Vocals- 0%                 Back up Vocals- 0%

                                                                                                                     Guitars- 90%              Mixing- 0%                           FINAL ALBUM PROGRESS

                                                                                                                     Bass- 90%                   Production- 0%

                                                                                                                     Drums- 100%

6 OUT OF 8 AINT' TO SHABBY......

8-1-07 This photo taken about two weeks ago at J.'s wedding has six of the eight General Strike

members in it! The most General Strike members you will ever see in one place at the same time!

Kyle Bile and Jason Riot were the only two not present! The photo can be seen in its full form

on the Photo page! Also goodbye to Darrin Detour who left for New York City this morning,

where he will be living! Good luck Darrin, we'll be sure to keep the porch light on for you!

PHOTOS UP FROM THE FINAL SHOW, FINALLY..........

7-26-07 Been a little busy around here lately, with everyone in J. Chaos' wedding on July 21st, so we were finally able to get photos up

from the final show on 7-7-07. The pics can be seen as always on the Photos Page! Congratulations to J. on his wedding! Also above we

will have a percentage count of the final album's progress. As parts are completed the counters will be updated! Stay tuned for more

updates!

ONE NIGHT IN THE STUDIO................

6-30-07 Studio time Thursday night started out a little rocky but ended turning out alright. Four new songs were recorded, plus two classic

General Strike tunes as well! We have a little more up our sleeves, so stay tuned! Pictures from Thursday night's recording session can be

viewed on page four of The Photos Page if anyone out there in cyberspace is interested!

FINAL SHOW, STUDIO SESSIONS, AND GOODBYES..............

6-16-07 Well the time is almost upon us! General Strike will be going into the studio one final time on June 28th as an entire band, to record

some new material, and should be playing their final show July 7th at Tony's Bar in Newark, Ohio, at 9pm with special guest Lord of the Yum

Yum! There has been talks of other venues wanting the band to play one last time, but this is all still up in the air. Darrin will also be moving

at the end of July to New York City, but the band will be in the studio after that probably till the end of the year recording and mixing songs!

The album should be released sometime next year and will be available through this site!

PHOTOS ADDED........

4-1-07 Photos from the March 24th show at Tony's have been added to the Photo page. Check them out and let us know what you think.

Had a great time and thanks to all that came out. Hope to see you all soon!

UPCOMING SHOW................

3-21-07 General Strike will be playing live at Tony's Bar in Newark, Ohio on March 24th with Topless and Destroying the Daylight. Show starts

at 8pm and is $2 at the door. Also Jason Timebomb's Review of the Holidays have moved to the new Rant page and soon his Zodiac reviews will

start to be posted there as well. Hope to see you all soon!

WAKING BACK UP...................

1-17-07 After our little break from the Holidays, were all back getting ready to gear up for the new year! We're back to answering e-mail as usual,

and Jason Timebomb will start his review of the Zodiac Signs for the year of 2007. Be sure to check out his 2006 reviews of the Holidays at the

bottom of the page as they will disappear in the next few months. Work will start again next week on writing more new songs for the upcoming

album, and getting ready to suit up for more shows in the next few months! 

                                                                                                       2006 NEWS

JUST LIKE CLOCKWORK...............

10-28-06 Thanks to everyone that came out to the show last night at Bernie's Distillery! All the boys from General Strike dressed up as the movie

 Clockwork Orange! Also thanks to the bands Midget Finger,and Joey Blackheart and the Gallows. No thanks to the fat ass fuck from Bigfoot and

the Fully Automatics! This fat bastard needs to learn that everyone gets a turn. But what can we say, after him running his mouth all night, and

then the boys from General Strike throwing beers on him and trying to provoke him, he would most definitely back out!There will be show trades to

other areas of Ohio with the bands except for Bigfoot. You can check out the pics as usual on the Photos Page! Thanks again everyone, except for

you, you lard ass pussy!

SECRET SHOWS, ALBUM UPDATES, SURGERIES...............

