Maasai man, Eastern Serengeti.

A herder is a worker who lives a possibly semi-nomadic life, caring for various domestic animals, in places where these animals wander pasture lands.

Usually if the person is a minor, he is called herdboy, if adult sometimes by contrast herdsman.^[1] Because their work is necessarily mostly outdoors, they move around from place to place in the course of their labours. The possibility exists that the lands upon which their beasts graze are not claimed as any single person's property.

A number of romantic legends have sprung up around some aspects of their way of life. Some herders whose lifestyles have become mainstays of fiction include:

• The shepherd, featured in pastoral literature
• The cowboy, hero of Western movies and fiction, featured in romantic tales from the United States
• The gaucho, who in the Southernmost Brazil and Argentina plays a similar role to the cowboy.

Other names[link]

• A Campino^[2] is a cattle herder in the Portuguese region of Ribatejo.

See also[link]

Look up herder in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Herders

• Cowboy
• Goatherd
• Herding
• Pastoralism
• Shepherd

References[link]

This agriculture article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. v t e

Parry Gripp (born September 22, 1967)^[1] is a singer-songwriter as well as lead vocalist and guitarist for the pop punk band Nerf Herder.

As a songwriter, Gripp is best known for fake jingles, as in his 2005 solo album For Those About to Shop, We Salute You - a 51-track concept album mimicking various musical styles as product commercials. While it does not have one single concept, it goes through many various concept suites, such as trucks, beer, and insomnia. He also maintains a song-of-the-week website and a YouTube channel on which he creates soundtracks to internet memes^[2] as well as music videos for his own novelty songs, with titles including "Do You Like Waffles?", "Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom", "Last Train to Awesometown", "Spaghetti Cat (I weep for you)", "Hamster on a Piano (Eating Popcorn)", "I Am A Banana" and "Baby Monkey (Going Backwards On A Pig)". Gripp also performs the Super Hero Squad Show theme song.

Gripp also joined forces with MC Lars to perform some of the vocals, including the chorus, to 'Guitar Hero Hero (Beating Guitar Hero Doesn't Make You Slash)' a song commenting on the notion that video games like Guitar Hero take kids away from playing in bands and actually learning their instruments.

Along with faux jingles, Gripp also creates some real advertising music, such as Beatles-inspired tunes promoting the Wawa Food Markets' Breakfast Hoagiefest,^[3] and songs for the Hallmark Cards e-characters hoops&yoyo.

On July 9, 2009 Parry Gripp debuted a new song called "The Girl at the Video Game Store" for the 1000th episode of the G4 TV program Attack of the Show! The video features the show's hosts Olivia Munn as the titular character and Kevin Pereira on drums.^[4]

Aside from his music, Gripp is the co-owner (with his sister) of the Santa Barbara Orchid Estate, which was founded by his father.^[5][6]

Discography[link]

Albums[link]

• "For Those About to Shop, We Salute You" (2005)
• "One Donut a Day" (2007)
• "Do You Like Waffles" (2008)
• "Fuzzy Fuzzy Cute Cute: Volume 1" (2010)
• "This is My Ringtone" (2011)
• "Chip Rok Volume 1" (2011)
• "Fugly Volume 2" (forthcoming, expected release date 2012)

Artwork[link]

Nathan Mazur, a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania based cartoonist, provided the animation for some of Gripp's music videos: "Do You Like Waffles?", "Up Butt Coconut", and "Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom". He also creates the "album art" that accompanies Parry Gripp's song-of-the-week.

See also[link]

• Nerf Herder

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• Gripp YouTube channel