The Bloodhound Gang is an American rock band formed by James "Jimmy Pop" Franks and Michael "Daddy Long Legs" Bowe in 1992 in Quakertown, Pennsylvania.

[3] The Bloodhound Gang's origin dates back to 1988, when rappers James "Jimmy Pop" Franks and Michael "Daddy Long Legs" Bowe formed the band Bang Chamber 8 with their Perkiomen Valley High School classmates Kevin Hennessey and Justin Ianelli.

[4] The band's new name came from a segment on the 1980s PBS children's show 3-2-1 Contact that featured three young detectives solving mysteries and fighting crime.

[5] Unable to book shows anywhere else, the Bloodhound Gang first performed in the home of "Evil" Jared Hasselhoff, Pop's Temple University classmate who later became the band's bassist.

That summer, Pop had a small role in Kurt Fitzpatrick's short film The Chick That Was Naked (1995) and managed to get a Bloodhound Gang song on the soundtrack.

When the tour ended, the deal with Columbia was dropped and band members Scott "Skip O'Pot2Mus" Richard and Tard-E-Tard left to pursue non-music careers.

[1] In March 1996, Pop and Hasselhoff returned with a completely new line-up of the band to release its second full-length album, One Fierce Beer Coaster.

The album's leading single, "Fire Water Burn", played a major role in the slow build of interest that ultimately led to the band's mainstream breakthrough.

As the band could not previously afford national tours, they promoted themselves by sending their music to radio stations across the country that fit the alternative rock format.

One significant early radio breakthrough came when an intern at 107.7 The End in Seattle brought the band to the attention of the music director, who liked what he heard and played "Fire Water Burn" on his Friday night show.

According to manager Brett Alperowitz in an interview with HitQuarters, the band became the object of a bidding war between record labels, which quickly grew so intense that Madonna's label Maverick "really wanted to sign the band in the worst possible way, even to the point where [he] had to tell Madonna that [he] couldn't put her on the phone with Jimmy Pop".

[12] After a couple of years of doing shows, taking advantage of their online popularity, and spreading the word through retail and radio as much as they could on an independent level, they began to experience major success.

The title is a reference to an incident in which Hasselhoff was arrested and fined while appearing on the "Scavenger Hunt" episode of the MTV series Viva La Bam, during which he attempted to urinate from the top of a parking lot into a Dixie cup that Pop was holding.

In 2007, the band recorded a single, "Screwing You on the Beach at Night", accompanied by a video based on the one for Chris Isaak's song "Wicked Game".

On November 15, DJ Q-Ball mentioned on his Facebook page that the band was going to Berlin to shoot a music video for the song, which would also be included on a greatest hits compilation album.

In an interview with the German site KinKats on March 4, 2017, Hasselhoff joked that the Bloodhound Gang would only reform and tour if Donald Trump was impeached.

[26] The band caused controversy in 2006 when they started using a "golden shower" act onstage during a cover of Depeche Mode's song "Enjoy the Silence" at Rock am Ring and Pinkpop.

Vladimir Markin of the Investigative Committee of Russia said that the department was prepared to file criminal charges if prosecutors thought they had a case.