Bomb Ann Arbor, The Dead Schembechler's

Bomb Ann Arbor
The punk band "The Dead Schembechler's" has a new song out complete with a video called "Bomb Ann Arbor Now."

They are buckeye scum. Still waiting for the anti Ohio State tune to come out of AnnArbor

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Bastards

**** them.

BUCKEYE PUNKS

Dead Schembechlers rock with anti-U-M propaganda

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Barely two weeks after he'd cheated death once again, the question was put to Bo Schembechler gently -- almost apologetically.

"Bo, have you ever heard of a band called the Dead Schembechlers?" the reporter asked.

"What was the name of it?" replied the living, breathing Schembechler, clearly taken aback.

But, yes, he'd heard it right. There's a punk rock band from Columbus called the Dead Schembechlers, a curious, satirical quartet that dresses like Woody Hayes, the late, legendary Ohio State coach, and churns out comically hate-filled songs like "Bomb Ann Arbor Now," "Wolverine Destroyer" and "M Means Moron." (Most of the rest of the titles aren't fit for a family newspaper.)

And as he perused the band's Web site (http://www.deadschembechlers.com// ), the 77-year-old former Michigan coach -- the one with a new pacemaker/defibrillator regulating his heartbeat -- shook his head and laughed. The band members -- all of them named "Bo" something-or-other -- were pictured in full costume, with scarlet windbreakers, short-sleeved white shirts, black ties and black-rimmed glasses underneath the trademark black Buckeyes ballcaps.

"I'll be damned, they dodress like Woody," said Schembechler, Hayes' former assistant whose decision to leave the state of Ohio to coach arch-rival Michigan nearly 40 years ago remains a sore point among the Buckeyes faithful.

Or, as the man who inspired the tune "Schembechler Kicked My Crippled Dog" announced proudly, still surfing the Web, "I still matter in Columbus!"

As for the matter at hand, well, we'll let another Bo -- Bo Biafra, the front man for the Dead Schembechlers -- explain just how important this week's renewal of the Ohio State-Michigan rivalry is.

"This game is going to be the biggest struggle the United States has been involved in since the D-Day invasion," said Biafra, whose pseudonym -- along with the band's ghoulish moniker -- is an homage to the Dead Kennedys, a California punk band that found fame in the early 1980s.

And not surprisingly, the lead singer and solitary spokesman for the self-proclaimed "Best Damn Punk Band in the Land" sees this No. 1-vs.-No. 2 matchup as a call to arms. But fear not, Biafra says, because he and his bandmates -- Bo Thunders, Bo Vicious and Bo Scabies -- "are as ready for this as we've ever been ready for anything in our lives."

Bring the hate

Later this week, the Dead Schembechlers will gather here in Columbus, arriving from parts unknown -- Biafra's phone number carries a Baltimore area code, for what it's worth -- to headline the third annual Hate Michigan Rally Friday at the Newport Music Hall on campus. The doors open at 8 p.m. for what Biafra promises will be "a monstrous, musical, anti-Michigan meltdown."

And just what does that mean, exactly?

"We don't like to give away too much," explained Biafra, who has challenged the Red Hot Chili Peppers -- they sang "Hail to the Victors" at a recent Columbus gig -- to an on-stage duel. "But I will say two things: One, there will be some special unannounced guests on stage. Two, I guarantee to the people of the sovereign republic of Ohio that the blood of Wolverines will run on that stage."

Beyond that, though, he's hesitant to provide many details, citing security concerns and my own obvious bias as a member of the "Liberal Wolverine Media." That's part of the reason the band members won't reveal their true identities, ages or full-time occupations, though Biafra says they've been together since 1990, when they presumably were Ohio State students.

"Our lives are a daily dose of danger," Biafra said. "The last time we were all together, actually, was the very night Maurice Clarett was arrested. There were rumors that he was on the way to assassinate us, that he was like the Manchurian Candidate -- the Michigan Candidate, if you will -- on his way to whack the Dead Schembechlers. Now, we cannot confirm this. I'm just telling you what we've been told."

