@@TheArtofGuitar may 97 to December 2001. I I also jump into gigs with them from time to time, and they are out on a large tour right now with Everclear and Marcy’s Playground. It was an amazing 5 years! Thanks for featuring us! 🤘🏻🤘🏻
That's so cool. I guess they're gonna be here on Oct 6th. I might check them out. I was in a band that opened for Marcy Playground. We had to supply them their gear, it was kinda weird but worth it. ;)
Dude! Jimmie's Chicken Shack is one of the most underrated bands ever! "Pushing the Salmanilla Envelope" is an amazing record top to bottom, the riffs are great, the bass is bouncy and funky, and the drums sound massive. I have been showing this album to my friends since 1998 and always wondered why they didn't get bigger. Aside from "High", I would recommend people to listen to "Outhouse", "Another day", "Sitting with the Dog", and "Dropping Anchor".
I remember the exact same thing. I only heard the end and felt so lost. It probably took a couple weeks before I heard the song again and was lucky enough to hear it be introduced by the dj.
Loving these new DEAL videos, I started playing about a year ago just for fun and one of my biggest problems is knowing what to try learning next. The moment I heard that riff I had to grab my guitar and kinda got it just from watching you play! Cheers 🍻
I remember catching this on M2 back in the day. The song had me hooked immediately, and the video was a little 'what am I watching'. Its been on my playlist ever since. I really thought they were going to be much bigger, but never saw much else from them (it was my teen years so watching tv wasn't much of a priority).
I've been obsessed with this song for what feels like 100 years, now. I love that it is getting some proper recognition. The first track off this same album, Dropping Anchor, is another one you should also check out. Great guitar tones/grooves and heavy ass riffs in that song
I was shown sitting with the dog by a friend who said it was right up my alley and i was in love immediately. I was new to guitar at thw time and immediately learned the whole thing and did my own cover. Didnt expect to see jimmies chicken shack here, but got super excited seeing that thumbnail.
Dude, thanks for spotlighting these guys! I saw them live at the small "block 5" fest in Rockford Illinois in support of this album. Unreal live band!!!
This is one of the most underrated bands and albums of the 90’s, so few people know about it! They were like the Beatles if you lived in Maryland! Whole album is a banger!
That era just has some obscure songs that just take you to a specific point in time. Similar to when I hear "Camel Walk" by Southern Culture on the Skids or "Banditos" by the Refreshments.
Dude that's so cool that you did Jimmie's chicken shack like i stumbled upon them about 2 years ago from a penguinz0 video where they go through an astronouts storage unit. They found a Jimmie's chicken shack poster in there and I got curious so i wemt and listened to high and it just sucked me in instantly. Pushing the salmonella envelope is a masterpiece that I can't believe didn't hit mainstream.
Never really got into this group, but I don't dislike them. Great job breaking down the parts. Wish vids like existed online when I was a young'n playing my starter pack squire strat.
I love these guys! Band I was in back in '95-'96 used to gig in a lot of the same places as Jimmie's Chicken Shack in the Virginia Beach / Hampton area of Virginia. Really cool guys, lots of fun.
Oh wow. Did not know this album and track. Very Korn-y. Love the following album "Bring your own stereo" . Maximum variety and fantastic tunes on that album. Great series, keep it going.
Ha I love this song! I waited for it to come on the radio with my finger over the record button on my boom box and finally got it on cassette... later upgraded to a Napster download
I liked jimmies chicken shack but I really fell in love with their second album. They changed their sound a bunch with less grungy and more pop. I don't know why they didn't get huge
Of all the other 90's hard rock bands you mention they sound like, I'm surprised you didn't say Primus once. Something about a big up-front bass, tight punchy drums, unusual effects choices, and a song that's mostly a bunch of different variations of the same riff brings them to my mind.
I remember them. There’s songs that still play in my head and I have no idea who the band is. I finally googled last cigarette if I’m remember correctly it was Ned’s atomic dustbin? The amount of mixtapes I had with literally no information or sometime the wrong liner would get mixed in. This one s one of those songs you hear it and instantly know it’s from the 90s.
I first heard Jimmies Chicken Shack at the Orbit Room in Grand Rapids opening for Limp Bizkit the week before LB premiered on MTV. The Shack was the better band. Underrated album, underrated band.
Yay, JCS! I have no idea where it came from, but somehow, i got the CD. It's such a fun, heavy, and musical band. I think the tone comes from a neck pickup, as that's all I see on his guitar, along with a cranked amp little gain.
Bro have you ever listened to Jay Reatard? He's more punk and lo fi but very talented musician and producer. He would record everything himself and produce his own records, super talented at song writing and if he would be a live still he would be the greatest engineer/profucer around. Check out his stuff hes done everything from punk to metal to power pop to synth
I definitely judged this band on their name, I did hear this one on the radio and paid no attention to it. Listening all these years later it hits a lot harder.
Love this album !! Bought it after reading a review in Guitar a guitar mag. Still listen to it. Actually got to see them in Atlanta at a small club on that tour. I did not know it at the time, but Jim McD had left the band and saw his replacement. They played and sounded great. I thought they would make it big, but sadly, the follow up album didn't come close to Salmonella Envelope.
I live not far from them in Maryland. They were always a fun band to see locally. This is their home video called "Plucked" from around 1995ish? Unfortunately it's in 4 parts. "High" is about 7 minutes into Part 1. "Another Day" is their best song in my opinion. Part 1 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BhWgW8EaB98.html Part 2 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-EFkRePAQXwk.html Part 3 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lnYhN1LNtTQ.html Part 4 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-qitir5YolOE.html
Another kickass lost band from the 90’s is Drain STH, they were like a chick Alice In Chains that were actually really good. Check out “I don’t mind” if you’ve never heard them. Super kick ass
I saw these guys back in 1997 or early 1998 at the Orbit Room in Grand Rapids with an up and coming band called Limp Bizkit and all it cost to get in was a canned food donation. I also worked at a small bar/restaurant in Kalamazoo running sound and hosting open mic years later and JCS played there. I heard about it after the fact, but they were probably the most well known band to have played there (that I know of). I’m curious about the turnout because, if the bands didn’t have a good following or didn’t do some decent promotion, they wouldn’t get paid much at all. It’s really awkward when the guy running sound gets paid more than the whole band and the band is wondering when “all the people are going to show up”.
Either that riff is reminding me of something else that I can't think of, or I'm having some sort of delayed memory thing and it's actually reminding of this song. I don't know, it's too early, the caffeine hasn't made its way yet...
Appreciate you covering this forgotten song. It definitely rocks and is worthy of a deep dive for what it does well. I don’t think the rest of the album was as strong, which is probably why it struggled more than the terrible name. I mean they couldn’t have done worse and called themselves “el oso guapo” right?
Never heard of this band so I thought it may be related to the British blues band called Chicken Shack formed in the early 1960's and later known a Stan Webb's chicken shack. The origional keyboard player was Christine Perfect who left to marry bassist John McVie and join his band. Turned out to be the right move, or so Rumours has it.
Love this band! You should check out Hole by Jimmie’s Chicken Shack. There’s a really sick breakdown towards the end with a super sick bass line to finish up the breakdown!
I remember hearing the song High on the radio and I ran out the next day and bought the album the next day. Honestly, I thought the rest of the album was only average, not great but not bad.
Dude you should talk about the band Snot on this! Underrated 90s band that tragically only released a single album. The song Stoopid was pretty much their only hit but they toured with Korn and Sevendust and all those big Numetal bands of the time
