900 POUND GORILLA: Home

What's up? You've made it to the website of rock band 900 Pound Gorilla! Leave us a message in the guest book, we love to hear from you! Quick news flash---donat and Johnny will be on the Combat Radio show at http://www.latalkradio.com/Combat.php

We're on at 12:00, thursday , June 17th for an hour. We might even sneak some new songs.

Thanks to all that made it out to the Sagebrush Cantina in Calabasas.

We're looking to play some more gigs this summer, but we're hunkering down to finish the 2nd album and plan to do some extra mixing with Michael Rozon soon.

We've been nominated for an Independent Music Award in the Punk rock song category. You can help us out by registering and voting for us atWe appreciate it! this is a cool outlet for indy musicians. You can also reach us on myspace at http://www.myspace.com/900poundgorilla.

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Have fun on the site and please leave us a message on the Guestbook! Some news! We're on the ballot this year for the 52nd Grammy awards in 3 categories---Hard Rock, Rock instrumental and Short Form Video. We're in great company in these categories with everybody from Metallica, Linkin Park, Steve Vai, Jeff Beck, Beyonce, etc.. You can listen to some tunes by clicking on the jukebox at the top of the page.

Here's our itunes link for individual tracks: http://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/900-pound-gorilla/id207365647 The "Roller Derby Girl" video is up! Leave us a comment on our youtube page! http://www.youtube.com/900poundgorilla

900 Pound Gorilla: Roller Derby Girl-3 Versions

Here's Big Fat Limo , cut from 3 of our first live performances. Here's some more band info: we've got a song on "Auditory Assault" a compilation by Bare Metal Records that's being sent to troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. We've got a song on the Mohawk Bomb 3rd compilation album, Thanks Ivan!, and we we're nominated for a Just Plain Folks Award.. Donny just recorded some intro's for our friend John Dissed, from the band Bull Lee and his podcast "the Bull Pit" Here's the website: http://thebullpit.podbean.com/ And for the JPF Awards, here's a link:

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Thanks to all who made it out to the Sans Souci Gig in Ventura, Ca. (as part of the California Music Festival) This was a cool , punk rock style club and we seemed to make a connection with the people. We had a great time and enjoyed their Pabst Blue Ribbon Talls and mixed and mingled. The bartender wants to have us back, so maybe we'll see you up in Ventura again!

We've got a 5 dollar deal going in the "Buy" section for a DVD of

Roller Derby Girl and a 3 song cd (3 different versions) of the song!

New news, we're getting some airplay in the UK on a music show called "The Overflow" more details are in the news section. A bunch of our friends bands are on this comp including Bull Lee, Soulfound, and Black Diamond Love. Check out the latest review from HOT INDIE NEWS, on the album , in our PRESS / REVIEWS section. check out our myspace site as well www.myspace.com/900poundgorilla In case you saw the gorillamobile driving around town and thought what the ?? What's a 900 Pound Gorilla? We're a punk/metal/rock band out of West Hills, Ca. Leave us a message in the Guestbook, we'd love to hear what you've got to say------------ THANKS TO THE ANGEL CITY DERBY GIRLS AND PRISON CITY DERBY DAMES! We had a great time and i really believe the footage we got will make a great f'xxking video. Dia, Mad Dog, Gina, Maritza and everyone else Thanks for your help! And Carlos, Jack, and John, thanks for your excellent camera work! We've made it onto the ballot for the 51st GRAMMIES in the Rock/Duo Group with vocal category! We're amazed to be in such great company. Click on the player to listen while you browse and be a friend, JOIN THE MAILING LIST! (it's in the upper left of each page) We'll let you know about upcoming shows! Here's a new video cut to "Gutterball" from the first album. Here's Big Fat Limo, with video cut from 3 of our first live performances. Now, for the live stuff, here's a video from the show for a new song called "Frown". Here's a live video for a new song " Hit em hard" Here's a live video for a new song- "The Angry Independent" Just found out we we're on the Derder Nation DVD with one of our songs-it's a Paintball DVD. If you have a good band and you want to play , send us a message! The Gorillamobile is alive! We've got some pictures in the photo section. We're just looking to have some fun with it while promoting the band. Hope to see you on the road. Plus there's a new website created for it: www.myspace.com/thegorillamobile Hit us up! Here's a live video from a new song called "Helen Brimstone" We've recently been featured in Express Jet's in flight magazine In "Forward Beat" by Jonathan Kramm, the review has been posted in our press section. Thanks Jonathan! He's also of the band Phase Theory which plays around Hollywood. Yeah, we we're awarded Punk Group of the year at the Los Angeles Muic Awards. Don't think we don't take it with a grain of salt, but we're appreciative to the LAMA's and all the people involved. It was a fun night and we met a lot of cool people and musicians from all over the world. We love hearing from you, so please leave us a message in the guestbook. Peace, 900 POUND GORILLA