Shadowy schemes

Here's what he told me, though, about the so-called International Wolverine Conspiracy, which, according to Biafra, "goes to the highest levels of our government."

"It's a power-mad cadre of University of Michigan graduates bent on total and complete world domination, using the Michigan football program as the tip of its foul spear," he said, adding that former President Gerald Ford is the likely mastermind.

Among the sinister plots the Dead Schembechlers have uncovered thus far: Michigan men hijacked the Apollo space program and are to blame for global warming. Crop-dusting planes have spread "mind-control drugs," no doubt furnished by Walgreen's, since, as Biafra points out, Charles Walgreen, the drugstore chain's founder, is a 1928 U-M alum.

Oh, and did you know Michigan never actually has beaten Ohio State on the gridiron? The Wolverines have lost "The Game" 102 years running, though you'd never know it, thanks to the poisoned water supplies -- mind-control drugs, remember? -- and the evil magic of television.

"Well, hell, man," Biafra explained. "They can make Elijah Wood look like a bleeping hobbit. They can certainly make a football bounce a different way."

Maybe so, but how does he explain away John Cooper, the disgraced former OSU coach who was lampooned for his 2-10-1 record against Michigan?

"He'd had a great run, going 13-0 against the Wolverines," Biafra said, "and after that lucky 13th win it was time for him to take a rest."

And what about their namesake's recent health scare? That, too, fits neatly into the conspiracy.

"Bo Schembechler got sick this time just to spite us," Biafra said. "I wouldn't put anything past him. He took one for the team, to try and steal our thunder and dull our message."

Has it worked? Well, maybe.

"Bo Schembechler can never die," Biafra added, still in character but wavering just a bit. "Bo Schembechler is immortal, as Woody Hayes is immortal. And as long as there are kids willing to get out there on a crisp, autumn afternoon under a blue sky and fight each other at that Michigan-Ohio line, both those men will live forever."

So will the rivalry. Amen to that

this is a cool web site for the reasons of the rivalry: http://library.osu.edu/sites/archives/OSUv...uvsmichigan.htm

sorry ^^^^ twas me

Punk band calling it quits after death of namesake coach
By Aaron Beck
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The Dead Schembechlers with lead singer Bo Biafra, front

It might be a long-running joke, but even Columbus' most popular “Michigan hatecore” band knows to draw the line when its namesake dies.

For three gravely serious minutes yesterday in the lobby of the Newport Music Hall on High Street, the Dead Schembechlers, who have played before the Ohio State-Michigan game every year since 1990, announced that tonight's sold-out concert would be their last.

“This will be it for us as our group,” said singer and spokesman Bo Biafra, who added that the band would donate all proceeds from the show to “a charity of the Schembechler family's choosing.”

Just after 3 p.m. the Dead Schembechlers -- a Michigan-loathing quartet that takes sartorial cues from Woody Hayes and musical inspiration from punk rock -- soberly addressed a dozen or so reporters and cameramen.

“First and foremost our group would like to extend our deepest sympathies and heartfelt prayers to the Schembechler family on their loss,” Biafra said. “Bo Schembechler was the most valued opponent Ohio State has ever had. We are terribly sorry that this has occurred.”

In recent days, Biafra said Schembechler himself had “discovered” the band and was “delighted” by it -- facts that “gave the band no greater joy”.

“He got it,” Biafra said. “He understood what we were doing and that is celebrating the greatest rivalry in the history of sports.”

One hundred and eighty seconds later, Biafra closed his address.

“We thank you all for coming out,” he said. “God bless you and God bless Bo Schembechler.”

The band was scheduled to play tonight in what had been billed as a “Hate Michigan Rally” at Newport Music Hall, but plans changed after Schembechler died.

The band's name was taken off the marquee and replaced with “God Bless Bo.” The “Hate Michigan Rally” became “The Beat Michigan Rally.”

“Obviously Ohio State still wants to beat Michigan and those types of things. It is just a very sad and ironic day,” said Doug Herrmann, general manager of PromoWest Productions, operator of the Newport Music Hall.

