Fishboy is an American four-piece indie pop band from Denton, Texas which began as the solo project of Eric Michener. He was given the nickname while on a middle-school field trip after he was dared to pluck and swallow a fish at the Dallas World Aquarium . The band has released albums with Lauren Records , Happy Happy Birthday To Me Records in Athens, Georgia and associated with Business Deal Records , a music collective in Austin, Texas .
13-412: Fishboy may refer to: Fishboy (band) , an American indie pop band from Denton, Texas Fishboy (comic) , a British comic story In the horror movie House of 1000 Corpses , Fishboy is the title given by the character Otis B. Driftwood for his sadistic sculpture, which combines the upper body of a human with a large fish tail. Topics referred to by
26-555: A bigger story." Each track is listed in alphabetical order and each character's name begins with the letter A. in 2014, the band self-released An-Elephant. A rock opera and graphic novel about the death and after life of Topsy the Elephant as she plotted revenge against her murderer Thomas Edison and is given sage advice from Nikola Tesla . The albums release featured a website with the graphic novel formatted into small animated gifs . It can be found at An-Elephant.com May 19, 2017
39-423: A fictional holiday every May 17 called Waitsgiving. In addition to Michener and bandmates, Waitsgiving features Matt Pence on drums and Sean Bonnette of AJJ singing backup vocals on Snocone Creator. Following its release Michener has given a free performance of Waitsgiving on the down town Denton square every May 17. Feb 2022, Michener released The Best Ever Boombox Cassette Tape from Durham to celebrate
52-418: Is a record which Michener calls "a rock opera about how myself, the band, and the ghost of Buddy Holly attempt to save Texas by going on a tour/crime spree in order to perform all 8,030 of the songs I've written in my sleep since I was in the womb." In 2011, the band released Classic Creeps , described as "the first in an ongoing series of Fishboy records featuring characters whose lives interconnect to form
65-492: Is an American recording engineer, producer, and drummer. He owns and manages The Echo Lab studio in Denton, Texas . Pence is from St. Louis , Missouri . In 1990, Pence moved to Denton, Texas to study jazz at University of North Texas College of Music . In 1996, Pence did his first recording for a drummer friend on their record. In 1999, musician and mastering engineer Dave Willingham created The Echo Lab studio outside
78-689: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Fishboy (band) Their second album, Little D was acclaimed by the Dallas Observer and Austin Chronicle and named to a Best Local of 2005 list by the Dallas Morning News . The band's 2007 release, Albatross: How We Failed to Save the Lone Star State with the Power of Rock and Roll ,
91-512: The 20th anniversary of The Mountain Goats album All Hail West Texas . Michener writes: "As most Fishboy audiences are fans of this song/album we routinely get roped into small talk where we are pressed to explain that the Mountain Goats, as great as they are, have no hard connection to Denton, TX as far as I know. One night in the car I told my bandmates that I should write a revenge song about
104-465: The Goats hometown and have it haunt them in greenrooms and merch tables across the world. This joke came in and out of my mind until I was giving a virtual interview last Spring by Riley Soloner. Again, he mentioned the song, and again I made the revenge joke but this time I felt compelled to give it a shot." In 2023 the band toured with Koo Koo Kanga Roo and The Homeless Gospel Choir Matt Pence Matthew Louis Pence (born April 13, 1972)
117-409: The band released Art Guards on Lauren Records . The album considered a spiritual successor to Classic Creeps , features nine songs about nine different characters all grappling with their relationship to art. Similar to Creep s the characters all meet at the end of the record. Art Guards was released with a self-published mini- graphic novel drawn by Michener. Following the release of Art Guards
130-502: The band toured with AJJ in 2017. In 2017, Fishboy appeared on the podcast "Don't Feed the Artists" to promote their album Art Guards for Lauren Records . On April 2, 2021, the band released Waitsgiving, the third in the series of interconnected story songs inspired by the real life forgotten time capsule of Denton, TX. The album features 10 songs about 9 characters across three generations who are all dealing with patience and celebrate
143-411: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Fishboy . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fishboy&oldid=1234549510 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
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#1732880134960156-446: The woods in Denton, Texas . In 2006, Pence and musician / engineer Matthew Barnhart became co-owners with Willingham of his Echo Lab studio. Pence is currently the full owner of The Echo Lab. International bands from Australia, Britain, and other places, like Sweard from Spain and Horse Company from Holland, have all recorded at The Echo Lab. From 1997 until 2014, Pence played drums in the alternative country band Centro-matic . He
169-461: Was also the drummer in the Centro-matic-fueled band, South San Gabriel . Pence has also had a long-time collaboration with musician Sarah Jaffe , co-producing her 2011 record, The Way Sound Leaves a Room and her 2017 record, Bad Baby , as well as touring with Jaffe as her drummer. In 2004, Pence mixed American Music Club 's album called Love Songs For Patriots . He also recorded
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