A word from Joe Jack (Dead Milkmen)

After I posted my Dead Milkmen/Greatest Achievement blog, I sent a link to Joe Jack (a.k.a. Butterfly Fairweather, the guitarist and singer of "Punk Rock Girl" and "Methodist Colouring Book"). This was his reply to me, via Myspace.


Mike,

Yeah, it even still amazes me that those albums got made and
distributed. Well, not that we got them made, but that they got
the distribution and attention that they did. Crazy times the 1980s were.

And, even crazier, we have regrouped with the intention of performing another
show this year, in Austin TX, despite the death of Dave, r.i.p., who would
have turned 52 this month had he lived. We're all in our mid to late 40s now,
with fairly "normal" jobs and lives.

- Joe

For those who won't be able to make it to Austin to see that one-off reunion, here's a brief recap. As Joe mentions in the note, bassist Dave Blood (real name: Dave Schulthise) died in 2004.

http://www.deadmilkmen.com/dave-blood/ is a tribute to their fallen bandmate.

As for the three surviving Milkmen, Joe "Jack" Genaro is the most musically active, occasionally touring as a solo artist and with two bands, The Low Budgets and The Cheesies. His website is www.jacktalcum.com

Drummer Dean Clean (real name: Dean Sabatino) can be found at www.deansabatino.com, continues to play in group called Big Mess Orchestra, and works in the fields of creative, website and user interface designs.

Rodney "Anonymous" Linderman (once credited on "Not Richard But Dick" as 11010, I think) has a great website called "Rodney Anonymous Tells You How To Live" (www.rodneyanonymous.com). For reasons known only to him, he has a link to Lisa ("Blair" from The Facts Of Life)Whelchel's website.