GOBLINGOAT: Honored to be Honored...
Recently the fine and funny people at Cornucopia (www.cornuzine.com) placed Goblingoat at the top of THE RIDICULOUS TEN for their Top Ten Ridiculous Band Names. We beat out Lungbrush and Cosmic Oatmeal Buckets and seven other bands to be #1 on their silly-band names list. You should see the smile on my face. Scroll down to "Latest news" to read their little blurb about why G-Goat was chosen. And check out their awesome website.

Also, scroll down to read about the year-long delay in "Soundtrack" and the again-possibility of "The New Goblingoat."

GOBLINGOAT

was this metal (or really really really LOUD rock) band from the Champaign/Urbana area in central Illinois. Two of the four members are college grads, another is a music major. The other is just some guy.

Demo N | Soundrack To A B-Movie
Band Contact | Band Info | Latest news

It's hardcore metal I'm told. The line-up was:
 
 
Scott guitars Alan vocals

?

 Jeff drums Paul bass

Scott now has a CPA and just graduated from law school. I know, I can't believe it either. It seems like yesterday he was teaching me how to make really cheap stickers from label-sheets at Kinko's. Alan moved to California last year. Paul is in a band called Pave The Sun. I have no idea where Jeff is.

We have 11 originals, 4 of which can no longer be found on a demo called

Demo N

I ran out of copies. The songs were:

Big Car
Doom
Next Exit
Circus

We recorded these songs June 1st & 2nd at M.G. Studios in Roselle, Illinois. If you want a copy of Demo N, contact me at kiadm@prairienet.org, I'll be happy to send you a copy of Soundtrack... instead.

Soundtrack To A B-Movie

is also available for $2 to cover the cost of the blank tape and postage. There is no profit to be made from this tape. It consists of ELEVEN of our original songs plus a few different live versions of some of the songs recorded here and there and maybe a demo or two of us screaming at each other or something. Some of the stuff we never recorded professionally KICKS SERIOUS ASS in these recorded versions. Songs include the Demo N material in their original mix (no distorted drums!) plus:
Several Shades Of Bile (studio)
Blister (studio)
Red, Death & Green (live radio broadcast)
Cinderblock (ditto)
God Complex (ditto)
Drop The Dark (ditto)
Candy Song (live at Mabel's)

These songs kick ass, especially the last five. Yeah. I will be making a cd version of this soon.

band contact

well, you can contact me through email (kiadm@prairienet.org) or write to me at:
 

Paul Czarnowski
3746 N. Tripp
Chicago, Il, 60641

 Contact me for info about our tapes and update about G-Goat and ICBC.

What the Daily Illini says about us:

"...Goblingoat is local hardcore metal-punk self-described as aggressive and abrasive. Supposed to be very loud..."
-the DI, Oct. 18th, 1996

Goblingoat's World Tour across Central Illinois

WHEN WHERE WITH WHO CASUALTIES
June 14 Evanston nobody one angry next door neighbor
We played a house party north of Chicago for a bunch of high school kids trying to raise money for a friend of theirs (it was called Margopalooza). However, the police showed up and told us to leave 20 minutes into our set.
June 21 Mabel's in Champaign Third Stone
Muchacha		 Anybody who heard us play So What!
Third Stone is a local band on Hammerhead Records and Muchacha is from Chicago.
June 11 Six Feet Under In Champaign 3-Speed
Mudslide		 A guy having a hangover (we were LOUD that night!!!!)
3-Speed travelled all the way from Arkansas to play and Mudslide is now known as Cottleston Pie.
June 12 Six Feet Under HATE CHOIR!!! A woman who asked to buy my guitar
Hate Choir is a really cool industrial hardcore metal band. They were throwing a bachelor party for their bassist (admission was free!) and they let us play one song (Next Exit) after they were done.
June 13 Viele's Planet in Springfield Simple Simon
Mispent Youth		 Mispent Youth's roadie
The highlight for me (the bassist) was meeting the guys in Simple Simon, a Chicago act and a good one at that.
July 21 Knights Of Columbus in Champaign Social Deviance
The Funky Butt Drum Club
Soul Pudding
Short Bus		 Everyone: the bassist was out of tune the whole night. We videotaped it.
Sept. 16 WEFT sessions in Champaign nobody A band from Chicago that showed up saying they were supposed to play
It was broadcast all over Champaign County on WEFT 90.1 FM in Champaign.
Oct. 2 Mabel's in Champaign Scurvy Dogs
Cottleston Pie		 About 25 preps in the bar
Oct. 24 Mabel's in Champaign Floater Mic stands knocked over by the bassist & singer
Oct. 31 House party in Champaign ICBC?!?! Body count not yet established.
For comments about the show, please e-mail us...
Nov. 25 White Horse Inn in Champaign The Feds my finger, the bar, and a chair I knocked over
Hushtower cancelled on us that day and Third Stone's Tom Grassman got his acoustic band, The Feds, to play for an hour. Then we kicked everyone's ass.

