Diesel Dudes is a nice Electro Punk band from Oakland´s California U.S.A. this band was created in 2010. The music is singular with hard beats and strong bassline... the voice is ironic and agressive a perfect fusion... Diesel Dudes are : Snakeman , Lord Newt , King Toad
and Riot Cop Alone. hahahahahaha... funny nicknames.
UNDERPRODUCED SWEATY, HYPER ROMAN ELECTRO PUNK FOR YOU TO HEAR WHILE YOUR BODY IS GROWING STRONGER.
Biography
DIESEL DUDES IS SWEATY, HYPER ROMAN,
MUSCLE MUSIC FOR PEOPLE WHO LIKE TO TRULY GET PUMPED AND SMOKE SO MUCH WEED.
DIESEL DUDES TACKLES THE TOUGH ISSUES OF BEING AN INSANELY STRONG MAN BUT
HAVING DEEP INSECURITIES FROM PAST TRAGEDIES OR FATHERS. THE GOAL IS TO EAT AS
MANY MUSCLE MILK PRODUCTS AS POSSIBLE AND WORK OUT AND FORGET ABOUT THAT SHIT
YOU BABY. MUSCLES.
Band Interests
LIFTING WEIGHTS, HANGING OUT IN GYMS,
APPLYING OIL LIBERALLY TO OUR BODIES, COMPENSATING, PROTEIN SHAKES, BOWFLEX,
TROPHY WIVES
Influences
GOVERNOR ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER AND GOVERNOR JESSE
VENTURA
The band was founded by Paul B. Cutler in Los Angeles, California
during the punk rock movement, formed alongside another band with
almost the same lineup called Vox Pop, which produced two singles. Its original lineup consisted of Cancer (formerly of Castration Squad) on vocals, Cutler (formerly of the Consumers) on guitar, Rob Graves (also known as Rob Ritter, formerly of the Exterminators, the Bags and the Gun Club) on bass, and Don Bolles (of the Exterminators, the Germs and Nervous Gender) on drums.
The name, according to Bolles, derived from a mysterious button Cutler
found at a thrift store and gave to Bolles for Christmas that said "WE
DIG 45 GRAVE". Bolles stated that this needed to be the name of the
band, and everyone agreed.
In 1980, 45 Grave recorded their first released song, "Riboflavin
Flavored, Non-Carbonated, Poly-Unsaturated Blood", included on the Los Angeles Free Music Societycompilation album, Darker Skratcher. The song was a cover version of novelty song originally performed by Don Hinson and The Rigamorticians on their 1964 album release Monster Dance Party.
The 45 Grave recording (as with the original, produced by Gary S. Paxton of Skip & Flip) achieved cult status and became a signature song of the band's live sets.
Early on, the band began by playing the Consumers songs that Cutler
had written, with lyrics changed to fit Cancer's singing style, before
concentrating on composing new material like "Black Cross" (issued as a
single in 1981, featuring Pat Smear of the Germs on guitar on the B-side
"Wax") and a fast-paced punk song called "Partytime" (which was later
slowed down and reworked on their 1983 debut album and sole studio
release, Sleep in Safety. Another signature 45 Grave track, "Evil", was featured on MTV, and band members appeared as extras in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner.
Despite never achieving major success, 45 Grave were recognized as
being one of the first American gothic bands, predating the formation of
Christian Death. Allmusic
cited them as a top artist in the gothic rock genre, and the Grammy
Museum in Los Angeles listed 45 Grave and Christian Death as "early
proponents of American Gothic Rock".
Style
45 Grave's musical style was rooted in punk rock with a darker edge/horror movie aesthetic, representative of the deathrock
and horror punk genres. Compared to most punk bands of the era, 45
Grave songs included stop-start mid-song tempo changes, instrumentals
and aggressive musicianship accentuated by Cutler's virtuoso guitar
playing. Keyboards added to the spooky atmosphere of many songs and
harkened back to proto-punk garage bands of the early 1960s. The band
also displayed a connection to surf rock, manifested in the instrumental "Surf Bat" from Sleep in Safety.
The band's appearance drew from horror films (Italian zombie flicks in
particular) to create a camp gothic aesthetic. However, the band's
lyrical themes often adopted a tongue-in-cheek manner instead.
