RJX is defrosting the carbonite and gearing up once again, this time for a midnight-till-wheneva throwdown at the first annual Baconwood Festival, someplace in the mystical wilderness of Mendocino.

Retrobloggin’ rock-n-roll

As the Hollywood studios enter their 4th year of battling for our prized audience mic/pocketcam content, we figured there’s no sense letting these classic pix, ads, and clips collect dust. Relive the good times in the same authentically amateur, low-fidelity, vintage resolution & sampling rate you remember back when RJX was just another garage band.

There’s plenty of new material here actually, including video from last year’s shows in Truckee and at B2B as well as completely-unedited mp3s from last St. Patty’s day at Bar of America. And a lot of gratuitous commentary which adds crucial context to our historic romp through the Bay Area and beyond.

Backstory:

The Ron Jeremy Explosion kicked off their heroic 4-year rocket ride through San Francisco and northern California as a straight-up rock-n-roll band in 2000. By the time they meteored back to earth in 2004 they’d grown increasingly prone to fits of pocket funk, groove electronica, knob-tweaking psychedelia, and the occasional detour into dissonant children’s music or an 80’s TV anthem. Upon impact, they wandered around dazed for a while, hopscotched a couple members across the country and back, then finally decided to dust off the chops for a reunion show in 2006.

A half dozen “reunion” shows later the RJX is still officially not a band, but retains the right to blast the roof off an unsuspecting northern California club, ski resort, or foot-race without warning at any time.

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