The fourth featured artist post this week for The Big Neck/Windian Mini-Fest this Sunday at the Marcatus Art Market in Yards Park (10 Water Street SE, Washington, DC) is all about Odie Fury of the Vilent Lovers Club.
Odie Fury (a.k.a. Bryan Wilson) started off his industrious rock n roll career in Buffalo, NY back in 1996. Odie started out in several different bands. Early on, he was the drummer for the Backstabbers, who had Aaron Aducci as the lead singer. Later, he was the drummer for the first incarnation of The Blowtops (who have now been transformed into the Fatal Figures).
Helping out these other bands was great, but Odie had a drive, a need, to start the greatest rock n roll band ever, so he started the Baseball Furies. Yes fans, the band is named after the bat-wielding gang in the movie The Warriors. The Baseball Furies also boasts Aron Orslowski of Lover and Jimmy Hollywood of Tyrades, White Savage, AV Murder, and now Football fame.
Baseball Furies | Go Berserk
The Baseball Furies started out with their first single put out by Big Neck Records, fittingly called “Greatest Rock n Roll Record Ever,” which garnered great reviews. The Furies followed up with “Sounds of Mayhem,” which was another hit. Then they graduated to the long players: American Psycho on Flying Bomb Records, and Greater Than Ever on Big Neck Records. Their smash college hit “I Hate Your Secret Club” from the Greater Than Ever album was released as a single on Dave Crider’s Estrus Records.
Baseball Furies | First Mistake
In 1999, The Baseball Furies uprooted from Buffalo, NY and moved to Chicago looking for a change of scene. A couple years later, they released their sophomore full length effort, Let it Be. This album showed a change from their crazed, ’77 punk rock styling to a darker, hookier style. The Baseball Furies gathered more acclaim and decided after successful tours up and down the U.S. to take their show to Europe.
They destroyed it in the old country and returned to lay down what is now The Baseball Furies’ final and truly greatest record ever recorded, Throw Them to the Lions (recorded with Bob Weston). Throw Them to the Lions displayed yet another evolution in their sound and definitely some of the best songs they have ever laid down.
But it was a posthumous record. The Baseball Furies had had enough after almost a decade of touring, and being the greatest rock n roll band ever, they decided to call it quits. Then Odie moved to NYC.
There in New York, Odie recreated his image. Gone were the crazy, out-of-control guitars and lyrics. It was time for something new. Odie decided to tone the rock down to a Johnny-Thunders-paced rock n roll style. Since Odie may be one of the best song writers out there, this worked quite well, and he was steadily writing new song after new song and recording all the instruments himself.
The recordings were being well received, and they needed to be taken on the road, so Odie recruited a bastion of talented musicians and started his newest endeavor, The Vilent Lovers Club. Taking his first six songs to Big Neck Records, we put out the initial 12”. (VLC’s initial recording sold out in the first 3 months and will soon be repressed by Big Neck Records!)
Odie went back to the studio and recorded the best twelve tracks of his life for The Vilent Lovers Club’s first full length (due out on Big Neck Records in late winter 2012). This Sunday, August 7th, the Big Neck/Windian Mini-Fest will be showcasing Odie’s talent at Marcatus Art Market. Odie will be leading off the show with his solo acoustic work from The Vilent Lovers Club. This will be a great start to a great show.—Bart Hart, Big Neck Records
