Grunnen Rocks Home Willem Kolvoort
Oddballs' Band
great german bluestrash band
Address
Germany
E-Mail
Dirty Slim [dirtyslim[AT]oddballs{DOT}de]
Members

Oddballs' Band #1:
(former members)
Champion McBeth: bass (on I Wanna Go Home)
Alex: drums
Hille: drums
Wolters
Volker: lead guitar

Oddballs' Band #2:
(main line-up)
Karsten "Angel"/"Dirty Slim" Hotter: guitar, vocals
Mr. T-Bird: bass, backing vocals
Steam Boat: drums

History

Related bands are Loonies, Screech, Justice Just Disease, Gut Pie Earshot, Das Frivole Burgfräulein (cough) but they switch members so often that nearly all bands in the Bonn area are somehow related.

Discography
Singles
  1. Give No Shit! 7" (Beat Schallplatten, 1994, BS 40 006)
      record is released under the bandname "Slim Gawky Oddballs", Karsten Hotter on it's own
    1. I Don't Give A Shit
    2. Drive My Car (The Beatles)
    3. No Business
  2. It's All Shit In The Same Bowl 7" (Revolution Inside, 1994, MZG 0737-0738)
      record is released under the bandname "Long Tall Oddballs"
    1. It's All Shit In The Same Bowl
    2. I Ain't No Sissy Ear
    3. Boondocker
    4. Happy To Face Another Day
  3. Hangdog Blues 7" (Sympathy For The Record Industry, 1998, SFTRI 547)
    1. Hangdog Blues
    2. I Wanna Go Home
  4. Rules The Shit, Baby! 7" (Fanboy Records, 1999, FAN #901)
    1. Do The Oddball
    2. Oddballs' Slim Ride On
    3. Oddballs' The Real Thing
    4. Oddballs' On The Groove
  5. Shady Flavor 7" (Pure Vinyl, 2001, PV 021)
      500 copies, clear vinyl
    1. Shady Flavor
    2. What Aboutchoo
    3. Mama Oddballs Red Hot Hootin Tootin Chili
    4. Soul Sandwich
  6. Sick Of The World Blues 7" (Revolution Inside, year ?, cat.no.?)
    1. Sick Of The World Blues
    2. Just A Gun
    3. Count Me Out
    4. Alone And Blue
  7. Flathead Rumble 7" (Kaos Farm, year ?, cat.no.?)
    1. Flathead Rumble
    2. I Wanna Be Alone
    3. Eat That Shit, Punkrocker
    4. Wade In The Water
  8. Hombre El Shoka 7" (One Million $ Records, year ?, cat.no.?)
    1. Gunfighter Run
    2. Hombre El Shoka
    3. Wraycone
  9. Hobo Johnsons Style 7" (Kaos Farm, year ?, cat.no.?)
    1. Memphis Water
    2. Baby Kicks Booty
    3. Hobo Johnson Blues
    4. Crime Alley Blues
Splits
N/A
Albums
  1. Last Bullet Blues 10" (Alien Snatch Records, 1999, snatch! 003)
      100 clear blue, 900 black
    1. CB5SKP
    2. Deep Six
    3. Last Bullet Blues
    4. One Sound Boogie Drive
    5. Long Road
    6. Oddballs' Medicine
    7. Driller Gorilla Whizbang
    8. Let's Be Dirty
    9. Done Me Dirt
    10. Swamp Down
  2. The Punks Are Comin' Down Upon The Blues 10" (Kaos Farm/Revolution Inside, year ?, cat.no.?)
    1. Yeahey Oddballs
    2. Down Upon The Blues
    3. The Westworld Is Burning
    4. Up To The Man
    5. Flying Saucer Boogie
    6. Chicken Walk
    7. Bluff City Blues
    8. RocknRoll Square
    9. Chick Teaser
    10. Sometimes All On My Own
    11. I'm A Pest
    12. Oddbrew
  3. 49 Songs Of Hatred And Despair 10" (Kaos Farm/Revolution Inside, year ?, cat.no.?)
    1. 49 Songs Of Hatred and Despair
    2. Just Different
    3. I Know Better
    4. Super Psycho
    5. City Dog
    6. Reason To Drink
    7. Shithouse Full Of Blues
    8. People Are Shit
    9. 'Up Shit Creek
    10. Water On A Ducks Back
    11. Sucker
    12. I Wanna Go Home
Compilations
  1. Straight Into The Action CD (Wild Weekend Records, 1997, WWR 001)
    1. Last Bullet Blues (credited to "Dirty Slim Oddballs")
  2. Larsen Fanzine EP #14 7" (Larsen Fanzine, 1998, FZ 014)
    1. I'm Gonna Move
  3. Root Damage 2xCD (Sympathy For The Record Industry, 2003, SFTRI 713)
    1. Hangdog Blues
Various

According to the credits their real names are Hotter, Wolters and Hille.

Links
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