About Me
I'M BUD. I STARTED PLAYING DRUMS AT THE AGE OF 5 AND LEARNED ON PUNKROCK , OLDIES, AND ROCK'N'ROLL.MY BROTHER FLACO SHOWED ME MORE THAN JUST ANY PUNKROCK , BUT THE REAL HARDCORE PUNK OUT OF OUR NEIGHBORHOOD,NO KOOKS.WATCHING AND LISTENING TO DRUMMERS LIKE BIG BEAR, MARCELO,RJ,AND SAL TROY . JUST TO NAME A FEW . THEN YEARS LATER,AT THE AGE OF 16 I HOOKED UP WITH MIKE TO START AN OLD SKOOL PUNK ROCK BAND AND AT THAT TIME ALOT OF PEOPLE BELIEVED RAP WAS THE THE ONLY TYPE OF MUSIC, BUT DON'T GET ME WRONG THERE ARE GOOD RAPPERS OUT THERE , BUT NOW THERE ARE ALOT OF RAPPERS THAT SOUND THE FUCKIN SAME, THERE IS NO CREATIVENESS IN MOST OF THEM . AND THE ONLY PUNKROCK WAS THE OLD SKOOL STUFF , NO ONE NEW. SO I WAS STOLKED . AFTER A COUPLE OF PRACTICES WE NEEDED A SINGER . WE FOUND MURRAY WAS DOWN TO BE THE THROAT OF THE NEW BAND .THEN GOT DAVE ON BASS. WHEN WE HOOKED UP IT WAS PURE OLD SKOOL PUNKROCK. FROM THAT MOMENT WE PLAYED A COUNTLESS NUMBER OF SHOWS . MADE SOME DEMOS AND IT WAS ON . NOW I'M 21, WE GOT BIG LOUICHE PLAYING GUITAR ,AND CREATING MORE OLD SKOOL PUNK ROCK.WHAT UP,DAVE FLYNN. I PLAY BASS. I HAVE A LONG HISTORY OF PUNKROCK.SEEN ALL THE BEST BANDS IN THE DAY.PROBABLY BEFORE YOU WERE BORN.BACK THEN YOU DIDN'T NEED ID FOR SHOWS OR BOOZ.GOT MY PIC IN FUCK YOU HEROS 1 AND HELPED GLEN DO FIRST ST ALBUM COVER.PLAY OLD SCHOOL PUNKROCK AND SOME REGGAE.GOTTA HAVE ROOTS.FIST WAS 1ST BAND.THIS IS THE SOUND I GREW UP TOO.I KNEW AARON FROM SCHOOL,LOUICHI FROM ST IN THE BEGINNING,AND JUST MET BUD,A REAL DECENT YOUNG MAN AND BAD ASS DRUMMER. I'M 40 NOW AND I PLAY THIS MUSIC TO ESCAPE REALITY.AT 14 I WAS ANTI-SOCIAL,ANTI SOCIETY,AND VIOLENT.WE SLAMMED IN THE DAY,STAGE DOVE AND CRUSHED PEOPLE,NONE OF THIS SKIPPING MOSH CRAP.PUNK HAS GONE SADLY COMMERCIAL BUT THATS SOCIETIES VICTIMS.I'M GLAD TO BE ALIVE BECUZ IN SOME INSTANCES BACK IN THE DAY I SHOULD HAVE DIED.I STILL SEE MOST OF MY HOMIES FROM BACK IN THE DAY.WE ARE STILL BROTHERS.IT'S BEEN A GOOD RUN.RIP TO MY HOMIES THAT ARE WAITING IN HEAVEN.GODS BLESS U R FORGIVEN. SUICIDAL PUNX FOR LIFE............................... XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXX FORMING:"WHAT COMES AROUND, GOES AROUND". . . .THE BAND CAME ABOUT AT A TIME WHEN WE WERE ALL LOOKIN FOR SOMETHING EXCITING. IN WAYS THE NIEGHBORHOOD WAS FEELING STAGNANT. THE BEACH HAD BEEN DEMO-ED AND THERE WAS LOT OF PENT-UP ENERGY. THE WRETCHED HAD BROKEN UP & MIKE PAQUIN WAS TELLING ME HE JUST STARTED JAMMIN WITH BUD LOPEZ ON DRUMZ, AND SOME DUDE NAMED TIM,ON BASS. WE SHOWED UP AT THE MUSICIANS CHOICE TO JAM & FIST OF FURY HAD JUST FORMED. THERE WHERE 2 SONGS IN THE RUFF ALREADY, BRAIN DEAD BILLY WHICH THE LYRICS THAT NIGHT,HAD BEEN CONCIEVED BY MIKEY SAMUELSON, AND WAS INSPIRED BY D.O.A.S FUCKED UP RONNIE. THE SECOND ONE WAS YOU GOT SLAMMED, WRITTEN BY PAQUIN- OUR FIRST SKATE SONG. AFTER WE TRIED THOSE SONGS A FEW TIMES, WE REALIZED WE HAD SOME IDEAS. THE FIRST BECAME FIST OF FURY", SOMETHING THAT CAME OUT OF A