Biography
For the Seattle post-punk band, see Blackouts.
There is more than one artist with this name:
1) Indie rock band that essentially became the Living Blue at some point.
2) Late 90's ska band
3) Punk band from Kansas City.
4) A band for which John Flansburgh played guitar in 1980 while he was attending Antioch College, in Yellow Springs, Ohio, before the formation of They Might Be Giants. The other band members were Dan Spock (guitar), Chel White (drums), Dan Julty (bass), and, at some point, Karl Hecksher, who had also played drums for The Turtlenecks.
In a radio interview, Flansburgh stated, "I was in a band called the Blackouts. We did, uh…we did some really messed up stuff. We did a bunch of James Brown covers that were un-identifiable as James Brown covers. I was playing the role of James Brown." John Linnell (of They Might Be Giants) added, "John just basically screamed."
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