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Saturday, 13 March 2010

Poor Dumb Bastards (CD Release) *
Donkey Punch * Shit City High

Poor Dumb Bastards - (Houston, TX) Poor Dumb Bastards PDB was formed in March 1991 by long time hetero life partners and musical collaborators, Mike Porterfield and Byron Dean. The initial interest was to find a means to get into Emo’s for free, later they discovered Emo’s was always free. None the less the debaucherous shit-wagon known as Poor Dumb Bastards was set in motion. Drawing on their collective influences and experiences from some of their earlier work, bands like Cretinoid, Plutonium Flatheads and the Byron Weird Group, Mike and Byron set out create a genre all their own, hence “Texas Drunk Rock” was born. Add the non bass playing talents of Steve Scholtes and the competent, metronomic drumming of Chi Chi Macoola, and PDB were able to carve their initials on the bathroom door of the Texas music scene. Through the many years and many lineup changes, Poor Dumb Bastards have more than paid their dues. These Ill-minded sewer rockers have stayed true to their founding principals. POWER, PERFORMANCE, PERVERSION "Everything was going swimmingly at the music awards function at Elvia's last week until the Poor Dumb Bastards took the stage. Lead singer Byron Dean got naked to accept his and his band's award for Song of the Year, and his father, about whom the award-winning song was written, mooned the crowd. Thankfully, Dean held his hand over his special part and Dad's was just-- MIA. Now, I'm no prude, but I take explicit offense to the pushing of one's birthday-suited body on mine eyes. Where it makes sense (e.g., the theater, strip clubs, bedrooms, clearly identified beaches, etc.), it's okay. I can dig it. But when it happens in a place where people have to be able to digest food and beer, it's repulsive. And this has nothing to do with the fact that Dean's body is pale, portly, rumpled and almost completely hairless, and his dad's is 60-plus years old. (Gag!)" - Houston Press August 12, 1999. " The name really says it all, but the Poor Dumb Bastards say a lot of things – loudly and repetitively. This local punk entourage has been spitting in the face of conformity for a lot of years now, and shows no signs of slowing down. Lead singer Byron Dean has a strong affinity for being masked and naked onstage, and showed remarkable restraint this by kindly keeping the spandex clinging to his sweaty body in place. The music was run-of-the-mill punk - loud, fast and either makes you want to laugh or get really pissed off and start a fight. The Bastards' secret weapon though, was of course Dean’s unapologetic antics. The rather large and enthusiastic audience was comprised of everything from heavy metal hipsters to, oddly enough, nubile young women who seemed enthralled with Dean’s presence – butt crack and all. Poor Dumb Bastards is exactly what it claims to be, nothing more and nothing less." - Houston Press July 29,2008

Donkey Punch- (Houston, TX)   GHETTO - Vocals ART - Guitar CHOW - Guitar LENCHO - Bass CHEECHUMS - Drums

Shit City High (Houston, TX) -"How could a Toilet Boy NOT love Shit City High!?! These rock 'n' roll bitches give it to ya nice and hard! Just the way I like it." - Miss Guy - The Toilet Boys "Shit City High left a stain in my underwear...and I don't even wear underwear!" - XOXO Randy Van Stone - Van Stone "Filthy degenerate punk rock 'n' roll played the way it's supposed be. These Texas freaks are out of their fucking minds with dirty rock 'n' roll fever. Blown out guitars, and mean as a bitch vocals, out for a night of fucking terror. Spawned from Satan's ass with a crown of gold fucking thorns, SO TURN IT UP!...." -THE ROCK'N'ROLL OUTLAW(ADAM D.NEAL) - The Hookers/Blade of the Ripper "SHIT CITY provide both good songs and sleaze...i don't know which part i like better...probably the sleaze...i like getting boners...i like good songs too...but boners!" - Matt Odietus - The Candy Snatchers - (R.I.P.) "Proudly continuing in a long line of high quality Texas bands, Shit City High pumps out high energy Rock & Roll with the kind of joy that only real music fans feel. Which means they are exciting, powerful, loud, and fun, not only to hear on record and live, but to watch on stage as well. Singer "Man's Ruin" is naturally Joan Jett hot without being self conscious about it, with a strong rich voice that rides above the fray while exhibiting a deadpan humor that is unique to see. Pablo and the rest of the boys slam out the punk rock with tasty rock n roll chops, showing off their ability to compose strong rockers that keep the beer flowing and your spirits high."- Sal Canzonieri - Electric Frankenstein "Wow, this band sucks! Not as bad as we do, but they sure stink! Nashville Pussy, watch out! There's a new bitch in town!" - Chris Bailey - The Saints "It's like when my ex ol' lady tried to kill me while I was mowin' the lawn in a thunderstorm. Good times." - Jeff Pinkus - Honky/Butthole Surfers "Kinda like watchin a top fueler leave the line...everything within about a hundred foot radius comes about six inches off the ground. That's fuckin COOL!" - Doug Didjit Evans - Blower/Didjits/Lee Harvey Olswald "Shitty rock 'n' roll rules, and Shit City High is the right kinda shitty...I think or I wanna think I had a pic of MansRuin from some zerox zine with her tits out and looked at it often? I hope so! Shitty don't suck and I'm a dropout! - Sean 'El Capitan' Wheeler - Throw Rag "A hot girl doing fast punk songs, what's not to like? Shit City High bring together three chord punk, sex, sleaze and sing-a-longs, it's a no miss action attack. In fact, vocalist MansRuin maybe hot enough for me to overlook the rockabilly tinge!!" - Iann Robinson - Ex-MTV News Host/nonelouder.com "SHIT CITY HIGH is infectious...like herpes, only without all the pretty blisters." - Drunk Intern - Dead City Records

 

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