Jerome T. Youngman
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Jerome T. Youngman is an American rock singer, songwriter, and record producer, (born September 15, 1951 in Detroit, Michigan), best known for his hits "Creeps at my Door" and "Blood for Oil", and TV host of the Talk show Bring it to Jerome.
Career
For the past 40 years Jerome T. Youngman has been local musician, social activist, and founder of significant bands in Detroit: Motor City Mutants, Super Jerome’s Magic Band, Licking Stick, Hollywood: Punk, Ripper, The Flys, Invisible Government of the World, Too Many Gods, Mutant Press, Honolulu: Margin of Error, and New York City: Hooks.
From his elementary school cavorting with fellow student Ted Nugent, to drunken jam session with Canned Heat and The Mothers of Invention, to backing up early Madonna on New York cable TV, touring with Duran Duran, standing in N.Y.C. lines with Iggy Pop, Keith Richards, and various New York Dolls. "I'm still alive..." brags Jerome "and that’s my major accomplishment to date. I hope the planet survives long enough for me to make more records."
Jerome’s musical influences are Igor Stravinsky, John Lee Hooker, Bo Diddley, The Fugs, The Velvet Underground, and Brian Eno.
As a Social Worker, Jerome has worked with runaway teenagers, abused children, mentally ill, gangs, drug addicts, and homeless families. In Hollywood, California, Jerome worked for the Travelers Aid Society[1] at the Teen Canteen drop-in center as a counselor and outreach worker with runaway homeless teenagers. In Detroit, he worked for the Family First Program. His job was to walk the street and visit homeless shelters to counsel and recruit homeless families to the Target Home program. Jerome has also worked for several Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) programs that provide support services to the mentally ill community.
Bands
Super Jerome's Magic Band
In 1965, Jerome’s family moved to Kalamazoo, Michigan where he attended Loy Norrix High School. In 1967, at the early age of 16 years old, Jerome started a band with school mates called Super Jerome's Magic Band. This eclectic band consisted of two saxophones, one trumpet, a guitar, a harp, a bass, and drums. Super Jerome’s Magic Band performed many times at the club Crazy Horse in Kalamazoo. At their appearance on May 5, 1968, "they completely destroyed two guitars, one television set, and a washing machine. Jerome explained that the band was out for personal satisfaction rather than money."[2]
Motor City Mutants
After a near fatal car accident in September 1969, Jerome retreated to Amsterdam to recuperate and conceptualize his next musical project.
What emerged in the Summer of 1970 was Motor City Mutants, a high-energy urban blues rock band. The band debuted on January 1971 at Ann Arbor Union Ballroom. This performance featured the dissection of several dead animals the band found along I-94 on the way to the performance. Motor City Mutants original band members were Bob (Mutant) Tremain on electric piano, Julius Rodgers on drums, James Graves on vocals, Don Kloss on bass, Tom Morwatts and Jerome T. Youngman on guitars. The Motor City Mutants band quickly gained a hardcore following and the band lasted for over ten years. In January 1974, Jerome left the band and moved to Hollywood, California.
Punk
Punk was Jerome's first Hollywood band in 1974. Punk was managed by Roy MacMillan from Dynamic Recording in West Covina, California where the band shared rehearsal space with Van Halen and Wall of Voodoo. Band members were Jerome T. Youngman on guitar, Steve (Liberty) Loria on bass, and Lee Jenkins on drums. In October 1974, Punk performed at Rodney Bingenheimer's English Disco on the Sunset Strip. Punk broke up a year later after Jerome’s unsuccessful suicide attempt that injured his left hand.
Jerome's suicide attempt caused permanent neural damage to his left hand and he was unable to play guitar for over a year. During his recovery, best friend and drummer Phil Cohen suggested they form a new band with Jerome playing keyboards. Jerome and Phil created several new songs including the infamous Photo Dating Queen, and The Flys were born. Jerome gradually began playing guitar again, but could only play two string bar chords due to his inability to feel his left hand. In 1976, The Flys opened for The Ramones at Svens Smoke House in Redondo Beach, California. The Ramones inspired Jerome and his confidence soon returned. A leaner, more minimal guitar style began to emerge.
