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This 7 inch came out in 1989/90 on New Age Records. Doug had recorded his vocals and then shortly after left the band because he was personally getting away from the straight edge lifestyle. He was replaced by Ben Smith and Ben went into the studio and re-did all of the vocals for the 7 inch. Mike Hartsfield at New Age Records accidentally sent the DAT with Doug's vocal tracks to the pressing plant and the versions with Ben never saw the light of day...





This is the cover of the demo tape that Pressure Release recorded at Music Box Studios, NYC on 12/19/87 - 12/20/87

Douglas A. Byrnes
Dec 9th, 1971- July 9th, 1999


Photo by Joe Snow

Doug died due to an asthma attack...

Here are a few pics that were emailed to me anonymously

Doug's gravestone, Greenwich, CT


Doug's terrain park at stratton mountain, VT


Doug's mass card




The X Marks The Spot 7 inch compilation was released in early 1988 on Smorgasbord Records and it featured two tracks from Pressure Release. On Sunday 1/24/88, Up Front, Wide Awake and Pressure Release all met at the Anthrax in Norwalk CT for the recording session. After it was all said and done Pressure Release were unhappy with their final product and decided to go into the studio and re-record their two tracks. The two original tracks from the 1/24/88 session have never been released!

Pressure Release also had two tracks on the New Breed tape compilation and a few Don Fury practices that were never released...


Doug had a huge influence on his little sister Tricia who has gone on to snowboard in the Olympics. Doug is mentioned in these articles...

burlingtonfreepress.com

sportsillustrated.cnn.com/olympics/2002

byrnes.htm

stratton.com



Thanks to Jon Field and Chris Daily for their help in trying to hunt down info on Doug and Tricia!



Where do I start? When I started going to the Anthrax in Norwalk, CT back in 1987 there were a few people that you got to know rather quickly. Those being not only the bands and the kids attending the shows, but the club owners and the staff members as well. Jeff R. was known to me as the sound guy and the guitar player/singer of Contraband and 3rd guitarist of 76% Uncertain.

When Smorgasbord Records decided to release the "X Marks The Spot" 7" Compilation back in 1988, the owner Chris Daily worked out a deal with the Anthrax for the bands to record there on a Sunday afternoon, 1/24/88 to be exact. Brian and Shaun the owners of the club allowed the bands to use the club and set up on stage as if they were playing a live show.

Jeff R. was the engineer of the whole thing. He mic'ed the equipment and pretty much headed the entire recording session. The bands would record the drums, bass, and guitars live, then do the vocals and then the back up vocals. This was the first time that I worked directly with Jeff and being the young kid that I was, I really looked up to him for his expertise

Pretty much the same scenario happened a few months earlier on 11/25/87 when Wide Awake decided to record their demo tape and a few months before that when Aware recorded their demo tape on 5/24/87 I was told to show up at the Anthrax to sing back ups. I believe that they were both on Sunday afternoons.

.To the best of my knowledge, the Anthrax and Jeff R. never asked for or expected any money, they donated their time and efforts to support some up and coming bands and an up and coming record label...


That's just my story, check out a guest book set up by Jeff's employer to read literally hundreds of other's stories whose lives were all touched by Jeff R....http://www.toto.com/dataease/jeff.shtml

Jeffrey Roberts AKA Jeff R.
1962 - Friday, September 12, 1997



The company that Jeff used to work for Data Ease have a page on their site in honor to Jeff as well as a Scholarship fund that they set up for Jeff's three children. There is also a message board with a lot of posts that will definitely bring a tear to your eye.

Here is a link to a great article that Fran Fried wrote in the New Haven Register on 10/17/1997


















Jonathan Jason "Stroe" Wilson

12/1/72 - 5/10/2004



Jon was a regular at the old Anthrax in Norwalk, CT. He always hung around with the kids in Face Up and could always be seen singing along at shows. He sang in a few bands including Soul Tribe and was a very passionate lyricist and singer. As with many, when we grow older we start to lose touch with most of the people that we hung around with when we were younger. I would run into Jon from time to time and he remained passionate about music and singing throughout the years.

From what I understand Jon was happily married with a daughter Arianna and succumb to a brain tumor in May of 2004.

