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If you’ve taken the time to explore the site, you’re already familiar with Purple Puke Music’s (PPM) platinum acts — namely, Föetal Demise, Abattoir Buggery, and the Lazy Bastards. But, did you know there are others?
Yes, the PPM roster is chock full of acts that are chock full of people who appear in more than one PPM band. And then there are the solo releases from some of those people, as well as some stuff that defies categorization.
But here before you is the complete PPM roster. Revel in their existence, for they certainly did.
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Pudtug The Ed ProjeKctile 1 |
Pudtug, Too! Krazy Krem’s Funky Kryme Woods Bros. |
The Ed
There are only a few people in this world who continue to amaze with each new day, thought, or action: Perry Farrell is one, the Ed is another.
There is no discernable difference between the Ed the band member and the Ed the solo artist — physically, mentally, sexually. But compare any the Ed-infused group effort (Föetal Demise, Pudtug) with his solo album, and you’ll see (rather, hear) the variation. To put it as simply as possible, the Ed may play well with others, but he is a demented, non compos mentis man-child all by himself.
Pudtug
As a member of this amusing band, the Ed was asked to string together a few words for its bio:
Pudtug: It grips.
When one thinks of Pudtug and its role in the annals (ooo... annals — yes, chocolate popsicles!) of
music, one can only conjure up superlatives to match the talents of this group. Bringing a new meaning
to the definition of noise, Pudtug was spawned in a branch somewhere between the founding fathers of
Föetal Demise and the fucked-up second cousins of Abattoir Buggery. One can only draw an analogy to
some pathetic business gone bust, only to reappear under another name and take a second crack at it.
This is the story of Pudtug.
I’ll not babble on and on about the achievements of these artists extraordinaires. Let a simple
story of Pudtug’s early genesis serve to illustrate just what the band was all about...
There were two little shits living on the happy block of Auburndale Lane (in East Flushing, N.Y.) —
their names were Doug and Greg Grant. Having a dad quite like an obese bear with a bad haircut and an
affinity for telling really dumb jokes, it could only be expected that they would have cheesy porno
movies for the taking. So, Chris and Ed, who had their own problems, somehow related to these twits, and
by the mysterious ways of fate wound up watching a porno flick with them for a bit. It was then that the
meaning of the word “boner” was first understood by them all — and after some
good-ol’-boy laughing and guffawing about the whole thing, they got down to some good and nasty
back-door fudge packing.
And that’s the genesis of Pudtug.
Krazy Krem’s Funky Kryme
The veritable Purple Puke Music (PPM) supergroup.
Well, maybe not an exact definition of the term “supergroup,” but you get the idea. Maybe “supergroup side project” or “side project supergroup,” or even “whatever, OK?” might be a better word, name, and description for what we have here. No one really knows.
Although... Those first two would make some kickin’ band names! Not to mention some awesome titles for Japanese anime! This is just aimless rambling!
But what we do know is this: Ian is behind the whole thing. Yes, it’s true! Krazy Krem’s Funky Kryme (KKFK) is all his fault.
Ian assembled the first version of KKFK (not to be confused with KMFDM or the KLF or KFC, though that last one is just as greasy) to toast his Abattoir Buggery bandmate, Chris, and his forthcoming marriage. The official release date of the first KKFK single, “Chris Gets Married,” was Oct. 28, 1997 (for all you purists out there).
KKFK v. 1.0 comprised, shockingly enough, nearly everyone within the PPM womb: Clara, Lynne, Matt, Ed, and Ken all stopped what they doing, picked up the phone and said, “Ian! What’s up? You want me to do what? For who? Well... All right.”
And Krazy Krem’s Funky Kryme was born.
For the second round of KKFK’s sonic spooging, Ian’s id took a backseat to the ego, who in turn put the pedal to the metal. Krazy Krem’s sophomore single — a two-part homage to his day-job boss, titled “Malachy, Ph.D. (Dr. Mal)” — was put together by Ian all by himself sometime during 1999. He wrote it, performed it, produced it — PPM’s very own Adrian Belew!
A third KKFK single was released in early 2000, though it was intended for a late-1999 drop, in time for Chris’ 30th birthday. Yes, the Kryme got funky on Husky again! Taking a cue from Kid Rock, rock music’s then flavor du jour, the Kryme (now a duo consisting of Ian and Clara) laid down “Chris Woods Is 30” — a hefty, hilarious dollop of marshmallowy musical madness.
Pudtug, Too!
In the early ’90s, Purple Puke Music gave birth to another mutant band — a multilimbed beast spawned from the incestuous tendencies of Föetal Demise and Pudtug, to put it mildly...
Pudtug, Too! was a band thrown together solely for the purpose of cranking out some fucked-up shit to honor and praise our good friend and labelmate the Ed, who had just graduated from Pace University after a five-year stint as an accounting freak. To celebrate such a momentuous occasion, the familial five-member group gave props to the Ed with such lush, gorgeous melodies as found in the tunes “We Are German Faggots,” “Phlegm Friend,” and the five-part art-rock dirge “Crotch Rot.”
There were two sessions altogether — two back-to-back Saturdays spent down in the cool confines of Root Cellar Studios in East Flushing, N.Y. They were cool not only in atmosphere but also because these sessions went down during the onset of summer — not a time to be up close and personal with heat-emanating amps in the cramped sweatshop that was Chris’ Attic Studios.
The vibe was a playful nuttiness, until 2 a.m. rolled around and we were ready to slit our throats (you try thinking about the Ed nonstop for a week). But at the end, when all was said and done and we ran outta tape, we had an album, Spiro Agnew, Ed!
ProjeKctile 1
After the mid-’90s lineup of prog-rock behemoth King Crimson released a couple of albums and toured, the band splintered into a bunch of smaller entities called “ProjeKcts.”
Can you see where this is going?
While the ProjeKcts were offshoots of the then-six-man King Crimson, Purple Puke Music’s ProjeKctile 1 went in a different direction, though no one is sure how that direction came to be:
Was it Ed plus Abattoir Buggery plus a special guest (in this case, the honorable Prof. Mastrato)? Was it Föetal Demise and guest? Or perhaps Krazy Krem’s Funky Kryme’s latest incarnation?
As stated, no one knows (and, more likely, no one cares). But the fact of the matter is that Chris, Ed, Ian, and Prof. Mastrato gathered to make music — and make music they did, in a most merrily manner.
Woods Bros.
A long-forgotten recording made by the Woods Bros. is the only reason this here “act” is given Purple Puke Music props. The brothers in question — Chris and Matt — never intended to be a duo; no, they were merely working on Matt’s homework. As for the rest, blame Chris.