9-24-06 Here we are again. Friday the 29th of September  General Strike will be playing at Buckaroo's in Newark, Ohio. This is a secret show that is so

secret to us that we don't even know all the details yet. Keep checking our MySpace page for all the specifics on this show! Also we will be playing at

Bernie's Distillery October 27th. More will be posted about that show in the next few weeks. The "Waste" album should be released within the next

month or so, but nothing still confirmed on that. We have written and rehearsed several songs for our new album that will be recorded next year. A

couple of these songs will be unveiled on our October 27th show. We won't really go into any details about them yet but it does appear that this will be

another crazy album for us. Mr. Timebomb has just recovered from the surgery on his wrist and we have started playing and rehearsing more frequently

again. More updates on everything soon.

RETURN FROM COLUMBUS.......

8-20-06 The photos for last night's show at Bernie's Distillery in Columbus are now up. Thanks again to The Donny Brook Boys, The Highnoon

Hangovers, Downtrodn' and No Reason Why. Check out the Photos page as usual and let us know what you think. All of the Columbus people

are still amazed with all of the guitar pedals that we use!

FINALLY A NEW UPDATE!!! WEEKEND AT BERNIE'S........

8-1-06 We know its been a while since the last update to this site. Not to much has been going on. Just the usual practice and preparing

new songs to the Strike's already lengthy list of original material. But just to let everyone know, General Strike will be playing live August

19th at our favorite Columbus bar, Bernie's Distillery. Other band's playing will be The Highnoon Hangovers, The Donny Brook Boys,

Downtrodn', and  No Reason Why. Come on down and check it out! Also you can check out the Official General Strike MySpace Site!

This page will replace our old Download Page! Check it out and enjoy! Also various links around the site have been fixed or updated!

SKATE FOR YOUR LIFE........

6-22-06 Pictures for last night's Save the Skate Park Show are now up on the Photos Page. Thanks to the other bands that played,

Incorporated Tattoo, Mikey Templin, and all that showed up! The winner of the General Strike skate board was Kip Plutcher. Check all the

pics out and thanks again for coming out!

SHAWN MAYHEM RETURNS............

6-18-06 Shawn Mayhem has made a trip back home from the war in Iraq. Shawn got to come home from Iraq earlier this month to spend time

with his family. He's already made a trip to Florida, and now back to Ohio! He will only be here for a few more days before he has to go back to

Arizona where he will spend the next year or so living on the army base. Shawn has been around the last few days catching up with family and

friends and the General Strike Crew. Good luck to Shawn in all that he does and hope to see him again soon.

INTERNATIONAL GO SKATEBOARDING DAY.........

6-17-06 Wednesday, June 21st, at Putnam/Moxahala Skate Park in Zanesville, Ohio, General Strike will be playing. Show starts at 1 p.m. $5 dollars

admission to benefit the InterSkate Skate Park, for repairs. Also there will be a Skate competition. Other bands to play will be, Reborn Power, Big Wise,

and another band to be announced. Also there will be a one of a kind General Strike Skateboard  autographed by all four current members to be given

away or won. Come out and promote the Skaters and help save the InterSkate Park which General Strike played on its opening day over six years ago

when they released the "No Hope for Better Days" album.  

CDS FOR SALE............

5-24-06 Interpunk.com will now be carrying General Strike Cds. The first one on the list is "Beyond the Valley of Death EP". More of the

bands albums will follow. You can check out the Strike Store link at the top of the page, or go to the Discography and Lyrics page and click

on the link to buy each album album once it is available. All of the band's other albums will follow as soon as we recieve new shipments of

them in the next few months. 

FIRST SHOW BACK.......

5-13-06 The show Friday night went pretty good. It felt good to play onceagain. Thanks again to our new found friends, The Bloody Irish Boys.

We will be playing again in the near future as soon as Mr. Timebomb gets back from his trip to Colorado. Thanks to everyone that came out Friday

night, we had a great time! You can check out all the photos from Friday night's showon the Photos Page, which has been recently updated. It would

also be a great time to check out the recently updated Flyer Archive, FAQs Page, Links Page,Discography and Lyrics Page, and of course the Photos

Page , which all have been massively updated! Tons of new flyers, photos and other crazy stuff has been added to these pages! Also you can

check out the new General Strike Message Board which has been added in the last few days. We hope to see you all again soon!   

GENERAL STRIKE LIVE ONCE AGAIN!!!