Return of the Living Dead
In 1985, a new, heavier version of "Partytime" was featured on the soundtrack to the film Return of the Living Dead along with tracks by bands such as T.S.O.L. and the Cramps.
The band reformed in 1988 for a brief tour, which was recorded and released as Only the Good Die Young. However, when Graves died in 1990 from an accidental drug overdose, the band broke up once again.
Reformation
In
2004, 45 Grave reformed to commemorate their 25th anniversary, with
Cancer as the sole remaining member from previous incarnations. She
posted on her MySpace
blog, "I'm building this to keep the spirit of 45 Grave alive,
introduce its magic to new fans, and as a personal commemorative of my
best memories being the driving force and front person of 45 Grave. This
is a part of my life that indeed changed me forever". One of the
touring members involved in this lineup was Rikk Agnew, formerly of Christian Death.
Night of the Demons, a 2009 remake of the classic 1987 cult horror film, featured 45 Grave's title track.
In 2010, Rikk's brother Frank Agnew
(T.S.O.L., Social Distortion, the Adolescents) joined the band. Frank
Agnew brought the band closer to the classic sound of the Cutler/Graves
era. This lineup was fleshed out by a rhythm section consisting of Los
Angeles goth-rock mainstay Tom Coyne (The Last Dance, Frankenstein) on
drums and Brandden Blackwell on bass.
Pick Your Poison, 45 Grave's first new album in 27 years, was released in 2012 on Frontier Records.
The album contained a mix of new songs, unrecorded old songs and a
remake of "Night of the Demons", for which a video was produced.
Nomeansno (sometimes stylized as NoMeansNo or spelled No Means No) was a Canadian punk rock band formed in Victoria, British Columbia and later relocated to Vancouver.
They issued ten LPs, one collaborative LP, numerous EPs and singles,
and gained an international audience following extensive touring. Critic
Martin Popoff described their music as "the mightiest merger between
the hateful aggression of punk and the discipline of heavy metal." Nomeansno's distinct hardcore punk sound, complex instrumentation, and dark, "savagely intelligent" lyrics inspired subsequent musicians, and they have been cited as an influence on the math rock and emo genres.
Formed in 1979 by brothers Rob and John Wright, the group began as a two-piece punk band influenced by jazz and progressive rock. They self-released their debut Mama LP in 1982. Adding guitarist Andy Kerr in 1983, the group signed with the Alternative Tentacles
imprint and continued to expand their audience. Kerr departed in 1992
after five LPs with the band, and the group returned to its two-piece
formation for the Why Do They Call Me Mr. Happy? album.
Guitarist Tom Holliston, and briefly second drummer Ken Kempster,
joined in 1993, and Nomeansno continued touring and recording
extensively while operating their own Wrong Records label. After three
further LPs, they left Alternative Tentacles and issued their final
album, All Roads Lead to Ausfahrt, in 2006. They were inducted into the Western Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 2015, and announced their retirement the following year.
History
Early years as two-piece, Mama (1979–1982)
In 1979 and at age 25, Rob Wright returned to his family's home in Victoria after studying in Calgary, inspired to form a punk rock band. His younger brother John, eight years his junior, played drums in the school jazz band; John also became inspired to play punk rock after seeing D.O.A. perform at the University of Victoria. The two began rehearsing in their parents' basement in 1979, and took the name Nomeansno from an anti-date rape slogan. They also briefly gigged as the rhythm section for the local cover band Castle.
Nomeansno recorded its earliest material in the months that followed on a TASCAM
four-track recorder, with Rob playing electric guitar and bass, John
playing keyboards and drums, and both brothers singing. Some of these
recordings were issued as their first two self-released 7"s, the "Look,
Here Come the Wormies" single (a 1980 split with another short-lived
Wright brothers project, Mass Appeal), and the Betrayal, Fear, Anger, Hatred EP of 1981.
The brothers began performing live as a bass-and-drums duo in 1981. Their sound developed without a guitar, and John Wright later reflected on these developments:
...without a guitar player you can't rely on the standard hooks that
punk rock and rock n' roll in general relies on. The guitar player – the
guitar god quote unquote – was such a focus for so long that by the
nature of not having a guitar player, the bass and the drums have to do a
lot more. It also makes the vocals more important, or at least it makes
a lot more room for the vocals. You don't have guitar solos, you don't
have the wash of high end. And the things you do on the drums are
different, if you just did a straight four beat on the drums it would
get kinda dull after awhile. It isn't as though bass guitar hasn't been a
prominent instrument at times in other bands but it made us approach
things differently, our song structure couldn't just be
verse-chorus-verse. It had everything to do with how our sound got off
to a unique start.
