Stig interviews Jaime Pina of Chemical People 07-29-11

Website | http://www.chemicalpeople.com/

Chemical People were an American punk rock band formed in Los Angeles, California, United States, in 1986. The band toured the United States, Canada and in Europe and broke up in 1997.

History[edit]

The band's initial line-up was Dave Nazworthy (aka Dave Naz - vocals, drums, guitar), Ed Urlik (bass guitar), Jaime Pina (guitar), and Blair Jobe (vocals, guitar).[1] Jobe left the band prior to the release of debut album So Sexist! in 1988.[1] They followed this with Ten-Fold Hate in 1989, with hardcore pornography a common lyrical theme with guest vocals by Jack Baker on the track 'Black Throat' (for the XXX flick of the same name which Baker starred in) and porn star Taija Rae on the cover.[1]

In 1990, Nazworthy and Urlik teamed up with Dave Smalley to form Down by Law.[2] They returned to Chemical People and released the mini-set Angels 'n' Devils towards the end of the year. The band contributed soundtrack material to several porn films and these were collected on the 1991 album Soundtracks.[1]

Pina left, and guitar duties were handled by Dave Naz, Ed Urlik and by Redd Kross guitarist Robert Hecker, and the new line-up recorded the Chemical People album (1992).[1]

After a five-year hiatus, the band returned in 1997 with a new album, Arpeggio Motorcade, after which they stopped actively playing live in 1998. Chemical People still remain a band hidden away, playing occasionally in their studio with members Dave Naz, Ed Urlik and Jaime Pina. At some point the band may be back playing shows...[1]

Band members[edit]

• Dave Naz - Vocals, Drums 1986-1997
• Ed Urlik - Bass 1986-1997
• Jaime Pina - Guitar 1988-1990
• Blair Jobe - Vocals, Guitar 1986
• Robert Hecker - Guitar 1992
• Dave Landry - Drums 1997 (Arpeggio Motorcade)
• Greg Cameron - Drums 1997

Stig interviews Pleasant Gehman of the Screaming Sirens 02-28-2015

From Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleasant_Gehman
In the 80's pleasant was the singer for the Hollywood punk band the Screaming Sirens
Her articles on rock 'n' roll, American pop culture, sex, the arts and human interest have appeared in L.A. Weekly[1] and BAM.[2] She has written and edited a number of books, including Showgirl Confidential, The Belly Dance Handbook, Senorita Sin, Princess of Hollywood, Escape From Houdini Mountain and The Underground Guide to Los Angeles.[3]

In 1994, she recorded a collection of her poetry and spoken-word routines entitled Ruined.[4] Among the venues where she has performed spoken-word pieces include The Unhappy Hour at the Parlour Club.[5]

She co-starred in Margaret Cho's Off-Broadway variety show, The Sensuous Woman, in 2007 and again shared the stage with Cho in a 2012 Victory Variety Hour performance.[6]

She appeared as Estelle in Steve Balderson's film Firecracker.[7]

In April 2009, Pleasant worked with cult director Steve Balderson for Stuck! - an homage to film noir women in prison dramas. Co-starring Karen Black, Mink Stole, Susan Traylor, and The Go-Go's Jane Wiedlin, Stuck! was filmed in Macon, Georgia and released in 2010.[8]
External links

• www.pleasantgehman.com- official Pleasant Gehman site
• www.PrincessFarhana.com - Official Princess Farhana site
• www.stucknoir.com - Stuck! movie site
• Armendariz, Alicia (March 2005). "Women in L.A. Punk: Pleasant Gehman" - interview with Pleasant Gehaman
• 3am Magazine - interview with Pleasant Gehman
• Gilded Serpent - article by Pleasant Gehman
• A Riotous Disarray - interview with Pleasant Gehman
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Stig interviews Texacala Jones of and the Horseheads 9-11-2011

From Wikipedia:
Tex & the Horseheads is an American punk rock band, which emerged in the Los Angeles punk subcultureof the early-1980.[1] Their original run was from 1980 to 1986 and during this time they enjoyed a sizeable cult following. As of 2007, the band has reunited and tours the Los Angeles area sporadically.
Biography[edit]
Tex & the Horseheads are often cited as among the first bands to play "cowpunk."[2] The sound of Tex & the Horseheads, and correspondingly the sound of cowpunk, is characterized by a fusion of classic-styled country-and-Western music and street-tough LA punk bands.[3]

Tex and the Horseheads released two records, a self-titled record in 1984 and Life's So Cool, produced in 1985 by John Doe, member of X and of the Flesh Eaters. A live album, titled Tot Ziens; Live in Holland, was released by Enigma Records in 1986.

