Fishwacker was formed in the summer of 2001 by friends Bob Martin (guitar/vocals) and Jeff Newlin (bass/vocals) in Mercer County, a very rural place in Northern Missouri. For at least a year they only had a Yamaha drum machine to accompany their desire to explore old school punk rock songs that were originally done by bands like X, The Angry Samoans, The UK Subs, The Sex Pistols, and many others. Using their first rate performance PA, they played credible versions of songs like "God Save The Queen" at high decibels from Bob's garage into the fields his Grandfather used to farm.

Bob Martin is a veteran of the bar band music industry in Northern Missouri. Dating back to the late 70s Bob fronted bands for the Saturday night crowds with a sense of energetic fun that audiences would come to love. But after 20 years and hundreds of gigs Bob's music passion had him set on creating his own music fueled with many years worth of lyric writing. To some extent his band Joe Mamma played several original tunes and has mad