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Aaron Elliott (born 1968), better known as Aaron Cometbus, is an American drummer, lyricist, self-described "punk anthropologist" and author of punk rock zine Cometbus.[1] Born in Berkeley, California, Cometbus started writing fanzines in 1981 with Jesse Michaels of Operation Ivy, and started his own after Michaels moved to Pennsylvania in October 1981. Aaron became an active participant in the Gilman Street Project and was a founding member of Crimpshrine, a highly influential East Bay punk rock band, which also featured Jeff Ott.[2] After the demise of Crimpshrine, Aaron formed Pinhead Gunpowder with a handful of people from the East Bay punk scene, including Mike Kirsch, Jason White and Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day.[3] Aaron has also played in a multitude of short-lived bands that generally release just a seven-inch or two before breaking up, some of which include Astrid Oto, Cleveland Bound Death Sentence, Scooby Don't, Shotwell Coho, The Blank Fight (which included Rymodee of This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb), EFS, Redmond Shooting Stars, Mundt and The Retard Beaters, T. Zatana, Colbom, and Harbinger (which also included Robert Eggplant, formerly of Blatz, and John Geek of Fleshies). He briefly played drums in the SF anarcho-syndicalist group Strawman. He has been known to sit behind the kit for This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb from time to time. He recently played in The Thorns of Life, a short-lived project with Blake Schwarzenbach and Daniela Sea.
[edit] Other writingIn addition to writing for his own zine, Cometbus has contributed stories to several other zines such as Absolutely Zippo, Maximum Rocknroll, and Tales of Blarg, occasionally writing under the pseudonym Skrub. His work is easily recognizable by his distinctive, block-lettered handwritten script. His handwriting also appears in the liner notes to Jawbreaker's Etc. compilation. On August 1, 2002, Last Gasp Publishing released Despite Everything: A Cometbus Omnibus, a 608-page compendium of selections from early Cometbus issues, which are long out of print and often difficult to find. The following year, Cometbus released a novel called Double Duce, a memoir of his experiences living in a squalid Berkeley punk house with a diverse assortment of oddball roommates. The entirety of Double Duce was hand-written by Cometbus, with some selections taken from older issues of Cometbus. Aaron has also released a few smaller collections of short stories, entitled Chicago Stories and Mixed Reviews. A novel titled I Wish There Was Something That I Could Quit, was published on March 15, 2006. Cometbus # 51 "The Loneliness of the Electric Menorah", released in September 2008, chronicles the history of Moe's Books and other longtime businesses of Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley, California. His latest work is Cometbus # 52 "Spirit of St. Louis, Or, How To Break Your Own Heart, A Tragedy In 24 Parts". Aaron says in his blurb: "It all starts with the story I've told so many times it's turned stale and tired from overuse. There I was, dropped off in a city far from home. I didn't know a soul or have a hope, and so on..." [edit] Band History
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