by Kkidkorea77
BIOGRAPHY
THE GENERATORS have been at the forefront of the Los Angeles punk scene since 1997, and were recently mentioned by one of Americas leading news publications, the USA Today as one of Americas most under rated punk bands. While THE GENERATORS story was brought to life in the late 1990s, the true story of this band, and its members date back to the early 1980s when the LA hardcore punk movement had evolved into a true musical revolution.
When the punk scene in Los Angeles was being recognized across the globe vocalist Doug Dagger Kane was one of the young familiar faces in the picture. Frequenting all the early Punk clubs like The Vex, The Cathay De Grande, and Godzillas, a then 16 year old Dagger joined in on the action, and started singing for his first Punk band Doug &The Slugz. In 1983 The Slugz were documented as one of Americas first OI! Street Punk bands, and on any typical night they were opening up for other notorious Punk acts like The Abandoned, Ill Repute, Mad Parade, and the Flower Leopards.
In 1989 Dagger would go on to lead the Southern California Punk band SCHLEPROCK. Through out the nineties the band supported the likes of Green Day, Rancid, The Specials, Sublime, as well as many others. After numerous records and non-stop touring over three continents, Warner Brothers Records eventually swept up SCHLEPROCK into the major label record feeding frenzy. In 1996 SCHLEPROCK released Americas Dirty Little Secret, but due to internal breakdowns and drug addictions SCHLEPROCK dis- banded in January of 1997.
Along side Dagger, there is also founding member guitarist Mike Snow. Snow and Daggers friendship go all the way back to 1980 as child hood friends. Snow was one of the early faces upon the Los Angeles mod scene in the early 1980s, and his first band Subway also played along side Doug & The Slugz on some of these early LA punk gigs. Mike Snow was also part of one of Californias first street punk bands The Choice through out the mid to late nineties. In 2009 SCHLEPROCK guitarist Sean Romin re- joined Daggers side to take front stage for THE GENERATORS. Romin has also been around the LA Punk scene since the eighties and has been playing lead guitar for the old school LA Hardcore band Decry over the past decade. With the always reliable rhythm of Bassist Brandon Lutz, and the recruit of long time LA punk drummer Lou Guzman, THE GENERATORS prepare to embark on another journey, and another mission to the manipulate the sound waves.
In September of 2011 THE GENERATORS will be releasing their 8th Full-length album Last Of The Pariahs, with producer Rich Mouser (Weezer, Chris Cornell). The new album catches the bands signature southern California melodic punk n roll sound, while also bringing fans back to some of their earlier 1977 old school snarl. The new album grabs you right away with the melodic heart-wrenching Angels Looking Down, a song about Daggers twenty-one year separation from his son, only to find him again in 2010. Theirs also new ones like 3AM, and Condition Red which show how much traditional punk bands like The Clash, or The Ruts remain to have heavy influence on THE GENERATORS. This new release will be followed up with an anticipated European and US Fall headlining tour. More than anything else THE GENERATORS somehow always remain to set themselves apart from the typical punk rock pack. Whether it is with their creative story telling approach, or the way they twist, and turn all the melodies around.
The boys from the city of angels somehow always manage to keep changing things up, while keeping their fans feeling safe in that familiar place.
TOUR DATES
10.02. Santa Barbara, CA - Whiskey Richards (USA)
11.02. Berkeley, CA - 924 Gilman (USA) (with Swinging Utters)
21.03. San Diego, CA - The Shakedown (USA) (with Peter and the Test Tube Babies, Guitar Gangsters)
22.03. San Francisco, CA - Thee Parkside (USA) (with Peter and the Test Tube Babies, Guitar Gangsters)
23.03. Long Beach, CA - Alexs Bar (USA) (with Peter and the Test Tube Babies, Guitar Gangsters)
24.03. Los Angeles, CA - 5 Star Bar (USA) (with Peter and the Test Tube Babies, Guitar Gangsters)
25.03. Santa Barbara, CA - Creekside Inn (USA) (with Peter and the Test Tube Babies, Guitar Gangsters)
17.08. Bretagne - Motocultor Festival (F) (with Adolescents, ....)
19.08. Dinkelsbühl - Summerbreeze Festival (GER) (with Sick Of It All, Napalm Death, ...)
PHOTOS
GIG POSTER
VIDEOS
THE GENERATORS - You Against You
DISCOGRAPHY
* 1998 - Welcome To The End CD (Triple X Records)
* 1998 - Welcome To The End LP (Outcasts Records)
* 2000 - Ninety Nine 10"/MCD (Outcast Records)
* 2000 - Burning Ambitions LP/CD (People Like You)
* 2000 - Dead At 16" 7" (TKO Records)
* 2001 - Tyranny LP/CD (People Like You, TKO Records)
* 2001 - State Of The Nation 10" (Dead Beat Records)
* 2002 - State Of The Nation MCD (TKO Records)
* 2002 - Generators / Vicious Rumours - Split CD (Urgent)
* 2003 - Excess Betrayal and Our Dearly Departed LP/CD (People Like You)
* 2003 - From Rust To Ruin CD (TKO Records)
* 2005 - Winter of Discontent LP/CD (People Like You)
* 2007 - The Great Divide LP/CD (People Like You)
* 2007 - Welcome To The End (Re-Release) LP/CD (People Like You)
* 2009 - Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea LP (Concrete Jungle)
* 2010 - Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea CD (People Like You)
* 2011 - You Against You 7" (I Hate People - Records)
* 2011 - Last Of The Pariahs LP/CD (I Hate People - Records)