Until disappearing from the Los Angeles music scene in the 1990s, Texacala performed with all-girl cowpunk group, the Screaming Sirens. In 1987 she formed Texorcist along w/ Dave Catching on Guitar, Billy Koepke on Bass & Louie Dufau on Drums, In the late 1980s, Texacala participated in an all women's performance troupe of LA scene-makers, The Ringling Sisters, whose members all fronted Los Angeles based bands. Members of the group included Pleasant Gehman (Screamin' Sirens), Iris Berry (Lame Flames), Debbie Dexter (Devil Squares), Debbie Patino (Raszebrae) and Johnette Napolitano (Concrete Blonde).[7] Tex's role in The Ringling Sisters involved performing as a story teller and back-up singer.

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Dr. Know is an American punk band, which began as a Nardcore band from Oxnard, California. They are regarded as founding fathers of the so-called "Nardcore" punk movement. The band was started by Kyle Toucher, Ismael Hernandez, and Robin Cartwright in early 1981, and after auditioning a few singers, local Silver Strand Beach surfer/skater Brandon Cruz got the job. Silver Strand Beach in Oxnard, California was the birthplace of Nardcore. The band recorded studio versions of several early songs with Cruz, however the early momentum was somewhat derailed by inner turmoil and it led to him leaving the group in 1983, leaving Toucher to take over vocals just as the band was starting recording of Plug In Jesus for Mystic Records. Several more albums followed, including the Burn EP.  This Island Earth,and Wreckage in Flesh, which were subsequently released on Death Records/Metal Blade Since that time Slayer covered the Toucher penned "Mr. Freeze" on their Undisputed Attitude album.The Dr. Know song "Piece of Meat," written by Toucher and Cruz, is used on the 1998 (season two) South Park episode entitled "Clubhouse."Dr. Know still managed another record, entitled Father, Son, and Holy Shit! and toured the West Coast with Stäläg 13 and Ill Repute.May 2010, Dr. Know with Hernandez and Cruz played a final gig. This version of the band played 2 more special gigs in Santa Cruz, Ca., and in Oakland, November 25 and 26, 2011. 

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Stig Interviews Joe Keithley of DOA

From Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Keithley
Joe Keithley was raised in Burnaby,[4] British Columbia, and attended Burnaby North Secondary. At age 11, he began playing drums after being inspired by a drummer in a jazz band at his sister's wedding.[5] [6] Keithley recalls his father's chagrin at Keithley "banging on a kit of his own", describing his father as "super square... completely right wing".[7] He would later take up the guitar and vocals, with some of his classmates becoming his bandmates.

In 2004, he published the autobiography I, Shithead: A Life in Punk.[10] He was inducted into the Canadian Independent Music Hall of Fame the same year.[4] He has also done solo work, releasing a mix of music and spoken word. In 1999, he released his first solo record, Beat Trash. The Vancouver Sun newspaper named Keithley one of British Columbia's most influential people of all time.[14]

He owns and operates his own record company, Sudden Death Records.[16] The recording company was started in 1978 as a DIY response to lack of interest from major labels. His motto is 'TALK-ACTION=ZERO.'[4]Politics[edit]
In 1996 and 2001, Keithley ran in the British Columbiaprovincial elections for the Green Party of British Columbia.[18][19] In 2001, he received the highest percentage of the vote next to party leader Adriane Carr. He ran for the Burnaby-Lougheedseat in the 2017 British Columbia provincial election.[20] On October 20, 2018, he was elected for Burnaby City Council in the 2018 municipal elections as a member of the Burnaby Green Party.[2]

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Stig interviews Richie Ramone of The Ramones 6-30-2019

Richard Reinhardt (born August 11, 1957) is an American drummer best known by his stage name Richie Ramone, and for being the drummer for the punk band the Ramones from February 1983 until August 1987. As of 2022, he is one of the four surviving members of the band (the others being Marky Ramone, Elvis Ramone, and C.J. Ramone).

