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Unboxed Set by Angry Samoans 1995: Amazon.ca: Music. Skip to main content.ca Hello, Sign in. Account & Lists Sign in Account & Lists Returns & Orders. Go Search Hello. The Unboxed Set is a compilation album by punk rock band Angry Samoans, released in 1995. It features all the songs from their first four albums. It features all the songs from their first four albums. Angry Samoans Unboxed Set Triple X 51190 Released on June 22, 1995. $15.75 Buy: View other music on the same record label: Customer Rating: Song Titles # Song Name. The early Angry Samoans records - Inside My Brain (the Classic! The EP version I mean, although there are some great tracks on the B-side of that re-issue LP, which are here as tracks 7-11, with tracks 10 and 11 later issued on the Live at Rhino Records LP.(not a great LP.
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bonze Kevin Eric Saunders a/k/a bonze blayk, co-founder of the AngrySamoans, Metal Mike's kid brother, and author of 'Comet' (and dataComet), theCornell Macintosh Telnet application.
PSF: What was the local scene like before the group started?
BONZE: Gee, I couldn't say, since I wasn't there. I moved to Van Nuysfrom Little Rock in July 1978, lured by my brother Metal Mike's promise of 1)a part-time bookkeeping job, 2) a $30/month garage to live in, and 3) aconcerted effort to mount an excruciatingly funny AnArkansic response to theshamelessly effete East-Coast slob-rock dominion of The Dictators. We wouldrealize the original vision of VOM: 'The Fugs meet Heavy Metal'.
PSF: How and why did the group get together exactly?
BONZE: Mostly magic, with some help from the Valley Green Sheet.. themagic involving the processes of spontaneous combustion arising in compostedvegemental matter.. you know, Monsters From the Collective Id. We were alltogether by 9/78; Gregg was a Metal Mike co-conspirator from the days of VOM,and Billy and Todd showed up and stuck. I do believe Todd was the onlybassist we auditioned. The glue? A joint admiration for the Ramones, andotherwise eclectic tastes centered around the love of loud guitar music, inwhich mode Metal Mike was already a master songwriter. And oh yeah: I had aPA, and Gregg's parents had a garage.
PSF: Do you think the band fit into the local music scene at the time?
BONZE: What local scene? In my conceptualization, a 'scene' implies a'sound', or at least a 'look', but there was nothing coherent I could figureout. There were a number of OK clubs, in most of which the sound routinelysucked due to lousy PA systems (I had been spoiled already by the music scenein Austin, where I attended the University of Texas).
Seriously, every other middlin'-great band from the entire USofA moves toL.A. at some point, so there were many great bands in every genre. Only oneband I saw was inspiring enough to induce people to dance (for some reasonAngelean club-goers were loathe to boogie ca. 1978): Daily Planet (at Club88). I roadied for Tremors, who gigged fairly regularly, so I saw a lot ofbands. Some of the greats (the ones I saw anyway): Tremors, Blue ÖysterCult, Bates Motel, Fear, Rubber City Rebels, The Aliens, The Subhumans, RickDerringer, Badfinger, The Dogs ('Slash Your Face!'), and THE IMMORTAL FLAMIN'GROOVIES!
PSF: So what was your first gig like?
BONZE: It was at the Rio Theatre on October 28, 1978. The Rio was a verynice converted theatre in Rodeo with a large open hardwood floor; we werebilled third, after the Cornell Hurd Band and headliners The Aliens--whorendered LIVE a truly inspiring, competent, and very scary musicalinterpretation of a DEAD flaming paranoid schizophrenic psychosis, even thoughRoky wasn't present. These guys covered the vocals seamlessly anyway: for along time I stood mesmerized, absorbing the oddly crystalline yet grungy leadruns spewing and spitting from Dwayne's Jaguar/Tone Bender/Marshall/8-10'array as he spat out the lyrics to 'Two-Headed Dog'. Seriously, whenever hemomentarily ceased picking--which wasn't often--the sucker would sound as ifit was gonna blow!
Gregg and Todd and I slam-danced to The Aliens in a largely empty hall.OK, I take that back, Todd and I slam-danced, and eventually Gregg and hisgirl-companion of the moment did an amusing impression of the baffled touristcouple (unassuming fans of Cornell Hurd?) overwhelmed by the buffetting of themadded punkers, falling down to the floor in simulated slo-mo while keepingtheir beers upright. Too bad there was no video, Gregg was turning in yetanother excellent performance as an 'innocent bystander'!