A memorial site has been set up in Jon's honor.
www.stroe.net





This compilation is a tribute to the late Raybeez from Warzone. It features 28 bands doing a Warzone cover in their own style! Some of the bands you'll hear are Krutch teaming up with Strength For A Reason to cover the infamous "As One", Cold As Life, Breakdown, Mushmouth, Pitboss 2000, EGH, The Hoods, Powerhouse, and even Warzone themselves doing a live track for the last song on the CD.

RayBeez (Ray Barbieri)
11/27/61 - 9/11/97

All of the people on this page have effected my life one way or another. Whether it be me being a fan of their music and/or their music helped to shape me as a person, a band that I played in played shows with them, or I knew them personally or professionally

Here is something that I don't think I ever told anyone. We, (Jon + Steve Up Front, and our friends Scott and Mike), were leaving a show at the old Ritz in NYC back in 1986/87 and as always, Raybeez worked their as a "bouncer". He always reached out his arm to help you up onto the stage, unlike what most "bouncers" are supposed to do. Anyway, we were leaving at the end of the night and Raybeez was herding everyone out of the venue and to the front doors. He was saying with a huge smile on his face "come on break it up, break it up". For some reason that stuck in my head and when I got home I wrote the music and the lyrics to the song Break It Up which appeared on the Up Front "Spirit" LP.


Punk Singer Wendy O. Williams Dies
The Associated Press (API)
STORRS, Conn. (AP) - Wendy O. Williams, whose stage theatrics as lead singer of the punk band The Plasmatics included blowing up equipment and chain-sawing guitars, has committed suicide. She was 48.
Williams' former manager and longtime companion Rod Swenson said he discovered her body Monday in a wooded area near their home. The state medical examiner said Williams died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Swenson said Williams had been despondent for some time.
Williams, dubbed the "queen of shock rock" sported a trademark Mohawk haircut and was nominated in 1985 for a Grammy in the best Female Rock Vocal category during the height of the band's popularity.
A native of Webster, N.Y., Williams with her on-stage antics quickly attracted a following for the Plasmatics, who debuted in New York City clubs in 1978.
Police in Milwaukee arrested Williams and Swenson in 1981 after she allegedly simulated a sex act in concert at a nightclub. Charges of battery to an officer and obscene conduct against Williams were later dropped and a jury cleared Swenson of obstructing an officer.
She was acquitted in April 1981 of an obscenity charge in Cleveland filed for performing covered only with shaving cream and simulating sexual activity.
In November of that year, she was sentenced to one year supervision and fined $35 by an Illinois judge for beating a free-lance photographer who tried to take her picture while she was jogging along the Chicago lakefront.
The band made several international tours, was once banned in London, and appeared on Tom Snyder's "Tomorrow" show, where they blew up a car in the studio.
Swenson said he and Williams moved to Storrs in 1991, three years after the group's last tour. She had not performed for several years and had worked most recently as an animal rehabilitator, he said.
She is survived by her mother and two sisters.
May 28, 1949 - April 6, 1998


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WENDY ORLEAN WILLIAMS
May 28, 1949 - April 6, 1998




The Plasmatics made their first public appearance at New York's legendary CBGB's on July 26,1978. The Plasmatics rose to fame from sensational beginnings at CBGB's where Wendy and the band were known for fast aggressive music and on stage theatrics which included Wendy's regular chain-sawing of guitars and the detonation of speaker cabinets.












" It's My Life "
A Plasmatic Is Dead, and a Nation Mourns
"The act of taking my own life is not something I am doing without a lot of thought. I don't believe that people should take their own lives without deep and thoughtful reflection over a considerable period of time. I do believe strongly, however, that the right to do so is one of the most fundamental rights that anyone in a free society should have. For me much of the world makes no sense, but my feelings about what I am doing ring loud and clear to an inner ear and a place where there is no self, only calm . Love always, Wendy."
-- Wendy O. Williams' suicide note

















I never saw the Plasmatics but back on December 21st, 1985 I had the pleasure to see WOW open up for Motorhead at the old Ritz in NYC. The tour was in support of her self titled WOW LP release pictured above, which is available again on cd after years of being out of print. I never considered myself a photographer, but this was one of the few shows that I snuck my camera into the venue and took pictures from the front row. Looking back, I am truly glad that I did, because even though the pictures are not the most professional, they documented an incredible time of my life and an incredible performance! Click here to check out the pictures page.





