Government Cheese

Published 10:26 am Tuesday, March 6, 2012

By The Daily News

: Government Cheese: 1985-1995

Government Cheese
Post Punk | 1985 – 1992; Reunions

Members:

Tommy Womack – Guitars, Vocals, and Maniacal Rants.
Skot Willis – Vocals, Guitars, and Jumping.
Billy Mack [aka William Hill] – Bass, Vocals, and Rhythmic Head Bobbing.
Joe “Elvis” King – Pounding of Drums, also the Band’s “False Appearance of Normality” Representative to the Late Night End Keepers.
Viva Las Vegas [aka Chris Becker] – Guitar, Shouting, with Keith Richard’s Coolness. [Ned Van Go, Government Cheese]

Discography:

Government Cheese: Government Cheese 1985-1995 (2010) [Tommy Womack (guitar, vocals), Skot Willis (vocals, guitar), Billy Mack (bass vocals), Joe “Elvis” King (drums), Viva Las Vegas [aka Chris Becker] (guitar)]
Government Cheese: It’s a Rock and Roll Party with Government Cheese! (1995) Vinyl Reunion single of Jailbait & The Shrubbery’s Dead [Tommy Womack (guitar, vocals), Skot Willis (vocals, guitar), Billy Mack (bass vocals), Joe “Elvis” King (drums), Viva Las Vegas [aka Chris Becker] (guitar), Brad Jones & Government Cheese (producer)]
Government Cheese: Government Cheese (1992) Tracks: Single, Sunday Driver, Before the Battered, For the Battered, No Sleeping in Penn Station, A Little Bit of Sex, Fall in Love with You, Driver’s Ed Films, Search and Destroy, Selling Out, Somewhere Between, Life Outside the Window, I Wanna Be a Man, Nothing Feels Good [Tommy Womack (guitar, vocals), Skot Willis (vocals, guitar), Billy Mack (bass vocals), Joe “Elvis” King (drums), Viva Las Vegas [aka Chris Becker] (guitar), Government Cheese (produced), Marc Owens & Donnie Bott (engineered), High Street Studios (recorded)]
Government Cheese: Three Chords/No Waiting (1989) Tracks: Bathtub, He Asked, Mammaw Drives The Bus, I Can’t Make You Love Me, Yellow Cling Peaches, Stay With Me, Camping on Acid, The Shrubbery’s Dead, Fish Stick Day, Face to Face [Tommy Womack (guitar, vocals), Skot Willis (vocals, guitar), Billy Mack (bass vocals), Joe “Elvis” King (drums), Viva Las Vegas [aka Chris Becker] (guitar)]
Government Cheese: Come On Back to Bowling Green and Marry Me (1987) 4 song EP. The video for Face to Face received MTV play. Tracks: C’mon Back to Bowling Green, Underneath the Water Tower, Face to Face, Inside of You [Tommy Womack (guitar, vocals), Skot Willis (vocals, guitar), Billy Mack (bass vocals), Joe “Elvis” King (drums), Scott Tutt (producer), Jon “Mr. Big” D’Amelio (engineer), Chelsea Studios (recorded)]
Government Cheese: Things Are More Like They Are Now Than They’ve Ever Been Before (1985) 4 song EP, Tracks: This Life’s For Me, Oh Yeah, Face In The Crowd, Rebecca Whitmire [Tommy Womack (guitar, vocals), Skot Willis (vocals, guitar), Billy Mack (bass vocals), Joe “Elvis” King (drums), Byron House (producer), Marc Owens (engineer), High Street Studios (recorded)]

Influences: The Jam, The Clash, Ramones, Iggy, The Dolls, Zep, The Endtables, The Gun Club, The Replacements, R.E.M, Jim Carroll, Babylon Dance Band, Johnny Cash, Social Distortion, Hanoi Rocks, Patsy Cline, Jason and the Scorchers

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