Anyway, we were probably pretty dreadful on-stage at this first appearance.Tony Conn was brought on for the last few songs in this gig.. it turns out hewas too embarassed to sing the real lyrics to 'I'm in Love with Your Mom,' sohe was changing them on the spot. So much for Mike and Gregg's 'SecretWeapon'!
By the way, the irony of our first billing shared with a band named 'Cornell' (seebelow for ironic expansion) had never occurred to me until this very moment..yet another example of the de-synchronicities which seem to plauge my path inlife. The portentous conjunction with The Aliens is a much more obviouspresentiment of 'Things To Come..'
PSF: Being a wild punk band, do you have an stories of debauchery from the earlydays?
BONZE: The Samoans were not a particularly debauched group; our majoroff-music pursuit consisted of midnight bowling expeditions (Todd and I wouldtake advantage of this opportunity to drink beer and smoke ceegars, however).In fact, I attained a high game of 236 while in L.A., and got my average up toaround 168..
I understand perfectly: No public confessions, no publicity: OK, Iconfess, I'm a thrill-addicted degenerate: there were repeated outbreaks ofRisk playing among us residents at Mike's house, which I'm proud to say I won80% of the time.
And to take another look into the black heart of horror, a life squanderedin the pursuit of kinky thrills with wild abandon. I willingly endangered mystanding at work with my absolute insistence that I MUST be home by 4PM so Icould watch The Avengers ('Mike, I am not gonna miss The Avengers!'). Hey,that's pretty debauched!
OK, I've got you all slavering now, you want the 'hard stuff': there's myparticipation in the 'movie industry,' if you have the temerity to call thefilming of the VOM videos with Gregg and Richard Meltzer 'industrious'..
PSF: OK, so no debauchery. What about your time with Vom (pre-Samoans)?
Well, OK, sorry again to disappoint, it was kinda fun but not especiallydebauched, though it was forward-looking in the 'whips-and-chains as fashionstatement' department. Imagine making a rock video in an apartment where thedownstairs neighbors are banging their ceiling with a broom, and you mustperform the drum parts AS A MIME. Aprés-MTV, even, the concept here was thatCasey was gonna ship it off to New York and VOM would soon be appearing onSaturday Night Live's contributed film segment (recall 'The Mr. Bill Show'?). It didn't work out that way, but Richard's on-screen in-bathtub performance in'Electrocute Your Cock' is electrifying!
If you see this stuff in the vidementary 'Angry Samoans: TrueDocumentary,' you may get the mistaken idea that the so-called 'KevinSaunders' was the drummer in VOM. This is incorrect- 'Ted Kluzewski,' drummerand mostly-author of 'I'm in Love with Your Mom,' 'Son of Sam,' and 'BeaverPatrol,' was in fact Metal Mike Saunders operating under yet anothernom-de-numb for the purposes of 1) anonymity and 2) self-deconstruction.
Of course, if you'd had anything to do with the sole recording emitted byVOM, you'd probably be seeking anonymity and/or deconstruction yourself! Inmy case, I'd probably disavow any assocation whatsoever, except 1) the videosare cool and 2) maybe someday Casey will get rich and I'll get the $400/day Iwas promised by Gregg as an incentive for getting up at four in the morning!
During this period for amusement I mostly hung out, and drank Carlsberg'sexcellent Elephant malt liquor. I smoked a fair amount of pot. For a while I tried pipesmoking (an in-thing among prominent economists of that era). Outside ofBilly, the band members were usually too uptight to be debauched--and Billy istoo wholesome to be considered debauched, despite being proven girl-bait. No,'suburban teen-angst hostility' was the focus here, and constitutionalincompetence at debauchery must be considered part of theproblem-constellation.
Oh yeah, I learned electronics to pursue the noble goal of fixing my '65Fender Tremolux, got some nasty shocks, and learned great respect for theinsidious ramifications of Ohm's Law. Debauchery, huh? Oooo yeah! 'Rockand Roooooollll!'
PSF: How was Inside My Brain put together?