Stuart Adamson
April 11th 1958 ~ December 15th 2001



Rock musician. Although born in Manchester, Adamson grew up in Crossgates (near Dunfermline). Initially a member of the punk-rock group The Skids in the late 1970s, Adamson went on to form the band Big Country (1981) with whom he made his most noted contribution through his distinctive style of guitar playing. Their albums include The Crossing (1983), Steeltown (1984), The Seer (1986), Peace In Our Time (1988), No Place like Home (1991), The Buffalo Skinners (1993), Why the Long Face (1995) and Driving to Damascus (1999).
Having suffered from alcohol-related depression, Adamson disappeared from his home in Nashville (USA), to be found dead some weeks later in a hotel in Hawaii.


I never formally met Stuart, but one day Big Country played a free show on a boat at the Cambridge Side Galleria in Boston, MA. I was there and after the show when the boat docked, I had the opportunity to meet the entire band and say hi. I was just one face in a crowd of many, but all four members shook my hand and we spoke small talk until the next person muscled their way into the conversation.

Back in 1983 I was too cool to like Big Country and I actually on occasion made fun of them and the two kids at my high school that loved them. Seven years later that all changed when a good friend made me a tape of the band's first two albums. I fell in love with them and wanted more. So he taped me the third and fourth albums and even that was not enough. I started searching the world for b-sides, videos, Skids records, you name it, I wanted it.

To this day, his passion, his lyrics, his amazingly unique guitar style and writing technique has been one of the biggest influences to me as a song writer. I just wish that more people felt the same way, maybe he'd still be with us today...


I don't care who you are, punk, hardcore, metal, goth, new wave, hip hop, or dance. I don't care how tough you are or how wimpy you are. I don't care what the color of your skin is. If you say that you did not like Johnny Cash, you would be lying!

My dad introduced me to Johnny Cash when I was a kid. Not in the traditional way of playing me a Johnny cash album or me finding a Johhny Cash album lying around and me playing it. My parents got divorced when I was 5 and I lived with my mother. On weekend visits with my father he would sometimes say that modern music sucked and that the only true music was traditional country from the 1950's through the 1970's. Roy Clark and Johnny Cash were two of the names that would come up when he would say things like "you wanna hear some real music, listen to Roy Clark or Johnny Cash". This stuck with me and by the time I got into hardcore/punk back in the mid 1980's I noticed a profound admiration for Johnny Cash by many of the bands. When I was old enough to realize that hardcore and punk weren't the only two styles of music that was heartfelt and carried a sincere message and that my dad may have been right about something music related, I bought myself a Johnny Cash album and have been a huge fan ever since!

Johnny Cash
2/26/32-9/12/03



Photo © Lost Highway


Married country singers Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash perform a duet in 1975 on stage.
Photo by Getty Images

J.R. Cash was born February 26, 1932, in Kingsland, Arkansas. When he was 12, his 14-year-old brother, Jack, died after an accident. Cash acknowledged the death had a profound impact on his music.After high school, he enlisted in the Air Force. The military wouldn't accept initials, so Cash chose John as his new first name. While stationed in Germany, Cash bought his first guitar and started a band. Cash's first single, "Hey Porter," had a disappointing debut. But his follow-up, the 1955 "Cry, Cry, Cry," drew national attention. "Folsom Prison Blues" went into the Top Five in country singles in 1956, and "I Walk the Line" became Cash's first No. 1 country hit. In 1957, he made his first appearance at the Grand Ole Opry. And by 1958, he'd published 50 songs, sold more than 6 million records. It was at the Opry that Cash became known as "The Man in Black." By the end of the '60s, he owned the voice of country music. "The Johnny Cash Show" aired on ABC from 1969 to 1971 and featured guests as diverse as Bob Dylan, Merle Haggard, Joni Mitchell and Louis Armstrong. In 1980, at 48, Cash became the Country Music Hall of Fame's youngest living inductee. He was part of the highly successful Highwaymen quartet with Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson. In 1992, Cash was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.





