THIS IS A FAN SITE TO THE WEIRDOS!
IT'S NOT THE OFFICIAL MYSPACE SITE!
Weirdos was one of the best bands ever to set foot on this earth, and they deserve to be more recognized and given credit for their great music. The songs here will not be available for download, only for your listening pleasure. If anyone from the band or affiliated with the band has a problem with this site, send a mail and it will be deleted. The official Weirdos MySpace site is located right here folks.
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From out of nowhere came the Weirdos. There was no warning, no advance hype, nothing. Just a gig that I happened to be at and WHAM! Theyre my favorite L.A. band. Thus wrote Phast Phreddie Patterson in Shape of Things to Come, an article for his own Back Door Man, the earliest zine to cover punk rock in Los Angeles. That show, which Phred emceed, was on Saturday, April 2, 1977, at SIR Studios, and it was the nascent L.A. punk scenes first glimpse of the Weirdos, playing without a drummer on a bill featuring the Zippers, the Dils, and the Nerves.
Though not celebrated as much as X or the Germs, the Weirdos were important L.A. punk pioneers, galvanizing the local scene with their homemade, Dada-influenced look and such witty, frenetic-to-metallic tunes as Do the Dance and the wry imperialist anthem We Got the Neutron Bomb. As much as the Sex Pistols and the Ramones were shaped by their cultural and political environments, so did the Weirdos reflect the world in which the group was born.
I sort of pushed on the band, Lets be Hollywood. Lets really cultivate that. Lets be plastic, and wear plastic, and be fake embody fake as Hollywood, says lead singer John Denney, who cofounded the group with principal songwriter and rhythm guitarist Cliff Roman, bassist Dave Trout, and lead guitarist Dix Denney, the singers younger brother. Do-It-Yourselfers nonpareil, the Weirdos handled all aesthetic endeavors themselves unlike so-called standardbearers the Sex Pistols, who had fashion designers Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren, as well as visual artist Jamie Reid, who created their trademark ransom-note lettering.
The Weirdos, on the other hand, designed their own intricate logos, fliers, stickers, and other graphics. They made their own Weirdo clothing, largely out of thrift-shop womens wear and golf fashions, favoring loud prints, floral patterns, Day-Glo, leopard spots, and tiger stripes. These they mutated by tearing, cutting, and painting, adorning them with chains, belts, pins, electrical tape, and other accessories.
We looked like bag ladies, says Denney. Bag ladies were inspiring to us. He didnt want to be punk, because to him that meant New York or London. We were Hollywood Weirdos, he says. I really wanted to start a Weirdos scene. He laughs. To me, that was genuine.
