Artist description Adam Harriss is six feet, four inches tall and weighs approximately 185 lbs. He has blue eyes and brown hair. Although his musical creativity has not been widely accepted or encouraged by many of his friends, some of whom say things such as, "If Adam were my boyfriend and he were doing this, I would break up with him," Adam presses on. He rails against the masses and insists that his views be heard. Michael MacNeil is six feet, one inch tall weighs approximately 175 lbs. He has green eyes and brown hair. The band rocks. It rocks hard. The members like Mexican food and don't understand those who do not. Although one member of Hot Piss struggled with a coffee addiction for years, the duo managed to remain prolific-- often bringing in guest soloists, such as Rob Wernli, Brandon Ziedler, Luke Filose, and McKenzie Huneke, to manifest Hot Piss creations. The other member of the band struggles to contain his loins and worries about the consquences that his rampant libido could have on his fragile mortality.

Music Style Folk-Punk-Rock

Musical Influences Bethovan, Iggy Pop, Miles Davis, and John McEnroe

Similar Artists Guns and Roses, David Bowie, The Beatles, Bob Marley, Nine Inch Nails, Ricky Martin, Nirvana

Artist History The band was formed on January 16th, 1985. Adam was looking to put a group together and met Mike at a neighborhood party. Mike knew how to tune a guitar, which greatly impressed Adam. After recording several songs during the next few weeks, the duo headed to Hamburg. Hot Piss was finally discovered by Sinatra in Berlin in early 1986. However, record labels repeatedly refused to sign the band. Mike MacNeil says, "The so-called moguls kept citing a lack of musicianship and song-writing ability.” Hot Piss took this constructively. After this minor set-back, Hot Piss took to the garage to work on musicianship. Although their song-writing never fully matured, and a year of failed negotiations with mainstream record labels ensued, Sinatra kept faith. Eventually, he set-up an alternative distribution channel for Hot Piss albums under the name of a family friend. Only a year later, a shipment of the Hot Piss album, ironically named “Contraband,” were seized by authorities along with what newspapers and anchormen described as “arms.” All releases of “Contraband” were taken off the shelves and a nation-wide campaign, led by the US government, asking fans to mail their albums to the Pentagon, was undertaken. Today, all but 20 of the “Contraband” album are housed in the Pentagon. President Reagan said he had no recollection of what information was stored on the album, and to this day authorities will not comment on the debacle, listing the album as classified. During the remainder of the 1980’s, Hot Piss members were under heavy surveillance. Under this stress, the band repeated broke-up and got back together for periods ranging from one-and-a-half days to one week. During this time, the band’s physical endurance was put in question and Mike developed a destructive coffee addiction. During one day-and-a-half long period, one band member, speaking on condition of anonymity said, “I don’t give a rat’s ass about that fuck. He’s not in my band anymore!” Although Hot Piss was approached by Mr. Disney himself in 1991 to help change his company's "goodie-two-shoes" corporate image and then faltering profitability, Hot Piss declined saying, "Sell out? Eat me." In 1992, worried that their boyish good-looks would force them to be type-cast a "boy band," Mike and Adam took-up roots in Watts and entered their disco period-- recording tracks such as "Silly Night Lover" and "Image Slut." Then, during the Rodney King riots, the Hot Piss archive was burned and looted. Most of the bands recordings were lost and have not yet been recovered. Demoralized, the band ceased to record new songs and began touring for the first time. During the band’s first farewell tour in 1995, a band member was seen in a drunken stupor trying to pull out his leg hairs with tweezers. Needless to say, he didn’t get very far. As is well known, the fan club went under new management during the mid-90’s and became horribly disorganized, but that didn’t seem to bother its members. In 1997, one fan member was quoted as saying, “Yeah, I got the newsletter a year late, but I’m just glad I got it.” Another crucial turning point in the band’s history came during a typical drunken stupor in late 1997. Adam, yelling “West side! West side!” pissed on reporter, Stu Lipshits, for the fifth time. Three days later at a press conference, Adam was shot twice in the leg. No relationship between the two events has been established, but Adam insists that the reporter was the shooter. Since the incident, he has only pissed on two other reporters. For the three years following the shooting, Mike MacNeil became reclusive and was only seen yelling “ASS!” out the window of his white car. In late 2000, the band regrouped and has enjoyed its most prolific period, recording hits such as “Power Ballad,” and yet to be released “Them Grounds” (although it is widely available in bootlegged form).

Group Members Adam Harriss, Michael MacNeil

Instruments The hub of the Hot Piss instrumental attack is guitar and jaw harp. Hot Piss has also been known to use keyboard.

Albums "Kidney Stones," "And Other Symptoms," "Fever Induced (no second opinion)," and "Greatest Tits"

Press Reviews "Amazing! Sock-knocking-off fun!"-Bob Woodward, "The Washington Post""Illogical"-Stu Lipshits, "The Rolling Reader"

Location Solana Beach, CA - USA

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