BONZE: I can only account for Side 2 of the second and succeeding versionsof the EP (Tracks 7-11 on The UnBoxed Set), since I left months before songson the original version of Inside My Brain were recorded--'Hot Cars' hadn'teven been written yet. Tracks 7-9 were recorded on 4-track at Llloyd JamesRecording studio, where we laid down the basic tracks for 5 songs in about twohours, with Todd and Mike and I playing guitar outside. (!) We then waitedfor about 5 more hours for Mike and Gregg to put down acceptable vocal tracks(!!).
Technically I was the producer on these tracks, since Mike designated me asthe ultimate EQ and mixdown arbiter, and there was no other productioninvolved besides a bit of reverb on the vocal tracks: just loud guitars, apounding beat, and a couple of guys blowing verses and feeling anxious abouttheir inflection. Create mac image for deployment autoimg. Outstanding memory: Steve Besser (our manager, Gregg'sneighbor from birth) and I returning from the Stop-and-Go and hearing Greggdoing an awesome rant on 'Too Animalistic.'
(It's important to see here that Mike and Gregg were not yet comfortableComing Out as flaming Front-Forward assholes.. yet. It took Mike a couple ofyears to get used to being a frontman, and charmingly, he still lacks theability, or perhaps the innate meanness required, to take advantage of therole viz-a-viz teenage groupies or socio-political posturing. As he retortedto a heckler at a recently videotaped gig, 'What's the joke? What's the joke?Don't you get it? I'm the joke!').
Anyway, Tracks 10 & 11 were from Live at Rhino Records, where we wereunknowingly taped on a cassette recorder. Yup, that's me playing improvguttar on 'Right Side of My Mind', an event not to repeat itself until SteveDrojensky joined the band some years down the line. (As a retort to TrouserPress, I wanna note that the among the voices of the 'dozen fans' you couldhear not only the fabulous Gold Sisters performing improptu backing vocals to'You Stupid Asshole', but also derisive comments from Richard Meltzer, GeneSculatti, and Harold Bronson.. so our fans may have been few, but they wereselect enough to recognize and appreciate a whole massive terra incognita ofchartless and --deceptively-- depthless stupidity on first witness.)
By the way, it was Carrie Gold who arranged our fabulous lunch-hour gig at SantaMonica High (alas she could not swing the booking with her own school, BeverlyHills High!). To give you some indication of our status as trendsetters, theAngry Samoans not only preceded the awesome RATT in this critical venue:according to reliable testimony our performance inaugurated what was to becomea tradition of chucking milk cartons at bands (SAMOHI, indeed!).
PSF: Was the band made outsiders after 'Get Off the Air'? The band had torelease material as the 'Queer Pills' right?
BONZE: I'd been gone for about 2 years (?) by the time of The Queer Pillsanyway. Huge admirers of Roky Erickson and the Aliens, I don't believe weever qualified as insiders. Believe me, after you play Camarillo, you'llnever want to be an insider again.
It's true, 'Get Off The Air!' was the hate anthem that finally set the tonefor the whole Samoans infatuation with frank psychosis in 1/79, but nobody atfirst thought to threaten Rodney (Bingenheimer, DJ and unwitting subect of the song) with DEATH as opposed to VERBALHUMILIATION.. and frankly, I probably would've joined Tremors or otherrelatively mellow hard-rock outfit rather than passively tolerating advocacyof Rodneycide.
Ironically, though, Rodney clearly never appreciated that this Samoansanti-homage would become his vehicle to cultural immortality, as opposed tohanging out with 'rock stars' and crucifying us with Phil Spector's worstrecordings on Christmas Eve 1978. Although, it's true, no hanging, nocrucifixion, no song: Rodney DID play a crucial role here! Like Chuck Eddysays, it's 'the meanest rock-joke ever', but I do believe we were alreadybanned from the Club 88 (don't forget, 'I'm in Love with Your Mom'!). In someways Rodney failed a test here: if he really comprehended punk, he would haveunderstood that it's an honor to get roasted by Metal Mike: he should havemade 'Get Off the Air!' his signature song, and then invariably follow it upwith some ironic counterpoint (say, David Bowie's 'D.J.' from his great Lodgeralbum: 'I am a DJ, and I have believers!').
