In the words of our late, great, 32nd president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, ” Fuck em’ , stick a fork in ‘em, they are done.”
Eight years of being mildly yet loudly retarded, The Skullcranes are calling it a good run. Don’t ask why. Lets just say Jimmy quit and Joey got married, you should have known they would’nt get far, you prying judgers. Don’t judge us. Dicks.
In the last eight years we have been to Minneapolis, St Paul, Moorhead, Council Bluffs, Topeka, Lawrence, St Louis, Cedar Falls, Rockford, St Cloud, Fargo, Des Moines, Montevideo, Crystal, Iowa City, Menominee, Oshkosh, Eau Claire, Madison, LaCrosse, Beaver Dam and your mom’s house. Most of them many times. Especially your mom’s house.
We have met ALOT of really cool people and couple of dickheads here and there. We have played with bands that are Emo, Folk, Metal, New-Metal, Super-metal, Stoner Rock, Punk, Country, Hammered, Strait Edge, Hip Hop, Self-Inflated, Cutters, Republicans, Whigs, Democrats, Farmers, Growers, Buyers, Sellers, Techno, Electro, One man, Two man, Two man and a chick, 3 Chicks and dude, Native American, One chick and guitar, One bass player and a bunch of gear, funny guys, sad eyes, comedians, raffle offers, jack offers, sinners, losers and winners.
Would not trade it for anything.
We have been paid, not paid, sold some shirts and sold some C.D.’s. Gin and tonic, whiskey coke, margarita senorita, beers, teers, jeers and we have killed some bars’ supply of Jameson.
Had some of the best 3 in the morning breakfasts of all time. Some of you were there.
We’ve had vans break down. Vomited quite a bit, and stayed at a K.O.A. We’ve had no heat, no A.C. , strong smells of anti-freeze, a little blackjack and that’s a fact Jack. A little this, a little that and some pats on the back.
The Skullcranes last show will May 17th at the Northstar Roller Girls championship bout in the Minneapolis Convention Center. 10 in advance and 12 at the door.
On behalf of all of us in The Skullcranes, Thank you and CHEERS!
You never have been and never will be my favorite band and I will miss you more than words can say. It was mean of you to make Justin cry though.
I married Isis on the fifth day of May,
But I could not hold on to her very long.
So I cut off my hair and I rode straight away
For the wild unknown country where I could not
go wrong.
Comment by Amy — April 23, 2008 @ 5:25 pm
words can’t capture how much i will miss the skullcranes…
Comment by jen b — April 23, 2008 @ 6:16 pm
Well, shit.
Good luck to you all! I had hoped you boys would play at our 15th anniversary… ah well. \mm/
Onward!
Comment by Josh S. — April 24, 2008 @ 8:38 am
Your just a bunch of douche bags, fuck off and I’ll SEE YOU IN HELL!
*666*
Comment by The devil — April 24, 2008 @ 10:01 am
Fuck’em
Comment by Corey Sin — April 24, 2008 @ 10:20 am
i’m gonna cry, a lot and often!!! and judge, yes i will judge you! and cry, i will cry and miss you……
Comment by Mercedes — April 24, 2008 @ 10:20 am
Wow, you guys. Big, sad news.
Comment by megan v — April 24, 2008 @ 10:29 am
Oh man, that comment just gave me the superAIDS. Any chance you’re lying out of spite? Fuck you guys, let’s maybe talk it over a barbeque and keep the ugly bus rolling…
Comment by Tucker — April 24, 2008 @ 10:47 am
OMG…..
You guys broke up and I got pregnant! Lots of big news this year! HOLY SHIT for us all!
Wow, I never thought I would see the day this would happen to any of us!
I hope you all still date eachother though from time to time, cuz you guys can’t all the way break up….that would just be stupid!
What are you all going to do with all this new spare time you will all have? Well, I’d give ya some ideas…..but obviously, eventually, what I do in my spare time……well….someone would end up knocked up!
I love and miss you all!
Kristy~
Comment by Kristy~ — April 24, 2008 @ 11:20 am
May you burn in hell and enjoy every minute of it. Thank you for allowing the opportunity for the rest of us to get really really drunk and scream super loud.
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes. ~Henry David Thoreau
Comment by lil jenny — April 24, 2008 @ 1:01 pm
Y’all have a fuckin rock in your heads if you think that you the cruddy Convention Center local with overpriced piss beer and a shit bar is how we have to send you out. You OWE us a goddamn bbq send off or something. Unless you want us to remind you how we know where every last one of you lives…and the names of your precious pets too. Did I mention that we also won’t be paying $5 for this shit either? And the keg best not be some smack ditch beer. Cheap pricks.
Comment by ALL YOUR SCORNED, LOYAL SUPERFANS — April 24, 2008 @ 1:05 pm
Huh!
Guess I’ll have to start a Skullcranes tribute band.
Anyone know where I can pick up a used Tele?
Comment by j Ivan — April 24, 2008 @ 1:45 pm
FUCK! SHIT! DAMN! The only times I’ve gone out in the last few months was to see the Skullcranes. Now I’ve really got no reason to leave my house!
Comment by Christine — April 24, 2008 @ 4:46 pm
What will we do on snowy winter nights now???
Comment by jennieleejeans — April 24, 2008 @ 5:50 pm
As I think over the past eight years and recall my drunkest moments, my most hung over moments and the weekends I’ve lost to my couch with comfort food and shitty T.V. all while giving nothing back to society, I can only point the finger of blame in one direction.
As I look over the next eight years I see hearing aids, liver transplants, fucking weekends of sobriety and the loss to the world of all the problems that could have been solve if it weren’t for the previously mentioned eight years of waste, I can only point my finger of blame in one direction.
