IN 50 WORDS OR LESS, HUH?????
Well, I was born in Sydney, Australia.......I've been rocking for as long as I can remember... ever since I heard SLADE at the age of 5 or 6... I can still remember it, at a friends place, his older sister put it on.. LOUD, she started dancing with her galpal.....and the mother went crazy.... in my infancy I saw the power of RAWK!!
My 1st band was at the age of 14, just 3 of us Waldo on guitar, Jaffa on bass, and me singin' (no drummer) in Waldo's garage... we had one song, like a Chuck Berry riff, played it over and over, the cops came and closed us down... one more lesson in the power of RAWK!!
I was 16 at a punk party in a backyard in San Souci, the band "the Crims", were smoking..... the cops came, shut down the band, the singer started abusing them thru the mic, they grabbed him, the band grabbed them and they all went down in a tussle, and I just thought.... yeah..................... PUNK RAWK!!!!
Many crap bands followed with me on bass playing other people's songs then one day i said [email protected] IT!!!, I picked up an old FRAMUS semi from a PAWN shop, jammed it through a distortion pedal, right into my bass amp!! and started my own band.... I wrote a bunch of songs, got a great line up and formed VANILLA CHAINSAWS . We made discs, topped the Aussie Alternative charts and toured the world !!!
After the VC's I lived in USA, formed CHAINSAW MEN and released ELECTRIC JUJU, Then went solo, recorded a bunch of discs: BASTA, FIRE DOWN BELOW, DOWN TO THE WIRE, ROCK'NROLL URANUS......and did a million shows. I lived in Chicago, Los Angeles, Berlin and now POA.RAWK.CITY - BRAZIL!!! My new band is called SIMON CHAINSAW & THE HIPPY KILLERS (S.C.H.K.) , and we RAWK BRAZIL!!!
S.C.H.K . MySpace page has more songs!!
WWW.SIMONCHAINSAW.COM for more info!!
"GIMMEE A GUITAR, BAND, A SHOW AND A BUS AND BABY WE'RE SET TO ROLL!!!" - THINKING 'BOUT IT (BASTA CD)
DISCS FOR SALE AT CD BABY NOW!!
S.C.H.K. - TOLD ME A LIE
SIMON CHAINSAW - BASTA
CHAINSAW MEN – ELECTRIC JUJU