Seriously, the record industry at that point in time sucked pretty bad.Punk was a badly needly antidote to the cult of 'coolness' and 'commercialviability' as opposed to musical expression. 'New Wave' was already beingco-opted into 'Power Pop'.. oooh, my stomach hurts when recollection sets in!
Remember, this was the era of The Knack ('My Sharona'). The KNACK, are'The Next Beatles,' you say? You can kiss my copy of 'Ass'! According to mysongbook 'The Second Coming of The Beatles' was in 1969 and the band wascalled 'Badfinger'!
As an example of the mindset of the times, we finally got the booker fromMadame Wong's to come down to Gregg's parents' garage to audition us. Greggcommented on his lapel pin: 'Hey, that's a Rickenbacker!' The booker sneered: 'Yeah, you guys would *sound* better if you *played*one.' 'I *do* have one!,' Gregg exhaled! Indeed, Gregg DID OWN a Rickenbacker!At this point a guitar collector as opposed to a guitarist, he eventually gotto be a reasonably competent guitarzan, but while I was still in the band thePrime Directive from all four musicians in the band was, 'Gregg, you'reallowed to hold a guitar onstage, even strum the sucker if you wish, what thehell, this IS a PUNK band is it not?.. but you are NOT under ANYcircumstances to plug it in!' For this guy, we shoulda let Gregg play, he was clearly cruisin' for abruisin'.
PSF: How/why did you leave the Samoans?
BONZE: I left to attend grad school in Economics at Cornell in September1979. (Ironic expansion: I quit grad school almost immediately, buteventually wound up working for Cornell for 8 years, developing COMET, theCornell Macintosh Telnet application, along with some other less well-knownsoftware.) I found L.A. very depressing anyway, possibly because I wasn'trich enough to afford decent housing. Ithaca has its own unique mode ofweirdness, so of course I wound up here! Note that the only U.S. monasteriesof the Tibetan Buddhists are located in this area.
PSF: What did you think of what they did afterwards?
BONZE: Back From Samoa is one of those few deathless punk-classiccontributions to Western Civilization- hell, let's include EasternCivilization also, since the Japanese probably like it! Other than Back FromSamoa, it's pretty good stuff, and I'm happy I'm not alone in finding a lotof it excruciatingly funny. Remember, 'Metal Mike is to the pop song as FranzKafka is to the short story': that's my official analogy, for the record. Iexpect you'll see this analogy appearing in 'Rock Culture 101' pop quizzes andSAT tests any decade now, so you might as well memorize it straightaway.
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In my opinion the songs I'd done with the Samoans that appear on Side 1 ofInside My Brain sounded a lot better in the original versions, including'Get Off The Air!', and especially 'Haizman's Brain is Calling,' the properrendition of which absolutely requires psychedlic lead guitar, noifs-ands-or-buts.
STP Not LSD is a hot and humorous hard rock album, which you get as afreebie when you buy The UnBoxed Set. Yesterday Started Tommorow has somenice songs. About 30% of Metal Mike's post-Samoans stuff is great, but it'smore uneven, and the singles are better than the CDs (e.g., 'Election Day,'Kill for Satan,' and 'Kurt Cobain's Dead').
The appearance of The Angry Samoans Live at Rhino Records ten years afterthe performance was weird and unexpected, along with having this earlylive/demo stuff appear on Brain, which then wound up occupying the #73 slot onChuck Eddy's STAIRWAY TO HELL. The irony is that I had always felt kindacheated in my Samoans tenure: I'd really wanted to record a REAL demo! I hadhad sentimental feelings about the Rhino performance though, the only live oneI'd ever heard on tape, because it proved I could play guitar passably welleven in a state of anhedonia. Note that YOU NEED THIS RECORD, because it'sthe ONLY Samoans offering which includes 'I'm in Love With Your Mom'!
It's worth noting that I've only been in two bands, first the AngrySamoans, and then Auld l'Anxiety from 1986-1990, and since then I've playedsolo, bonze blayk a/k/a Kevin Eric Saunders, an exceedingly sensitivefolk-metal troubador.