BRUCE LEE MOVIE, THE INSPIRATION ,HOW WE RELATE OUR LIFE TO HIS.W/ THIS SONG ,BY THE END OF THE NIGHT WE WERE A BAND. THERE WERE TWO OTHER SONGS THAT CAME OUT OF THAT NIGHT, LIVE TO DIE, A SONG ABOUT THE PROGRAM, COPPING OUT. KLONE KILLER AKA LIVE TO RIDE IS A SONG ABOUT THE VENICE SURF/SKATE STYLE,AGGRESSION, AND OUR CULTURE CANT BE IMMITATED, NO MATTER WHAT YOU THINK YOU KNOW, IT DOES'NT BELONG TO YOU, UNLESS YOUR ONE OF US, AND YOUR NOT. THIS WAS DONE BEFORE THE Z-BOY DOCUMENTARY. BY THE NEXT PRACTICE WE ADDED THREE MORE SONGS. DRUNK FOR LIFE, A SONG ABOUT KNOWING ONLY WHAT YOU KNOW,W/ NO HOPE. DRIFTING ON A MEMORY A SONG ABOUT WOMEN - STARTING WITH MOM. DAVE FLYNN, OUR BASSIST JOINED THE BAND AT THAT TIME, AT THE VENICE STREET SCENE. GOING IN CIRCLES A SONG ABOUT PATTERNS, SO MANY TIMES~ LET THEM GO. WE WERE STARTING TO PLAY FOR PEOPLE BY THIS TIME, WE DIDNT HAVE MANY SONGS. WE WROTE DAREDEVILS INSPIRED BY DUDES LIKE: EVIL, LAIRD, SETH, DANNY, JAY, ETC. ETC. . EVERYONE PUSHES PAST THEIR OWN LIMITATIONS, AT SOME POINT~ INTO THE UNKNOWN~ WHERE FEAR IS OVERCOME~ MAKE IT, OR BREAK IT. FAST ASS IS JUST A SONG ABOUT CHICKS THAT, THRIVE ON THEIR OWN LOOKS, AND GETTING ATTENTION~ YOU KNOW . . .. PROTECT AND SERVE WAS A GREED SONG BY RICO ADAIR, WE DECIDED TO COVER . . .WE HAD ALL, LIVED IT. WITH THOSE SONGS WE WHERE PUTTING DOWN OUR SET, ALL OVER L.A., AND OTHER COUNTIES, COMING UP WITH NEW SONGS~ AT EVERY PRACTICE. GAME OF DEATH ANOTHER BRUCE LEE FLICK~ WAS JUST ABOUT MAKIN THE MOST, OUT OF A LITTLE. I AINT THE ONE IS A MESSAGE TO THOSE THAT THINK THEYRE GONNA ENTERTAIN THEMSELVES AT SOMEONE ELSES' EXPENSE, AND GET AWAY WITH IT. REALITY IS ABOUT PEOPLE WHO ARE DECIEVED. BY THEN WE WERE, PLAYING A COUPLE SHOWS A WEEK~ ALL KINDS~ WRECKING SHOP, WITH A CREW. WE BUSTED OUT WHAT COMES AROUND, GOES AROUND WHEN PAQUIN PUT DOWN THAT INTRO IN PRACTICE,& I SANG ABOUT FRIEND, R.I.P., FERNANDO MONTANO. TWO DAYS LATER, WE PERFORMED IT IN HOLLYWOOD. BLOODBATH CAME OUT OF A BRAINSTORM~ WERE JUST SITTING ON THE WALL AT THE PAVILLION, AND, INSTEAD OF THE DEMO BEING DONE BY; TRACTOR, & JACKHAMMER~ IT WAS ALL-OUT WAR, WITH BOMBS, FULL-ON ATTACK ON BABYLON BOARDWALKERS~ WHILE WERE JUST LAUGHING. THE LAST SONG ON THE ALBUM KOPING KILLER ~THIS SONG WAS DEDICATED TO A LOT OF RAD INDIVIDUALS THAT DESERVE MORE, BUT DIDNT GET AS MUCH CREDIT AS~ A LOT OF THE STARS THAT CAME OUT OF THE HOOD . . .. R.I.P., OUR FRIEND, DENNIS AGNEW.LOUICHI MAYORGA ON GUITAR, JOINED THE BAND FOR THE JUICE ROOFTOP PARTY IN VENICE, PLAYING AT THAT TIME PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED SONGS, AS WELL AS UNRECORDED ONES LIKE; "WRECKING CREW", "FUCK OR FIGHT", AND "FREE RIDE": AND, RECENTLY PRODUCING A COMPILATION ALBUM "WELCOME 2 VENICE",FEATURING TWO SONGS: "WRECKING CREW", AND "GUARANTEED". IN, DEC. 2006, CRUZ FINO JAMMED HIS FIRST GIG WITH THE BAND, DOING A BENEFIT IN S.M. FOR RICK CLAYTON. . . TO BE CONTINUED X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X
