Rump Shaker (album)

Infobox Album | Name = Rump Shaker
Type = Album
Artist = Suburban Legends


Released = June 28, 2003
Recorded =
Genre = Pop rock
Third wave ska
Length = 42:30
Label = Lobster Girl Records
Brand New Hero Records

Producer = John Avila (Oingo Boingo)
Reviews = *AbsolutePunk (91%) [http://www.absolutepunk.net/showthread.php?t=98750 link]
*PunkNews.org Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.punknews.org/reviews.php?op=albumreview&id=4397 link]
Last album = "Suburban Legends (Tim Remix)"
(2002)
This album = "Rump Shaker"
(2003)
Next album = "Dance Like Nobody's Watching (2006)"

"Rump Shaker" is the second album of the third-wave ska band Suburban Legends. It was released June 28, 2003 in Los Angeles, California by Lobster Girl Records. The album initially sold 15,000 copies and was subsequently released on Brand New Hero Records in the UK. Rump Shaker was the last Suburban Legends album to feature trombonist Dallas Cook, who died in a hit-and-run motorcycle accident on October 19, 2005. It was also the last CD to feature Aaron Bertram on trumpet, Chris Maurer on bass guitar and Tim Maurer on vocals.

It was produced by John Avila, former bassist of Oingo Boingo, one of the band's major influences. In 2005, when the band was featured as ManiaTV!'s Artist of the Day, Tim Maurer jokes of the experience, "We went to [Avila's] house. We strapped him down to a bed. We played our music in the CD player 20,000 times. We fed him only a diet of oatmeal and gruel. He agreed then to produce our album. And we paid him and we thanked him and it was fun. And it was good. And it was fun." [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf_zvZM1dYQ]

Track listing

#"High Fives" – 4:24
#"You" – 3:59
#"Bright Spring Morning" – 4:04
#"Up All Night" – 4:13
#"Blingity Bling" – 2:36
#"Autumn in the Park" – 3:56
#"Powerful Game" – 3:29
#"Zanzibar" – 3:58
#"All the Nights" – 2:53
#"Do it for the Kids" – 3:52
#"Last Dance" – 5:04

Personnel

Regular members:
*Tim Maurer - vocals
*Brian Klemm - Lead guitar
*Derek Lee Rock - drums
*Chris Maurer - Bass guitar
*Aaron Bertram - Trumpet
*Vince Walker - Trumpet
*Brian Robertson - Trombone
*Dallas Cook - Trombone

Guest musicians:
*Tubazar - Tuba ("Autumn in the Park" & "Zanzibar")
*Yoko Nishiguchi, Brent Toda, Walter Tsushima & Evan Webb - from Nishikaze Taiko ("Bright Spring Morning & "Zanzibar")