The current Samoans line-up is a gas: Mike sent me a video of some recentperformances, and we're talking about a kinder, gentler kind of laff-riothere. Billy is playing drums, which makes it an official Samoans as far asI'm concerned, and Alison Wonderslam (lead), Mark Byrne (rhythm), and AdrienneHarmon (bass) are 100% Samoan, in spirit if not in stature or raw rugbypotential.
PSF: So what about you and Mike? I get the impression from the linernotes of The Unboxed Set that you're out of touch..
BONZE: Hardly.. Mike comes out to Ithaca fairlyregularly to visit with his niece, Rachel, and check up on all the thriftstores in the area. Occasionally we also make appearances as, you guessed! the Angry Samoans.Last time Mike was in Ithaca we hit a jam party in T-Burg and baffledpartygoers with a BlitzKrieg set, with Mike playing drums and singing (shadesof Dave Clark!) and me on guitar.
A more memorable occasion was the time we played at an afternoon all-agesshow when we were visiting in Little Rock on Easter Sunday 1990. Mikerecruited Bircho of prominent (not only loud but musical too) LR punk bandTrusty to play drums, I borrowed a bass, and we were all set to go! We played'Help,' 'Slave to My Dick,' and 'Inside My Brain' for a finale.
Mind you, I'd never played bass in front of people before, and didn't knowany of these songs prior to the day we played and we'd never played withBircho either! Regardless, by the end of 'Brain' there was a crowd of acouple of hundred kids chanting 'HOMO-SEXUAL! HOMO-SEXUAL! HOMO-SEXUAL!'
Mike declined the encore, even though I was unpracticed but game. It wasreally funny to discover that the guys in Trusty, some of whom attendedCatholic High, venerated the Samoans but hadn't realized that Mike and I werefellow LR natives who had attended Hall High! (The line in 'Fatso'.. 'stuckinside the classroom, lookin' at the dots up on the wall'.. refers to Hall'sacoustic ceiling tile. Can you picture Metal Mike playing trombone in amarching band?)
PSF: What's the legacy of the Samoans?
BONZE: The Samoans incarnate The Spirit of '65, punks in garages who mayor may not be destined for more melodic futures, but who are onto the game andunderstand that music is about communication and feeling, not competence, andthat there are worthwhile feelings you can (and should) express with justthree chords and the True Revealed Version of the lyrics to 'Louie Louie'(which you will of course make up as you go along!).
On second thought, this comment betrays my age: strike '65 and 'LouieLouie' for '81 and 'Gas Chamber', a theme song for the '80's, which is a morecomplex era and deserves a couple more chords. That's the legacy, all right!'Right Side of My Mind!' says it all!
I'm amazed to find that there are Samoans tribute bands out there, indeed,Canadian and German and God-Knows-What-Nationality tribute bands, maybe evenSamoan Samoans (to satisfy Philip K. Dick's category of 'fake fakes'). It'san expression of the universal gosh-awfulness of the human condition,wheverever you go, however badly you speak (or sing) English.
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Origin | Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California, United States |
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Genres | Hardcore punk, garage punk |
Years active | 1978–present |
Labels | Bad Trip, Triple X |
Associated acts | VOM, The Mooseheart Faith Stellar Groove Band, Oppressed Logic, Ray Campi, Backbiter, Hollywood Squaretet, Clobber Monkey, Larry Robinson |
Website | Official website |
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The Angry Samoans are an American punk rock band from the first wave of American punk, formed in August 1978 in Los Angeles, California, United States, by early 1970s rock writer 'Metal' Mike Saunders, his sibling lead guitarist Bonze Blayk[1] and Gregg Turner (another rock writer, for Creem from the late 1970s through the mid-1980s), along with original recruits Todd Homer (bass) and Bill Vockeroth (drums).[2]
Background[edit]
In 1969 the Saunders brothers cut a 14-song high school garage-rock album I'm a Roadrunner Motherfucka in their hometown of Little Rock, under a twice-used local band name, The Rockin' Blewz. The album went unissued until the late 1990s.[3][4]
Timeline of the Angry Samoans releases and members
Mike Saunders briefly played in an embryonic backing lineup for 1950s rockabilly cult artist Ray Campi during 1975, before moving back to Arkansas for two years (pursuant to a second college degree).[5][3]
How to install mods for darkest dungeon mac download. Bassist Homer had played in 1977 Masque-era band Jesus Prick, and drummer Vockeroth was a veteran of the Pasadena 'backyard kegger party' cover band circuit (which also spawned Van Halen).[3]
During 1978, both Turner and Mike Saunders played with rock critic Richard Meltzer in the Los Angeles punk band VOM, which issued a posthumous five-song EPLive at Surf City on White Noise Records in early summer 1978.[3]
Patrick “P.J.” Galligan was formerly a member of heavy metal band Cirith Ungol. [6] Galligan died from throat cancer in 2014.[7]
History[edit]
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The first Angry Samoans gig was on October 30, 1978, opening for Roky Erickson and the Aliens in Richmond, California. Erickson was sick and did not make the show (Aliens band members covered for his lead vocals) but remained a lifelong friend and inspiration to Turner.[8] The next night, the Samoans played an 'all-LA bill' at the Mabuhay Gardens in San Francisco, opening for Shock and the Zeros.
