H i s s t o r y

BIO
Internationally unsigned recording artist Adam the Gimbel has been practicing rock moves since he first heard "Turning Japanese" in 1980. Following a critically acclaimed Bar Mitzvah several years later, he took a decade vacation from performing to study exactly why he didn't want to be in the business end of the music business. Satisfied with his conclusions, he became the member of several short lived bands with great names (Suzanne & The Summerz, Cover Me Badd, and The Xanadu Project). Gimbel is currently trying to get wimprock out of his system in the form of half-finished acoustic based indie-popsongs. He calls San Diego his home but would like to relocate to London cerca 1966 as soon as he can get the 1.21 jiggowatts together. Last summer he made strides towards this goal by singing a Supergrass song in the Melody Maker tent at England's Reading Festival. Reports of him challenging the anti-American onlookers with the question "Who won the war in 1776?" are true but the rumors of Gimbel winning them over are just as true.

Read Adam's 11345 tale of early bay Area musical endeavors (one of the greatest music scenes on earth).

KNOWN RECORDINGS
Solo Bar Mitzvah, 1983. Live soundboard recording.
Cover Me Badd, Live at Sanpablopalooza, 1994. Audience bootleg.
Beat n X, Live at Seis De Mayo, 1995. Audience bootleg.
Pen 13, UCSD Television Show, 1996. Television broadcast.
Pen 13, Live at the Barn, 1996. Audience video bootleg.
Suzanne & The Summerz, Songs For Summer LA. Audience video bootleg.
Suzanne & The Summerz, Songs For Summer SF. Audience video bootleg.
See Rookie Card's website for RC details.
More details to follow....

RANDOM PAST TRIUMPHS


SOLO SHOWS

03/13/02 M-Theory Records acoustic instore (San Diego). Congress of The Cow, Pure Milk, ADAM THE GIMBEL. HIGHLIGHTS: M-Theory Theme Song, Beta Band's "Dry The Rain" w/Jake Najor (fluf/Moses Leroy), Eric Howarth (M-Theory), Jeff Musser (Pure Milk) & Marie Haddad.

12/17/01 The Casbah 91X's Loudspeaker Acoustic Holiday Show. Supersuckers, No Knife, Dragons, Blackheart Procession, Adam The Gimbel, Gregory Page, the Shambles, etc.

09/17/71 (Adam's 30th birthday) The Casbah, Robbie Fulks, Adam Marsland (Cockeyed Ghost), Adam The Gimbel. HIGHLIGHTS: "I Don't Like Mondays" w/Marsland on piano, "Happy Birthday To Me" (Cracker), e-mail birthday wishes being projected onto a screen while AG plays.

08/17/01 The Casbah. Imperial Teen, The Mediums, Adam The Gimbel. HIGHLIGHTS: 2 sets playing on top of the staircase in the backroom, compliments from El Vez, "Bigmouth Strikes Again" for Jone "and know I know how Joan of Arc felt" Stebbins, "99 Red Balloons" for Nathalie who was too tired from her Germany trip to show up.

08/10/01 The Casbah. "DJ Adrock" set at Jivewire. HIGHLIGHTS: AG in head-to-toe old school Adidaswear, pop culture videos, overhead projector displaying song currently playing.

07/24/01 Java Joe's (Ocean Beach). Jose Sinatra & Friends (including ATG). HIGHLIGHTS: "Old Joe's Place" (The Folksmen), "Catch" (The Cure) and "Words" (Bee Gees) with Marie Haddad on piano, "Back In The USSR" duet with Jose.

02/22/01 The Casbah. David J, Moses Leroy, Adam The Gimbel (w/John Andrews), Jason Corbin. HIGHLIGHTS: 1st time playing onstage with John (before Rookie Card's first gig), Spice Girls "Wannabe" intro to "2/29", country version of Jazz Butcher's "Partytime", AG singing "1983" with Moses with bits of New Order's "Age of Consent", David J asking about the chords to "Wannabe".

12/16/00 The Casbah. Frank Black, Stimy, ATG. HIGHLIGHTS: Opening with Foreigner's "Jukebox Hero" to almost dead silence, "I Know There's An Answer" (Beach Boys), joking about finding a nice Jewish girl onstage, only to get set up with a girl that (6 months later) he ended up dating(?) for 6 months.

10/22/00 The Casbah. The Hatchet Brothers, Adam Marsland (Cockeyed Ghost), Anya Marina, Russell Hayden, ATG. HIGHLIGHTS: short set but successful webcast (and archive), "Back In The USSR" outside again but this time a plane flies over.

