Artist: 88 Fingers Louie
Genre(s):
Hardcore
Rock: Punk-Rock
Discography:
Split with Kid Dynamite (EP)
Year: 1999
Tracks: 6
Back On The Streets
Year: 1998
Tracks: 8
Up Your Ass
Year: 1997
Tracks: 27
Dom Years
Year: 1997
Tracks: 11
Behind Bars
Year: 1995
Tracks: 12
Back On The Street
Year:
Tracks: 16
With Chicago's early reputation based on being a city infested with organized crime during the turn of the century, it's only fitting that 88 Fingers Louie took their name from a piano-playing mobster, even if it was from an older Flintstones episode. Not that whatever of them was tortuous in the Mafia. They exactly started out lacking to flirt baggy, play punk for themselves back in springtime 1993. Later on that class, 88 self-released their number one EP and appeared on a couple of local compilations earlier getting hooked up with Fat Wreck Chords in 1994. By cathartic their EPs Go Away and Wanted, they were mechanically dubbed as some other "Fatty Wreck Chords isthmus" thanks to their galloping pop-punk heavy, not-so-serious lyricism, and occasional harmonies; comparisons to NOFX and Lagwagon where normally submit in every review. Rocco Records released the 10" Tootin' 40s and Fucking Shit Up that same yr, earlier Hopeless Records issued their number one full-length, Behind Bars, in 1995. With their next EP, Chicago vs. Amsterdam, in 1996, a all-out circuit followed short with gigs all throughout North America and Europe. But several months into it, stripe tumult and the focus of being on the road kicked in, resulting in 88 Fingers to abruptly break up in July of that class, even with a unharmed bunch of U.S. dates left over. While the absence of the stripe took place, Fat Wreck Chords released The Teacher Gets It EP and The Dom Years 10" in 1997, while Hopeless re-released all their vinyl-only and hard to find material on Up Your Ass. But after a yr and a half of being on hold, original members Dan Wlekinski (guitar, aka Dan Precision) and Dennis Buckley (vocals) cherished to extend on their 88 Fingers bequest in 1998 by adding Joe Principe (sea bass) and John Carroll (drums) as their newfangled speech rhythm section. Back on the Streets was dubbed as their swelled "riposte" album that same year, fifty-fifty though merely deuce original members remain in the band. A split with Kid Dynamite followed a class later on.
Arthur Lyman
