“You ain’t no punk, you punk!”

Lux Interior, of legendary, sleazy, swaggering, and downright amazing garage rock band The Cramps was born in Akron, Ohio.

RIP, Lux. You are missed.

The Cramps - Garbage Man (via defrox)

Dave Grohl, one of the greatest rock drummers alive, is from Warren, Ohio. 

He’s played drums for Scream, Nirvana, Them Crooked Vultures, and done session work for everyone from The Prodigy to Nine Inch Nails. Oh, yeah… He also sings, plays guitar, piano and bass and fronts his own band, the multi-grammy winning Foo Fighters. 

He’s a pretty big fucking deal, so it’s no surprise that Warren gave him a key to the city last summer and even named an alley after him.

Now, Dave’s a solid dude, so he not only showed up and played some of his songs, but he also joined a local band in playing some Led Zeppelin, but wait… That’s just a drop in Dave’s awesomeness bucket.

When Dave found out that a couple Australian miners asked to hear some Foo Fighters while they were trapped in the mine, he sent them an email and invited them to a free show and some beers. Then, he wrote a song about it and put it on an album. 

When Dave found out that some guy who took his girlfriend on their first date to a Foo Fighters concert wanted to propose to her at another Foo Fighters concert, Dave stopped the show and helped him do it.

When Dave saw a kid getting squished at the front of a Them Crooked Vultures show, he stopped the show and helped him and his dad backstage, so they could watch the show right next to him and John Paul Jones. There’s even a video for that too.

Like I said, Dave’s a solid dude.

Dave grohl…what a drummer (via jackassluke99)

Let’s have some underrated pop music from Cincinnati.

First, there was the Raisins, but they broke up and a couple of the guys joined forces with some dude from across the River called Adrian Belew to form the Bears, but then they broke up and the Psychodots formed. Since then, the guys have backed each other up on their individual solo projects, including Belew’s, and all of the bands have reunited at various points.

We haven’t been this confused, since we tried to figure out how many bands Jim Macpherson has played in, so we’ll have to get around to those other projects later in the week some other time.

Here the boys are as the Psychodots playing the Bears’ hit “Fear is Never Boring”.

One of the best things about working on Fuck Yeah Ohio is digging around the interwebs and learning that folks you never knew were from Ohio are. Take Maynard James Keenan, for example.  He’s from Ravenna.

Maynard, as if you didn’t know, is the lead singer of Tool, A Perfect Circle, and Puscifer. He’s also apparently a bit of a gourmand, owning a vineyard, winery, produce market, etc. in Arizona. 

Tool - Sober [hq - fullscreen] (via areneros)

It’s the 41st anniversary of Ohioan Neil Armstrong becoming the first human to walk on the surface of the moon.

Q: Do we talk about Neil Armstrong walking on the moon too much?

A: Trick question! It’s not even possible to talk about that too much.

NASA’s restored video showing Neil Armstrong’s first moonwalk (via rubykeilana)

Columbus has lost a giant.

We were going to wait to talk about Andyman, until the Andyman-a-thon came around again, but we are absolutely gutted and can think of nothing else.

John Andrew “Andyman” Davis passed away while on vacation with his family this last weekend. Our thoughts are with his family and, frankly, with the rest of the city, because Andyman wasn’t just a DJ at our favorite independent radio station or the co-founder of our favorite hole-in-the-wall bar. He was an important part of city life and you’ll be hard pressed to find a more generous person anywhere. As the programming director at CD101, he held a vital role in keeping independent radio and music alive and, with the Andyman-a-thon, he raised more money for underprivileged children, via the CD101 For the Kids charity than we can even estimate (over $42,000 in 2009 alone).

We only met Andyman a couple times, but his influence is unavoidable in Columbus. When we did, he made us question wether or not we were doing enough with our lives. Seriously, he even donated his hair to charity. That’s the kind of guy he was. We miss him already.

• Public Rememberance
• R.I.P. Andyman / “People in major metropolitan areas on the coasts have all kinds of misconceptions about ‘flyover country’…”
• Friends, fans remember popular Columbus DJ Andyman

If you’ve seen The Drew Carey Show Intro, we don’t need to tell you that comedian, actor, photographer, and game show host Drew Carey is from Cleveland, Ohio, right?

Here’s Jonathan Winters on fellow Ohioan Dean Martin’s show.

This master improvisational comic was born in Bellbrook, Ohio (obligatory Wikipedia link). 

He has been in more movies and released more comedy albums than we care to count and, at 84 years old, is still actively entertaining, having just been recast as Papa Smurf in the new Smurfs movie. 

During this long career, he has inspired everyone from George Carlin to Bill Cosby to Robin Williams and Patton Oswalt.