Talk:Phunk Junkeez

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I appreciate your editing to give the Junkeez a nice wiki entry. As a founding member of the band, I have recently had time to add some, what I deem are significant insights into the history of the band. I've added some citations to confirm some of the claims made in my earlier edits. Some of the material is interesting insight from those of us that were there at the time. Please respect these edits. With a little searching, you could have seen that these are factual. For instance, Google the Sugar and Spice or the American Werewolf in Paris soundtrack and you will see that we have songs on each of these albums. Also, check your linear notes on our albums and you will see that Ross Robinson produced tracks such as "The Roach Clip" on Injected and the our late friend "Jeff Poe" produced SDRR. The latter is a particularly important addition to the Junkeez history as Jeff was a good friend to all of us and his work with us was very appreciated given his talent and work with bands such as GnR and Santana. Further, I re-arranged some paragraphs to appear in a more sequential order. Also many former band and crew members have gone on to very well-known bands and I think Junkeez fans and those seeking information should be aware of this. Next, a great deal of the material you have posted is plagarized from the Phoenix New Times article "Overdose", which only featured an interview with two members of the band. I've added some quotations where appropriate, but there is much more history out there than this single article. There are several other New Times articles on our band - notable a 1997 article regarding Fear of a Whack Planet and our record contract with Trauma. Please feel free to add to the wiki entry from this article since it does contain a lot of interesting information about the band during that time period.


 * Again, I appreciate you wanting to give us a good wiki entry, but please do a little more research before changing these edits and defer to those of us that were actually in the band.

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PJ - Early Years...

It needs to be clear that Dalyla and Devil Woman did not reference the incident which led to the exit of Reznik. These were songs that were written with a lot of history and circumstance during a time in the bands earlier days where lines were blurred between those members who were dating and just enjoying the company of certain fans. The issue noted in the NewTimes article was later in the bands life after the Injected album was released.

While many of the songs written seemed like folklore, during the earlier days with Reznik and Valente leading the band, these all directly referenced our crew's lives growing up. Going down to Buckeye - our trip(s) to Rocky Point Mexico... What the fuck Chuck - Our buddy Chuck's death after leaving Mike "Kingpin" Shumaker's wedding... Loud - In rememberence of the days back when Kiss rocked the house and some of us dressed out for high school...  Radio Sucks and Hip-Hop Rock and Roll - Referencing the days when we hit Watts (LA) and hung in Hollywood working with A&R and Management people trying to break the band (WBR)...  and so on.

Reznik was instrumental in giving the "punk edge" to the music, stage show and attitude of the band which came from the days of School Harassment (Reznik and Shumaker (and What the Fuck Chuck Lemeux) - punk band 1983-1985) while Valente was truly a talent briging a level of incredible energy to the dancing / DJ'ing and soon after singing/rapping to the whole thing. A really well rounded base of talent that ran so hot and was so unique at the time that it really was no surprise it burned out early. During this hot period, the PhunkJunkeez undoubtedly influenced many acts that had a more marketable presence. Ice-T (BodyCount), NoDoubt, 311 to name a few.

During the early days as well it was ALWAYS our focus to keep the band from becoming another "Hit it big then support the fame train" Gin Blossoms type bar band making $500 a night and turning what was supposed to be an experience of a lifetime into a regular "Job". We always felt that doing 3-4 Rave style shows per year that grossed the members enough to live relatively well was the way to go. We paired these shows with heavy merchandising and various other opportunities that made the whole event feel like, well... an "EVENT". It acted to kept the demand for each function rediculously high and gave us the sell out crowds every time. These shows were truly engineering feats! The coordinating... from promotions to grip and setup work went off crazy big considering the left hand really had little communication with the right. Thanks still has to go to all the support of the fans that became crew stepping in and doing whatever was needed. Between these rave shows there were the SilverDollar (and other) shows where we brought in talant like De-La-Soul, GWAR and other big names to open up the shows for us. At that high point, we could not only keep 100% of the door but also demand a nice % of the bar sales as well.... ohhhhh the good old days!

After Reznik was ousted, the band continued as described in the main page of the band.

Mike Shumaker

I rule
I'm working on finding appropriate places for the "misc" data that previous users have added, other than that I've done a ton of editing to make the article as a whole look much nicer and more accurate. ^^ --Ch3mi0n (talk) 20:30, 2 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Recently there have been a number of edits from one anonymous user. Many facts were removed by this anon and a lot of claims were made that could not be confirmed. Please, if you edit this article, cite your references when possible and don't delete anything (unless you can show a reliable source reference that proves it to be false information). I have worked hard to ensure what is currently in the article is fact to the best of my knowledge/research (so far all information edited by myself is true and accurate). If you do remove information, label your edits and please post a message here in the discussion/talk as to why it was removed or why you thought the information was innaccurate/unnecessary. If there is no valid reason given or no discussion why an edit has been made, I will first check if the claims are factual and if I cannot prove one way or another I will undo the edit.


 * The Phunk Junkeez get enough misinformation, slander, and outright ignorant rumors about their history and certain members (and ex-members) as it is without fueling them by writing fiction on their article. The band deserves to have information in this article as accurate and truthful as possible. Also, past band members themselves deserve mention in the article because they are relevant to the overall history of the band, so do not remove past members or founding members.


 * I only ask this because of how much time and effort I spent cleaning up this article. Thank you. --Ch3mi0n (talk) —Preceding undated comment was added at 00:44, 30 September 2008 (UTC).

anonymous: there are only 5 guys that know the whole story, and you are not one of those 5. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.230.44.181 (talk) 02:26, 2 April 2010 (UTC)

Chuck
I always thought Chuck, from the Injected album, was their biggest hit. It certainly was here in Australia. It got played all the time on JJJ. But there's no mention of it on this page. It's not even listed as a single. RobertCWebb (talk) 05:49, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I got this reply from Ch3mi0n on my personal talk page, which I'll post here since it's relevant and so I can reply:
 * "Chuck" by the Phunk Junkeez was never released as a single, that's why it hasn't been given special mention. It's a great song though. :) Ch3mi0n (talk) 05:37, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Thinking about it, I can't imagine the song being released in America as too much of the song would have to be bleeped out. Here in Australia however it's not such a problem.  It was played on high rotation here on TripleJ and I'd be very surprised if they'd done that when it hadn't been available as a single.  How does one find out such things? RobertCWebb (talk) 03:05, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
 * You might try google for some sort of billboard charts of australia. In fact, I'll see if I can dig anything up. Ch3mi0n (talk) —Preceding undated comment was added at 00:25, 30 September 2008 (UTC).

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 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/20080511171202/http://www.phunkjunkeez.com/ to http://www.phunkjunkeez.com/

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