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Members: Aaron (Vocals&Guitar), Scotty (Trumpet), Danny (Trombone), The Rabbit (Drums), Johnny (Trumpet), Derek (Bass)

REEL BIG FISH WORLD TOUR!!!!!
Sorry about this being a little late up, but the Fish are starting their world tour. Well, they're quarter of the way through actually....

Dates to come soon


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Monkeys For Nothin And The Chimps For Free


After more than 15 years of conveying negative vibes, warning listeners about the dangers of being in a band and lamenting their time in the music industry (case in point: the band's radio hit, "Sell Out"), the members of Southern California ska-punk stalwarts Reel Big Fish want to let the world know of a big change: They're finally happy.

Some of that happiness stems from being released from their former label's contract. "We're very happy to be off the major label because they didn't understand us," says front man Aaron Barrett. "They didnt know what to call us, how to market us or who to market us to. They are used to pre-packaged pop and radio-ready rock and I think we were just too weird for them to comprehend. So eventually they just ended up doing nothing."

Freed from such obligations, Reel Big Fish is finally releasing its first independent studio album since leaving its former label. The self-produced Monkeys For Nothin And The Chimps For Free finds the members of Reel Big Fish doing things their way. In fact, it features material done their way, from quite a long ways back.

"We decided we were going to do a B-sides and rarities thing, but we didn't have anything to release, so we were going to re-record some things that we were going to call B-sides and rarities," explains Barrett. "But then we realized that most of that stuff no one had ever heard, so it wasn't really B-sides and rarities, it was just new songs. But those weren't good enough, so we wrote some new songs that were actually new, and suddenly we're making a new album."

Constantly road-bound, Reel Big Fish squeezed three weeks between tour dates to write, rehearse and record 19 songs at Music Inc. Studios in Orange County. Late night tracking sessions ensued, with some band members only hearing the songs two or three times before actually recording them. However, despite the seemingly rushed production schedule, Barrett, who also served as producer, insists that the band's latest was probably one of the easiest albums he's ever created.

"I like how it all came out," he says. "Usually when we make a new album there's so much pressure. Theres the pressure you put on yourself to create something new and different and hopefully better than before. Theres the record company expecting you to write a single and pressure to please the fans and it feels like everyone's expecting so much from Reel Big Fish. But this time, it all happened in such a roundabout way. It's like, oh, wait, we just made a new album!? Cool! We didnt feel any pressure to do anything except go into the studio and have a good time recording!"

Some of the 17 tracks on Monkeys For Nothin And The Chimps For Free are re-recorded versions of rejected album demos dating back to 1999. Others are culled from the band's Cheer Up! album sessions that didn't necessarily fit into the scheme of the original album, plus there are even a few re-recorded tracks from the band's debut album, Everything Sucks. Still, most of the album's tracks are brand new songs that Barrett had been brewing over the past couple years.

So, what exactly is featured on the band's latest? Expect weirder and sillier and even a little something that's missing. "Actually, this album doesn't really have any talk about being in a band," Barrett says, noting that there's just a little mention in one song. "There's not a lot of complaining and bitching. It's a lot more fun and funny."

Monkeys For Nothin And The Chimps For Free covers classic Reel Big Fish fare, including random gibberish, love songs, hate songs and even songs about girlfriends (even though the band members are all married now) and drinking. "It's everything you ever wanted, needed and never expected from Reel Big Fish," notes Barrett.

From the insane, nonsensical "Party Down" ("Every part of the song makes me laugh out loud," says Barrett, "it's ridiculous") to the reggae-rolled "Slow Down," the profane "Another F. U. Song" ("It says the F-word about thirty times in a like, a minute-a-half," Barrett adds, "so the parents will love that one") and the time-tested ska-punk cut "A New Version Of You," Monkeys For Nothin And The Chimps For Free is the Reel Big Fish you've known and loved, with some new attitude.

"The best thing about us now is that we're not trying so hard. We're just having fun making music," says Barrett. "I think everybody is in a good place now and we're a better band. We're happy
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REEL BIG FISH LAUNCHES SUMMER US TOUR ON JULY 3RD IN KANSAS CITY WITH COHEADLINERS LESS THAN JAKE AND SPECIAL GUESTS STREETLIGHT MANIFESTO, AGAINST ALL AUTHORITY

BAND TO RELEASE NEW CD ENTITLED MONKEYS FOR NOTHIN AND THE CHIMPS FOR FREE JULY 11

There aint no party like a Reel Big Fish party and the OC band is preparing to launch their annual madcap summer tour extravaganza with Less Than Jake Streetlight Manifesto and Against All Authority.

Planning to preview songs from their upcoming Monkeys For Nothin And The Chimps For Free release due out July 11 on Rockridge Music) the new disc will feature 17 soon soon to be classic Reel Big Fish songs. Its everything you ever wanted needed and never expected from Reel Big Fish.

Emancipated from their major label hell, the boys in Reel Big Fish are excited to be making music on their terms and are even more elated to take their new batch of uproarious songs directly to their fans.

Leave the tude at the door and prepare to shake your ass. Reel Big Fish is coming back to town!

Also...

Please DON'T buy the new "Greatest Hit..." album!! Read on For Details

Damn the Man!! Hey friends! So Jive records (our former label) is putting out an RBF greatest hits CD called "Greatest Hit...and more" because they see how well our live album is doing and they pretty much just want to screw us any way they can! They see that there's still money to be made from the Reel Big Fish so they are trying to get a last little piece! There's really nothing we can do to stop them since they own ALL our previous recordings! Anyway, tell all your friends NOT to buy the new greatest hit CD, it's really not that cool, it's just stuff from our 4 studio albums that you ALREADY have (you do have all the RBF albums right!?)!! and if you do decide to pick it up, we still love ya, as long as people are enjoying our music in some way or another ya know!? We're just glad to have people listening! thanks so much for supporting RBF, you guys rule!!

Another Reason NOT to buy "Greatest Hit" from Jive Current mood: Horrified So Jive just sent us a box of the "Greatest Hit" album (how nice of them) and i couldn't resist popping it in the old CD player and checking it out. To my absolute horror i realized that they did a really awful re-mastering job and made all the music sound like CRAP!! it sounds like somebody went in and cranked up the low end and now the bass and kick drum are obnoxiously loud (we're not hip hop you Jive turkeys, isn't that why you dropped us!?)!! Also, it sounds like they put a ton of compression on everything and now there are no dynamics! (compression is an effect that is used to smooth out recordings by making everything the same level, in this case to make all the songs the same volume) They must have had some unpaid intern put this thing together, maybe someone from the mail room or possibly just someone off the street who happened to be walking by?! Jive continues to screw us every chance they get! I'm sure most people wouldn't notice but i do and it pisses me off!! Anyway, don't let anyone you know (or don't know) waste their hard earned cash on this piece of crap!! thanks for all your support, we'll see ya!!! RBF