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Less Than Jake Information
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'Less Than Jake' is a pop-ska punk band from Gainesville, Florida. They are currently on the roster of Warner Bros Records. Their current line-up includes Chris (vocals, guitar), Roger (bass, vocals), Vinnie (drums, lyrics), Buddy (trombone) and JR (saxophone).
The band is currently working on their next studio album, In With The Out Crowd, which will be released sometime in early 2006.
Miscellaneous Info
Vinnie is also the owner of the independent record label Fueled by Ramen, as well as a toy company called Monkey Vs. Robot. This label has signed bands such as Fall Out Boy, Punchline, The AKAs and Gym Class Heroes. Roger, meanwhile, is in a second band, called Rehasher, for whom he composes lyrics and plays guitar. JR works with a promoting company called the CT Mafia, as well as composing solo music. He contributed one track to the Drive-Thru compilation tribute to Bob Dylan, using the band name "The Stay At Home Joneses" (interestingly, Roger sang backup for this track).
Roger and Vinnie have an unexplained fondness for Pez candy and they reportedly have sizeable dispenser collections. This love for Pez goes so far as to name one of their albums "Pezcore" (parodying of the way in which many bands are described as [thing]-core, starting with hardcore) and Pez dispenser motifs are a common feature of their merchandise.
Roger's employment history includes a smoke shop in the band's hometown Gainesville, Florida known as Knuckleheads which has since been transformed into a similar establishment named Smoke. Band member haunts have included Eddie C's, the Hardback (which was transformed into the Lyric), and Insomnia (now known as Common Grounds).
The members of Less Than Jake also served as backup musicians for Asian Man Records owner Mike Park in the B.Lee Band (once called "the Bruce Lee Band", changed for legal reasons).
The track "Look What Happened" appeared on two of their albums, "Borders & Boundaries" (2000) and "Anthem" (2003). The Anthem version is completely rerecorded, and has eschewed the brass at the beggining of the song that was featured in the previous recording.
Discography
Studio Albums
**Pezcore (1995, Dill Records/Asian Man Records)
**Losers, Kings, and Things We Don't Understand (1995, No Idea Records)
**Losing Streak (1996, Capitol Records)
**Hello Rockview (1998,plus losing streak double cd released to Capitol Records)
**Borders & Boundaries (2000, Fat Wreck Chords and golf records)
**Anthem (2003, Sire Records)
**B is for B-sides (2004, Sire Records)
**In With The Out Crowd (2006)
Other
*Compilations, Live Records, Miscellaneous Releases
**Greased (1996, No Idea Records)
**Pesto (1999, Very Small Records)
**Live from Uranus ( 1999 EMI)
**Goodbye Blue and White (2002, Fueled By Ramen)
**The Pez Collection (2000, Moon Ska Europe and Rapido)
**Live in Minneapolis (2004, download only)
**B is for B-sides (Remixed) (2005, Fueled By Ramen)
*DVDs
**The People's History of Less Than Jake (2004, Fueled By Ramen)
*VHS
**Avant Tarde (2002)
*Song Contributed to Compilations and Soundtracks for Films and Games
**We're All Dudes (Good Burger)
**All My Best Friends Are Metalheads (Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4, Street Sk8er, Digimon: The Movie)
**Help Save the Youth of America From Exploding (Drive Me Crazy)
**Short Fuse Burning(Gran Turismo 4)
**That's Why They Call It A Union (Tony Hawk's Underground 2)
**Surrender (ATV Offroad Fury) (Cheap Trick cover)
**Motown Never Sounded So Good (ATV Offroad Fury)
**Look What Happened (Grind)
**The Brightest Bulb Has Burned Out (Rock Against Bush, Vol. 1)
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