Welcome to The Grand Tour, a regular feature where
PHXmusic.com takes you inside practice spaces, tour vans and seedy
apartments occupied by Phoenix-area bands.This week we give you a
look inside the industrial cozy space of Tempe-based punk band Rumspringer.
If you would like your band featured, tweet @PHXmusicdotcom. If you've got musician friends, encourage them to get off their asses and invite us over to where they park those asses.
Rumspringer (drummer Mikey, bassist Matt, guitarist Wes) play pop-punk. Don' tune out yet. This is the good stuff. Like, the kind of jams Green Day used to write before they decided to be an arena rock act. Stuff that would fit in perfectly on the vintage Recess Records roster.
The guys will be rocking the newly re-opened Nile Basement on March 24th with Off With Their Heads and Dead To Me.
Smells Like:Last week I whined that all the practice spaces I've visited have been just a bit too squeaky clean for my taste. Rumspringer's abode was a real rock n' roll hideaway: pizza boxes tosses about, littered with beer cans, hazy with cigarette smoke. When I visited on Tuesday night, the boys were holed up inside "Fuck City Studios" working on their new album, but they also practice there, and as Mikey showed me, take great pride in their toilet.
Most cherished piece of gear: Situated in an industrial park in West Tempe, the boys actually built an entire room inside a room, which serves as a recording booth and practice space, while the main room houses a giant television for Tony Hawk tournaments. The room-inside-a-room also offers some refuge from the hazy smell of car paint: "Yeah, the guy next door runs a body shop, so sometimes this place is just flooded with that smell, and you just start gagging," says Mikey.
Odds
n' ends: The band shares its space with other acts, so every corner is crammed with amps, drums and assorted nick-knacks, giant Darth Vader heads, vintage tattoo-style art, and most nostalgia inducing for me, a Parkway Wretch shirt, an ancestor band of Rumspringer, from Coolidge, AZ where I (and some members of Rumspringer) had the unique fortune of growing up.
A peculiar point of pride...
Drum bank...
Mikey shared a story about the rejection notice his old band got from Billy Joe...
Classic Parkway...
Just like the place on "Ace of Cakes," only, you know.
<p>Excellent post, thanks. Can you expand on the first point in more detail please?</p>
<p>Regarding the Rumspringer: Inside Their Punk Rock Clubhouse - Phoenix Music - Up on the Sun subject, Most potential buyers only see the external appearance of the house without realizing that behind the beautiful facade might be hundreds of dollars worth of underlying problems.</p>
<p>lol @ wedding planner/divorce attorney.</p>
<p>that show will be awesome. congrats to tim and julie!</p>
<p>I wanna be as cool as NY Wedding Planner one day.</p>
<p>I wanna be as wicked awesome cool as Johnny Volume one day - maybe when I'm older.</p>
<p>What the fuck?</p>
<p>Hiring the right wedding planner will make your special day even better! Everything will be taken care of according as to how you would do it yourself. Seriously consider spending a little more money for a more satisfying result.</p>
<p>Im so thrilled, I ive got to get everything perfect for the day, its coming up very soon</p>
<p>These clowns are playing an awesome show with other clowns the weekend of my birthday, and the week before my wedding. Sat. March 27th @ Yucca Tap Room. <br />
21+ FREE!<br />
The Other Clowns.<br />
Slow Death. (MN)<br />
Casket Life.<br />
Chortys (Mikey's other band's 1st show)<br />
Ready The Jet. (LA)<br />
Good Men Die Like Dogs.</p>
<p>i've pooped there</p>
<p>Billy Joe Armstrong is looking good. Also just an FYI New Times, Frankie Muniz has recently joined Rumspringer as their maracas and castanets player/go go dancer</p>
<p>luckily mikey came up with a plan for the bands to trade off cleaning the bathroom. unluckily, nobody listens to mikey. :(</p>
<p>THAT is fucking awesome. This article makes me miss the old Compound.</p>
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