The Filthy Thieving Bastards is an American

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/ punk rock group formed in 2000 in

San Francisco, California San Francisco (; Spanish for " Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California and 17th ...

. The band was originally a side project put together by

Johnny Bonnel Johnny "Peebucks" Bonnel (born August 7, 1967) is the lead singer and a songwriter of the punk rock band Swingin' Utters and the alternative punk rock band Filthy Thievin' Bastards. His new project is called Druglords of the Avenues. His nicknam ...

and

Darius Koski Darius Olavi Koski (born January 3, 1971) is the US-American lead guitarist and songwriter of the punk rock band Swingin' Utters, the alternative punk rock bands Filthy Thievin' Bastards and the Re-volts. He also works as a plumber A plumber ...

of the

Swingin' Utters Swingin' Utters (often typeset as $wingin' Utter$, and originally called Johnny Peebucks and the Swingin' Utters) is a Californian punk rock band that formed in the late 1980s.Bush, JohnSwingin' Utters Biography, Allmusic, retrieved September 30, ...

Spike Slawson Spike Slawson is an American punk rock musician, a member of Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Swingin' Utters, Filthy Thievin' Bastards, Re-Volts, and Uke-Hunt. Early life Having grown up in Pittsburgh, Slawson worked in the mail order departme ...

(also from Swingin' Utters) later joined the band, along with recording engineer Randy Burk.

Greg Lisher Greg Lisher (born 29 November 1963) is the lead guitar player for Camper Van Beethoven. He is also one of the founding members of the Camper Van Beethoven spin-off Indy prog rock group Monks of Doom. He has also released three solo records. Hi ...

from

Camper Van Beethoven Camper Van Beethoven is an American rock band formed in Redlands, California in 1983, later based in Santa Cruz and San Francisco. Their style mixes elements of pop, ska, punk rock, folk, alternative country, and world music. The band init ...

guested on guitar for several songs on their second release. Their music is influenced by

folk rock Folk rock is a hybrid music genre that combines the elements of folk and rock music, which arose in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom in the mid-1960s. In the U.S., folk rock emerged from the folk music revival. Performers suc ...

Celtic rock Celtic rock is a genre of folk rock, as well as a form of Celtic fusion which incorporates Celtic music, instrumentation and themes into a rock music context. It has been extremely prolific since the early 1970s and can be seen as a key foundat ...

, country music, 60's pop, and punk rock, with an acknowledged and oft-noted debt to the music of

The Pogues The Pogues were an English or Anglo-Irish Celtic punk band fronted by Shane MacGowan and others, founded in Kings Cross, London in 1982, as "Pogue Mahone" – the anglicisation of the Irish Gaelic ''póg mo thóin'', meaning "kiss my arse". T ...

. The project's first (short) album, ''Our Fathers Sent Us'', was released by TKO Records in 2000. In 2001, the band released ''A Melody of Retreads and Broken Quills'' on

BYO Records Better Youth Organization Records (BYO) is a Los Angeles, California based independent punk rock record label created by Shawn and Mark Stern, two of the three brothers of the California punk rock band Youth Brigade (the third being Adam Stern w ...

. The next album ''My Pappy Was a Pistol'' was released in 2005. In March 2007 Filthy Thieving Bastards released their next album ''... and I'm A Son of a Gun'' on

, featuring an appearance by Spider Stacey of the Pogues. The naming of the last two albums was a nod to American Singer/Songwriter

Roger Miller Roger Dean Miller Sr. (January 2, 1936 – October 25, 1992) was an American singer-songwriter, widely known for his honky-tonk-influenced novelty songs and his chart-topping Country music, country and pop hits "King of the Road (song), Ki ...

. The song "Drug Lords of the Avenues" is featured on the in-game soundtrack for ''

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''.

Discography

*''Our Fathers Sent Us (E.P.)'' - 2000 *''A Melody of Retreads and Broken Quills'' - 2001 *'' My Pappy Was a Pistol'' - 2005 *''I'm A Son of a Gun'' - 2007

Reviews

"''My Pappy Was A Pistol''" CD Review
by Chris Andrade fo
''kMNR''...Music News Weekly

External links

Allmusic AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands. Initiated in 1991, the databas ...

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