on him. (Ebert was treated for a cancerous tumor of the saliva gland later that year. And a year after that, he awarded a three-star review to a recut Brown Bunny.)
In a 2004 interview with The Onion's A.V. Club, Gallo described his cruel remarks about Ebert as "partly humorous," and offered that he thought the reviewer was a "beautiful, interesting person."
Given that, perhaps the more incendiary sperm-sale copy on Gallo's site should not be taken at face value. Then again, humor does fail some when it comes to race and Nazis.
On the merchandise site, it's stated that Gallo "maintains the right to refuse the sale of his sperm to those of extremely dark complexions."
"Though a fan of Franco Harris, Derek Jeter and Lena Horne," the site says, "Mr. Gallo does not want to be part of that type of integration."
But wait, there's more: The Gallo site offers a $50,000 sperm discount to anyone--well, any female--who can prove she's naturally fair-haired and blue-eyed, and/or related to "any of the German soldiers of the mid-century."
Gallo's reproductive offer, however, does not rule out Jewish buyers, and, in fact, encourages them. It's said that the actor would consider his potential offspring's Jewish heritage a bonus, as this would "guarantee [the child] a better chance at good reviews and maybe even a prize at the Sundance Film Festival."
No word if the $1 million covers shipping and extremely cautious handling.
After reading this news article, Fred Ped founding member of the outlandish punk metal group the Peds said. "Hell, you can have mine for $10,000". "Free Shipping and no reserve".
Sat, Oct. 15th, 2005, 10:10 am
fredped: The Peds "Godfathers Of Rasp" LImited Edition CD
The Peds have a new 2 CD set titled "Godfathers Of Rasp" available. Limited edition & hand numbered!
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DISC ONE: Damn You All (1998 studio tracks) 01 All We Need Are Guns 02 Dark 03 (I had) Sex With Your Daughter 04 Long Tall Texan Ausgangs-/Kopfhorerbuchse (1997 rehearsal) 05 Red Blood 06 Undivided Attention 07 You Gave Me 08 Dark 09 God Complex 10 Grass In The Infield / S.W.Y.D. 11 The Girlfriend Song 12 Long Tall Texan | DISC TWO: Escape From Neverland Ranch (1998 Live) 01 Donna / Undivided Attention 02 Dark 03 The Girlfriend Song 04 God Complex 05 Red Blood 06 Berkowitz 07 Grass In The Infield / S.W.Y.D. 08 Fight For Your Right 09 Long Tall Texan 10 All We Need Are Guns 11 Death Of Me 12 F@#k Me For The Fun Of It 13 Finally 14 Annoyance |
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For more information or to snail mail money, Email : thepedsarmy@yahoo.com
Fri, Feb. 4th, 2005, 01:12 pm
fredped: Bubba Ho-Tep Star Ossie Davis aka JFK - Rest In Peace
NEW YORK (AP) - Ossie Davis, an actor distinguished for roles dealing with racial injustice on stage, screen and in real life - and perhaps best known as the husband and partner of actress Ruby Dee - has died at the age of 87.
Davis was found dead on Friday in his hotel room in Miami, where he was making a film called "Retirement," according to Arminda Thomas, who works in his office in New Rochelle, N.Y.
Davis, who wrote, acted, directed and produced for the theater and Hollywood, was a central figure among black performers of the last five decades. He and Dee celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in 1998 with the publication of a dual autobiography, "In This Life Together."
Their partnership called to mind other performing couples, such as the Lunts, or Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy. Davis and Dee first appeared together in the plays "Jeb," in 1946, and "Anna Lucasta," in 1946-47. Davis' first film, "No Way Out" in 1950, was Dee's fifth. They shared billing in 11 stage productions and five movies during long parallel careers.
Both had key roles in the television series "Roots: The Next Generation" (1978), "Martin Luther King: The Dream and the Drum" (1986) and "The Stand" (1994). Davis appeared in three Spike Lee films, including "School Daze,""Do the Right Thing" and "Jungle Fever." Dee also appeared in the latter two; among her best-known films was "A Raisin in the Sun," in 1961.
In 2004, he and Dee were among the artists selected to receive the Kennedy Center Honors.
