The Bucketkickers
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[edit] About the Band
The Bucketkickers are the greatest band ever, except for the Beatles. They are also the only ska band in Oberlin.
Formed in 2003, the Bucketkickers played original ska and punk rock songs, their most well-known being "I Wanna Drop Out of School (and Do Drugs)". In addition, they play a number of unusual covers of bands like Nine Inch Nails, Flogging Molly, the Band, and songs from The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Everyone in the Bucketkickers is a member of OSCA, and most of their loyalties lie with Harkness. While the most common venues to see them are usually drunken house parties, the Bucketkickers have been known to occasionally play at the Sco, The Big Parade, WOBC, the Masonic Temple, and the Harkness Party.
The official active period of the band ended in February 2007, with bassist Brandon Smith's expulsion from Oberlin College. Since then, several reunion shows have occurred, each show concluding with the band vowing never to play again.
[edit] Members
The current members of the Bucketkickers are:
- Jon Good (trumpet, vocals, guitar)
- Brandon Smith (bass, vocals)
- Carly Trumann (trombone, vocals)
- Leah Frank (drums, saxophone)
- Sean O'Brien (guitar)
- Will Sheppard (saxophone, vocals)
- Dylan Leach (drums)
- Jamie Albrecht (lead vocals)
- Danielle Kolker (saxophone)
- Matt Zapp (bass, drums)
Former Bucketkickers include Peter Collopy (drums), Dan Herr (saxophone), Tom Hartmann (saxophone), Bo Coker (lead vocals), Colin Gunn (guitar), and Jon Bruno (drums).
[edit] Trivia
- Despite the departure of many of the members from Oberlin, there will ALWAYS be another Bucketkickers show.
- Up until her graduation (and probably for a little while after), Rebecca Gordon (not the professor) was their foremost groupie.
- The girlfriends of members of other Oberlin bands have stated that the Bucket Kickers are their "favorite band on campus."
- The Bucket Kickers were the house band for the first Oberlin Burlesque show in 2005.
- The lyrics of every Bucketkickers song authored by Good contain the title of at least one Beatles song. The song "Turn Away" contains over a dozen.
- From 2005 onward, the fliers made for Bucketkickers shows were parodies of well-known images, usually with instruments or cans of PBR superimposed into the hands of the subjects of the photograph or poster. Entities parodied in this way include Bill Clinton, Yassir Arafat, Sonic the Hedgehog, Ghostbusters, Indiana Jones, and Star Wars.
