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This article is about the Texan punk rock band, for the Californian Rock band see Top Jimmy & The Rhythm Pigs The Rhythm Pigs were a punk band, originally from El Paso, Texas, later relocated to San Francisco. Their first two albums were among the first to be released by the influential independent Mordam Records label. Their first 7" EP is a classic example of early hardcore, welding driving rock and roll with broad melodies and varied tempos and hooks. Their first two studio albums showed more "big tent" punk, with varied musical styles (such as the foray into rap in "Break or We'll Break Your Face" on their self-titled LP) happily shoehorned into melodic punk songs. Touring extensively throughout Europe and North America throughout the mid-1980s, the Rhythm Pigs were one of the most sophisticated and musically diverse hardcore bands, and remained so throughout the 1980s as hardcore became more and more musically conservative. That the wistful and melodic power-ballads of ''El Paso'' would not be considered punk by most adherents has as much to do with the shifting definition of punk as it does with the mellowing of the band's sound. ''Baby Falcon Getaway'' saw a return to a more raw, fast-paced hard rock sound (the three out-and-out hardcore songs on ''El Paso'' are collected into a single track titled "The Fast Three") combined with the more humorous tone seen on the first album. ''Baby Falcon Getaway'' included a hardcore cover of the Gordon Lightfoot classic "Sundown" and a furiously paced rendition of Charles Mingus's "Boogie Stop Shuffle," which recalled the ''Peanuts'' theme (Vince Guaraldi's Linus and Lucy) from the first album. ==Personnel== *1st LP: Jay Smith, Greg Adams, Ed Ivey *2nd LP: Kenny Craun, Greg Adams, Ed Ivey (Don Holmes, "Main Man", LP engineered by Spot) *''I'm Not Crazy, I'm an Airplane'' Billy Atwell from th' Inbred replaces Kenny on drums(engineered by Jeroen Visser). * ''El Paso'': Jay Smith, Greg Adams, Ed Ivey * ''Baby Falcon Getaway'' Shmeckie, Jay Smith, Ed Ivey, John Terry * 'Construction' EP Ed Ivey, John Terry, Jay Smith Ed Ivey currently plays sousaphone in San Francisco's Brass Monkey Brass Band. Ed and Billy Atwell appear as themselves in the documentary "A Texas Tale of Treason" about the making of Waldo's Hawaiian Holiday, a Repo Man sequel film (). Billy Atwell is a composer/producer for hire in the NYC metro area. Jay Smith has played in Bay Area bands: Tragic Mullato, GDKs, Cinnamon Girls, Sonic Brain Jam and Gone to Ground. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rhythm Pigs」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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