Flipp Blow It Out Your Ass CD

With this pleasantly titled platter, Flipp again overshoots the mainstream via a colorfully quirky collection of rock radio readies. Like their obvious '70s idols (Gary Glitter, Sex Pistols), the members of Flipp are already stars, they just lack the sales. This slipped disc is stronger throughout than their debut; the confidence and verve behind "Rock Star" ("put the cock in your rock and you'll make a lot of money"), "Ultra Cool," and "Oh Yeah" make the music indistinguishable from the maker, an integral component in a great rock band. Flipp harkens back to another time, when flash and bang mixed with tight harmonies, and it's a trip worth taking. ~ Doug Stone

Flipp was formed in the late 1990's by frontman, Schizo-Boy, Brynn Arens. While messing around with a video camera with cofounder, drummer, Kilo Bale, recording a friend's light show, the guys found themselves with an awesome video for the remake of The Who's, "My Generation" which Brynn describes as,..."what the song would have sounded like if Sonic Youth would have wrote it..." Seeing the great response to the video, Brynn realized he would have to find two other members that were as sick and twisted as he was to complete this rock band Flipp. With brother Chia Karaoke Arens on every instrument he can get his hands on, including Flipp cereal, and space-punk Freaky Useless on bass, Flipp was complete.One of Flipp's very first gigs was playing the first Edgefest outdoor rock concert festival. The band appeared on MTV news after they incited a mud throwing war and was shown with singer Brynn Arens "mooning" the crowd while thousands threw mud at his digitally blurred out bottom. The nation's first impression of the band! Since then, the band has played every Edgefest concert and is always the big hit of the festival. 1997's appearance, the band dumped a half-ton of Flipp cereal on the crowd getting national press. 1999's appearance, the band hired 5 boyband *Nsync look-a-likes to enter the stage in place of Flipp. When the crowd went crazy, booing and throwing things at the boys, Flipp entered the stage through a 12 foot Flipp cereal box and proceeded to beat the tar out of the 5 impostors causing the crowd to go ballistic. There's still talk, to this day, among the people who were there that swear it really was *Nsync and that Flipp really did kick their asses!Shortly after, the band won a nation wide MTV "unsigned" band contest. Thousands of bands sent in videos and the staff at MTV along with Rob Zombie, sifted through the tapes and chose Flipp's self produced, one camera, one take, video of their version of The Who's classic, "My Generation". Winning the contest granted the band a trip to Detroit to open a concert featuring The Ramones, The Misfits and White Zombie as well as being the feature of the MTV "Warming up the Zombie" TV special. The show featured the band being interviewed by Kennedy and showed them playing live at the concert. The video was also shown frequently on MTV's 120 Minutes video show.

Recording information: Bogart's, Miami, FL; Funkytown, Minneapolis, MN; Ironwood Studios, Seattle, WA; Sound Gallery, Minneapolis, MN.

Photographer: Brian Garrity.

Personnel: Brynn Arens (vocals, guitar); Kilo Bale (drums).

Audio Mixers: Todd Fitzgerald; Ken Chastain; Bob Rosa; Brynn Arens.