This is a 20 track anthology of great hardcore/street-punk rock from the late '80s, early 90's, by this legendary San Francisco band. Led by now-deceased fetish model/dominatrix MARIAN ANDERSON on vocals, and DANIEL DELEON (CALAVERA, the DEEP EYNDE) on guitar, the INSAINTS pushed the punk rock envelope further than any other artist before or since. MARIAN'S sexual stage antics has become the stuff of legends, but the INSAINTS were also a great band, and this album proves it. The CD features their complete 1993 studio session, as well as demos and live material from 1990 and 1992. Also included are the six tracks originally released on the MAXIMUM ROCKNROLL label (a double seven-inch split with DIESEL QUEENS, and their only official release), plus a lavish 16 page booklet packed with great photos, remembrance and liner notes.

Info courtesy of Disaster Records

Marian Anderson
1968 - 2001



Photo courtesy of geocities.com/nnoxious/

Check out the site for some cool photos, a guest book and a great bio on Marian!!



D. Boon 1958-1985

On December 22nd, 1985 D. Boon was deleriously ill and riding home in the back of the band's van when his girlfriend fell asleep at the wheel. The van crashed and D. fell out the back, broke his neck, and died instantly. He was 27 years old. The last Minutmen album "Ballot Result," a collection of live songs chosen by tallying fan votes, came out two years later.



'Dead Milkmen' bass guitarist dead at 47
Associated Press
Mar. 12, 2004
PHILADELPHIA - Dave Schulthise, known as Dave Blood during his career as the bassist for Philadelphia punk icons the Dead Milkmen, died Wednesday. He was 47.

Schulthise died at the home of friends in Westchester, N.Y., said his brother, Joe Schulthise. His sister, Kathy, wrote on the band's Web site that he committed suicide. "He left a note that said ... he just could not stand to go on any longer," Kathy Schulthise wrote.

In 1983, Schulthise formed the band with singer Rodney Klingerman, known as Rodney Anonymous; guitarist Joe Genaro, known as Joe Jack Talcum; and drummer Dean Sabatino, known as Dean Clean.

Known for their silly lyrics and fast playing, the Milkmen toured incessantly, driving to all-ages shows around the country in a converted ambulance. Their releases include "Big Lizard in My Backyard" (1985), "Beelzebubba" (1988), and "Metaphysical Graffiti" (1990). Their hits included "Punk Rock Girl," whose Philadelphia-shot video was in heavy rotation on MTV.
"'Big Lizard' was a rite of passage for a lot of kids because the Milkmen were clever, and never too serious," said Howard Kramer, curator at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Before becoming a musician, Schulthise went to Temple University and Purdue University, where he was a Ph.D. candidate in economics. He also had studied Serbo-Croatian culture at Indiana University and moved to Serbia in 1998 to teach English, but returned home to live with his parents in suburban Ridley Park during the NATO bombing of the former Yugoslavia.

Schulthise had been depressed since his mother, Margi, died of cancer in January, his friend Sheila Sullivan said.

Schulthise is survived by his father, David; brothers Joe and Kurt; and sister Kathy.

Dave Schulthise
AKA Dave Blood
1957- 3/10/04




Dead Milkmen circa 1983




On Sunday, the 6th of Otober, 2002, Giuseppe Codeluppi, founder and undisputed leader of RAW POWER, passed away. He suffered a heart attack while playing soccer with his friends in Reggio Emilia, Italy. He was 45 years old.




Giuseppe Codeluppi
1957-2002






Raw Power were one of the first non-English European bands to make their mark by touring the USA incessantly during the '80s and '90s and as recently as 2001. They were also one of the first "crossover" bands (along with D.R.I., C.O.C.) combining the best elements of punk and metal together for the first time. They broke down doors and destroyed borders for many others to follow in their footsteps. Songs such as "Fuck Authority," "State Oppression," and "Burning the Factory," defined an attitude that many could identify with in spite of their citizenship.



