The Nerve Ends
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The Nerve Ends - 2001 to 2003 took influences from folk, grunge, punk and many oddities. Members included Paul Karpinski-guitar/vocals and Kevin Berger/drums along with various others, Doug Hell-bass, Megan Parent-bass and Murray Weeks-guitar/bkup vocals. Pol has delved into his studies. Kevin is currently keeping time for The Annoyers and The Visitors (Ottawa Ont.) Doug Hell has spawned Radar Hate, now defunkt. Murray is studing various things in various places, amoung them classical guitar. Megan, miss book worm is with 'the guy'.Band/artist history
propaganda...
The Nerve Ends are an empire of three hailing from Canada's Capital. Odds are they won't sell too many albums because they are not deep like "Creed" or tough like "Eminem". They are certainly not handsome like "Nickelback". So they're already fucked. The Nerve Ends compensate for their conventional inadequacies with distortion and methane gas. Formed in Ottawa, Ontario they were voted by a nameless bum as the band most likely to get the shit kicked out of them by Chad Kroeger and Kid Rock. Drummer Berger once made a customer of the Underground Night Club eat his own shit. Then he kicked the customer's ass for not saving any for him. The Nervous Ends is not the name of The Nerve Ends. Bass player Doug Hell makes little hats for ants before killing them. While awaiting for the little critter's demise he takes goofballs. He smokes too many cigarettes and has a perpetual cancer cough. He is miserable and lonely with two friends in the world. His two friends have one and the one friend just may have tourettes but there is still no proof of that. The motherless fuck known as Doug Hell is rumored to be dead in Ajax, Ontario. Cone from "Sum41" killed him. Fuck you Berger. Oh yeah. Berger is the drummer for the Nervous Ends. The Nervous Ends are really called the Nerve Ends. And Berger takes exception to the empire Nickeback is trying to build through sodomy and deception. It just isn't right and Kevin is getting pretty mad. Kevion Berger is Kevin Berger's real name spelt wrong. Pretty Polly is a guitar-playing singer for a band called "The Nervous Ends" (nerve ends!?!?!). Polly doesn't breathe because he feels it doesn't make any sense. And that my friends, is how he acquired his supernatural powers which enable him to communicate with garden gnomes. The singer of the Vapids likes Sum41 but doesn't like the Butthole Surfers. This doesn't make any sense to the 6'4" brooding Doug Hell. Doug is the tallest guy in the Nerve Ends. Kevin is the second tallest at 6'5". Pretty Polly seems to think Jehovah's Witnesses are ridiculous. Paul explains this to me over a White Russian. The righteous mooks believe there is only so much room in Heaven yet they go door to door recruiting. If there was only so much room in Heaven then wouldn't they keep their mouths shut so they could insure themselves a spot? Heaven is reserved for people like Johnny Cash. Berger toots, a lot. ((Nervous Ed - Teenage Aggression Zine))Your musical influences
insecure, undirected kids crash together and make timeless music together. but like most fantastic phenomena... as quickly as they appear, so do they disappear. i dunno what influenced that.Anything else?
Most of these recordings have been done by the band, in full'on ghetto fashion. A few actually got done in a studio. enjoy!
check out... www.soundclick.com/nofun101
www.myspace.com/doughell
www.myspace.com/theannoyers
www.myspace.com/thevisitorsarecool
www.soundclick.com/thesohrabkanis
and while yer at it....
www.myspace.com/capitalcitycreeps
www.myspace.com/theriptides
Berger
***Came across these while lookin for somethin else... at the time, i also wrote my thoughts about The Nerve Ends and as soon as i find'm i'll post'm. - Berger***
(Pol...written late 2004... i think)
Utterly Baffled -
When there was nothing else in my mind but a wish to escape those things which I couldn't confront, and the means to do it were 10 dollars at most (with the most paying herb or thirst quenching alcohols), no matter how many times or how hard I punched myself in the face, cursed at myself, screamed into mirrors - I was disabused of all hope and would indulge. I won't get into a long story about the reasons why certain situations ever existed. Things tend to explain themselves somewhat when you tell people what condition you were in at the time things happened. So without getting into the 'hows' of becoming loopy, I'll sum it up by saying: it's the only thing I really knew how to do well save making music. At the age of 20, anxiety had broken me from University. I felt the victim of a cruel world I had no control over. I had suffered a massive emotional breakdown and began seeing a psychologist. My lying to him didn't do me any good and so I decided to look for work. Throughout this period I was creating art - it's really all I had left. I wrote many songs during this time. I had since stopped enjoying to play those of my favorite musicians - whose tunes had a depressing effect on me. I was writing lyrics and poems fueled by Polish beer and pot until all I saw was ink and paper. I knew that smoking and drinking weren't helping me and that I was using them to escape. I had nonsencicle anxieties of all the world it seemed : happy people, groups, angsty teenagers, women, and all forms of responsibility or supporters thereof. If you happen to find yourself in one of those categories, let me assure you, the insane exist out of bedlams - I was walking proof. In spite of the fact, I soon found an excellent job. Kevin and I I met Kevin at New Morning Futon one March day 2001 - my first day on the job. I was taken by his outgoingness. At the time I was impossible to talk with, in a chronic state of apathy, and a pale shade of yellow. I'm sure Kevin had his impressions. Time passed. I remained in New Morning's basement making futons listening to music and he would come down and visit. I found Kevin's enjoyment of my company strange considering the way I was. Maybe if asked, Kevin will have something to say on the subject. I think he holds one of man's most desireable virtues : accepting people for who they are. It's a social level I haven't reached yet. At the time I felt like he was my own Salvation Army - socially speaking of course. He knows how I feel on the subject. When Kevin started recording Doug that fall I invited myself over. Soon he was recording my stuff. That Christmas I got him a Nazi helmet. That January 2002 we bought drums made out of tuperware and tin cans and began to make music. It was during this period that we wrote 'What's the Point?,' 'Trouble and Me,' the beginnings of 'Good Idea - Bad Idea' and many other musical treasures. I had a musical link with Kevin that was special - we both share a playfulness towards lyrics and melodies which keep things light between us as artists - sober or not. The Nerve Ends were formed at about this time. I don't remember the specifics - there was a lot of pot and alcohol. Brad After Doug became too difficult to deal with a week into us being The Nerve Ends, which we attributed to him not being a stoner, Brad, a collegue from New Morning tried out. I found it impossible to collaberate with him at the time on anything and think he joined mainly because it gave him a chance to work on stuff with Kevin. We picked up Doug immediately thereafter (5 seconds exactly). Doug and I Here I was at the outset of our acquaintace (August - 2001), slow-witted and clinging to music like a tic - there was nothing else to me. It wasn't so much a social retardedness that gripped me, but an absolute apathy for everything but music. A 6 month regimen of cotton and tunes had that effect on me. I liked Doug because he understood painful songs, but it wasn't until after I realized that and felt some of his throes that I liked him - this was AFTER the forming of TNE about 6 months after we met, at which time, I temporarily ceased being psychotic. I found a friend in him at last. We were buying eachother alcohol and spilling our grief; I don't think I shared my failures with anyone eJANEKS' STATIONS-#1
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