This is now the official Stick Men With Ray Guns page! Big deal. Have fun kids.
Some People Deserve to Suffer Now Available for Download!
I've recently done some lengthy interviews for a blog in England (youbreedlikerats.blogspot.com) and one in Venezuela (chelsea-zine.livejournal.com/). Watch for them to come out, I don't know when they're sheduled to show up.
What Would You Like Me to Do With All These Tapes?
Lately I've been considering just what to do with all of the crummy live audio (and some video) that I have of SMWRG. The tape quality varies from not too bad live to just awful. I'd like to find a way to make this available for download at a reasonable cost, cheap because the quality is so rough.
What do you guys think? Yeah, I know some of you think I should just give it to you free. I don't think so.
I've looked around and it appears that it will be difficult to get the price as low as I'd like to because the services that make the music available take such a big bite, usually at least 39 cents a song or more.
That makes it almost impossible to get the price below 50 cents per song. I don't mind selling it cheap but I'm not really ready to just give it away.
I'd like to sell entire shows at a heavy discount as well. Imay have 20-30 shows or more, I haven't counted them all up yet. It takes a long to time digitize these old cassettes and get them organized and into downloadable formats.
Also,do you want other merchandise like SMWRG T Shirts? If I get enough positive response I'll get some printed up and set up some sort of secure web payment deal.
I'm always surprised and flattered in the interest you have in SMWRG, we all are. I'm sure that the Soxx would be too. Let me know what you'd like me to do.
Clarke
SMWRG
Warning! Editorializing to Follow!
For those of you who didn't think politics or voting was important, how do you like the state of our union now? Has the last 7-1/2 years been a great ride? Think again. Oh, and thanks to all the suckers who voted for Nader in 2004 for 8 years of W.
Whatever you think, please get off you butts and vote. Enough said.
A Brief SMWRG History
(SMWRG) formed in Dallas, Texas, in the spring of 1981 with me, Clarke Blacker on guitar (ex-Nervebreakers & Bag of Wire), Bobby Soxx on vocals (ex-Teenage Queers & the Enemy) and Ft. Worth drummer Scott Elam, Quad Pi bassist Mark Ridlen lent his services, playing the first shows until a permanent bass player could be found.
The first public appearance was opening for Black Flag at Zero’s in Fort Worth in the late spring of 1981. Also on the bill was a two-person noise band, Hole. Hole bassist Bob Beeman had co-produced the Bobby Soxx single earlier that year. Bob joined soon after that show. The lineup now complete, by the summer of 1981 SMWRG was busy creating havoc on the Texas club scene.
Finally, not only did Bobby have a band that could hold its own with him on stage, but presented him with a deafening sonic palette of unbelievable power, violence and hostility. Something like putting your head in a threshing machine.
Bobby’s on-stage antics, combined with the openly antagonistic, chaotic and aggressive live sound, made SMWRG a difficult band to follow.
SMWRG took its name from Stick Man with Ray Gun Comics. The Stick Man was a crazed racist vigilante who wore a baseball cap and carried a big ray gun. He walked the streets of his neighborhood blowing away anyone who offended his insane sense of order, politics, or racial purity.
Although Bobby was well known for abusing drugs, after 1987 alcohol seemed to take over and began to do untold damage. Bobby died in Dallas of liver failure on October 22, 2000.
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