Some of the songs they played in this period were released on the Mama LP of 1982, which was self-released in a limited pressing. Writing for Trouser Press, critic Ira Robbins described Mama and the early 7"s as "Devo on a jazz trip, Motörhead after art school, or Wire on psychotic steroids." This same year, John Wright also joined the Victoria punk band The Infamous Scientists.
With Andy Kerr, You Kill Me, Small Parts Isolated and Destroyed (1983–1989)
The Infamous Scientists disbanded, and their guitarist and vocalist Andy Kerr joined Nomeansno in 1983. Kerr brought a distinct hardcore punk edge to Nomeansno's sound, creating a buzz-saw guitar tone by playing through a Fender Bassman
amplifier and a P.A. speaker. Nomeansno became a fixture in the British
Columbia punk scene despite playing music which did not always conform
to punk rock standards. The You Kill Me
EP in 1985 on the Undergrowth Records imprint exhibited their
experimental sound on dark and ponderous songs like "Body Bag" and a
"tuneless" cover of "Manic Depression" by Jimi Hendrix. The three also began performing Ramones covers and more traditional punk music as The Hanson Brothers, a side project which would later receive more of their attention.
Issued initially by the Montreal punk label Psyche Industry, the band released Sex Mad,
their second LP and first with Kerr. The album further expanded the
band's experimental and progressive punk sound, yielding the single
"Dad". The song was a minor college radio hit, which AllMusic reviewer Adam Bregman called "a bit chilling, even though it's spit out at slam-pit's pace".
Kerr, the song's lead vocalist, increasingly became responsible for
lead vocals as Rob Wright suffered from nodules on his vocal chords.
They soon signed with the seminal punk rock label Alternative Tentacles, run by Jello Biafra of the Dead Kennedys. This, along with frequent touring in North America and Europe, allowed the band to garner a larger audience.
In 1988, the group issued two releases which were recorded with producer Cecil English: The Day Everything Became Nothing, an EP, and the Small Parts Isolated and Destroyed album. Alternative Tentacles compiled the two together on a single CD, The Day Everything Became Isolated and Destroyed.
AllMusic reviewer Sean Carruthers called the experimental recordings
"less aggressive" than, but nonetheless worthy of, the band's previous
efforts.
Rob Wright's vocal chords began to heal, and he again began taking
many of the lead vocal duties. In 1989, the band issued their fourth
album, Wrong, to wide critical acclaim. For AllMusic, Carruthers wrote that "[t]he playing is incredibly skilled;" critic Martin Popoff in writing for the The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal called Wrong the band's best album and rated the album 10 out of 10 points. The band's extensive touring in support of the record is documented in part on the Live + Cuddly
live album, recorded in Holland in 1990. John Wright reported that
circa 1990 the band became profitable enough that "we didn't have to
have day jobs."
The band released a collaborative LP with Biafra, The Sky Is Falling and I Want My Mommy, in 1991. Shortly thereafter, they issued 0 + 2 = 1, their fifth album and final release with Kerr. In a mixed review, AllMusic critic Adam Bregman praised 0 + 2 = 1 for its finer moments, but was concerned by its overall length and ponderousness.
Kerr departed the band after touring in support of the record and
emigrated to the Netherlands. He went on to release two LPs with Hissanol (a collaboration with Scott Henderson of Shovelhed) and a solo album in 1997, and formed the duo Two Pin Din with Wilf Plum of Dog Faced Hermans in 2005.
Side projects, Why Do They Call Me Mr. Happy? (1992–1993)
The
Wright brothers had begun to focus on their side project, The Hanson
Brothers. Dressing as a mock group of backward Canadian ice hockey players and fans, they derived the band's name and personae from a group of characters in the 1977 George Roy Hill film Slap Shot starring Paul Newman. With John acting as lead vocalist, the Wright brothers were joined by guitarist Tom Holliston of the Showbusiness Giants and drummer Ken Jensen of D.O.A. With encouragement from Alternative Tentacles to record an LP, The Hanson Brothers issued the Gross Misconduct album in 1992.
