DEA VOLUME ONE: The PorkStain Eulogy
A First Stab At Creating A SuperGroup.
Dateline 1986; Dr. Penetration, drums, (hospital waste clean-up) and
Rudy Baker, (guitar, complicated hairstyles), freshly free from their
previous band commitments, (Dr.P from New Vermin known for "Onionhead",
"Tom Carvel Meets Doctor Fung" and "Dead Girls Don't Tell Lies". Rudy
coming out of Kunst, heard to play, "Spinning", "Man with The Cigarette"
and "Leonard Nimoy") turn to each other for guideance in a music world
adrift in techno-disco, lofty hairstyled, big-money, record company
staleness.
The Pene-Baker team decided to start a musical\poetry ensemble that would perform only material they
personally enjoyed and "F" everyone else. Recruiting Yotsey
("Eddie Sainz", "Estrus", "John Molino Superstar") founder Billy Ware, on bass, was
a coup neither Penetration nor Baker could ever have imagined possible yet their ideas intrigued the trailblazer and he made the commitment.
As the sessions progressed they worked up titles such as "Wet Dog",
"Chainsaw Baby" and "These are the things (you don't like
to think about during dinner)", in a, seemingly, never ending quest
to quensh their own personal tastes and start building a catalog of
music they could listen to without vomiting. Our boys rounded out their
sets with top forties hits from the '60s and 70's.
Just as the young DEA was about to book a show, Billy Ware found the
lure of playing lead guitar and developing his accountancy skills too
powerful to overcome. So as Rudy was not willing to side-line his SG
for a four string Hofner, Bill W. went back to Pleasant Plains, leaving
our dynamic trail blazing bi-peds stranded and bassless after only 3
months from DEA's genesis. |
