The Femurs consist of Rob Femur on guitar, drums, vocals, bass, keyboards, xylophone, accordion, tin flute, bongos and theremin. Well some of that shit I made up but basically my point is it’s one dude. He even recorded and produced it all himself. You wouldn’t know it from listening to it either as Sir Femur is fully capable of all instrumentation and vocal duties. It does however beg the question. Why? I mean is Rob Femur an asshole or leper or some shit? Maybe he’s one of these people that smells funny but is so nice people don’t tell him? Why can’t he find a drummer or bassist and do a little less work? Less work is the American Way after all. Maybe he lives in one of these towns with a population of 50 and the other 49 people are assholes. I’m willing to give him the benefit of the doubt on this one.
So how does this one man band sound? Mostly like The Ramones (and they all fucking hated each other so maybe that’s why Rob goes it alone). You know as a sidenote (sidenote within a sidenote: I luv sidenotes): my mother once saw a dude with no arms play guitar with his feet at her church rec center. She asked me to go and as tempting as it was I turned it down for fear of being roped into religion… that seems relevant doesn’t it? But it sorta is cause I imagine Rob has to play something with his feet during his live show.
All joking aside I really dig this album. Classic Ramones inspired acoustic R n R does the soul good. Especially in the summertime. Check the Femurs out. And drop Rob an email or FaceBook friend request or something. Jesus. He may just be bad at at making the first move.
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