When not on stage or on camera, Davis and Dee were deeply involved in civil rights issues and efforts to promote the cause of blacks in the entertainment industry. They nearly ran afoul of the anti-Communist witch-hunts of the early 1950s, but were never openly accused of any wrongdoing.
Davis, the oldest of five children of a self-taught railroad builder and herb doctor in tiny Cogdell, Ga., grew up in nearby Waycross and Valdosta. He left home in 1935, hitchhiking to Washington to enter Howard University, where he studied drama, intending to be a playwright.
His career as an actor began in 1939 with the Rose McClendon Players in Harlem, then the center of black culture in America. There, the young Davis met or mingled with some of the most influential figures of the time, including the preacher Father Divine, W.E.B. DuBois, A. Philip Randolph, Langston Hughes and Richard Wright.
He also had what he described in the book as a "flirtation with the Young Communist League," which he said essentially ended with the onset of World War II. Davis spent nearly four years in service, mainly as a surgical technician in an Army hospital in Liberia, serving both wounded troops and local inhabitants.
Back in New York in 1946, Davis debuted on Broadway in "Jeb," a play about a returning soldier. His co-star was Ruby Dee, whose budding stage career had paralleled his own. They had even appeared in different productions of the same play, "On Strivers Row," in 1940.
It marked the beginning of a collaboration on and off the stage.
In December 1948, on a day off from rehearsals from another play, "The Smile of the World," Davis and Dee took a bus to New Jersey to get married. They already were so close that "it felt almost like an appointment we finally got around to keeping," Dee writes in "In This Life Together."
As black performers, they found themselves caught up in the social unrest fomented by the then-new Cold War and the growing debate over social and racial justice in the United States.
"We young ones in the theater, trying to fathom even as we followed, were pulled this way and that by the swirling currents of these new dimensions of the Struggle," Davis wrote in the joint autobiography. "Black revolutionaries fighting, just like the Russians, to liberate the workers and save the world, against the black bourgeoisie fighting, at the behest of rich white folks, to defeat the Communist menace and save the world."
Davis says he "had no trouble identifying which side I was on." He lined up with black socialist reformer DuBois and singer Paul Robeson, remaining fiercely loyal to the singer even after Robeson was denounced by other black political, sports and show business figures for his openly communist and pro-Soviet sympathies.
While Hollywood and, to a lesser extent, the New York theater world became engulfed in McCarthyism and red-baiting controversies, Davis and Dee _despite their leftist activism in causes ranging from labor rallies to saving the accused atom spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg - emerged from the anti-communist fervor unscathed and, in Davis' view, justifiably so.
"We've never been, to our knowledge, guilty of anything - other than being black - that might upset anybody," he wrote.
They were friends with baseball star Jackie Robinson and his wife, Rachel - Dee played her, opposite Robinson himself, in the 1950 movie, "The Jackie Robinson Story" - and with Malcolm X.
In the book, Davis told how a prior commitment caused them to miss the Harlem rally where Malcolm was assassinated. But Davis delivered the eulogy at Malcolm's funeral, and reprised it in a voice-over for the 1992 Spike Lee film, "Malcolm X."
Along with film, stage and television, their careers extended to a radio show, "The Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee Story Hour," that ran on 65 stations for four years in the mid-1970s, featuring a mix of black themes.
Both wrote plays and screenplays, and Davis directed several films, most notably "Cotton Comes to Harlem" (1970) and "Countdown at Kusini" (1976), in which he also appeared with Dee.
Other films in which Davis appeared include "The Cardinal" (1963), "The Hill" (1965), "Grumpy Old Men" (1993), "The Client" (1994) and "I'm Not Rappaport" (1996), a reprise of his stage role 10 years earlier.
On television, he appeared in "The Emperor Jones" (1955), "Freedom Road" (1979), "Miss Evers' Boys" (1997) and "Twelve Angry Men" (1997). He was a cast member on "The Defenders" from 1963-65, and "Evening Shade" from 1990-94, among other shows.
Both Davis and Dee made numerous guest appearances on television shows.
