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Happy
Bastards 2008 (Current) Happy Bastards 2007 Happy Bastards 2003-2006
The Story So Far... Happy Bastards formed
as a disjointed trio in the summer of 2003. Sean Schock and Christy
Chatfield originated the idea of a hardcore but old-style punk
band and the search for other band mates began. Sean met Saxon
Wood at a Melt Banana show. He was English, intelligent, and said
he played the bass so that was good enough for us. After learning
some covers from Conflict, Rudimentary Peni, and Dirt, Happy Bastards
wrote their first song Run With The Sheep. The trio really clicked
but it was apparent we were missing something: Enter Shade. Shade
was a roommate of ours that we barely conversed with let alone
knew he played guitar. Not only did he prove that he could learn
fast and play our covers, Shade proved to be the rocking Hendrix
to our Jimmy Experience, done up in a punk way, of course. First
challenge to Shade and the rest of us was to cover 24 songs by
Rudimentary Peni for the Halloween show only a month away. Two
practices a week, approximately 4 songs a practice, and four weeks
later Happy Bastards pulled it off. We succeeded in coving the
24 songs and quickly realized that if we could accomplish that
feat, we just might have a good thing After playing many basement shows and writing a fair amount of new material, it seemed logical and time-appropriate to record. In June 2004 we recorded 9 songs at Gung Ho studios with Billy Barnett in Eugene, Oregon. Eight songs made half the split LP released by Saxon’s label, N.F.N. Records. The other side featured 3 ripping songs by another Eugene band, Human Certainty. Hence to say, in September 2004, Human Certainty and Happy Bastards hit the road for a 3-week tour from the Pacific Northwest to the Pacific Southwest and back. In the summer of 2005 Happy Bastards were asked (and greatly accepted the invitation) to play the second annual C.L.I.T. fest in Minneapolis, MN. We made a tour out of it, taking a week to get to Minnie, spending a few days there, and looping up back across the states to Oregon. On this tour H.B. got to meet lots of cool people and bands. Unfortunately, the tour ended with a dead van which had to be towed back via U-haul truck and trailer. September 2006 was a big highlight for the Bastards. Our first full-length album, A Box of Hard Knocks, was released on Profane Existence Records, in CD format. Happy Bastards flew to Minneapolis where we met up with Mississippi punkers, The Cooters, thus beginning a 3 week long tour of the north eastern states. This proved to be the best tour yet for Happy Bastards, meeting more awesome people and bands. Additionally, Christy and Sean got to see friends and family which was long overdue. Shortly after tour Happy Bastards had a line-up change. Saxon started a new band called Lunacy and HB had their first show with Lunacy in January. Our new bass player is Will Lindsay, a good and long-time friend of the band as well as a very accomplished musician. You can see Will rocking out in other bands like The Detonators and Middian. In January 2007, Happy Bastard’s first split 7” came out on French label, Fight For Your Mind Records. U.K. legends Kismet H.C. have three kick-ass songs on the other side and it is an absolute pleasure to share the wax with such an established band. Future plans include but are not
limited to a 2 week west coast tour with new friends and Profane
Existence comrades, Appalachian Terror Unit, from West Virginia.
We are super stoked to play with ATU and equally stoked to see
our good friends on the west coast. Now, if we may, we’d like to list a few bands that we’ve had the pleasure of meeting and playing together (in no particular order): Kylesa, Municipal Waste, I Object,
No Hope For the Kids, Misery, Yob, Imperial Leather, Ballast,
Capitalist Casualties, Citizen Fish, Born/Dead, The Detonators,
The Cooters, Mouth Sewn Shut, Appalachian Terror Unit, Slightly
Less Than Nothing, Angry For Life, Melt Banana, MDC, Faggot, Disrespect,
Salt Lick, Snuggle, Whiskey Sunday, Cipher, The Wobblies, Garmonbozia,
Pirate Radio, Pirate Law, Kursk, The Profits, Witchunt, Ass, Hellshock,
Ganglion, Wartorn, Mendozza, Indisgust, Winston Smith, Criminal
Damage, Sado Nation, Meat Of Mankind, Iskra, Steets, Oroku, Body
Soil, Inhaste, Disordely, and many many more…
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