Reinhardt joined the Ramones in February 1983. He played on the Ramones albums Too Tough to Die, Animal Boy and Halfway to Sanity and appears on their compilation albums Greatest Hits, Loud, Fast Ramones: Their Toughest Hitsand Weird Tales of the Ramones, and on the Ramones live DVD It's Alive 1974-1996. He penned the Ramones' hit song "Somebody Put Something in My Drink" which is included on the album Ramones Mania, 

Richie was the only drummer to sing lead vocals on a Ramones song, including "(You) Can't Say Anything Nice" and the unreleased 1985 demo "Elevator Operator" written by Joey Ramone, which also featured Joey's brother Mickey Leigh on guitar and Dave U. Hall on bass, both from The Rattlers, as well a multitude of Ramones demos. Richie performed over 500 shows with the Ramones all over the world, including South America, where rabid Richie fans held up signs proclaiming "Richie" and "Drink", the latter referring to the song "Somebody put Something in my Drink" written by Richie.

Other work: In 2013, Richie Ramone signed with DC-Jam Records and released his first solo album, Entitled, on October 8, 2013.[23] Billboard debuted the LP's first single, "Criminal" and noted, "Back to holding the songwriting reins, Ramone's 12 freshest cuts aim to please fans of both rock and metal with its blend of barre chord-chugging simplicity and guitar hero virtuosity."[24][25] Richie released his second solo album Cellophane in 2016. In 2018, Ritchie's autobiography, I Know Better Now: My life before, during and after The Ramones, was published by Backbeat Books. The book was written with Peter Aaron. Richie continues to tour with his solo band and occasionally plays with former Ramones bassist C. J. Ramone.[26]

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Stig Stench interviews Steve Ignorant of the Crass in 2-26-2019 The discuss current times, Trump and much more

From Wikipedia.org:
Steve Ignorant was born in Stoke-on-Trent but grew up in Dagenham, East London. He later lived at Dial House, which since 1967 has been a self-sustaining anarchist-pacifist intentional community in Epping Forest, Essex; it was here where he met Penny Rimbaud, one of the founders of the Dial House project.[3]

Ignorant and Rimbaud went on to co-founded the anarcho-punk band Crass in 1977.[4][5][6][7] After Crass stopped performing in 1984, he has worked with other groups including Conflict, Schwartzeneggar, Stratford Mercenaries, and Current 93 as well as being an occasional solo performer.

On 24 and 25 November 2007 he performed Crass's entire The Feeding of the 5000 live at the Shepherd's Bush Empire, backed by guest musicians.[10][11] Other members of Crass were not involved in these concerts. "I acknowledge and respect Steve's right to do this", Rimbaud said, "but I do regard it as a betrayal of the Crass ethos".[12] Ignorant had a different view; "I don't have to justify what I do. (...) Plus, most of the lyrics are still relevant today. And remember that three-letter word, 'fun'?"[12] He moved to the Norfolk coast in 2007 where he volunteers as a lifeboatman.[13]

While stranded in Sydney, Australia after a tour, Steve Ignorant, Carol Hodge and Pete Wilson came up with an idea for a new band, a more contemplative band backed by acoustic instruments. Thus Slice of Life was born. They performed for the first time at Wellingborough, UK on 25 October 2013. Lucas Martin joined the band on upright bass in 2015. 

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Stig interviews  Iinerviews Mensi from Angelic Upstarts in 2011-11-25

Thomas Mensforth (aka Mensi or Mensi Marx)[6] died on 10 December 2021, aged 65, after also being infected with COVID-19.[28]

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/dec/16/thomas-mensi-mensforth-obituary

from wikipedia:
Also known as | The Upstarts
Origin | South Shields, England
Genres | Punk rock, Oi!
Years active | 1977–present
Labels | Warner Bros., EMI, Anagram Records, Picasso Records, Link Records, Razor Records, Captain Oi!

Past members | Thomas 'Mensi' Mensforth[1]
'Mond' Cowie
Derek 'Decca' Wade
Steve Forsten
Ronnie Wooden
Glyn Warren
Tony Feedback
Ronnie Rocker
Max Splodge
Evoker
Keith Sticks Warrington
Paul Thompson
Chris Wright
Brett Mulvaney
Dickie Hammond
Steve Straughan
Brian Hayes
Gaz 'Geordie' Stoker
Tony Van Frater

Angelic Upstarts are an English punk rock / Oi! band formed in South Shields in 1977. AllMusiccalls them "one of the period's most politically charged and thought-provoking groups".[2] The band espouse an anti-fascist and socialist working class philosophy, and have been associated with the punk and skinhead subcultures.

The band released eight studio albums in their first decade.[3] After a brief split they reformed in 1988, and a number of times subsequently, with new albums appearing in 1992, 2002, 2011, and 2016.[4] More than two decades after its release, their debut single, "The Murder of Liddle Towers", was included in Mojo magazine's list of the best punk rock singles of all time.[5]

See full article here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelic_Upstarts

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