CKY "Volume 2" Pic Disc LP Distant Vinyl Co. (US)

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Track Listing:

A1 Foolin A2 Shippensburg A3 Intermission A4 Rio Bravo (remix) A5 Bran's Freestyle A6 Fat Fuck A7 Testing A8 Foreign Objects #10 A9 Santa's Coming B1 Strippers B2 Two 20s & My Change B3 Fuck Your Day Up B4 Dr. Mirdock B5 Dog Fence B6 Ass Voice B7 QVC B8 Rambo B9 Centerstarship Survey B10 Vacuum B11 GI Joe B12 Mrs. McConnell

CKY (sometimes stylized cKy) is an American band that formed in in 1998. Traditionally centred around core members (vocals, guitar), (guitar, vocals) and (drums), the band shares its name with a produced by , brother of drummer Jess. CKY is closely linked with the , and their music is often featured on the crew's productions including the and television series.

The band was originally formed as Camp Kill Yourself with live bassist Ryan Bruni. He was replaced by Vernon Zaborowski in 2000, who was later fired from the band in 2004. joined in 2005 as the first full-time bassist of the band, but left in May 2010 and was replaced by Matt "Matty J" Janaitis, previously a live keyboardist with the group. In 2011 frontman Deron Miller left the band, and in 2012 he was replaced with vocalist . On July 20, 2013, Miller posted on his official Facebook page that he was back in CKY, and would have a new CKY record out by 2014. CKY has released four studio albums.

1992–1998: Formation and early years

The foundations of CKY can be traced back to 1992, when vocalist/guitarist Deron Miller and drummer Jess Margera met at in their hometown of West Chester, Pennsylvania. The two became friends and began performing music together soon after, forming band in 1994 and releasing EP the following year. Miller and Margera later changed their approach to making music and formed new "radio-friendly" band Oil (stylised oiL) in 1996, with live bassist Andy Smith, and released their debut EP Lifeline in the summer. Ryan Bruni, who Miller and Margera met working at , later replaced Smith, and remained with the band (as CKY) until 2000.

Oil recorded new material in January 1997, which was released as a self-titled EP later in the year, and began recording their first full-length album at Holland, Pennsylvania studio The Groundhog in November. During these sessions, Miller and Margera met , a and working in Pennsylvania at the time, who they asked to join as a full-time member of the band; impressed by the duo's song "Disengage the Simulator", Ginsburg agreed to join as a guitarist. The band refer to the addition of Ginsburg as "the true beginning of CKY." In 1998, the band dropped the name Oil and replaced it with Camp Kill Yourself, proposed by Miller as "the new band name, the new direction, [and] the new movement," thus dropping their "mainstream ... pop appeal" approach.

1998–2000: Debut album and initial recognition

The band completed recording their debut album in February 1998, and released the finished product as (still under the name Camp Kill Yourself) on February 27, 1999 through Teil Martin International/Distant Recordings (limited to 2,500 copies), in addition to "unofficial compilation" on the same day. In 1999 the band joined the , an extreme sports and music festival in North America, but were kicked off near the end of the tour for joining in with a fan protest. Later in 1999, CKY was signed to record label , based in California. Volcom reissued Volume 1 in December, printing 1,000 copies of the album still credited to Camp Kill Yourself, which were later sold on the following year's Warped Tour.

Bruni was fired from the band in February 2000, after four years with Miller and Margera, due to his general abilities and performance on the Warped Tour, with Ginsburg taking over live bass duties until later on in the year. Bruni's tenure with the band had been questionable throughout, with the band choosing not to tell him they were recording an album until near the end of the process (resulting to his contributions to "Lost in a Contraption" and "The Human Drive in Hi-Fi"). Responding to a question from a fan in 2002, Ginsburg described Bruni, simply, as "boring". Attempting to justify Bruni's exclusion from the recording of Volume 1, Miller suggests that "he wasn't quite good enough yet [to perform on the album] and he did not have enough money to contribute to the cost of recording." Miller made it clear that there was no "bad blood" between the two, although Ginsburg has said that Bruni "sucked and wasn't rock", also labelling him an embarrassment.