It’s you Skullcranes. You’re to blame. You’ve all wasted my life and most likely damned the future of the world to hell fire and tyranny with your mere excistance. And now your telling me the explanation point of this debacle is at the convention center on a shitty stage with a shitty sound system. I cry BULLSHUT! Give us, the wasted humanity, our do. Give yourselves your do. Give us the opportunity to knock glasses, tip one back and tell you all off properly.
Fuck Ya all
TtT
Comment by The Touch — April 24, 2008 @ 6:06 pm
Does that mean our Skullcranes t-shirt values are going to go through the roof? I have an never worn, size small, brown Skullcranes shirt with firebird logo. Any bids?
……………;)
Comment by ebay fan — April 24, 2008 @ 6:34 pm
The sad part is, this subject of breaking up has clearly attracted more attention then anything you have actually accomplished. Sad fuckers, just a bunch of sad fucking shit. Yeah where is the BIG BREAK UP BLOW OUT SHOW!!!
WHAT THE FUCK?!! FUCK YOU! GO SIT IN YOUR TOWER YOU IGNORANT SELFISH PBR SWILLING FUCKS!!! FUCK FUCKITY FUCK FUCK…..AND OH YEAH FUCK!!!! where else am I going to be able to post the FUCK on the internet HUH? FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUCK!!!!!
Comment by jimbo — April 24, 2008 @ 7:23 pm
Okay. It sucks. Bad. Damn it! Now we are forced to pick our new friends band that we get together for. I think we need to host a reality show like competition. It could have been call Rock of Love but that has been taken. Anyone have ideas for a name? As for criteria I need the following to commit to and proclaim a winner. The band must have…
1. A knack for picking gigs that make us venture out into inclimate weather just to get drunk and make the trek home doubley challenging.
2. Have one or more fat guys.
3. Have a player and at least one whiner.
4. Oh, and one bald guy.
5. Of course like to drink and forget even playing.
6. Having the breakfast @ Three in the morn.
7. Must have Corey and PBR partner with them for the drink special and therefore Corey getting drunk at the show and stripping.
Anyone else with criteria???
I heart you guys. All the best for the future!
It’s the death of an era that’s for sure. I don’t wanna grow up!
Comment by Stacers — April 24, 2008 @ 8:02 pm
Aw fer fucks sake.
Look what you’ve gone and done now.
I’ve had this one little bright, albiet not so shiney, kind of stinky, obnoxiously drunken, and god damned brilliant, spot: in my life and you’re going to just zap it away.
*poof*
Gone in a wisp squeky urethene wheels and ringing concrete walls?! Fuck you!
Life ain’t fair, but that right there is just cruel.
Man up ya bastards. Play somewhere we can make you appreceiate the notion of chicken wire in front of the stage.
One more, for the road.
Comment by altaholic — April 24, 2008 @ 9:31 pm
Part of me is dead now.
May something new and wonderful rise from the moldering corpse?
Comment by OGRE — April 24, 2008 @ 10:43 pm
We have a wide-open old cow pasture and access to a hog roaster if you’d like to give in for one last show. Is beer technically free if you bring your own?
Comment by Stinky Pig Woman — April 25, 2008 @ 7:04 am
Wow my sister - you know not what you offer or what my come of it!
Comment by Lisa — April 25, 2008 @ 9:03 am
As long as people throw up outside and not in the house, and no one lets the pigs out, I’m happy. It’s also a good excuse to get rid of the kids for a night. Oh how they’ll weep and wail!!
Comment by Stinky Pig Woman — April 25, 2008 @ 10:21 am
If Swampp Gass called it quits, I don’t think any one would give a flying fuck except for the guys in the band. At least you have people who will respond to your news (good or bad). Thanks for the years of rockin’, borrowing equipment (very sorry by the way), and borrowing your drummer (you should apologize to us for that). We’ll miss you fun fuckers…there’s always crystal meth guys.
Comment by Sticky — April 25, 2008 @ 10:44 am
Justin told me it HURT when he got his “SKULLCRANES 4EVER” tattoo lasered off his prick this morning. Apparently it is going to leave a scar.
Comment by Amy — April 25, 2008 @ 3:05 pm
stinky pig woman has an excellent idea—it’s been too long for it all to end at rollergirls-they don’t even sell jameson or frickin tequila there so that just won’t do
we must have our patron shots for the end! we demand it.
Comment by jen b — April 26, 2008 @ 7:08 am
Like I needed more bad news right now…hope you feel guilty. Seriously though, you guys were a really great, unique thing, and a lot of people took notice at your shows (not just your friends). Thanks for making me laugh. I want your latest t-shirt, suckers. You better save one for me.
Comment by Mollie C — April 26, 2008 @ 8:46 am
Obviously not happy to hear the news but I wanted to say ‘congrats’. A great run. And a ton of great tunes. And thanks for opening up the downloads for all the tracks.
Comment by Swede (FatCat Radio) — May 2, 2008 @ 10:29 pm
But just think what might be in store next for the feisty four: Solo careers for the members — with a limited degree of success — (including excursions into country, black metal, and an unfortunate techno project), spiraling drug problems, the eventual lawsuit and MJ’s continuing struggle with weight problems (next on Behind the Music). And of course, the eventual reunion tour where the bass player is replaced and nobody notices. Eventually they will all wind up either in Rehab, Scientology, Creedence tribute bands, and the one you always suspected of being gay finally comes out of the closet (you know who). Predictable. I expected so much more.
Comment by Erik The Red — May 4, 2008 @ 9:04 pm