Sat, Jan. 29th, 2005, 10:31 am
fredped: Albums Of Pugatory Interview
Cheers for the interview, here are the questions
F&G: Firstly, what's the band up to right now?
Fred Ped: Putting together material for the 10 year anniversary.
F&G: How would you describe the Peds sound?
Fred Ped: We like to think of our sound as a new creation called rasp. We have often been described as Gwar without the costumes. I had someone tell me I sounded like the bastard child of Zakk Wylde, Ace Frehley and Johnny Ramone. There are so many titles labeled on music today I can't keep up. Like the Billy Joel song says "It's still rock n' roll to me".
F&G: How did you get involved with the band?
Fred Ped: At the time Dunbar and I were in this band called 4 Speed Overdrive. We were very unhappy with the musicians in that band and it was just a stepping stone to get where we wanted to be. One night some friends got together to drink and jam. After the band played a couple songs P.J. and Mark joined us on Black Sabbath's War Pigs. It sounded so good we tried a few 4 Speed songs, that was it, the line up was complete. Then all we had to was convince Mark & P.J. to do it.
F&G: Can you remember your first gig (how did it go)?
Fred Ped: Our first gig was at a small club called Triple B's near High Point NC. The club was owned and ran buy this family. The booking agent was this crazy girl named Alicia. Every time you would call her on the phone she had some crazy tale to tell you. I'm sure they had to be true because who could make up such things? One time her gold fish jumped out of the tank and her cat had it in it's mouth, meanwhile something was on fire and her friend was just in a car accident. It was always a very long conversation involving her crazy stories. One time she booked us, and when we got there she forgot about it. They let us play anyways, Ha Ha that place brings back funny memories. We played there quite a few times during our first year.
F&G: Are you involved in any other projects and if so how do they compare to the Peds?
Fred Ped: I finished working with a local cover band called the Nugghawks. We played "Long Tall Texan", with me doing the lead vocals. Very similar to the Peds when it comes to how much beer we drank during a gig.
F&G: What are your favorite Peds tracks?
Fred Ped: My favorite recorded track would have to be "Guns". I'm very happy with the way everything sounds on that one. The only thing I would change are the gun sounds. I don't feel they need to there, but overall that is a great sounding song and I love playing it live.
F&G: What are your favorite all time songs?
Fred Ped: The Beatles "You never give me your money" from Abbey Road. It also happens to be me and my wife Jennifer's song. I turned to her onetime in a bar and said "this is our song" for no reason at all. It was suppose to be funny, then it just kind of stuck. My favorites change all the time, this month it is Metallica's "Escape" from Ride The Lightning. Last month it was "Shedding Skin" by Pantera off the album Far Beyond Driven. I've been listening to that song nonstop since that crazy killed Dime. I met him back in 94, he was such a great guy and an early influence on me as a player.
F&G: What was the first record you ever bought?
Fred Ped: It was Quiet Riot's Metal Health on cassette tape. That was the first one I bought and also the first given to me. My dad gave me the record for my birthday one year for my 9th birthday. He left that same year and I never saw the record or him again. I missed that one so much I had to buy it on cassette years later.
F&G: Which album was it that got you into metal and can you explain why?
Fred Ped: It was probably that Quiet Riot album. That was the first one I owned and I loved the guitar solos on that album. But as a kid I grew up listening to lots of Kiss and Def Leppard. Guns N' Roses Appetite For Destruction was also an early favorite. I remember cranking the shit out of that and turning it down every time Axel said the F word so my mom wouldn't get mad at me. My first step into the darkside of metal was Death's Scream Bloody Gore and Slayer's Seasons In The Abyss. A friend made me copies and brought them to me in school. I would sit in the dark listening to headphones with Seasons playing. The little kid on the end of Dead Skin Mask use to scare the crap out of me.
F&G: What's the last album you purchased and what did you think of it?
Fred Ped: I can't remember the last album I purchased. I have to admit I'm a pirate, I download everything or burn it from a friend. I went clean about 6 month ago, Dave from the Nugghawks said I might need to check into a download clinic. I actually just bought Gardy Loo's Socially Unacceptable on ebay yesterday again. Those guys are great I recommend checking that out. "We like shit" is a classic loo tune! El Duce would be proud.
