"peace, love and alienation" (our mantra from '82, still timely?)
Information
- Members:
- (L-R above: core franchise, est. 1981)
Xerox Feinberg, Trip Thompson, Doc Michaud
...also, at various times in the 80s:
Dollar Billy Brahm, Egg Al, Tony Serrato, Ringo Casiotone
1998 franchise: core franchise plus Bob Sargent
2003 franchise: core franchise plus Dollar Billy Brahm
2008 live franchise: Trip Thompson, Bobb Trimble, Ned Egg, Gary War
2008-09 studio franchise: Xerox Feinberg - Genre:
- Post-Punk, Garage Rock, Art Punk, Lo-Fi, Psych-Pop
- Hometown:
- Wormtown, MA
- Record Label:
- Anthology Recordings, Dramaphone USA
Favorite Pages
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Prefabs Cartoon Show #1 - "Desperately Happy"Updated about 3 months ago
Wormtown 25th Anniversary Bash - May-03-2003Updated about 4 months ago
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Basic Info
- Members:
- (L-R above: core franchise, est. 1981)
Xerox Feinberg, Trip Thompson, Doc Michaud
...also, at various times in the 80s:
Dollar Billy Brahm, Egg Al, Tony Serrato, Ringo Casiotone
1998 franchise: core franchise plus Bob Sargent
2003 franchise: core franchise plus Dollar Billy Brahm
2008 live franchise: Trip Thompson, Bobb Trimble, Ned Egg, Gary War
2008-09 studio franchise: Xerox Feinberg - Genre:
- Post-Punk, Garage Rock, Art Punk, Lo-Fi, Psych-Pop
- Hometown:
- Wormtown, MA
- Record Label:
- Anthology Recordings, Dramaphone USA
Detailed Info
- Website:
- http://www.myspace.com/theprefabmessiahs
- Current Location:
- "in swirling clouds of TV fuzz / transcending time and space..."
- Booking Agent:
- Phil Slimebarge
- Artists We Also Like:
- Television Personalities, Swell Maps, Bobb Trimble, The Modern Lovers, Blank Dogs, Black Lips, The Shaggs, The Monkees, The Fugs, Mission of Burma, The Undertones, The Chocolate Watchband, Tall Dwarfs, The Clean, Gary War, The Gizmos, Television, The Jam
- Influences:
- The 13th Floor Elevators, The Great Society, The Byrds, Gang of Four, The Blues Magoos, The Ramones, The Yardbirds
- Biography:
- "Well, the Rolling Stones come to town
Don't throw The Prefab Messiahs out of bounds
God save those dreamers
They're all that's left sometimes"
-- Bobb Trimble, "Armour of the Shroud"
The Prefab Messiahs were an eccentric US proto-lo-fi post-punk garage band associated with the "Wormtown" (Worcester, Massachusetts) punk/arts scene of the early 1980s. Together from 1981-1983, they played shows fairly often, although no recorded material was available from them until 1998's 'Devolver'... (read more)