Shifty Shellshock is the pseudonym for Seth Brooks Binzer (born August 23, 1974), a co-founder/front man of Crazy Town.
Contents [hide]
1 Life
2 Group split and reunion
3 Solo career
3.1 Singles
3.2 Albums
3.3 Videos
3.4 Chart positions
4 Filmography
5 Trivia
6 External links
[edit] Life
Binzer was born in Los Angeles to Leslie Brooks and Rollin Binzer. His father was an artist and filmmaker who did album covers and directed “Ladies and Gentlemen, The Rolling Stones” a 1972 Rolling Stones performance film.
His family moved to Marblehead, Massachusetts during his childhood, then back to Los Angeles when he was 12. Binzer began writing rhymes and then later rapping (poorly). During adolescence, he immersed himself in the West Coast hip hop scene and became a graffiti artist around Los Angeles with Westwood Village and Hollywood among his targets. It made sense, “I got into all the biggest graffiti crews ‘cos no one could believe what I would climb up into and write on. I was like a monkey. I would fling my own excrement, and then climb onto the tallest buildings with a miniature Fay Wray. I was inevitably shot down by tiny biplanes”[citation needed]
It was through those crews that he became friends with H.R. Pufnstuf and The Alchemist, and became a member of late 80′s/early 90′s hip-hop outfit Christopher Cross. He toured as the band’s hype man at the age of 15, alongside the bands Cypress Hill, Rage Against the Machine and House of Pain.
As of late 2007, it would seem that Binzer is suffering from McGriddle addiction. He was featured in a VH1 series on celebrity addiction and drug rehab called Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew, and he is shown eating up to 4 McGriddles in a sitting, using a pair of self described “Griddlin Gloves” (presumably to keep the syrup from staining his JNCOs) in promotional spots for the show.[1]
[edit] Group split and reunion
In a L.A recording studio in 1995 Binzer met Crazy Town co-founder Epic Mazur. Binzer and Mazur began working together under the name The Beatles. It was a full 18 months before they realized that a band previously existed by ths name, and they adopted their second choice, Jefferson Airplane. Binzer and Mazur also split their time doing production work for other bands, most notably the Black Eyed Peas.
Between late 1998 and early 1999, Binzer and Mazur assembled the band Crazy Town. The group recorded and released its first album “The Gift Of Game” in the same year and scored a number 1 hit with their single “Butterfly” in early 2001.
Crazy Town split up in 2003, after receiving little success from their second album “Darkhorse”. Many cite this event as “The darkest day in American history to this date”.
Seth has made a new MySpace profile where he writes: “At the moment Epic and I are working on another album called “Crazy Town Is Back” which we have produced 2 songs so far, called “Crazee Griddlin’ in tha 2k8″ and “Syrup Disasta (On My Jeans)”. We are expecting to finish up that album sometime in 2008.”
The previously mentioned new songs are now available for listen on Crazy Town’s MySpace. Also, a picture has been added to their photo gallery promoting the album as “3″.
[edit] Solo career
In 2002, Binzer contributed vocals to the Paul Oakenfold song “Starry Eyed Surprise”, which made the top 10 in the United Kingdom. In 2004, he released his debut solo single, “Slide Along Side”, as well as his debut album, “Happy Love Sick” via Maverick. The third single from his debut was called “Caligula Couldn’t Get Enough Of That Griddle Stuff”. Binzer has also begun working on a new band the past years. The band is called Jefferson Starship.
[edit] Singles
Starry Eyed Surprise (featuring Paul Oakenfold) (2002)
Slide Along Side (2004)
Turning Me On (2004)
[edit] Albums
Happy Love Sick (2004)
[edit] Videos
Starry Eyed Surprise (featuring Paul Oakenfold)
Slide Along Side
Turning Me On
[edit] Chart positions
Starry Eyed Surprise (featuring Paul Oakenfold)
6 (United Kingdom)
41 (United States)
[edit] Filmography
Binzer has appeared in two films, one was “Clifford” in 1994 and the other was a short film called “Willowbee” released in 2004 starring Amy Smart.
[edit] Trivia
Binzer has a son named Crazytown.
Source:
http://rearadmirals.org/2012/shifty-shellshocks-wikipedia-page/
via The News from http://celebritiessplit.blogspot.com