F&G: What would be your dream band line-up?
Fred Ped: My dream line-up would suck because I would fill it with all these bad ass guitar players. It would just be a bunch of guys wanking on solos all day, it wouldn't work.
F&G: If you could do a cover for a tribute album to any band, which song of which band would you pick and why?
Fred Ped: The Ramones "Death Of Me". Most tribute albums feature bands playing the same songs over and over again. Everyone wants to do I wanna be sedated or if it's Ozzy, crazy train etc... Most people don't know that Ramones song and when they hear us play it, they think it's ours.
F&G: What do you think of the position of metal and music in general today?
Fred Ped: Metal today is still strong, it's just laying low waiting to come out in another form. I'm really into the Dark/Black Metal stuff and Stoner Rock these days. Music in general these days overall sucks. I think that's the reason everyone likes to download. I like the new Green Day track "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" but I'm scared to buy that album. I've never been a big fan of that band, so I'm not sure I would like it all.
F&G: Which other bands stand out for you at the moment?
Fred Ped: The Haunted, Darkness & Dream Evil.
F&G: Do you have any funny stories about the band you can share with us? and finally, what do you see in the future for the Peds?
Fred Ped: I pulled a Gene Simmons at Tremont Music Hall in Charlotte NC one night. I had a flash pot explosive thing Dunbar made mounted on my Les Paul's headstock. When it exploded, it shot into my hair and caught fire. I ripped the burning stench out of my head and threw it down onstage. That same night he had this thing he made called the tiny crapper. It was loaded with fireworks, gun powder and flash paper. After that thing started going off the smoke buried me. I could hardly breathe from all of the smoke. The club owner was pissed but said we sold more beer than most acts so we were welcome back, but no more pyro shows. We were lucky we weren't the first Great White incident. Then again we still have many more years ahead of us to create destruction and mayhem across the world.
Thanks for the Interview, good luck for 2005 and Stay Insane!
-F- & -G-
39 Lincoln Road
South Shields
Tyne & Wear
NE34 7HX
United Kingdom
Fri, Dec. 10th, 2004, 03:45 am
pedsarmy: Dimebag Darrell R.I.P.
Dimebag Darrell R.I.P. 1966-2004
The Peds website shutdown from the volume of people going to view the photo of me and Dime getting drunk with Ace Frehley Kiss paint on our faces. I will try to get it back online here http://www.myspace.com/thepeds. The news of Dime's death is a huge shock for me. I had the opportunity to meet Dime at Rocky's nightclub in Charlotte NC many years ago. My friend Tripp McNeil of the band Seducer invited me to this knowing Dime would be dropping by after his Pantera gig. He was a huge influence on me as a young guitar player. I got see to see Pantera with Type O Negative on my birthday at LJVM Coliseum in Winston Salem NC. After the show I got to hang out with Dime a second time at Ziggy's nightclub. Dimebag Darrell was a great guitarist and one of the nicest people I have met. The Heavy Metal community has lost a great musician.
Posted on www.damageplan.com& www.pantera.com
by The Peds guitarist Fred Ped
Fri, Dec. 10th, 2004, 03:20 am
pedsarmy: RE: you suck from rock hill
Dec 9, 2004 07:40 PM
RE: you suck from rock hill
first off lemme say you are a cock strocking thunder cunt. you guy suck you guys suck ass. the band broke up like 6 years ago. let it go, just LET IT GO. oh yeah i talked to dunbar, i know. I am like God here.
JOn R
fuck the gov't.!!!!!!!!
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Dear God Like,
First off let me say, isn't it amazing that a band that broke up 6 years ago and never released anything can somehow remain so popular. The Peds song "Sex With Your Daughter" gets around 200 plays a day from the many websites that contain Peds music. The website shuts down often from too many visitors. The song Dark was used in a movie and one TV show just recently. When I play live, I still get requests for Peds music. All this from a band together less than two years.
