The Gingerdead Men (tGDM) are a rock and roll band. They don't write fancy songs and have trouble with sticking to a genre. They play a lot of power chords and think amps only need dirty channels and dirtier channels. They also think bass should be crusted out and capable of shaking your pants. They write lyrics about archaeology, spaceships, zombies, and more, but somehow it works. |
The Gingerdead Men first banded together in the summer of 1998 in Northeast Ohio, founded by bassist/vocalist Jason Luchka (DeathCrawl, These Lakes, These Graves), guitarist Keith Luchka (Mean World Syndrome, Alien Space Rock), and guitarist Kyle Childers (These Lakes, These Graves). With rudimentary amps, guitars, and a drum machine, they began to filter punk, metal, stoner rock, new wave, no wave, doom, and straight up rock and roll through their skewed vision of what a band could be. The Gingers have come a long way since that first summer, recruiting Shaun Yanovich (The Red Curtain, Redshift, Cyrus) first as a drummer and later as a frontman, and Jason Craig (A Better Lie, Pirates of the Cuyahoga) on drums.
It took nearly nine and half years of intermittent jamming before the Gingerdead Men played as a fully-functional band before an audience, and almost ten years to the day before they played a real club packed with members of the discerning public. It was awesome and you should have been there. Since then, they have rocked stages from Kent to Akron and Cleveland Heights to Lakewood. They've wrecked necks with punks, hardcore kids, thrashers, stoners, greasers, and more, relying on their wall of sound and hooks to win over fans from across the scenes.
They believe that massive amplification is ALWAYS the answer. Rock on.
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