 


Joe Strummer
1952-2002

Strummer, who was the band's guitarist, vocalist, songwriter and sometime frontman alongside Mick Jones, died on Sunday at his farmhouse in Somerset, southwestern England.
A statement released by his record label said Strummer "died peacefully at his home.
After the group's breakup, Strummer alternated between music and movies, appearing in Alex Cox's "Straight to Hell" (1987), a film more highly thought of for its cast -- including a young Courtney Love, the Pogues' Shane MacGowan, and Elvis Costello -- than its internal logic. He also appeared in Jim Jarmusch's "Mystery Train" (1989).



David Rubinstein a/k/a "Dave Insurgent"
1964 - 1998



Biography of Reagan Youth and Dave Insurgent taken from the New Red Archives web site:

David Rubinstein was born in 1964. He formed "Reagan Youth" with guitarist Paul Bakija when both were in high school in Rego Park, Queens. While they were still in high school, the band played the punk clubs of Manhattan. In fact, David's science teacher became a roadie for the band (That high school teacher was so into the punk scene that he shaved his head and as a result almost go fired by the school administration).

As the members graduated from high school, Reagan Youth was performing regularly at C.B.G.B.'s and an established band on the country's budding punk rock scene. They recorded a single, then an album. They toured cross-country many times, performing with all of the great hard-core punk bands of that era. At the "Rock Against Racism" shows in the early 1980s, Reagan Youth shared the bill with the Dead Kennedys, the Bad Brains, and others.

Reagan Youth recorded its first album and signed a simple contract, hand-written on the back of a poster for a gig. That album sold over forty thousand (40,000) copies. The band also appeared on several compilations albums, including Live at C.B.G.B.'s. They were a mainstay at C.B.G.B.'s Sunday afternoon hard-core matinee concerts.

Reagan Youth's music was ironic and political. They preached the gospel of "peace punk." David was known as "Dave Insurgent." The name "Reagan Youth" was ironic, given David's family background as holocaust survivors. The cover of their 2nd LP featured a photo of Hitler shaking hands with an emissary of the Pope. Their song titles included "Jesus Was A Communist" and "New Aryans."

By the late 1980s, the members of Reagan Youth were frustrated and worn out from years of touring and drug abuse. They had never made any money in the music industry. When Ronald Reagan left the White House, they officially disbanded. David and several other band members continued to play music together, although their new group never achieved the same success or momentum as Reagan Youth.

By this time as well, David had developed a serious heroin addition. He was also dealing drugs, although he was not very shrewd at it. David had the bad habit of consuming the drugs he was supposed to be selling. He was a loudmouth. When a supplier would ask him for money that was owed, David would sometimes reply, "You'll get you money when I say you get it."

In a drug deal gone bad, another drug dealer violently beat up David with a baseball bat. He was hospitalized for weeks. When he got out, he returned to his parents' home. There, he continued to use drugs, smoking pot in his bedroom as his parents tried to help him recover. Eventually David left his parents' home and moved back to the lower East Side. By now, between the violent assault and his continued drug use, he was no longer an energetic anarchist. He had become a bit disheveled, and many of his friends from the punk scene no longer associated with him.

David began dating Tiffany B., a prostitute who worked on Houston Street. David had told his parents that she was a dancer. Tiffany supported the couple and their drug habit by turning tricks. David would often hang out on the street with Tiffany, waiting while she serviced a customer, and then going with her to score drugs.

Around this time, David's mother died in a freak car accident. One night, David and Tiffany were waiting on Houston Street when a familiar customer pulled up in a pick-up truck. Tiffany got in, telling David that she would return in twenty minutes. She never came back. David called the police with a description of the truck and went to all the hospital emergency rooms in the city searching for Tiffany. A few days later, on Long Island, the police pulled over a truck and found Tiffany's body in the bank. They arrested the driver, Joel Rifkin, Long Island's most famous serial killer, who was later linked to killing numerous prostitutes
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Depressed and alone, after the unexpected losses of his girlfriend and his mother, David headed into a downward spiral. One month later, David Rubenstein a/k/a "Dave Insurgent" committed suicide.