You talked to Dunbar? Congratulations! It's been awhile for me, I need to again. I need to tell him we are reaching status of one of our favorite bands Fear. He would laugh so hard at the hype surrounding The Peds these days. Did you know I get an average of two emails a month from bars wanting to book the Peds? ( a band that broke up 6 years ago, hmm weird ) Did you know original drummer Tech Head Ped died in the year 2000? That's what I read online. Or that I was the new bass player for Marilyn Manson when Twiggy left the band. I need to tell Dunbar about Gardy Loo listing the Peds in their last CD credits. We were heavily influenced by Gardy Loo so that was very exciting to see.
Let it go? LET WHAT GO? I'm trying to let go of the fact that you have poor grammar skills and type like an eight year old child.
The Peds are the Godfathers of Rasp. According to a young punk I ran into at a local bar, we are "Punk Rock Legends". We will never die. Like someone told me at a bachelor party one year "Once a Ped always a Ped"!
Fred Ped
Fuck You and Goodbye.!!!!!!!!
http://www.geocities.com/thepedsarmy
Thu, Dec. 9th, 2004, 05:15 am
fredped: The Peds #3 On Myspace
Top Artists by Views Today 12-09-04
| Rank | Artist | Last On | Location | Genre |
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| 1 | Dec 9, 2004 | W Hollywood, CALIFORNIA | Rock / Alternative / Electronica | |
| 2 | Nov 17, 2004 | LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA | Punk / Post Hardcore / Alternative | |
| 3 | Dec 9, 2004 | VANCOUVER, WASHINGTON | Grunge / Punk / Metal | |
| 4 | Dec 9, 2004 | Memphis&Hollywood, CALIFORNIA | Hip Hop / Rap / Club | |
| 5 | Dec 7, 2004 | LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA | Pop | |
| 6 | Dec 9, 2004 | SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA | Rock / Metal / Alternative | |
| 7 | Dec 8, 2004 | Los Angeles, CALIFORNIA | Pop / R&B / Club | |
| 8 | Dec 7, 2004 | Newark, NEW JERSEY | Rock / Metal / Post Hardcore | |
| 9 | Dec 8, 2004 | LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA | Other / Alternative / Gothic | |
| 10 | Dec 9, 2004 | PORTLAND, OREGON | Rock / Punk / Emo |
Thu, Dec. 9th, 2004, 02:00 am
fredped: Dimebag Darrell Shot and Killed
At Least 5 Dead, 2 Wounded In Nightclub Shooting
Witnesses: Alleged Gunman Went Onto Stage, Fired Shots
POSTED: 10:32 pm EST December 8, 2004
UPDATED: 2:27 am EST December 9, 2004
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- At least five people died and two others were wounded after a shooting at a Columbus nightclub on Wednesday night, NBC 4 reported.
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Nightclub Shooting
The shooting took place shortly after 10 p.m. at Alrosa Villa, located at 5055 Sinclair Rd.
Two members of the heavy metal band Damageplan were reportedly shot and killed, including Dimebag Darrell, formerly with the band Pantera, NBC 4's David Wayne reported. The other band member's name was not released. The alleged gunman also died at the scene, Wayne reported.
Shortly after the band began playing its first song, a man reportedly ran onto the stage and began shooting, according to a witness who identified himself as Sean. Some members of the audience reportedly thought the man running onto the stage with a gun was part of the band's act, NBC 4's Erin Tate reported.
Witnesses said that several shots were fired at the band before a bouncer tackled the gunman before he was shot and killed.
Columbus police Sgt. Brent Mull said the shooter appeared to be targeting the band members. After opening fire on the stage, the gunman turned on the crowd. At that point, an officer shot the man dead, Mall added. Police said there could have been many more fatalities had the officer not killed the gunman.
NBC 4 reported that of the surviving victims, one person was in critical condition while the other was in fair condition. Several others were treated at the scene, suffering from various injuries.
Alrosa Villa is a popular north Columbus nightspot for young adults, featuring rock and heavy metal bands, NBC 4 reported.
According to the band's Web site, Damageplan was touring nationally. It performed in Buffalo, N.Y., on Tuesday night and had a concert scheduled in Flint, Mich., on Thursday.
Damageplan featured former Pantera artists Dimebag Darrell and Vinnie Paul. The pair were joined by vocalist Patrick Lachman and bassist Bobzilla, according to their Web site.