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Boris The Sprinkler were formed the night of the 1992 ShopKo fireworks in Green Bay. Veterans of numerous local bands (including minor Beer City sensations Suburban Mutilation), they opted to forgo most then-popular musical routes — long-stale hardcore, vaguely melodic emo-esque muttering, dull strummy plugged-in acoustic guitar crap — for the then highly-unpopular music they grew up playing: Punk Rock.
With vocalist and Maximum RockNRoll columnist Rev. Nørb (memorably described by Ben Weasel as “a grown man who resembles a gigantic grasshopper”) flailing on the stage in a variety of increasingly ridiculous costumes and mighty guitar titan Paul #1 acting as a sonic anchor amidst the high-energy lunacy, punk rock inexplicably got big again – that wasn’t exactly Boris’s doing, but it floated their boat accordingly.
Adding the madcap drum antics of Paul #2, occasionally led to the stage in chains while clad in nothing but a wrestling mask, trunks, and boots – the band released their second album, Saucer To Saturn, and exported their thoroughly Midwestern hijinx to a nationwide audience on a summer tour with the Riverdales and the Mr. T Experience.
With charming science-nerd bass whiz Ric Six entering the picture for the band’s third album, Mega Anal, the classic Boris lineup was complete, and Earth wobbled to the group’s cheese-punk clamor.
2009, the classic lineup was cajoled out of retirement for an appearance in Baltimore; 2017, they started more-or-less annual shows.
With vocalist and Maximum RockNRoll columnist Rev. Nørb (memorably described by Ben Weasel as “a grown man who resembles a gigantic grasshopper”) flailing on the stage in a variety of increasingly ridiculous costumes and mighty guitar titan Paul #1 acting as a sonic anchor amidst the high-energy lunacy, punk rock inexplicably got big again – that wasn’t exactly Boris’s doing, but it floated their boat accordingly.
Adding the madcap drum antics of Paul #2, occasionally led to the stage in chains while clad in nothing but a wrestling mask, trunks, and boots – the band released their second album, Saucer To Saturn, and exported their thoroughly Midwestern hijinx to a nationwide audience on a summer tour with the Riverdales and the Mr. T Experience.
With charming science-nerd bass whiz Ric Six entering the picture for the band’s third album, Mega Anal, the classic Boris lineup was complete, and Earth wobbled to the group’s cheese-punk clamor.
2009, the classic lineup was cajoled out of retirement for an appearance in Baltimore; 2017, they started more-or-less annual shows.
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