Bobby Soxx - Vocals
Clarke Blacker - Guitar
Bob Beeman - Bass
Scott Elam - Drums
Influences
Too many and too weird to get into. Really, I mean it. Too weird. And not what you'd expect at all.
Sounds Like
Not really like anything that I can think of but some people say we are similar to Flipper. They mean this as a compliment. I take it as one. However, it wasn't intentional.
The only thing that we really wanted to sound like was the loudest thing that you'd ever hear. Sometimes the most irritating as well. We got close, very close.
This is now the official Stick Men With Ray Guns page! Big deal. Have fun kids.
Some People Deserve to Suffer Now Available for Download!
I've recently done some lengthy interviews for a blog in England (youbreedlikerats.blogspot.com) and one in Venezuela (chelsea-zine.livejournal.com/). Watch for them to come out, I don't know when they're sheduled to show up.
What Would You Like Me to Do With All These Tapes?
Lately I've been considering just what to do with all of the crummy live audio (and some video) that I have of SMWRG. The tape quality varies from not too bad live to just awful. I'd like to find a way to make this available for download at a reasonable cost, cheap because the quality is so rough.
What do you guys think? Yeah, I know some of you think I should just give it to you free. I don't think so.
I've looked around and it appears that it will be difficult to get the price as low as I'd like to because the services that make the music available take such a big bite, usually at least 39 cents a song or more.
That makes it almost impossible to get the price below 50 cents per song. I don't mind selling it cheap but I'm not really ready to just give it away.
I'd like to sell entire shows at a heavy discount as well. Imay have 20-30 shows or more, I haven't counted them all up yet. It takes a long to time digitize these old cassettes and get them organized and into downloadable formats.
Also,do you want other merchandise like SMWRG T Shirts? If I get enough positive response I'll get some printed up and set up some sort of secure web payment deal.
I'm always surprised and flattered in the interest you have in SMWRG, we all are. I'm sure that the Soxx would be too. Let me know what you'd like me to do.
Clarke
SMWRG
A Brief SMWRG History
(SMWRG) formed in Dallas, Texas, in the spring of 1981 with me, Clarke Blacker on guitar (ex-Nervebreakers & Bag of Wire), Bobby Soxx on vocals (ex-Teenage Queers & the Enemy) and Ft. Worth drummer Scott Elam, Quad Pi bassist Mark Ridlen lent his services, playing the first shows until a permanent bass player could be found.
The first public appearance was at Zero’s in Fort Worth in the late spring of 1981. Also on the bill was a two-person noise band, Hole. Hole bassist Bob Beeman had co-produced the Bobby Soxx single earlier that year. Bob joined soon after that show. The lineup now complete, by the summer of 1981 SMWRG was busy creating havoc on the Texas club scene.
Finally, not only did Bobby have a band that could hold its own with him on stage, but presented him with a deafening sonic palette of unbelievable power, violence and hostility. Something like putting your head in a threshing machine.
Bobby’s on-stage antics, combined with the openly antagonistic, chaotic and aggressive live sound, made SMWRG a difficult band to follow.
SMWRG took its name from Stick Man with Ray Gun Comics. The Stick Man was a crazed racist vigilante who wore a baseball cap and carried a big ray gun. He walked the streets of his neighborhood blowing away anyone who offended his insane sense of order, politics, or racial purity.
Although Bobby was well known for abusing drugs, after 1987 alcohol seemed to take over and began to do untold damage. Bobby died in Dallas of liver failure on October 22, 2000.
Former SMWRG bassist and songwriter Bobby Beeman, along with former members of Dallas legendary bands Superman's Girlfriend, Dot Vaeth, Vomit Pigs, Deprogrammer, etc. appearing together again for the first time in over 20 years.
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Hello and thanks from a life long (my life that is!) fan in a little English town who still loves SMWRG. If I had never discovered you guys I may have been a life long Abba fan. Praise Stick Men for that, and for being truly punk, and truly underground!
From Bad Hair Life Records: The records will be $6.00 ppd in the lower USA for < 5 copies. Wholesale is 5 or more. Write me and let me know how many you would like. Pay Pal and contact me here: mosquitopool (at) gmail. com.
If you want to send cash or money order, write me first. NO CHECKS, please ma'am!
I will be happy to ship international anywhere on the globe, but contact me and let me know where you are so I can scratch my head over the postage. High postage rates should not be a shock to anyone by now, even domestic.
Quick facts: I had 400 pressed and all are black. Sleeves are glossy, fold over, and single sided. Insert lyric sheets are bi-lingual...Danish and English...learn while you listen! Songs are sharp teeth!
... And for the danes, we only have 50 copies coming this way, they should arrive some time this week, we will put some in Repo Man, and sell the rest at shows.