5-4-06 For the first time in almost a year and a half after their leave from the rock and roll life, General Strike will be playing live once

again on Friday, May 12th, at Buckaroos in Heath, Ohio. tickets are now on sale for $5 dollars or the cover charge will be $7 dollars at

the door.Show starts at 8pm. This is a 18 and up show. For tickets and info, e-mail us! The lineup includes The Bloody Irish Boys,

Before We Forget, The Aesthetics, and of course General Strike!!! Hope to see you all there! 

HAPPY EASTER, NEW STUFF TO SEE.....

4-16-06 Hope everyone out there is having a Happy Easter. You can check out a few new features that just came to our attention.

First of all check out Darrin Detour's My Space connection. Check out Darrin'sblogs and see what is going on with the man behind the kit!

Also we have found another unofficial General Strike site on My Space. Check it out and drop them a line. Also on the worldwide net there

is a page dedicated to J. Chaos' legendary Garbage Pail Kid guitar!  Also be sure to check out Jason Timebomb's reviews of the holidays on the

bottom of this page!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY.....

4-15-06 Eight years ago General Strike was formed. This monthis our eight year anniversary. Who would have thought that we

would have lasted this long. We sure didn't! Eight years ago we were practicing in a garage, not knowing the first thing about being

in a band, writing our first songs, and getting ready for the first showthat we would ever play as General Strike. Now, eight years later,

over two hundred shows, five albums and meeting some of the craziest people in the world, we are still alive! Thanks to everyone

who has supported us over the years, it has been a fantastic trip! 

OUT ON THE GREEN................

4-5-06 Last week Mr. Detour and Mr. Chaos were out on the green playing a few holes in between practices. Notthat really has anything

to do with the band's music, butwe thought that it would be funny to put these pictures up. Darrin did manage to hit J. in the leg with a golf club

but it was still a good time!

BOB IDOL SPEAKS ONCE AGAIN............

3-26-06 Bob Idol is back with even more rants, and more outrageous stuff than before! Check out Bob's new words to the wise at his blog site!

More than likely Bob will explain the secrets to the universe, the meaning of life and everything else in between. Bob the messiah has come to share

his wisdom with everyone, so best listen up! 

ASK THE STRIKE......

3-20-06 Check out the new Ask the Strike Feature. You can e-mail General Strike and get a hilarious answer back... or maybe even worse!

All note worthy questions will be posted with a response from the band members. Anything goes and no bars held...... 

BACK IN THE SADDLE AGAIN.....

3-17-06 Well, it's official, we're back again. Practice resumed todayfor the first time in a year and a half, after we decided to take rest from

the rock and roll life. Just working on getting our chops back in shape again. We will be playing shows again in the next few months.

Everything went pretty good, but it will take a little while before we're back on top. See you soon!  

 NEW SITE DESIGN

 1-1-06   Happy New Year everybody! Welcome to the new design for the Official General Strike Web Site! Most of the features  are the same but

we've updated the Photos, and Flyer Archives pages. Also the lyrics page has disappeared, but you can go to the Discography page and click on

each song and see the lyrics!  We've also added the new Download of the month feature!

This month's download, in honor of deer season, is Inbred, our rockabilly influenced song all about being inbred in the state of Ohio. Check it out and

let us know what you think!

We are releasing a new album in the next few months called "Waste" which is a collection of B-sides that were recorded from 2001-2004. Some of the

songs appeared on various singles and compilations over the years, and others have never been released. These are some of our favorite songs and 

and we hope that you enjoy them once they are released. Thanks to DJ Thorne for mixing the track "Kung Fu Dry Butthole"!

We have already started on a brand new album that we will release sometime next year. Sad to say that this looks to be our last album. We feel that we

have accomplished all of the goals that we originally set out to do with General Strike. Some of us will join other bands, some of us will not. Jason

Timebomb will be the guitarist this time, and Darrin Detour will be playing drums. Mike Alcohol and J. Chaos of course will be onboard as usual. Shawn

Mayhem may be playing with us as well as a third guitarist, on the album only,  but of course this is all up to Shawn, who is over in Iraq right now fighting

in the war. No word yet if we will do any live shows for this album or in the immediate future, but we will be sure to let you know!  

Also be sure to check out Shawn's new web site, which details his daily events in the war in Iraq. We wish him best of luck and safe passage in his travels.

 See you soon everyone!  

Also congratulations to J. Chaos' engagement to his long time girlfriend Beth, on New Years Eve 2005!

And also Jason Timebomb starts his reviews of the holidays this year!

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