You've probobly no doubt seen a 'Greenhouse Effect music video' if you surf the net and most people do. This little three piece band from Los Angeles County's 'Redondo Beach" California , became a sensation in 2008 with Internet Mega-song 'White Black Thang' a track that gets more plays than Madonna and Mariah Carey combined !! The bizarre looking unusual band got their start deep in the mid 1980's long before today's pop scenesters were even born ! Clark Higgins began the band in 1986 with guitarist Greg Tarpley and bassist Ric Carmody,...and they went on to score a major hit with 1989's "6 Feet under' a song that has amassed some 30 million views at Googlevideo.com "We have alot of great songs,..theres much more to us than 'White Black Thang' and 'Brandy",..probobly the best song we got is a song called "Coke snortin' love boyz" from 1990 ,..but then theres the really good "22nd Street' from 1991,...we make sure all of our material is first rate ,..and 'catchy' above all,..we get watched alot - i think because we are so 'human' and 'natural' - theres no tattoos or piercing or useless body art with us - we just look like regular nice guys,..we are fun people who you can drink a beer with,..a girl would be proud to bring us home to mother (Laughs) " says higgins...
Greenhouse effect's secret success lies in their simplicity,..as they come on as a band with nothing to hide and all flaws fully exposed,.."i think we just flat out make the best videos and songs that the internet has ever seen ,..we bring back memories,..not just about and to our hometown the south bay,..but no matter where you are in the world or in America,...we are a 'downhome' plain old rock n roll band - but we happen to be one,..we are one who kicks major ass - but in a weird unexplanable way ,...that is uniquely all our own,..we are strange...but we're quite melodic" says higgins
Hagins and his wife live a low key life today in San Diego "we eat at wendys" says higgins "when people see me now,..its clear today that i'm not that skinny young and cute shark man anymore that drove all those women crazy long ago (Laughs)....
Along with Internet mega-celebs Tila Tequila, perez Hilton, and Happy Slip, and Lisa nova, Hagins is a major internet fixture along with bizarre looking red haired bassist Rick Carmody who formerly played bass with the south bay's One handed readers,...and original axeman Phil "Flipper" Keegan (Dr. Phil) who now plays with Northern California band Roughpuppy...
All the members of Greenhouse effect who came and went have various tales to tell,.but 'being in G.e.' is their most wildest phase indeed.
G.e. were a revolutionary band in their time,..well noticed by all the major labels in the mid 1980's for their unusual 'grunge rock' approach with Keegan's high bass and low treble 'muddy' sounding powerful sludge guitar,...as G.e. played early tracks like 'Racers' and 1987's "Precarious',.....songs that would shape 'alternative rock' of the indie emo 1990's modern rock sound of kroq to come later,....
In late 2007. ,...Greenhouse effect shot to the very top of Google video at number one 'in demand world video' for White Black Thang where the song would dart in and out of the top ten for weeks and weeks on end to the astonishment of Higgins "actually, i wasn't surprised at all" says higgins "me and ted 'knew' that song was a hit in the summer of 1991...it was a song about those police who beat Rodney King" In "WBT"'s first 6 weeks at Google, it 'owned' the Google charts,...with no bots, no links, and no software promotion !!
"Yeah,..alot of people back in the south bay try to say unfair things like that shark was roboting that song in 2007 - when thats bullshit,...that song just took off by itself,..'ofcourse' it did,..its a big monster hit SONG - YOU CAN JUST TELL BY LISTENING TO IT" says higgins
"About one year into it,...and seeing the huge success and potential,..thats when i began to use things like Somanymp3s.com and the zeus 1000 marketing robot - for 'insurance' says higgins...
EVERYBODY KNOWS,..that song was 'already big' before i ever used a bot service" says higgins
Today White black thang is a rock solid doornail of the internet, which has made Higgins and his band Superstars,...far away countries like Japan know every word and lyric to G.e. songs ,..."it feels great to finally get some recognition' says higgins 'its just too bad now that i'm 44 years old,..but i did manage to write one of rock's greatest songs,..i got that under my belt"
Higgins credits his skills as a musician and an internet mass marketer as 'a tough upbringing and being the last of 8 children in a suburban america home" they were tough on me,..very tough" says higgins "but it made me the best,...through a tough life, i became very skilled at things,..i actually almost thank them,..its like they ruined me ,..but made me the greatest too !"
Today ,and ofcourse 'linked' by the zeus robot and its customers and the klause41 clickbank i.d. ,...Greenhouse effect song "Brandy" has damn near caught up to White/black as another and new internet staple !!
So is their a 2009 'G.e. re-union' in the making "nobody knows what the future may hold" says higgins "we are still on haitus from November 1992 nearly 19 years ago !! - if we play again ,..then we do - if we don't then we don't ,...the ball is in their hands (the others),..its not in mind"
So the answer is ,..no one knows for sure if the "Internet's biggest band" will ever reunite,..and play again....