Latest News...

First up, thanks to the wonderful people at www.cornuzine.com. They have placed Goblingoat at the top of their Top Ten Ridiculous Band Names for their 5/13/01 edition of The Ridiculous Ten, which I and hopefully everyone who reads this will be reading on a regular basis from now on. Here's the blurb:

1. GOBLINGOAT-This band could only be from Illinois. I don't know who's idea it was to combine the words "goblin" and "goat", but it turned out to be comic genius. I know Scott Ian has often claimed that if you climbed to the top of Comedy Mountain you'd find nothing but midgets, but I must disagree and state that you'd come across a plaque bearing the phrase GOBLINGOAT. Is this some sort of mythical creature that's half-troll and half-billy goat, or is it just some really ugly farm animal the band saw on the side of the road one day? No one knows. I don't think anyone will ever know. Well, I suppose we could ask the band themselves (they seem like right decent blokes, based on their site), but I think we're better off not knowing. Congrats to GOBLINGOAT for winning the coveted #1 spot on this week's RIDICULOUS TEN! They oughta get something, shouldn't they? Like a shirt or something...I'll get to work on that.

Wow! I can't wait for the shirt! In the meantime, I think I will be sending Johnny Turd of Cornuzine.com a lovely gift package, featuring some Goblingoat musical goodies and some other musical atrocities as well. I emailed Johnny T. that our original name was Blowtorch Enema, and he replied that "Blowtorch Enema could have been bigger than Elvis." Which is exactly how I felt when we Scott, Jeff and I formed the band in October, 1995.

This newfound fame has brought G-Goat back into the spotlight, right at a time when I am seeing some interest from others in being in a band and using G-Goat to launch said new project. There were a few songs not on Soundtrack that were heading in a completely different direction from our days as a Deftones-wannabe found in Demo N. Also, I have several tapes of jam sessions with my good friend Dave Wetzel, and many of the songs are similar to the direction G-Goat was heading when we called it quits. Very stoner-rockish grooves, with big meaty riffs, very similar to the defunct John Garcia (ex-Kyuss) group Slo-Burn. I will keep you updated on this if you email me at kiadm@prairienet.org.

Also, last year I promised a CD version of Soundtrack To A B-Movie, complete with the hilarious bickering found in-between songs during our famous WEFT Sessions performance. Well, it had to wait, as I've been rather busy with Pave The Sun, CRC Radio, and about a dozen other things that kept me from finding a way to digitally transfer the beloved songs to CD. This summer? I can't make any promises but I'd love to have something I can burn for people within 20 minutes or so instead of having to spend 3 hours going through all the tapes just to make the Soundtrack comp. And it's be really cool to have all that junk and more on CD before the original lo-fi tapes, after 6 years in some cases, burn out and are no longer playable. Better do it soon.

Soundtrack To A B-Movie, in case you didn't read what was said about it near the middle of this site, is the complete catalog of Goblingoat material written by Scott, Alan, Paul, & Jeff before they broke up. Professional recordings, live broadcasts, really cool early demos, and some hilarious dialog between band members during our live on-air show. It'll have a great album cover and may come with a word document of some sort called "Everything I should have learned, I didn't while in Goblingoat," all about the history of G-goat and what to do and NOT do while trying to maintain a rock band.

Member updates: Still don't know where Jeff is, which is fine, but I haven't heard from Alan in a LONG time. Scott passed the bar exam with flying colors and is now making mucho moolah as an attourny. Awww. Paul (me) finally graduated from college earlier in May. Now what, he asks?

 As for other stuff, I'm in this band called Pave The Sun. Am working on magazine. Am working on comic strip. For more details visit the Verminous Army Of The Damned, my be-all end-all of...me!

 More later...

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