Following their original reissue of Volume 1 in December 1999, Volcom requested the band change their name and album cover, which they deemed to be too offensive. For a 2,000-copy April 1, 2000 reissue of the album, the band was credited as Camp and the album titled CKY, with a photo of Ginsburg performing on the previous year's Warped Tour used as the album cover (changed from the original cover depicting politician famously committing suicide). Just one month later, however, at the band's request, Volcom reissued another 4,000 copies of the album with the band name as CKY and the album title as Camp. CKY recruited Vernon Zaborowski as a permanent replacement for live bassist Ryan Bruni in June 2000, in preparation for that year's Warped Tour, and the following month was released as the band's first EP, to be sold on that tour. With the band's popularity increasing due to exposure on and through episodes of , Volcom released another 20,000 copies of the band's debut album, under the title Camp Volume 1, in October.

2000–2004: Second album and international exposure

Throughout the end of 2000 and the beginning of 2001, the band continued to perform on tours in promotion of their debut album. In April, another 5,000 copies of Volume 2 were released, before in May the band signed with for a worldwide distribution deal with , labelling Volcom as a "small, unorganized franchise with poor distribution". Soon after the deal was finalised, Island released a "re-mastered and enhanced" version of Volume 1, on June 26, 2001. Four editions, with different coloured printings of the album cover (featuring Ginsburg), were printed and issued – 5,000 copies each in blue, orange and purple, and unlimited copies in red, thus making it the largest release by the band to-date. When CKY had finished touring, they began writing new material for the first time since 1998, for a second full-length studio album; recording started in November 2001 and the album was completed by January the next year. Whilst preparing the new album for release, Island made Volume 1 available worldwide for the first time in June 2002, distributed through .

On September 24, 2002, over three years after the release of Volume 1, CKY's second studio album was released in North America. An album containing for "" and "", the original September pressing of the album was faulty and the enhanced portions of the disc did not work. Shortly after this faulty first pressing, Island fixed the problems and reissued Infiltrate•Destroy•Rebuild in North America, although did not apparently recall the defective copies of the album. IDR gave the band its first experience of chart success, when it reached number 99 on the albums chart; promotional single "Flesh Into Gear" also charted at number 38 on Billboard's chart. The band continued with a promotional tour which began before the release of the album and finished in December.

The day after the release of CKY's second album, legendary band (which by now included vocalist as the sole original member) announced that they would be embarking on their first tour in almost nine years, beginning in November of that year. Three days before the tour was due to begin with a show in Vancouver, Canada, CKY received the news that Rose had chosen them to appear as a support act, from a shortlist of approximately ten bands. Speaking about receiving the news on such short notice, drummer Margera said the following:

“All of a sudden, Axl [Rose, Guns N' Roses lead vocalist] picked us. We had to cancel two sold-out shows in California and turn right full rudder all the way to Vancouver. We were at least 2,000 miles out of the way when we got the call. We've been driving for three days, but this is an awesome tour so it's worth driving all that way. I'm psyched because that's probably the biggest tour of this year. And we've all been fans of Guns N' Roses for a long time. I got when I was 10 years old, so I've been listening to that for a while. And I'm a big fan of [guitarist] and is a really awesome drummer. I can't wait to hang out with him.”

However, due to apparent "mechanical troubles" delaying Rose's arrival in Vancouver from Los Angeles, the first show of the tour was cancelled 20 minutes before it was due to begin with CKY's performance, with the band onstage setting up when the cancellation was announced and was followed by riots. Most of the rest of the North American tour continued as planned, until it was cancelled almost a month prematurely before a show in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (thus making it CKY's 'hometown gig'), which also ended in riots.

Following the 2002 tours, CKY began 2003 by performing on the Out on the Noose Again Tour, which continued until March when Ginsburg broke his tailbone and thus postponed the tour until May. Two-song EP was released on March 18, featuring "" (from Volume 1) and "Escape from Hellview" (from Infiltrate•Destroy•Rebuild). On May 18, the band supported veterans at the first of a series of four shows at in San Francisco, California, following a personal phone call to Miller (who considers Metallica "iconic") by the band's lead vocalist and guitarist shortly after the Guns N' Roses Chinese Democracy Tour. The Out on the Noose Again Tour continued until July, when the band took time out and prepared for an upcoming show at , Philadelphia on October 31 () dubbed "Live from Hellview" which was to be recorded for a proposed DVD release. In November a full-length video album titled was released, featuring music videos for all ten tracks from the album and two Volume 1 tracks, as well as videos for all music videos; and beginning in December, ending in March 2004, CKY completed their first tour of Western Europe. During the recording of the video for opening song "Escape from Hellview", guitarist Ginsburg was almost killed while pretending to be hung from a tree in reference to a line in the song. Speaking about the incident, Ginsburg explained that he "hung there for close to a minute" and "passed out 10 seconds in", assuring however that he "never came that close to dying".

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