(Laughs)Īnd afterwards I saw George and James outside. From there on after that-it was towards when they were going to kick me out of The Adolescents, the first of four times. He was doing his makeup in the mirror I was taking a piss next door, and I look at him and he looks at me and, “Hey.” What a trip.
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I made eye contact with him in the bathroom before the show. And he just kind of mumbled into the microphone, but breathy, and like, what is this? Oh my god. But they had this singer who was amazing looking. It was just slower punk rock/Black Sabbath sounding. This is amazing.” And the rest of the guys were just like, “What the fuck?” Then they played four songs and it reminded me of Black Sabbath, a punk version of Black Sabbath because they didn’t have Rikk Agnew yet, they didn’t have me yet to shape those songs, so it was just kind of the skeleton so to speak, no pun intended, of the songs. But then they were all quiet and stuff and they started lining up these lilies like making a stage border with lilies and this organ music was like “Brrrrr…” And I’m just going, “This is fuckin’ cool. Now you have to remember, this was like 1981, so we were just going like, hey, I guess a bunch of kids just came from a funeral to go to a cool punk show. But when they went out, they started playing, these kids were there all dressed like they were going to a funeral. And so, it was, OK, Christian Death, whatever. We just thought it was a punk-rock name, which it is. And it was like, we didn’t know they were going to be all spooky and everything. It was in Pomona, at a boxing gym, and we saw the list of bands that were playing that night and the opening band was Christian Death. Adolescents were headlining, and in fact that show, we got another band to play, we split our time with them, and it was their first show they were called Bad Religion. I was just wondering after putting out the iconic Adolescents record and then getting with Christian Death, how you got together with them. I know you want to talk to me about something I did 40 years ago that made the Red Guy happy and Jesus wept. And, of course, we had to delve deep into the masterpiece that is All by Myself, among other topics. He also plays guitar in the super-fun-to-see-live band Radolescents with Adolescents alumnus drummer Casey Royer.Īs Frontier Records owner Lisa Fancher, who released The Adolescents debut S/T blue album, as well as Christian Death’s Only Theatre of Pain, and Agnew’s 1982 solo album All by Myself, says, “Rikk is one of the greatest songwriters of punk or anything else.” With such credentials, it was cool to talk about how he first got involved with Christian Death in the early days and the process of crafting the pioneering punk and death rock gem Only Theatre of Pain. Agnew, alongside bassist James McGearty, drummer George Belanger, and vocalist and lyricist Rozz Williams, who tragically died in 1998, crafted one of the earliest and finest pieces of punk/death rock, Only Theatre of Pain, originally released in 1982 on Frontier Records.Īgnew now plays in Symbolism, alongside old bandmate McGearty, and they’ve been around for a few years and have a record forthcoming in the New Year. punk scene, or should we just say Southern California, or, probably safest to say punk scene in general, who added his unmistakable signature sound to such bands as Adolescents, Christian Death, and D.I. It was a blast talking to guitarist Rikk Agnew, a godfather of the O.C.
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