A statement on the Dead Schembechlers' Web site today said the band called Schembechler "OSU's most valiant foe."

“We named this band after Coach Schembechler to honor him as the face of Wolverine football,” the statement read. “We have never wished ill will upon him in any way and have always wished him the best.”

"When we learned that Bo had seen our Web site and was amused by it we were delighted. We were simply delighted. He said to those with him as he read it, 'See, I still matter in Columbus!' That may have been the greatest understatement in football history. We believe that he took the band's name as the compliment that it was meant as and that he was flattered by it. We wish to extend our deepest and most heartfelt sympathies to his family. We are truly sorry for their loss."

Schembechler was good-natured about the odd tribute, smiling as he told The Dispatch earlier this month, “Holy smokes, I couldn't believe it. They're all dressed like Woody. I think it's crazy.”

The band's four members wear scarlet windbreakers, glasses, short-sleeved white shirts and black ties -- just like Woody Hayes

Calling themselves "The Best Damn Punk Band in the Land," group has been together since 1990, playing mainly on the eve of the big game.

"Because many of our songs are so short, we can perform 30 to 40 songs in an hour to an hour and a half," Biafra said, "A song like I Hate Michigan is only 15 seconds long."

A longer song, Bomb Ann Arbor Now, was recently popular on the YouTube site.
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The Dead Schembechlers will now be know as...The Bastard Sons of Woody!!!

The name change comes on the heels of the death of original band namesake Bo Schembechler and to acknowledge the fact that the group members are direct genetic descendents of Woody Hayes himself. "We were as shocked as anyone to learn that Woody Hayes is our genetic father," said the group's Bo Biafra. "It was during the week of mass media Michigan madness that we were leaked a previously secret governmental report about our origins. However, this dealt not only with our origins as a musical entity but also our origins as living beings. It seems all four of us were created in test tubes as part of radical scientific experimentation with DNA manipulation, cell altercation and gene splicing transmogrification. Renegade OSU scientists working off campus had taken gray hairs swept up from the floor of the barber shop where Woody had his hair cut. The DNA was extracted from the gray hairs and were used to create a new form of life based on the perfection that is Woody. We are those life forms. We are super-beings. We are Godlike. We are the Bastard Sons of Woody."

When asked if DNA testing could back the report's claim Biafra had this to say, "The current forms of DNA testing are considered too crude to be able to prove such advanced science. Also, our genetic makeup is so volatile that instant death may result for anyone foolish enough to tinker with these primordial powers with which man was never meant to meddle." His statement was followed by a flash of lightning, a crack of thunder and the cackling of a hunchbacked henchman standing somewhere in the shadows.

The band had announced an impending name change at a press conference on November 17th, 2006 prior to that evening's Hate Michigan Rally. Bo Schembechler had passed away earlier that day. "While we love the name Dead Schembechlers, it needed to be changed out of respect to Bo, his family and The Rivalry. We also did not wish the band name to be used as fodder by The Liberal Wolverine Media to attack Ohio State fans as a whole," said the group's Bo Thunders. "The scUM media members were poised to attack Ohio State based upon our name but were flabbergasted to learn we were changing our moniker and that we were donating all of the show's profits to a charity of the Schembechler family's choosing. In the end, we raised over six thousand dollars for the 'Bo Schembechler: Heart of A Champion Fund' of the University of Michigan's Cardiovascular Center. However, many sports writers have still savaged us in print, conveniently forgetting what we've done. Screw those weasels."

The group has also announced that the name of the Hate Michigan Rally is being changed to Woodystock. "It's a name that we think will best rally the Ohio State faithful and honor our genetic father," said Bo Biafra.

The band's official web site will be moved to bastardsonsofwoody.com although deadschembechlers.com will remain online. Fans can now head to myspace.com/bastardsonsofwoody to become MySpace friends under the new group name. Web site changes will happen throughout the year and be fully in use by the beginning of the 2007 Buckeyes season.