Yellow Plastic Bucket was a band based in Oakville, Ontario, Canada, formed in 1993 and disbanded in 1997.
Their better-known songs include "Just Got Back/I Tried" and the Mark Kramer produced "Young Again/Empire Maple". Their members include Gord on bass guitar, Phil on drums, and Chris and Jamie on guitar. They were influenced by artists such as Captain Beefheart, Merle Travis, UK Subs, and Devo. Yellow Plastic Bucket also, in turn, influenced better known artists such as the Tragically Hip and Neil Young.
Famous quotes containing the words yellow, plastic and/or bucket:
“Visions of half the world burned black
And the sun shrunken yellow in smoke.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“And I threw a little earth
on the pink coffin
covered by the fake plastic grass
and said O.K., God,
if it’s the end of the world,
it must be necessary.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“She was a charming middle-aged lady with a face like a bucket of mud. I gave her a drink. She was a gal who’d take a drink if she had to knock me down to get the bottle.”
—John Paxton (1911–1985)