The implosion of underground rock act (Young) Pioneers in the spring of '99 left the group's main speech writer, Stakolee and his comrade Martin Violence without an aural outlet for their abrasive brand of political harangue. Before long, the two found themselves conspiring with Union drum corps Corporal Randolph Davis on a new platform to foment revolt. Named for the events of November 30, 1999 in Seattle, Washington, the new group, dubbed Teargas Rock, sought to further actively involve white mother country radicals in the escalating resistance to overdeveloped neo-liberal capitalism. The resulting audio communique, advised and engineered by Bryan Hoffa brings together the bile of Roy C's "I Wasn't There" and the spleen of Conflict's "The Ungovernable Force."
Recording during the infamous Republican snowstorm disaster of January 2000 at an undisclosed basement safe-house, Teargas Rock narrowly escaped a "no-knock" raid on the session with the all too brief seven tracks presented here. Another fifteen odd songs were discovered and confiscated by authorities when bassist Martin Violence attempted to pass through a random checkpoint with a false bottom electric bass case hours later. Support organization Students Against Imperialism promptly filed a Freedom of Information Act regarding the whereabouts of these "ghost tracks." Owing to this unfortunate chain of events, two session musicians listed on this recording simply as "Big Phil" and "Jess," have endured months of constant surveillance and harassment by government intelligence agencies.
Teargas Rock realizes that conventional channels of appeal cannot necessarily rectify this situation. As such, a portion of proceeds from this release will be funneled through established non-governmental organizations to autonomous revolutionary cells. Despite two successful tours of Cuba and Venezuela, Teargas Rock remains unable to perform in the United States.
