CKY (band)
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CKY are a 3-piece guitar band consisting of Deron Miller (vocals, bass, guitar), Chad Ginsburg (guitar, vocals)and, Jess Margera (drums). They share their name, short for "Camp Kill Yourself", with a series of skate videos produced by Bam Margera, who is the brother of the drummer. CKY's music has been featured in the four CKY videos and Jackass, and the track "96 Quite Bitter Beings" from their album Volume 1 also featured on the video game Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3.
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History
Formation and early career
In 1994, in West Chester, PA, friends Deron Miller and Jess Margera formed a band under the name Foreign Objects. In 1995 they released a 5-track EP on Distant Recordings called The Undiscovered Numbers & Colors, which was described by some as "Earth Crisis meets Rush." In 1996, they decided to start another band called Oil. After some confusion with a New York band also named Oil, Deron changed the name to Camp Kill Yourself. In 1998, Jess's brother Bam, a pro skateboarder, was featured on the Toy Machine film "Jump Off A Building," so during the skit "Bam's Park Footy," they played CKY's song "Genesis 12a." In the credits there was contact info on how to get more CKY recordings. Deron and Jess added Ryan Bruni to the band's lineup as a bassist and were ready to record. When they went to Groundhog studios to record the album, they met Chad Ginsburg, who was working at the studio as a producer. The first CKY material he heard was the "Disengage The Simulator" demo, and he immediately wanted to be part of the band, and left previous band Rudy & Blitz to join CKY. When Bam Margera, fast growing in popularity, released a full-length video of similar antics through Landspeed Wheels called "Landspeed: cKy" in March 1999, he used CKY's music exclusively as the soundtrack. The band's first albums "Camp Kill Yourself: Volumes 1 and 2" were released on Teil Martin International to coincide with the videos, and both sold out quickly. The band went on the 1999 Warped Tour and played for Volcom but during this Ryan Bruni the Live Bassist walked out just before CKYs performance after an argument between himself and the band. Shortly after that a new live bassist took his place on the CKY roster, Vern Zaborowski from Wet Slit. Later on the tour CKY were kicked off after a protest in St. Louis over the prices the tour's vendors were charging.
Later career
By this time, they had become superstars in the skateboarding world. In late summer, they were signed to the Volcom Entertainment record label, and released a re-mastered Volume 1 in December. In 2001 CKY moved over to the Island Records record company where they re-released a remastered Volume 1 on their new record label. Then in September 2002 after being delayed due to the magnificence of Island Records, the follow up album from Volume 1, Infiltrate.Destroy.Rebuild (IDR) was released. Towards late 2002 CKY landed the intensely sought-after opening slot on Guns N' Roses' national tour, handpicked by Axl Rose himself, then shortly after another legendary band came knocking, Metallica as CKY were personally invited by James Hetfield to play with them. 2004 brought the DVD Video album which CKY produced music videos for each of the tracks on the Infiltrate.Destroy.Rebuild album plus for the "Disengage the Simulator" track off of the first album Volume 1. In late 2004 the live bassist Vern Zaborowski and CKY split ways due to personal and performance reasons, and to date they are still searching for a replacement, but as they have been recording a new album since before this incident, and the fact that Chad does the Bass on the albums then there is no rush. Today CKY remain with the original 3 members and are currently writing/recording their new album, "An Answer Can be Found" which is set to be released 28.06.2005
Discography
Volume 1 - 1999
- First printing. "Camp Kill Yourself" 1999. Teil Martin International. 2,000 copies.
- Second printing. "Camp Kill Yourself Volume One". 12/12/99. Volcom Entertainment. 1,000 copies.
- Third printing. "Camp: cKy" 04/01/00. Volcom Entertainment. 2,000 copies.
- Fourth printing. "cKy: Camp" 05/01/00. Volcom Entertainment. 4,000 copies.
- Fifth printing. "cKy: Camp Volume 1". 12/01/00. Volcom Entertainment. 20,000 copies.
- 6.0 printing. "cKy: Volume 1" 06/26/01. Island Records. Unknown number of copies.
- 6.5 printing. "cKy: Volume 1" 06/26/01. Island Records. Three limited edition colored covers. Orange, Purple, Blue. 10k each.
Volume 2 - 1999
- First printing. "Volume 2" 1999. Teil Martin International. 1,000 copies.
- Second printing. "Volume 2" 04/01/01. Two discs. Distant Recordings. 2,000 copies.
- Third printing. "Volume 2" 08/28/01. Two discs. Rake Yohn cover. Distant Recordings. Unknown number of copies.
Disengage The Simulator EP - 2000
- First printing. "Disengage The Simulator EP" 07/01/00. Volcom Entertainment. 2,000 copies.
Infiltrate.Destroy.Rebuild. - 2002
An Ånswer can be found - June 28, 2005
External links
- CKYMusic.com (http://www.ckymusic.com)
- CKYAlliance.com (http://www.ckyalliance.com)
- DeronMiller.com (http://www.deronmiller.com)
- ChadGinsburg.com (http://www.chadginsburg.com)
- CampKillYourself.net (http://www.campkillyourself.net/)
- Australian Alliance (http://www.ckyaus.tk/)
- UK Alliance (http://www.ckyalliance.co.uk)de:CKY (Band)