Artist description Punk-Fuckin'-Rock!

Music Style Punk

Musical Influences Misfits, Casualties, Social Distortion

Artist History Well it started a long, long time ago in a barrio far, far away. . . 1995. There was me, that is Alex(Jefe), with a vision to start a band with a little bit of ultra-violence. Me not knowing how to play afucking instrument, bought a guitar and figured, "Shit how hard could this be, it's just punk rock!" I talked to this dude named Lemon that I went to school with and asked if he wanted to play bass,since I heard him say once that he wanted to buy a bass. Lemon bought a bass, and soon enough,we were playing in his garage. We sounded like shit. We didn't even know how to tune (actually,we still don't). Still, we had no drummer, so we decided to ask this other guy we knew to playdrums. This dude's name was Dio (seriously, his name is really Dio), but he also didn't know how toplay anything, but he agreed to do it. We sounded like shit still, but a little louder than shit.Because of our lack of musical talent, we decided to call ourselves "The Crippled". (We suresounded like were crippled, or retarded or something). We got slightly better as time went by, but we were starting to lose Lemon. He was starting tohave some psychological problems and sure enough, in 1996, he was shipped off to the mentalhospital and we were out one bassist. Later that year Lemon was back in commission and was backto playin' with The Crippled. This didn't last too long because, later that summer he lost it again. Heended up goin' to jail and eventually back to the loony bin. This time it was the end for Lemon, andwe had no bassist, again. Dio knew this dude from work that played bass (a fellow pizza dude). His name was Dan. He was along-haired metal head, but we saw that he had potential (he could drink). Soon enough, after onepractice/boozin', he was part of The Crippled. It didn't take long for Dan to learn the songsbecause of the big talent that he is; he actually knew how to play already. Around this time, Dio had moved for the 20th time (or something like that), with Lute (A wildnocturnal beast that feeds on alcohol and Tapatio). Lute was unfortunate enough to be chosen asDio's roommate. The house that they rented was in Highland Park. Since there are some of you outthere in cyberspace that aren't aware of the kingdom of Highland Park, I will try to describe it. Inorder for the police to give a shit about what you do for recreation, you pretty much have to shootsomeone or piss on the cops shiny black boots. Packs of wild dogs and crackheads blow freelythrough the streets like tumbleweeds. It really is a beautiful thing. The neighbors didn't give a shitabout what we did. We would go out to bars and bring everyone back to the house and crank up theband at 4 o'clock in the morning and things were good. If any of you travel to L.A. as tourists, fuckDisneyland, go to Highland Park. It's like your in some different third world country. Anyway, that house was all we needed to work on our stupid little band. Practicing and partying(not necessarily in that order) became a regular tradition at the Dude Ranch (Rancho Dio).Everybody was welcome to hang out and drink. We played a few backyard parties here and thereand recorded some pretty raw shit (I wonder what ever happened to that stuff), and the goodtimes were a'rollin'. 1997 came and went and we were still up to no good. Our days consisted of drinkin' and playin' atThe Dude Ranch, writin' new songs, and losin' old ones. To be honest, that whole period at RanchoDio is pretty much a blur. None of us ever had any money, but the beer always flowed like water,and we were always pretty much schwilled. It was pretty nice. However, by early 1998, there were problems, and The Crippled broke up. Dan and Dio moved toLong Beach, and started playin' in another band called One Bad Kid. This was the first time Dan andDio had actually been around musicians, and soon enough they decided that this wasn't what theywere all about. Band practice had become a job, but they remembered how things used to be. . . Soon enough, in early 1999, things were smoothed out, and The Crippled decided to start playingagain, but this time not as The Crippled. The list of new band names went on and on, but just likeold times, nothing was ever taken seriously. I'll give you some examples of what we came up with:REBEL QUEEN, BARACUDA, THE BOSTON STEAMERS, . . . LOS DONKEY SHITS. None of thosenames were catchy enough for us, but we had miraculously gotten a show booked (with no nameand no demo) at a little hole called The Last Call in beautiful La Mirada, California, so we had tocome up with a name for the band and quick. Dan started telling people that the name of the bandwas MANGE (this was because Dio had gotten some kind of disease that had made little randompatches of his hair to fall out), but no one liked that stupid fucking name. The show at Last Call must of gone alright because all the bands we played with broke up and LastCall stopped having punk rock shows, but right after that we took the ridiculous name that Dan hadcome up and tossed it in the fucking trash. We had no clue of what to call the band next, so Dan came up with THE DROOGS. Dio and I didn'tcomplain about the name so we kept it. We play shows all the time now and recorded somethingthat we can kind of be proud of. Dan still plays the bass and sings back-ups (he sucks). Dio hascome along way in his drummin'. As for me, I haven't changed one bit. I can hardly play the fuckingguitar, and everyone hates my singin'. The Millennium is upon us, and we now practice at Dan'scrappy apartment, where Dio uses an electronic drum set (how punk rock is that?) and thegroupies swoon at our talent and devilishly handsome looks. We've gotten a little bit older and awhole lot stupider, but the girls keep getting younger and younger. And, Oh, if you're wondering about what happened to Lemon. We really don't know. The last weheard was that he was back in the loony ward, and ya know what they say . . . "Three strikes andyou're out!"

Group Members Johnny Dinero - SkinsDan Tangelo - BassJefe - Guitar/VocalsMick O'Sullivan - Guitar

Instruments Bass, Guitar, Drums, Dead Dogs

Albums Hate Songs for the Gifted

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Location Sherman Oaks, CA - USA

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