The Samoans' first release, Inside My Brain, featuring P.J. Galligan on lead guitar as a replacement for Bonze Blayk, was one of the earliest hardcore punk albums to come out of the 1980s LA punk rock scene. Between this recording and second album Back from Samoa, the band released a four-song EP as 'The Queer Pills', allegedly using the pseudonym for the EP to get airtime on Bingenheimer's KROQ radio program. Their 14-song, 17-minute hardcore album Back from Samoa, released in 1982, featured lyrics with such themes as the trendiness of poking your eyes out ('Lights Out'), anthropomorphizing Adolf Hitler's penis ('They Saved Hitler's Cock'), and dissing your father ('My Old Man's A Fatso'), sung over hyper-distorted guitars and early LA/OC hardcore drum beats.
In the mid-1980s, the Angry Samoans added guitarist Steve Drojensky, and returned to their roots in mid-1960s American garage rock (they had long cited bands such as The Velvet Underground, the 13th Floor Elevators and Shadows of Knight as among their musical influences). The next two releases recorded during 1986–87, the Yesterday Started Tomorrow EP and STP Not LSD, were largely in this neo-1960s garage/psych style.[9]
Homer left at the end of 1988 and formed The Mooseheart Faith Stellar Groove Band with Larry Robinson, formerly of 1970s teen pop-soul band Apollo. In 2005, Homer formed free-jazz band The Hollywood Squaretet with comedian/drummer Larry 'Copcar' Scarano, formerly of Comedy's Dirtiest Dozen (HBO) and the 1960s New York rock band, The Bougalieu.[10]
Turner left in early 1992, releasing an album, Santa Fe in 1993 with The Mistaken, which featured guitarist Sean O'Brien (formerly of Come), bassist Heath Siefert (formerly of Backbiter) and drummer Kelly Callan (formerly of Wednesday Week). Turner's next band, The Blood Drained Cows, issued two albums, and occasionally features autoharp player Billy Angel (née Miller) from the Aliens.[11][12]
During the mid- to late 1980s, Mike Saunders moonlighted in several electric/acoustic two-guitar duos (no rhythm section) such as The Clash Brothers (with Bob Fagan), The Sons of Mellencamp (with Turner), and The Gizmo Brothers (with Kenne Highland), performing at various small clubs during that period in San Francisco, LA/OC, and even Boston (with Krazee Ken Highland from The Gizmos and Hopelessly Obscure).[13]
'Get Off the Air' controversy[edit]
In late January 1979, Mike Saunders, Turner and Homer wrote an infamous song about longtime LA/Hollywood scenemaker and KROQ-FM DJ Rodney Bingenheimer, titled 'Get Off the Air'.[14] When the song was included on the band's first record Inside My Brain, the Samoans were blacklisted at the Starwood, the Whisky a Go Go, and other clubs in the Hollywood/LA area from mid-1980 through late 1982, seemingly due to Bingenheimer's strong influence with the LA/Hollywood club scene.[15]
Recent activity[edit]
The Angry Samoans have continued from the late 1980s onward with Mike Saunders, original drummer Vockeroth and a wide variety of other individuals. They have performed mainly along the West Coast, aside from occasional out-of-state weekend trips and three short, successful tours of mainland Europe in 2003, 2007 and 2008. In 2010, they performed on the Legends Stage on four dates of the VansWarped Tour.[16]
Gregg Turner is toured in October 2019 with The Oblivians as a solo act, in anticipation of a re-release of Angry Samoans discography.