The Wright brothers also remained active with other endeavors. Rob
Wright began performing as a solo artist under the name Mr. Wrong,
appearing as a character dressed as an authoritarian priest. John Wright
became a member of D.O.A. for several years. The brothers also
continued to expand Wrong Records, their own imprint.
In 1993, the brothers assembled material for a sixth Nomeansno LP and recorded Why Do They Call Me Mr. Happy?
as a duo. AllMusic critic Ned Raggett later praised the album's
balance, arguing that it reached dark and sinister depths while also
exhibiting subtler and more introspective moments. The Wrights also compiled the collection Mr. Right & Mr. Wrong: One Down & Two to Go, comprising early demos, studio outtakes, and additional material, which was released on Wrong the following year.
With Tom Holliston, Worldhood of the World (As Such), Dance of the Headless Bourgeoisie (1993–1999)
For touring in support of Why Do They Call Me Mr. Happy?, Nomeansno assembled their first four-piece lineup, completed by Hanson Brothers guitarist Holliston and second drummer Ken Kempster.
Holliston replaced Kerr as their full-time guitarist, while Kempster
went on to tour sporadically with Nomeansno over the next four years.
The first Nomeansno album to feature Holliston was The Worldhood of the World (As Such), released in 1995. Receiving its title from philosopher Martin Heidegger's seminal text Being and Time, the album featured more simple and melodic songs than its predecessors while nonetheless retaining the band's "taste for blood and gristle." After focusing briefly on the Hanson Brothers and releasing their second LP, Sudden Death, Nomeansno followed with the EPs Would We Be Alive? and In the Fishtank 1, each featuring a cover of "Would We Be Alive?" by The Residents.
Their eighth studio album, the double LP Dance of the Headless Bourgeoisie,
was released in 1998. The album featured some of the band's longest
songs, including its title track. The album received mixed, but
generally positive, reviews. In a retrospective review, AllMusic critic
Tom Schulte praised the album in its experimental tone as "dark and
unforgettable, poignant and cutting."A critic writing for The A.V. Club, however, dismissed the album as "dull, meandering punk" and likened the band pejoratively to Rush.
The band issued its final Alternative Tentacles album, One, in 2000. Featuring a slow stoner rock cover of The Ramones' "Beat on the Brat" and a fifteen-minute version of Miles Davis' "Bitches Brew"
with electric piano and congas, the album was well received. AllMusic's
Schulte assessed the album as "intense and heavy collegiate punk" as
praised it as the band's finest effort since Wrong. Three outtakes from the album were also issued as the Generic Shame EP on Wrong.
The band left Alternative Tentacles in 2002, and began slowly reissuing their back catalogue through Wrong and distributors Southern Records. With new drummer Ernie Hawkins, The Hanson Brothers released their third album, My Game,
later that year. Nomeansno continued touring extensively, but
ultimately took six years to release their next album. In the meantime,
they issued the best-of compilation The People's Choice.
Their tenth studio album, All Roads Lead to Ausfahrt, was released on August 22, 2006 by AntAcidAudio
in the United States and Southern in Europe. AllMusic critic Jo-Ann
Greene praised the album's exhausting diversity as befitting of the
band's legacy and career-spanning accomplishments.
Greene wrote that with the record Nomeansno travel "yet again through
the undergrowth and underbelly of the rock realm, and with all the piss
and vinegar that they started out with a quarter century ago."
Later years, hiatus, retirement (2007–2016)
The band toured frequently in the years that followed, but ceased recording albums. Fang drummer Mike Branum joined The Hanson Brothers in 2008. In 2010, Nomeansno digitally released outtakes from 0 + 2 = 1 as 0 + 2 = 1 ½; they followed this with two four-track EPs, Tour EP 1 (alternately known as Old) and Tour EP 2 (alternately Jubilation).
They continued performing live through 2013, and toured as The Hanson
Brothers in the following year with Byron Slack on drums, but entered a
hiatus thereafter.
Holliston continued to perform with The Showbusiness Giants and
release solo albums, while John Wright later began working as musical
director for the all-robot rock band Compressorhead. In 2015, Nomeansno was inducted into the Western Canadian Music Hall of Fame.
They played an acoustic set at the awards ceremony, and a Ramones cover
set (with Slack on drums) on New Year's Eve, which became their final
public appearances. Holliston announced his departure from the band in
August 2016. One month later, on September 24, John Wright announced the
band's official retirement.
