The Gizmos (v.2) BETA

About The Gizmos Web Site

This website is currently under development. It's an attempt to provide an informal home for information pertaining to the Indiana-based proto-punk band, The Gizmos.

The Gizmos have a very complex backstory. Suffice, for now, to note that in effect there were two different bands that share the same name, logo, and record label. This site is primarily about the second version of the band, who were very influential at the regional level. They had a playing career from roughly 1978 to 1981 in Indiana and briefly in Hoboken, New Jersey and the metropolitan New York area.

The first version of the band is ably documented by founding member (and original logo designer) Eddie Flowers on his web site, Slippy Town.

We'll try to include info on the projects and members of the first version of the band, but their influence was both wider scale and more diffuse, as they effectively broke up before the players we'll be focusing on here picked up the name.

While we hope that the various people this web site is about help out and contribute their own stories, this is not an official website and although various Gizmos and record label owners (I'm looking at you, Bob) have been very supportive of my attempts to figure out the history, the site has no commercial affiliation with either Gulcher Records or the Gizmos.

Mike Whybark - April 13, 2004