Discography[edit]
Studio albums[edit]
- Back from Samoa (1982)
- STP Not LSD (1988)
- The '90s Suck and So Do You (1999)
EPs[edit]
- Inside My Brain (1980)
- Queer Pills (1981) (pseudonymous release)
- Yesterday Started Tomorrow (1986)
- Fuck the War EP (2006)
- I'm in Love with Your Mom (2010, recorded in September 1978)
Other releases[edit]
- Return to Samoa (1990) (unauthorized bootleg)
- Live at Rhino Records (1990, recorded in May 1979)
- The Unboxed Set (1995)
Band members[edit]
Timeline of the Angry Samoans releases and members.
Vocalists[edit]
- 'Metal Mike' Saunders – vocals, guitar, drums (1978–present)
- Gregg Turner – vocals, guitar (1978-1991)
- Todd Homer – vocals, bass (1978-1988)
- Bill Vockeroth – vocals, drums (1978–present)
- Jeff Dahl – vocals (1981)
Guitarists[edit]
- Bonze Blayk[1] – lead guitar (1978-1979)
- P.J. Galligan – lead guitar (1979-1984)
- Steve Drojensky – lead guitar (1984-1988)
- Alison Victor – lead guitar (1996)
- Mark Byrne – guitar (1996-1998)
- Jonathan Hall – lead guitar (1998-2003)
- Kevin Joseph – lead guitar (2006-2010)
- Landon Gale-George – guitar (2007)
- Colin Alflen – lead guitar (2011-present)
- Nathan Javier - lead guitar (2012-present)
Bass Guitarists[edit]
- Todd Homer – vocals, bass (1978-1988)
- Scott Greer – bass (1988-1990)
- Heith Seifert – bass (1990-1991)
- Mike 'Cyco Loco' Avilez (of Oppressed Logic) – bass (1996)
- Adrianne Harmon – bass (1997)
- Rick Dasher – bass (2005, 2008, present)
- Dan Siegal – bass (2007)
- Matt 'Malice' Vicknair – bass (2009–2011)
References[edit]
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- ^ abBad Trip Records, 'Bonze Anne Rose Blayk (F/K/A 'Kevin Eric Saunders')', includes scans of publication of change of name from Kevin Eric Saunders and court order effecting the change; Retrieved 2011--09-01
- ^'Angry Samoans'. Radioking.com.
- ^ abcd'Angry Samoans w The Cryptics Kid PA The Midnight Creeps'. Dvtentertainment.tunestub.com.
- ^'Metal Mike (Rockin' Blewz) - Petrified'. YouTube. Retrieved October 30, 2019.
- ^'Brain Damage : Issue No. 1'(PDF). Badtriprecords.biz. June 1974. Retrieved October 30, 2019.
- ^'CIRITH UNGOL – Kings Of The Dead, Part One (January 2012) | Features / Interviews'. Metalforcesmagazine.com.
- ^'John Jughead's Writings and Activities: ANGRY SAMOANS' BACK FROM SAMOA'. Johnjugheadpierson.blogspot.com. August 12, 2014.
- ^'Angry Samoans interview- Perfect Sound Forever'. Furious.com.
- ^'Angry Samoans | Biography & History'. AllMusic.
- ^'♫ Nice Tets - The Hollywood Squaretet'. Store.cdbaby.com.
- ^'Gregg Turner interview'. Markprindle.com.
- ^'Interview with Gregg Turner(5/23/06)'. Earcandymag.com.
- ^'Everynight Charley's Manhattan Beat: The Angry Samoans at the Bowery Electric'. Themanhattanbeat.blogspot.com. September 15, 2013.
- ^Blayk, Bonze Anne Rose, 'GET OFF THE AIR', includes scan of original lyrics; Retrieved 2011-02-12
- ^'Artists In My Music Collection by ruido | Discogs Lists'. Discogs.com.
- ^'* ANGRY SAMOANS * HEAVY BREATHER * FATHER'S DAY * BUTTON STRUGGLER * WMBW *'. Brownpapertickets.com.
External links[edit]
- Angry Samoans discography at MusicBrainz
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