Jerome’s next Hollywood project was called Ripper. Ripper was a good hard rock band and played most of the Hollywood clubs, including The Troubadour, Starwood, and The Masque. The band soon disintegrated because of major personality problems and lack of quality vocals. Ripper recorded three songs were recorded at that session. Jerome T. Youngman’s "Creeps at my Door", "Trapped like a Rat", and "Unter der Faust", a German version of The Rolling Stones "Under my Thumb". This German version puts a fascist twist to the original sexist version, since "Unter der Faust" means under my fist. The original Ripper recording of "Unter der Faust" featured Jerome’s heavy duty style rhythm guitar, and the recording was also to feature "Creeps at my Door". After moving to NYC, with drummer Quito Ecuador to form Hooks, Jerome’s rhythm guitar tracks were deleted. This deletion turned the heavy punk version into a light new wave pop recording. The songs were released on Bomp! Records and "Creeps at my Door" was omitted from this record.
Hooks
Hooks was a five piece band that was dedicated to the simplicity that is the heart of Rock and roll. The band managed to combine this simplicity with intense rhythms and outstanding melodies constructed and arranged by Jerome T. Youngman. Hooks began its musical odyssey in Hollywood in December 1978 when singer Sharon 7 teamed up with guitarist Jerome T. Youngman and drummer Quito Ecuador to record a demo of the Exciters' 1960s hit, "Tell Him". The results were a tremendous updating that featured the embryo of the sound that was to become the trademark of Hooks. Seeing that there was chemistry between the players, Sharon 7 suggested that Jerome and Quito pack their bags and move to New York, so they could start a band. In New York, keyboardist J. Elliot joined them and after months of searching for the perfect bass guitarist, Hooks found one in Lew Mazzeo. The band guitarist and composer Jerome T. Youngman’s high energy guitar playing was partly responsible for Hooks’ uniqueness. Youngman’s minimal guitar playing influenced Hooks' sound by giving it a raw Motor city energy. Hooks single "Lipstick on Your Collar" and "Young and Boring" was produced by Roy Cicala and Sam Ginsberg of the Record Plant. Hooks appeared live with Duran Duran, the Ramones, Iggy Pop, Yachts, Kasim Sulton, The Beat, 3D, The Mix, Sylvain Sylvain, Klaus Nomi, and others. Hooks was featured on a NBC nightly news segment in 1982 that explored the phenomena of the Music Building on 8th avenue, in the heart of NYC Garment District. Madonna (entertainer) lived in the Music Building with her girlfriend, Camille from 1980 to 1982. In 1982, she recruited Jerome, Quito and Lou to create two original songs for her and back her up for a live performance on the Uncle Floyd Show. Jerome left Hooks in 1983 after disagreements with the record producers. Jerome returned to Detroit to complete his academic studies and in April 28, 1983, Jerome obtained a B.A. in Psychology from Wayne State University. He quickly returned to Hollywood after graduation and formed Too Many Gods.
Too Many Gods
In 1983 Jerome T. Youngman moved back to Los Angeles, California. In 1985, he released his first solo effort I neeed More as Reverend Jerome T. Youngman. Then Jerome created a band of machines called Too Many Gods. Too Many Gods was the first one person techno punk band to ever exist. For the first time, with the invention of MIDI in 1983, a one person pre-programmed live performance band became possible. With the assistance of Shelly, a dancer, Too Many Gods became regulars at the Limbo Lounge in the West Hollywood underground punk-disco drag queen scene. Too Many Gods evolved into Mutant Press.
In 1990, Jerome T. Youngman started Mutant Press, a political hard rock band in Hollywood, California. Mutant Press first job was headlining international act at the LUC club in Mexico City in 1990.