This news was taken from the Jade Tree Records news page:
On Wednesday, June 19, 2002, Frank 'Skip' Candelori, former lead singer of Turning Point , was found dead in his New Jersey home from an apparent drug overdose. A memorial service was held in his hometown on Friday, June 21, 2002, to honor his memory. As the family wishes the details of Skip?s death to remain private, this is all of the information that Jade Tree can offer.
A talented musician, Skip?s involvement in music began in his early teenage years and continued up until his accidental death. Skip played a huge role in the development of the emerging east coast straight edge hardcore scene of the late eighties and early nineties as a member of Turning Point. Turning Point later grew to defy simple categorization as they branched out from New York influenced hardcore to more complicated and emotional music based on Skip?s personal lyrics, which in turn inspired a new generation of reflective hardcore. Skip played a huge part in both Tim and Darren?s lives and our condolences, as well as those of all at Jade Tree, go out to his friends and family.






FRANK 'SKIP' CANDELORI
Wednesday June 19th, 2002




Stabbed after an argument in Los Angeles, CA

Chuck Valle (Charles G. Valle)
7/10/65 - 7/17/94




Bassist for Murphy's Law, Ludichrist...




On Tuesday, July 6th 1993, Zapata rehearsed at Pancreas Production Studio, behind the Pike Street and 11th Avenue Winston Apartments. At 8:30 p.m., she joined friends at the Comet Tavern, a block away at Pike and 10th Avenue. Zapata had been drinking all day, and continued drinking at the Comet, even venturing a few blocks to Piecora's Pizza for hard alcohol. She returned to the tavern, and kept drinking until midnight.
At midnight, she left the Comet to look for her boyfriend at the studio. He wasn't there, so she went upstairs to a friend's apartment. At 2:00 a.m., Zapata left, saying she'd catch a cab to her Rainier Valley apartment.
At 3:20 a.m., a prostitute found Zapata's body where the dead-end 24th Avenue met Yesler Way, near an empty field. The prostitute said Zapata's body was in the street, next to the curb, positioned with her arms outstretched. Zapata had been raped and strangled with the drawstring of her black Gits sweatshirt.


Her rape and murder remained unsolved for nine years despite a case file that detectives described as "voluminous" and an investigation they deemed exhaustive.
Seattle's grunge rock community raised $70,000 to hire a private investigator. Friends kept her memory alive and in the news by writing songs and founding a nonprofit organization that teaches self-defense. "America's Most Wanted" aired a segment on her murder.
Yet none of the leads generated by all this attention led to the arrest of Jesus Mezquia on January 11th, 2003. Mezquia, a 48-year-old Florida fisherman with a history of sexual assaults, who police say sexually assaulted and strangled Zapata then left her dead on a deserted Seattle street in the early morning of July 7, 1993.
Instead, investigators found their suspect thanks to well-preserved swabs of saliva taken fromMia's body, a knowledgeable Florida parole officer and a DNA match.
Created in October 1998 to help give local and state laboratories a way to electronically compare and share DNA data, NDIS now works with 47 participating states, as well as Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia. It has made approximately 6,000 matches in its four-year history, an average of more than four hits a week.
In the month following Mezquia's DNA match, Seattle investigators researched his background to understand how his DNA came to rest on Mia Zapata. According to court papers, Mezquia was convicted of aggravated battery of a woman who was seven months pregnant in 1997, second-degree assault in 1986, battery of a spouse in 1989, and assault to commit rape in 1990.
And thanks to a speeding ticket and an indecent exposure complaint that was traced to a car Mezquia owned, Seattle police can link him to the neighborhood where Zapata's body was found around the time the crime was committed. Police have also interviewed three women who say they lived with Mezquia during his 1.5 years in Seattle, and they seized evidence from his home in Marathon, Fla.

Mia Zapata
1966-7/7/93




Mia Zapata, drummer Steve Moriarty, guitarist Joe Spleen and bassist Matt Dresdner formed THE GITS in 1986 in Ohio before relocating to Seattle, where they released their debut album, Frenching the Bully, in 1992 on C/Z Records. Zapata died before the band could finish its follow-up, Enter: The Conquering Chicken, which was posthumously released in March 1994.




