Jim Kimball


Jim Kimball is an American punk drummer. His virtual menagerie of former bands includes Laughing Hyenas, Mule, and The Jesus Lizard, as well as The Denison/Kimball Trio. The Laughing Hyenas were a seminal punk/rock/noise outfit. Kimball and Kevin Munro left to form Mule with Wig's P.W. Long in the early 1990s.
He is the brother of Olympic silver medalist Bruce Kimball, who was convicted of killing 2 boys and injuring 4 others in 1988.

Mule

Mule is best described as sounding like a backwoods clamor, and their debut is one of the more distinctive offerings of the 90s. Taking field hollers and other basic Americana-based lyrical content, Mule tied them to the stripped-down, but loud and noisy guitar of P.W. and the thundering rhythm section of Kimball and Munro. Munro also sang, and some of the more memorable Mule songs are call-and-response numbers between the two singers. Kimball was the driving force behind the first album, and the EP Wrung.