In 1992, Jerome and the Mutant Press project moved to Michigan, "to re-connect with my roots?" mumbles Jerome. He obtained a Social Worker license and worked for many Detroit social agencies with homeless and mentally ill populations. From 1996 to 2004, Jerome managed 500 Pound Weasel Records, his recording studio in Southfield, Michigan. He released fourteen Mutant Press albums and produced over 200 CD's for local Rap, Hip hop, and Punk Rock Detroit artists.
Frank Moore (Love Underground Visionary Revolution) from San Francisco joined the creative team after the 2004 Mothers’ Day performance at Kimos.[3] The same year, artist Mikee Labash created the art for the album Evil. In 2005 after the death of his parents, Jerome returned to California and produced the Mutant Press album Idiots Rule with Steve Loria (Spirit (band)) on bass guitar and Phil Cohen (The Heaters) on drums. Josie Cotton performed a cover of the Mutant Press song Creeps at my Door on her 2006 release entitled Movie Disaster Music [4].
Mutant Press has received outstanding reviews. In 2003, Blood for Oil appeared in Robert Christgau's Choice Cuts in The Village Voice[5]. Amy Goodman opened her show Democracy Now! with this song. Blood for Oil was first recorded for the 2003 album of the same name that was a Mutant Press tribute to the The Fugs. Jerome was inspired by friend Tuli Kupferberg to record this album in an attempt to expose the masses to Tuli's sadly over looked but brilliant band, The Fugs.
In 2007, Robert Christgau wrote about Mutant Press[6] “if the MC5 hadn't kicked the bucket, they'd be older and greyer than these guys, but not louder, or more revolutionary".
Discography
Albums
- No Deposit No Return (Hooks) (1981)
- Safe Sex (Mutant Press) (1990)
- Bob had a Gerbil (Mutant Press) (1992)
- Ultra Black (Mutant Press) (1993)
- Damage Guy (Mutant Press) (1996)
- Bring it to Jerome (Mutant Press) (2000)
- Strung Out On You (Mutant Press) (2001)
- World of Fuzz (Mutant Press) (2002)
- Mutant Press (Mutant Press) (2003)
- Blood for Oil (Mutant Press and Friends) (2003)
- Hole in my Heart (Mutant Press) (Mutant Press) (2003)
- Evil (Mutant Press) (2004)
- Slave to Fashion (Mutant Press) (2005)
- Idiots Rule (Mutant Press) (2006)
- Music for Elevators (Mutant Press) (2007)
Singles
- Unter der Faust (Ripper) (1977)
- Lipstick on Your Collar (Hooks)(1983)
- Young and Boring (Hooks)(1983)
- Creeps at my Door (Hooks) (1983)
- I Need More (Reverend Jerome T. Youngman) (1985)
Filmography
Soundtracks
- Dead Leaves (film) (2005) Film Director: Constantin Werner
Awards
- Bring It To Jerome (Best Cable TV Show) Metro Times Best of Detroit Reader's Poll (1995)
References
- ^ "http://www.tasla.org/" TASLA Travelers Aid of Los Angeles
- ^ Margaret Sutherland (May 16, 1968)) Loy Norrix High School Newspaper
- ^ "http://www.eroplay.com/cave/FetishRituals/index.html" The Fetish Rituals Of Obsession Of Mutant Mother Lovers Of The Motor City And Other Armpits Of Civilization! Mother's Day, Sunday, May 9, 2004.
- ^ "http://columns.ink19.com/outsight/outsightBestOf2007.html" Outsight Best of 2007 Interview with Jerome T. Youngman
- ^ ”http://www.villagevoice.com/music/0325,christgau,44871,22.html” Diffusion Rools by Robert Christgau, June 17th, 2003
- ^ "http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cg2007-02.php" Dean of American Rock Critics - Consumer Guide, February-March 2007
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