The Gits debut album Frenching The Bully is available once again. Broken Rekids Records in July 2003 released a re-mastered cd with an additional studio track "Spear and Magic Helmet", plus 9 tracks recorded live at X-Ray Cafe, Portland, Oregon June 1993




The Gits remixed and remastered their second album "Enter... the Conquering Chicken" which was released in October, 2003, also on Broken Rekids Records.


Matt Dresdner
of the Gits talks about the murder of his friend and bandmate Mia Zapata.


Musicians and artists from Seattle, especially, but also those elsewhere, rallied immediately following Zapata's death. Acts such as Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Nirvana, the Posies and Bratmobile staged benefit concerts that raised money to hire a private investigator to find Zapata's killer. Collectively, they raised approximately $70,000, which paid the PI for three years. Eventually the bills became insurmountable. Now that Mezquia has been arrested, the remaining small sum will be given to women's groups.
Among those also spearheading the activism, Joan Jett and Bikini Kill frontwoman Kathleen Hanna wrote the track "Go Home," a song about a late-night stalker, with Zapata in mind. The song was recorded with the surviving members of the Gits, and a video "dedicated to the memory of Mia Zapata" was shot in England by director Julian Temple, with Jett playing a woman being stalked who turns the tables on her predator.
The song prompted a benefit concert by Jett and the surviving Gits, who called themselves Evil Stig ("Live Gits" backward). Then-heads of Warner Bros. Records, Mo Ostin and Lenny Waronker, funded the recording of the concert and released the album in 1995.
Home Alive released a benefit double album in 1996, Home Alive: The Art of Self Defense, featuring "Go Home" and contributions from Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Soundgarden, the Fastbacks, Dead Kennedys singer Jello Biafra, and X's Exene Cervenka, among its 44 tracks.
Flying Side Kick, Home Alive's second album, featuring cuts from socially conscious West Coast punks such as the Need, Black Halos and Zen Guerrillas, among others, was released in 2001.


In 2005 Court TV aired The Investigators "Death of a Rising Star"
Seattle punk rock legend Mia Zapata is found dead on the street at 3:00 am. Detectives begin retracing her steps that night and assemble a timeline of events. If they can determine who she was with from 1:00 am – 3:00 am, they will have found her killer. The theories surrounding her death are eclectic; she was killed by a rival band, she was stalked by a rabid fan, a Satanic Cult was involved, or perhaps it’s the work of a still at large Seattle serial killer. It would take investigators 10 years and a DNA breakthrough to figure out just what had happened. TV-14


Here is a great article that Court TV posted about the case...


11 years later, Jesus Mezquia is sentenced to 36 years in prison for the rape and murder of Mia Zapata!








Cool web site to check out:
Facts Of Joey Ramone

Joey Ramone (Jeffrey Hyman)
The King Of Punk

5/19/51 - 4/15/01

Joey Ramone Memorial







Dee Dee Shrine


Dee Dee Ramone
(Douglas Glenn Colvin)

9/18/52 - 6/5/02




LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Dee Dee Ramone, bassist and one of the founding members of the seminal punk band the Ramones, was found dead in his Hollywood home, the Los Angeles coroner's office said Thursday. He was 49.
Ramone's death apparently was the result of an accidental drug overdose, said Katie Elliot, spokeswoman for Ramone's manager.
Drug paraphernalia, including a syringe, reportedly were found in the kitchen of the home. Elliot said it is not known what kind of drug was involved.
The Associated Press reported the bassist was found dead Wednesday night by his wife, Barbara.


Johnny Ramone
(John Cummings)

10
/8/48 - 9/13/04



The Johnny Ramone Signature Guitar
www.edromanguitars.com/guitar/mosrite/ramones_mos.htm

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Johnny Ramone, guitarist and co-founder of the seminal punk band The Ramones that influenced a generation of rockers, has died. He was 55.
Johnny Ramone, who had been fighting a five-year battle with prostate cancer, died in his sleep Wednesday afternoon at his Los Angeles home surrounded by friends and family, said the band's longtime artistic director Arturo Vega.



Choked to death while sleeping

Sean Patrick McCabe
1972 - 8/27/00




Singer for Ink & Dagger



THE PUNK ROCK CEMETARY


A cool site documenting a ton of PUNK ROCK HEROES deaths