Through the years, the band went through many line-up changes, with Ben and John being the only constant members since the band's inception. Screeching Weasel officially broke up for (roughly) the third - and allegedly final - time on July 6, 2001.
The band did a few surprise shows between 2001-2009.
Ben Weasel reformed the group in March 2009 with a new line-up, and without John Jughead. Ben had released solo albums that were the same just in his name. John finally settled for T-Shirt money for being an original member of the band and a royalties for a handful songs he co-wrote, and let Ben play as Screeching Weasel with the hundreds of song lyrics and music has written.
Former Members include renowned punk rock record producer Mass Giorgini on bass guitar, Dan Panic (born Dan Sullivan) on drums, and Danny Vapid (born Dan Schafer,on guitar or bass, depending on the band's necessity. Dan is currently fronting The Methadones and formerly of Sludgeworth)
Members of Screeching Weasel have gone on to form bands such as: The Methadones, The Mopes, Even in Blackouts, and Sweet Black And Blue.
Screeching Weasel has also included members of Green Day, Sludgeworth, Common Rider, Squirtgun, and Teen Idols.
During one of the band's many break-ups, Weasel and Vapid also formed the Riverdales. Additionally, Ben Weasel released a solo record in 2002 entitled Fidatevi.
In 2004 Ben Weasel rescinded all of the Screeching Weasel and Riverdales masters from Lookout! Records in the wake of long-running financial and personal conflicts. The masters were subsequently licensed to and reissued by Asian Man Records.
On December 7, 2010, it was announced that Screeching Weasel will release a new album on March 15, 2011, the band's first album in eleven years. The album will be titled First World Manifesto and will be released on Fat Wreck Chords. It will contain 14 new songs and is produced by Mike Kennerty of The All-American Rejects. It was announced that the label will also be releasing the back catalogs of Screeching Weasel, the Riverdales, and Ben Weasel.
On March 18, 2011, during Screeching Weasel's South by Southwest Festival performance at the Scoot Inn in Austin, Texas, Foster reached from the stage and slapped a female audience member who had spit on him several times. This sent off a fire storm web frenzy from all of the self -righteous non Screeching Weasel fans. Ben apologized for his actions, but all of the perfect people who never loose there cool were not satisfied.
Ben and his hired band had a falling out. He found out who his true friends and fans were. After over a year of spending time with his family and raising a new baby, he released Carnival of Schadenfreude EP in 2011 with huge interest and has resumed his music career again full swing.
Punkhouse
Screeching Weasel Lyrics
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The lyrics of Screeching Weasel's song, "Punkhouse," celebrate the DIY ethos of the punk rock community by inviting listeners to join the singer in his ramshackle living space. The punk house is portrayed as a space where anything goes, a non-stop party where "there's always something happening here." The inhabitants of the punk house are proud of their unconventional lifestyle, which values experience and community over conformity and material success. Instead of working for "somebody else," they have created their own autonomous space where they can be themselves, regardless of societal norms or expectations.
Line by Line Meaning
if you need a place to stay welcome to the punk house
If you're looking for somewhere to stay, you're welcome to join us in our punk house.
it's a party every day living in a punk house
Every day is a party when you live in a punk house.
stay awhile and sit and smoke a cigarette la la la la
Feel free to relax and stay awhile. Take a seat and enjoy a cigarette. La la la la.
thers's always something happening here when you're in a punk house
Living in a punk house means there's always something exciting going on.
cheap food and even cheaper beer are always in a punk house
If you're hungry or thirsty, you'll always find cheap food and beer in a punk house.
jump up and down, dance on the couch stuff a potato in your mouth la la la
Let loose and have some fun. Jump around, dance on our couch, and eat a potato while you're at it. La la la.
life goes by way too fast to spend it working for somebody else it don't make any sense
Life is too short to spend it working for someone else. It doesn't make any sense.
if you like it here why don't you stay
If you enjoy living here, why not stay?
don't want to work? well that's o.k. cause no-one else here wants to get a real job
If you don't feel like working, that's fine. No one else in the punk house wants a real job either.
come on down, hang out with us hang out at a punk house
Come join us at the punk house and hang out with us.
don't mind all the filth and grime and muck cause it's just a punk house
Don't be too bothered by the dirt and mess in our punk house. It's part of the experience.
spaghetti stains on the walls and creepy insects in the halls we'll have a ball
Our walls might have spaghetti stains and we might have some creepy insects in the halls, but we'll still have a ball.
young and dirt poor and having fun and we're never growing up
We're young, broke, and having fun. We refuse to grow up.
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