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Refimprove|date=August 2009Infobox musical artist | name = Fastbacks| image = Fastbacks 2011 - 01B.jpg| caption = The Fastbacks at a 2011 reunion gig. Left to right: Kurt Bloch, Kim Warnick, Mike Musburger (rear), Lulu Gargiulo.| image_size = 300| background = group_or_band| alias =| origin = Seattle, Washington|Seattle | genre = Punk rock , pop punk | years_active = 1979& ndash;2002, 2011| label = Sub Pop Records|Sub Pop , PopLlama Records|PopLlama | associated_acts = Visqueen (band)|Visqueen , Guns N' Roses , Calligraphers | website =| current_members =| past_members = Kurt Bloch Lulu Gargiulo Kim Warnick Duff McKagan Mike Musburger Richard Stuverud Rusty Willoughby Nate Johnson 12+ other drummers| notable_instruments =The Fastbacks were a Seattle, Washington|Seattle punk rock band. Formed in 1979 by songwriter/guitarist Kurt Bloch (born August 28, 1960), and friends Lulu Gargiulo (guitar and vocals, born October 12, 1960) and Kim Warnick (bass and vocals, born April 7, 1959), they disbanded in 2001. Their sound mixed a generally punk rock approach to vocals and sound textures with Pop music|pop py tunes and strong musicianship.
Although these three band members remained fairly constant, they went through numerous drummers, including Duff McKagan , later of Guns N' Roses . MTV 's web page on the Fastbacks says that estimates at the number of Fastbacks drummers "range from 12 to 20." http://www.mtv.com/bands/az/fastbacks/bio.jhtml dead link|date=July 2011 For most of the band's last decade, Mike Musburger filled this role, but other Fastbacks drummers before him (or when he took occasional breaks) included Bloch himself, Richard Stuverud (perhaps best known from War Babies (band)|War Babies , Fifth Angel and Three Fish , side project of Pearl Jam 's Jeff Ament ), Nate Johnson and Rusty Willoughby (both of whom also played in both Flop (band)|Flop and Pure Joy ), John Moen (of the Dharma Bums , later of Steven Malkmus 's Jicks and The Decemberists ), Jason Finn (of the The Presidents of the United States of America (band)|Presidents of the United States of America ), Dan Peters of Mudhoney (band)|Mudhoney , and Tad Hutchison of the Young Fresh Fellows . Several of these people also served at times as drummers in The Squirrels , a similarly long-lived band, and the Fastbacks' sometime label-mates on Pop Llama Records , who bring a similar mix of strong musicianship and punk attitude to even poppier material.
Contributing to the band's breakup was Kim Warnick's move to the band Visqueen (band)|Visqueen in 2001 through 2004. In summer 2010 Kim Warnick started a new band with Mikey Davis called Calligrapherscitation needed|date=November 2010.
The Fastbacks reunited for a one-off live performance date|2011-07-08 at the West Seattle Summer Music Festival, featuring the core trio of Kurt, Kim and Lulu, along with Mike Mussburger on drums, their first official show together since their break-up a decade ago.
Discography
Singles
"It's Your Birthday"/"You Can't Be Happy" (single), No Threes, 1981
"Wrong Wrong Wrong"/"In America" (single), UK Subway, 1989
"In The Winter"/"It Came To Me In A Dream" (single), UK Subway, 1989
"Lose" Fastbacks/"King of Hubcaps Gas Huffer (single), SPFC 1990
The Answer Is You "My Letters"/"Whatever Happened to ? "/"Impatience"/"Above the Sunrise"' (2-single set), Sub Pop, 1991
Live in America (2-single set), Smilin' Ear, 1991
"Run No More/"Really" (single), Who Cares, 1992
"Now Is the Time"/"Sometimes"/"Was Late" (single), Ded Beet, 1992 recorded 1983-1985
"They Don't Care"/"Out of the Charts" (single), PopLlama Records|PopLlama , 1993
"Gone to the Moon"/"Go All the Way" (single), Sub Pop (Germany), 1993
"Wait It Out"/"The Jester" (single), Munster (Spain), 1994
Album and EP
"Someone Else's Room" on the Seattle Syndrome Volume One compilation, 1981
Fastbacks Play Five Of Their Favorites (5-track, 12" EP), No Threes, 1982
Everyday Is Saturday , No Threes, 1984
And His Orchestra|Fastbacks ... And His Orchestra (album), Pop Llama, 1987, also released on UK Subway, 1987
"Swallow My Pride" ( Green River (band)|Green River cover) on the Sub Pop 200 compilation, Sub Pop, 1988
Very, Very Powerful Motor (album), Pop Llama, 1990
"In The Summer/You Can't Be Happy/Everything I Don't Need/Queen of Eyes" (EP), No Threes/SPFC, 1990
"Hit or Miss" ( The Damned (band)|The Damned cover) on Another Damned Seattle Compilation , Dashboard Hula Girl Records 1991
In America, Live in Seattle 1988 (album), Lost and Found (Germany), 1991
Never Fails, Never Works (album), Blaster (UK), 1991
The Question Is No (album), Sub Pop, 1992
Gone to the Moon (EP), Sub Pop (Germany), 1993
Zücker (album)|Zücker (album), Sub Pop, 1993
Gone to the moon (album), Sub Pop, 1993
Bike-Toy-Clock-Gift , first released as a tape on Bus Stop, 1990; (album), Lucky, 1994
Answer the Phone Dummy (album), Sub Pop, 1994
New Mansions in sound (album), Sub Pop, 1996
Alone in a Furniture Warehouse Scaring You Away Like a Hotel Mattress (album), Munster (Spain), 1996
Here They Are... Live At the Crocodile... (album), Lance Rock (Canada), 1996