10/07/00 Java Joe's. Jose Sinatra, Lisa Sanders, ATG. HIGHLIGHTS: Joe makes flyer for the show only listing Jose & Lisa starting at 9, makes Adam go on at 8:30 to no one. Knowing Joe hated the A-Z thing from last show, he does it again with different riffs, leaving time for just one other song.

09/22/00 Java Joe's. Jose Sinatra and ATG. HIGHLIGHTS: doing a riff of a song by a band for every letter of the alphabet ending with whole crowd singing along to the Zombies' "Time of the Season". MC says "I've never seen anything like that" to which owner Joe yells "And you never will again!"

08/31/00 Java Joe's. Jose Sinatra and ATG. HIGHLIGHTS: medley of songs about puppets ("Waiting In Vain"/"I'm Your Puppet"/"Put Your Hand Inside The Puppethead") to make up for lack of the usual puppetshow opener.

08/10/00 The Casbah. The Posies, Julie Ritter (Mary's Danish), Anya Marina, ATG debut. HIGHLIGHTS: first ever performance of "Rock The Casbah" (done to the tune of "London Calling"), schtick with Daye Salani looking thuggish as my "security", "No One To Play With Today" (Posies children song), taking the whole crowd oustide (copped from Ben Lee) to play "Back In The USSR" in the hopes of singing while a plane flew overhead (it didn't).

BAND STUFF

For Rookie Card shows, click here.
For Suzanne & The Summerz stuff, click here (temporarily down).

12/22/01 The Casbah (San Diego). El Vez, Los Maricones de Clash, RABBI GIMBEL'S JEWS EXPLOSION (Cover Me Badd). HIGHLIGHTS: R.G.J.X. in bagels as a backdrop, "Chanukah All Night (& Dreidyl Everyday)", rap medley, "Killing Mr Furley" (Rage parody), AG's mom playing cowbell on "Hey Ladies" from the audience, singing "I Fought The Law" with the Dragons (Maricones).

11/04/01 Boars Cross'n (Carlsbad) The Earlybirds (60's/70's Brit-blues coverband). HIGHLIGHTS: mullets onstage and off, harmonies.

12/19/00 The Casbah. Gary & The Gnats, Fleetwood Milk, Cover Me Badd (tribute to boyband pioneers). HIGHLIGHTS: HUGE Color Me Badd poster, "I Wanna Sex You Up" (solo acoustic) with dancing girls, "I Adore Mi Amore" to the tune of "I Wanna Be Adored" (Stone Roses), "I Wanna Sex You Up" done to the Stones' versions of "I Wanna Be Your Man" and "I Just Want To Make Love To You".


MISCELLANEOUS PERFORMANCES & NAME DROPS

Sang Adam Ant's "Goody Two Shoes" with 80's band Tainted Love.

Got up to sing "Honky Tonk Women" at the Kellman bat mitzvah.

Sang Ling Ling Yee birthday lyrics set to a medley of classic popsongs at a sold out San Francisco Posies show.

Busked acoustically outside of Old 97's and Guided By Voices concerts, earning $36, the scorn of local policemen, the vocal help of Robert Pollard & Creeper Lagoon and an audience of one with ex-major league pitcher Jack McDowell.

Sang "Help Yourself" onstage with TVT recording artistes Portable.

Rocked karaoke, talent show and with the houseband on the Rhapsody of the Sea cruiseship.

Played "I Melt With You" on acoustic guitar during the Mike & Tracy Byer wedding ceremony.

Sang "Bad Boy" with Spanish rockstars the Shambles.

Sang the Bee Gee's "Every Christian Lionhearted Man Will Show You" (POORLY) onstage with the Posies in Santa Barbara.

Got onstage and played drums (POORLY) with Slim Dunlap for one song.

On Halloween 1993, sang "King Is Half Undressed" with Jellyfish onstage wearing boxers, a robe, a Burger King crowd and a smile.

On 21st birthday, got Marky Mark to sign a pair of underwear (Wherehouse instore where AG was working), met Harry Shearer at a bar where Dave Wakeling & his band were playing, got up onstage and sang "Tenderness" with him.

HELP MOVE UNITS
You can hear the first song Adam ever did write on Horseshoes & BBQ's. Yes, this is the same limited edition compilation that has been going for thousands of dollars on Ebay since it contains the first and only song ever recorded by Adam The Gimbel (despite the use of the pseudonym The Atlas Lickers, fans have tracked it down). You never forget your first and now that he has gone back and recorded it, you won't either. You can now read Adam's 11345 tale to get a sense of what it's like to belong to the greatest music scene on earth.

Go home. Seriously.