Johnny "Peebucks" Bonnel (born August 7, 1967) is the

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and a songwriter of the

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band

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 ...

and the alternative punk rock band

Filthy Thievin' Bastards The Filthy Thieving Bastards is an American folk/punk rock group formed in 2000 in San Francisco, California. The band was originally a side project put together by Johnny Bonnel and Darius Koski of the Swingin' Utters. Spike Slawson (also from ...

. His new project is called Druglords of the Avenues. His nickname, Johnny Peebucks, came from an incident at a party where he became so inebriated that he lost control of his

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. He later went to

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with some friends, and paid for his food using wet dollar bills. After the cashier inquired as to whether Johnny had just been swimming, he replied "No, I pissed my pants." The nickname came from the composite of the slang words pee and bucks, colloquialisms for urination and money respectively.

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