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About Me

Bass Player For Original Late 70's NYC Punk Band The Victims. Also played with Cheetah Chrome of The Dead Boys for a very short time, the legendary "Yippie From New York City", David Peel,The Addictions, The Tornados, Asylum 66, plus other garage bands. Some made it out of the garage and some didn't! I also love to draw and paint,though I never seem to have the spare time anymore...someday, someway. After 28 years or so The Victims have returned! Check out our band site on My Space @victimsnyc. A CD with both new and rare vintage material and a DVD with never before seen late 70's footage are in the works.FLASH BULLETIN!!! WE HAVE NOW RELEASED THE VICTIMS RARE 1979 REAL WILD CHILD LP ON CD! IT IS NOW AVAILABLE AT CD BABY...CHECK OUT THE LINK BELOW...AND LET'S NOT FORGET THAT THE VICTIMS "TAKE IT AS IT COMES TOUR" CONTINUES IN 2008! SO FAR, THERE HAVE BEEN SOME GREAT SHOWS IN NYC, NEW HAVEN, AND SECAUCUS...BOBBY STEELE (THE MISFITS/THE UNDEAD) MADE A GUEST APPEARANCE WITH US PLAYING HEAD AT THE BLUE ROOM ON 3/22 (SEE PICTURE BELOW). BESIDES OUR FIRST SHOW OF THE SUMMER AT THE CLASH BAR (SEE FLYER BELOW), WE WILL BE PLAYING AT "THE PETER CROWLEY SHOW" AT THE DELANCEY IN NYC ON FRIDAY, AUGUST 11TH WITH THE UNDEAD AND WALTER LURE & THE WALDOS PLUS OTHER COOL BANDS. PETER WILL BE THE GUEST DJ! NEXT UP IS A GREAT SHOW AT THE ABBEY LOUNGE IN BOSTON WITH THE CLASSIC RUINS AND THE CURSES...THEN ON FRIDAY, AUGUST 8TH, WE'RE IN PHILADELPHIA AT THE TRITONE WITH THE JUKEBOX ZEROS AND THE FISHNET STALKERS AND THEN....THE FOLLOWING NIGHT, WE ARE IN ATLANTIC CITY AT LE GRANDE FROMAGE WITH THE JUKEBOX ZEROS AND THE FLYSWATTERS. WE ARE CURRENTLY LINING UP MORE SHOWS IN GROTON & NEW HAVEN,CT, AND, OF COURSE, OUR HOME BASE, NEW YAWK CITY... COME ON DOWN AND SEE THE VICTIMS IN ACTION...A ROCKIN' NIGHT IS GUARANTEED FOR ALL!

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My Interests

Rock 'n' Roll, Punk Rock, Rock 'n' Roll, UFO's, Garage Rock, Rock 'n' Roll, Reading Ugly Things, Big Takeover, and Loud, Fast, Rules magazines, Rock 'n' Roll, Spirituality, Ghosts, Rock 'n' Roll, The Meaning Of Life, Painting and Drawing, and some more Rock 'n' Roll.

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who rocks. Anyone who ever saw us play, Anyone who knew me from Max's Kansas City, any Bass Players (We're a unique breed!), Anyone who lives one day at a time and does the next right thing, Anyone I've played with in the past, Anyone who cares, All Victims fans, and Anyone who would be interested in putting out our DVD and other stuff. I'd also like to meet myself someday. Face to face.

Music:

Iggy & The Stooges, The New York Dolls, The Damned, Hazel O'Connor, Cracked Actor, Eater, Lou Reed, The Lurkers, Sex Pistols, The Speedies, The Plasmatics, Bad Brains, The Misfits, The Ramones, The Feelies, Johnny Thunders, The Vibrators, The Dead Boys, Jayne County, The Testors, Electric Frankenstein, Th' Losin Streaks, The Brood, Shutdown 66, The Smithereens, Thee Michelle Gun Elephant, The Drip, The Others (from Italy), The Reigning Sound, The Bloody Hollies, Thee Boozers, The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Cactus, The Screaming Trees, The Mono Men, The Tell-Tale Hearts, The Gruesomes, Patti Smith, Jeff Beck, The Yardbirds, The Flamin' Groovies, The Fleshtones, Suicide, The Small Faces, The Who, The 13th Floor Elevators, Edward Ka-Spel, Dramarama, Eddie and The Hot Rods,The Ribeye Brothers, Syd Barrett, Swell, Spirit, The Cure, Bauhaus, Leslie West, Traffic, Joe Satriani, The Chesterfield Kings, The Nomads, The Outsiders (from Holland), Bob Dylan, The Lyres, DMZ, The Vageenas, Teengenerate, David Bowie, Mott The Hoople, The Inmates, The Maggots, most 60's garage rock/punk bands, and of course, The Victims (the New York City variety)

Movies:

Breaking Glass, A Clockwork Orange, The Man Who Fell To Earth, A Hard Days Night, any Dirty Harry movie, Death Wish, The South Park Movie, Spawn, Cool Hand Luke, Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, Boondock Saints, The Elephant Man, There's Something About Mary, Duplex, Edward Scissorhands, Ghost, Walk The Line, any Harry Potter movie, Raising Ned Divine, Eddie and The Cruisers, As Good As It Gets, Having A Wild Weekend, The Punk Rock Movie, Austin Powers movies, all Lord Of The Rings movies, most disaster films, plus many others I can't think of at the moment.

Television:

Six Feet Under, The 4400, The Prisoner, Law and Order, Twilight Zone, Gray's Anatomy, House, Brothers & Sisters, Stupid Reality Shows, Non-stupid Reality Shows, Married With Children, Lost In Space, All In The Family, South Park, E.R., Cops, Monk, Dirty, Sexy, Money, The Outer Limits, Shindig and Hullabaloo.

Books:

A "must have" book for anyone who wants to know what the 70's NYC punk scene was like. There's some crap in here, but a lot of good stuff too.

My Blog

Max's Kansas City

Doe anyone have some good stories (cool, bizarre, or otherwise) about their days of either hanging out at or playing at Max's Kansas City from around the years 1977-1981? I know I have enough...some t...
Posted by Steve Victim on Fri, 07 Apr 2006 03:34:00 PST