Years Active: 1980 to present
Genre: Psych-Folk, Psychedelic Rock
Country: United States
Website: http://www.bobbtrimble.com/
Members:
Bobb Trimble (vocals / guitar)
Artist Bio:
From his official website...
Born ten years too late to attract the attention he deserved, Bobb Trimble created an utterly unique body of work that merged psychedelia, folk-rock, space music and sound effects into rocks most convincing depiction of a disturbed mind. As with most tortured artistic souls, Bobbs distinct vision is filled with much more than just fear and self-loathing. It drips with beauty and heartbreak, and his high, fragile voice bleeds with passion. The music evokes the sixties yet sounded contemporary when released in the eighties and again when re-released in the nineties. Bobbs two impossibly rare albums change hands for ungodly sums of money, and for years his reputation grew among collectors as his music was heard via tape trades (often on unlabeled tapes, which led to one male collector falling in love with the beautiful voice only to be informed that the singer was actually a man.) In the mid-90s, Bobbs music was finally made widely available when the bulk of the two albums were released on CD as Jupiter Transmission. Die-hard fans of psychedelia rate Bobbs music as the finest in the genre from the 80s.
Most of Bobbs public performances came in the......[Read More]
From his official website...
Born ten years too late to attract the attention he deserved, Bobb Trimble created an utterly unique body of work that merged psychedelia, folk-rock, space music and sound effects into rocks most convincing depiction of a disturbed mind. As with most tortured artistic souls, Bobbs distinct vision is filled with much more than just fear and self-loathing. It drips with beauty and heartbreak, and his high, fragile voice bleeds with passion. The music evokes the sixties yet sounded contemporary when released in the eighties and again when re-released in the nineties. Bobbs two impossibly rare albums change hands for ungodly sums of money, and for years his reputation grew among collectors as his music was heard via tape trades (often on unlabeled tapes, which led to one male collector falling in love with the beautiful voice only to be informed that the singer was actually a man.) In the mid-90s, Bobbs music was finally made widely available when the bulk of the two albums were released on CD as Jupiter Transmission. Die-hard fans of psychedelia rate Bobbs music as the finest in the genre from the 80s.
Most of Bobbs public performances came in the very early 80s, around the time his two albums were released. Though his musical style differed from the punk rock bands in the Wormtown (Worcester, MA) scene, his oddball loner status made him fit in quite well with his musical peers. Wormtown is credited with inspiring him to release his first album, Iron Curtain Innocence, in 1981. Soon after, Bobb, a man of many phases, decided that the children are the future and formed the punky garage band Bobb & The Kidds with a group of pre-teens. Doomed to failure due to protective and suspicious parents, the Kidds recorded only one brief song, 'Oh Baby,' which appeared on Bobbs second album, Harvest of Dreams. Compromising his vision slightly, Bobb recruited a 15-year-old rhythm section and formed the short-lived Crippled Dog Band. A Crippled Dog Band concert appears on side two of the compilation Life Beyond The Doghouse (side one of which documents Bobbs even briefer Jesus-freak phase.) The Crippled Dog Bands shining public moment came at a 1983 Worcester rock festival, when Bobb came on stage decked out in a top hat, green satin coat, bunny ears and bunny tail.
Bobb continued to record beyond Harvest of Dreams, but he never again reached the amazing heights of his two albums and this new material went unreleased. On rare occasions, Bobbs name still surfaces in the Worcester area (in 2000 he played guitar on 'Buzz Bomb,' on Abunai!s Round-Wound album), but its the reissues of the 90s and 00s that keep his legend alive.......[Read Less]