The Filthy Thieving Bastards is an American

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punk rock Punk rock (also known as simply punk) is a rock music genre that emerged in the mid-1970s. Rooted in 1950s rock and roll and 1960s garage rock, punk bands rejected the corporate nature of mainstream 1970s rock music. They typically produced sh ...

group formed in 2000 in

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. The band was originally a side project put together by

Johnny Bonnel Johnny "Peebucks" Bonnel (born August 7, 1967) is the lead singer and a songwriter of the punk rock band Swingin' Utters and the alternative punk rock band Filthy Thievin' Bastards. His new project is called Druglords of the Avenues. His nickna ...

and Darius Koski of the

Swingin' Utters Swingin' Utters (often typeset as $wingin' Utter$, and originally called Johnny Peebucks and the Swingin' Utters) is a Californian punk rock band that formed in the late 1980s.Bush, JohnSwingin' Utters Biography, Allmusic, retrieved September 30 ...

Spike Slawson Sean "Spike" Slawson (born April 9, 1970) is an American punk rock musician, a member of Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Swingin' Utters, Filthy Thievin' Bastards, Re-Volts, Uke-Hunt, and Los Nuevos Bajos. Early life Having grown up in Pittsb ...

(also from Swingin' Utters) later joined the band, along with recording engineer Randy Burk.

Greg Lisher Gregory Allen Lisher (born November 29, 1963) is the lead guitar player for Camper Van Beethoven. He is also one of the founding members of the Camper Van Beethoven spin-off Indy prog rock group Monks of Doom. He has also released four solo rec ...

from

Camper Van Beethoven Camper Van Beethoven is an American rock band formed in Redlands, California, in 1983, later based in Santa Cruz and San Francisco. Their style mixes elements of pop, ska, punk, folk, alternative, country, and world music, among other ge ...

guested on guitar for several songs on their second release. Their music is influenced by

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, country music, 60's pop, and punk rock, with an acknowledged and oft-noted debt to the music of

The Pogues The Pogues are an English Celtic punk band founded in King's Cross, London, in 1982, by Shane MacGowan, Spider Stacy and Jem Finer. Originally named Pogue Mahone—an anglicisation of the Irish language, Irish phrase :wikt:póg mo thóin, ''p� ...

. The project's first (short) album, ''Our Fathers Sent Us'', was released by TKO Records in 2000. In 2001, the band released ''A Melody of Retreads and Broken Quills'' on

BYO Records Better Youth Organization Records (BYO) is a defunct Los Angeles, California based independent punk rock record label created by Shawn and Mark Stern, two of the three brothers of the California punk rock band Youth Brigade (the third being Adam ...

. The next album ''My Pappy Was a Pistol'' was released in 2005. In March 2007 Filthy Thieving Bastards released their next album ''... and I'm A Son of a Gun'' on

, featuring an appearance by Spider Stacey of the Pogues. The naming of the last two albums was a nod to American Singer/Songwriter

Roger Miller Roger Dean Miller Sr. (January 2, 1936 – October 25, 1992) was an American singer-songwriter, widely known for his honky-tonk-influenced novelty songs and his chart-topping country hits " King of the Road", "Dang Me", and " England Swing ...

. The song "Drug Lords of the Avenues" is featured on the in-game soundtrack for ''

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Discography

*''Our Fathers Sent Us (E.P.)'' - 2000 *''A Melody of Retreads and Broken Quills'' - 2001 *'' My Pappy Was a Pistol'' - 2005 *''I'm A Son of a Gun'' - 2007

Reviews

"''My Pappy Was A Pistol''" CD Review
by Chris Andrade fo
''kMNR''...Music News Weekly

External links

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