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3 unusual facts about Screeching Weasel


30 Foot Fall

Touring Houston, Dallas, and Austin, 30 Foot Fall's popularity grew; they started as openers for larger bands such as Screeching Weasel and Sum-41 among others.

Crimpshrine

Cometbus played drums for Screeching Weasel and Ben Weasel and John Jughead played bass for Crimpshrine for two shows around Chicago.

Sludgeworth

The band was formed in 1989 as a side project from Screeching Weasel, a band that Dan and Brian were in.


Dan Lumley

Dan Lumley has been a drummer for many bands, including Rattail Grenadier, Squirtgun, The Riverdales, The Methadones, Even in Blackouts, The Mopes, Common Rider and Screeching Weasel.

Noise By Numbers

Noise By Numbers is pop punk band featuring Dan Schafer (Screeching Weasel, the Queers, the Methadones, Sludgeworth) and Jeff Dean (The Bomb, All Eyes West, Four Star Alarm, The Story So Far, Dead Ending).

Storm the Streets

In the liner notes to Screeching Weasel's Thank You Very Little (2000), Ben Weasel refers to Storm the Streets as a "gem" but admits that the record sold far less than its predecessor, Riverdales (1995).

The Lillingtons

They signed with Panic Button Records, an imprint of influential punk label Lookout! Records that was overseen by Ben Weasel of Screeching Weasel fame.

These Ones Are Bitter

These Ones Are Bitter is the second solo-album by Screeching Weasel front man Ben Weasel.


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Dan Vapid

The band has been inactive since March 23, 2011 when all of the members quit on Ben Weasel under bad circumstances at a Screeching Weasel show.

Even in Blackouts

The story supposedly begins in Sicily, where guitarist and "punk rock renaissance man" John 'Jughead' Pierson had been visiting his friends in the Italian band, The Manges, following the dissolution of his previous band Screeching Weasel.