Jim Stacy’s Lesser-Known Bands

Also for Monday's roast-in-absentia of departing Star Bar co-owner Jim Stacy, I compiled a list of his shorter-lived musical groups.

Jim Stacy performs in several Atlanta bands. The most famous are probably the all-clown punk group Big Top, the Star Wars-themed Grand Moff Tarkin and holiday-favorite Yule Log in which he appears as Shitty Clause.

Here are some of his lesser-known bands:

Un-Pleasance—a punk group whose members dress as characters in Donald Pleasance movies.

Battlestar Helvetica—all their songs are sans serif.

Invasion of the Body Snatch—songs about syphilis.

28 Days Skater—a high-concept band in which Jim plays a rage-infested, roller-skating tampon.

Stigmetal—an Easter-themed band emulating the wounds of Christ’s bleeding ears.

Frosted Flame—his smooth jazz combo.

Émile Dead—an ambitious attempt to combine the influences of the Evil Dead movies with the novels of Émile Zola. In a demonic incantation, Jim sings of killing and possessing the body of an average French family in a refreshingly naturalistic narrative voice.