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Sloppy Meateaters was an American band from Rome, Georgia on Orange Peel Records.
Early history
Prior to forming the sloppy meateaters, Josh Chambers had a punk band called NoClass with whom he released a few 7" records and a split CD with Atlanta punk legends the Tone Deaf Pig-Dogs. After forming SME in 1998 the band released three LPs and three EPs Their first two releases, Eat Meat Cuz It's Fun (now out of print) and Shameless Self Promotion were self-released and only feature original members Josh Chambers and Kevin Highfield. After playing to an audience of over a million viewers on the USA Network's show Farmclub.com in 2001 alongside Eminem, Destiny's Child, Mxpx, & Sevendust the band was signed to Orange Peal Records which re-released their debut and released their 2001 album Forbidden Meat. In 2002 Crave Entertainment featured two SME songs in the Razor Freestyle Scooter video game that sold half a million copies worldwide. The band toured consistently through 1999 and 2002. SME played a show at the Rock N Roll hall of fame in 2001 with Black Sheep & Saliva and did dates on the Warped Tour in 2000, 2001, 2002, and 2005.
Under the Weather
In late 2002, the sloppy meateaters retired their moniker and became Under the Weather, which released a self-titled 6-song EP in 2003 and went on a single three week tour before imploding from the exhaustion from prior 3 years of ceaseless touring. Coheed and Cambria & One Line Drawing asked the band to tour with them weeks after the break up. There was then a long downtime for all things SME related. Yet in late 2003,Orange Peal Records & Trydent Style records released the Under the Weather EP in Japan where it sold very well very quickly, and it was nearly a year later before the band found out via label mates the berlin projects .roadie sneaking the information to the band.
The return
The band had a whole new lineup (besides John Elwell, who had been playing with the band since 2001) and began touring again. In 2005, the band released their fourth album Conditioned by the Laugh Track on Orange Peel Records, which saw the band move away from their pop-punk beginnings and take on a much different new sound.
Notable tours and shows
The band shared the stage with Face to Face, MxPx, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, The Ataris,labelmates The Berlin Project, New Found Glory, Alien Ant Farm, NOFX, Dashboard Confessional, Good Charlotte, Midtown, Bad Religion and many others over the years. The band played dates on the Vans Warped Tour in 2001 and 2002. Headlined the Slim Jim ReBellie-Ache Tour in 2001 and the Alternative Press Empty Mouths Tour in 2005.
The end
No longer the pop punk band, the sloppy meateaters went on a final 13 month tour in 2005/2006 touring with a bizarre new alternative rock N punk sound alongside the amazing Whole Wheat Bread, Parkside View, the Transit War , Treephort , & [[Stole your woman] . Three months into the tour the band voted John Elwell out of the band due to personality differences and replaced him with long time friend Dalton Bohanan. Six months into the tour the band then voted drummer Lee Howell out of the band in Portland OR and without missing a show dropped their full electric set in favor of a 3 piece acoustic trio. No longer pop punk, and now no longer electric rock n roll, the trio spent 6 months touring coast to coast playing clubs, bars, coffee shops, and then eventually they dropped booking shows at all and opted instead to play house shows and busk in any situation obtainable. The band flourished during this period. SME busked up and down the west coast for the last 3 months and the tour came to a grinding halt after a psilocybin picnic at Joshua Tree. ]In July 2006, Chambers announced that SME was finished and proclaimed their would be a book about his travels. The book "Fruitless Misadventures" is set to be be out in 2013.
The Last Ditch Stand
In 2009 Chambers debuted a new band The Last Ditch Stand, consisting of Josh Chambers and his wife Jessie Chambers. The band's first album is Peace Mongering Thought Criminals
Trivia
80+ songswell over 1 million legal downloads given away for free,with a unknown amount of P2P downloads (encouraged by the band)40,000 records sold15 tours in 7 years, the last tour lasting 13 months.Performed to a TV audience of over a million on the Farmclub.com show with Eminem, Destiny's Child, 3 Doors Down, and MxPx in 2000"Brand New Kind Of" and "Outta Control" were featured in the video game Razor Freestyle Scooter.The band lives on via College Radio and the internet in 5 out of 7 continents on planet Earth.Kevin Lyman, Founder of Warped Tour, referred to SloppyMeateaters when asked to define a Warped Tour band:
"Usually I like to find bands that have started out doing it themselves--kids that have gotten in vans and run around by themselves. Persistence. There's a band called Sloppy Meat Eaters, they keep me posted constantly on what they're doing in their career. They'll probably get some Warped Tour dates because they're showing growth, and I'm starting to hear from kids in their area." http://ca.launch.yahoo.com/read/interview/12048569
