Kent State / Red Brigade:
Sir Douglas Baker – bass
Eddie “Evil” Neville– drums
Mick Rhodes – guitars, vocals
Kurt Ross – vocals
Eric Shipley – guitars, vocals
Those who also served:
Jeff Griffin
Greg Glass
Influences
The Who, The Velvet Underground, David Bowie, The New York Dolls,T Rex, MC5, Iggy and The Stooges, The Ramones, Television, Patti Smith, Johnny Thunders and the Hearbreakers, Voidoids, Eddie and The Hot Rods, The Runaways, The Damned, Sex Pistols, Clash, The Saints, Stranglers, Dead Boys, Generation X, Gang of Four, Public Image, Ltd, James White & the Blacks, Contortions, The Slits, Killing Joke, The Dils, The Middle Class, Eddie & the Subtitles, Avengers, Stepmothers, The Alleycats, Simpletones, Angry Samoans, The Dickies, The Plasmatics, Stiff Little Fingers, Cheifs, The Germs, Circle Jerks, The Cramps, The Gears, Adolescents, Urinals, Los Plugz, Dead Kennedys, Red Rockers, Red Cross, Agent Orange, Black Flag, 45 Grave, TSOL, Bad Brains, Battalion of Saints, Kraut, Die Kreuzen, Misfits, Pop-O-Pies, The Lewd, The Minutemen, Meat Puppets, Gun Club, Motorhead, Anti Nowhere League, Iron Maiden w/ Paul Dianno, The Lipstick Killers, Human Therapy, Peace Corpse/ Moslem Birth, Modern Industry, Catch 22, Mad Parade, Dream Syndicate, CH3, Salvation Army, Secret Hate, The original Vandals, Legal Weapon, The Hated, Citizen Fear, Minimal Man, German Shepherds, Toxic Reasons, Crucifix and Social Unrest
Red Brigade (b. 1979)- seminal Inland Empire punks with the closest thing to a hit single ("Radio Moscow") that the IE punk scene has ever produced - born in the heat of a Southern California summer, raised on a diet of early punk rock, 60’s garage phsycedelia and gritty street smarts, Red Brigade / Kent State blasted it's way through four years of near obscure infamy, recording the legendary “lost” album for Posh Boy and playing just about everywhere the west coast punk scene had to offer (and venues other bands wouldn’t touch, like behind prison walls for inmates of CIW)
A much needed name change in 1982 to Kent State showed the band growing out of hardcore roots and welding mature musical muscle with sonic power, featuring socially conscious and personally ominous songs with a heavy psychedelic underbelly. Sinister and ferocious in it’s live delivery, Kent State could elegantly pummel the life right out of you.
September of 1983 saw the band crash and burn in the fires of that age old adage, “musical differences”. The decision came, sadly, at the peak of a truly original, combined creative process. Various members went their separate ways over the years, then, in 1999, the surviving members reunited as “Red State” for a series of one-off shows and the taping of a public access television program spotlighting punk rock in the Inland Empire. A well received show celebrating the Doctor Strange Records re-issue of the lo-fi, DIY punk rock classic “Noise from Nowhere” at The Showcase Theater in 2002 brought Kent State out of the shadows for a whole new generation of fans, hungry for the slam & sweat of one of the Inland Empire’s first ever punk rock bands.
Kent State.
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sheesh guys. you listing modern industry as an influence has made me go all shy. hey. i just got a dvd in the mail from reid of the first 3 songs (video cam battery went dead) of the 1990 MI 10 year reunion show in diamond bar. interesting stuff. i also got a hold of ed colver to see if he could dig up any MI shots for a possible myspace page. got any yourselves (and no, i don't want backstage pix from the tool and die)?
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