Although it has not been mentioned for a while, work is progressing on the eventual DGen rarities
and out-takes CD. Look for it to be released later next year after the Tsing Tsing album is
completed. No word yet on when we might see the live album, but Jesse is still planning to get it
released at some point (we've also heard that he had a 3-camera video made of that final show as
well, so maybe if we all behave ourselves we'll see a DGen home video at some point).
As for Tsing-Tsing (who have now changed their name to Bellvue), they are currently working on
their first record in an old church in upstate New York - look for a Spring 2001 release followed
by some extensive touring outside of the NYC area. Meanwhile, there is no longer a deal with
Omplatten Records to release the PCP Highway album - no word on new plans to release that disc.
Finally, Danny has been recording some demos out west, but no word yet as to when something
might be officially released.
09/15/2000
In a bit of unexpected news, Rick Bacchus is now playing guitar in Murphy's Law. His first show
with the band will be on Sunday 9/17 at the Wreck Room in NJ. Murphy's Law will then be going
out on the road opening up for the Misfits beginning on October 21. This does not mean, however,
that Vasquez is done for - that band is still alive and well and will be releasing a live record
sometime in the near future.
In band-related news, Jesse and Joe have a new band called Tsing-Tsing, which also includes
Esko, who played with them in PCP Highway. Howie has moved out to L.A. and will be staying
in Danzig. Rick's band Vasquez recently recorded two sets at the Lakeside Lounge in NYC for an
upcoming live album. No word yet on Mike or Danny's new projects, but if anyone has any info,
please drop us an e-mail.
A couple of notes about Jesse. First, we have a section of the site now dedicated to his new solo
career - you can go there by clicking here. Also, Jesse has put out his first solo CD, titled 169
EP. Mail order info is on VN's Jesse Malin page and on Jesse's official website.
The first big bit of news is that Howie Pyro has left PCP Highway to accept a gig as the new bass player for Danzig. In addition to all of this, Jesse has desolved PCP Highway to persue a solo career (click here for a list of his upcoming shows).
The second exciting announcement is that Vasquez has finally issued their first release, a CD titled "Two Songs". Click here for more info.
In other news, we have heard that Danny will be entering an L.A. recording studio in a few weeks to begin laying down tracks for his next project, we'll keep you updated.
Finally, since a number of you asked, Vampire Nation will not be adding a Danzig page to this
site, so for more info on what Howie is doing, check out their official fan page at
www.the7thhouse.com (and while you're at it, post a message to Howie in their guestbook).
Please note that the Vampire Nation site will be undergoing some construction over the next month or so as some pages need to be reorganized (especially the photo section), so some sections might be down for a little bit - if what you want to see isn't there, check back in a few days.
Some additions and corrections have been made to the bootleg page since our last update.
12/15/99
Ok - all of the photo secitons should be up on-line again. Some people have asked what's gonna be
done with this webpage now that the band has broken up. Well - its going to stay up indefinately,
and I will periodically be adding stuff to it (flyers, pics, etc.) as I come across them, as well as any
updates regarding the upcoming live and out-takes albums, and whatever else seems more relavant
here then on the PCP, CL and Vasquez sections. So the site will continue to be alive and well in
2000 and beyond.
Also, Rick is going to be working behind the boards as the producer for the next album from the
NYC band Skrap.
There are some new PCP Highway dates scheduled and Vasquez has a few shows scheduled as well, including one at CBGB's on the 23rd with PCP Highway.
Finally - some shameless promotion: I am now writing for a magazine called COMP. You can
check out the mag's website at www.compzine.com. And for anyone who cares, you can click on
the "current issue" link to read a copy of my interview with Jerry Only from the Misfits.
Chrome Locust, meanwhile, is still auditioning for a replacement for Todd Youth. As for Vasquez,
Rick said that they hope to have a recording out sometime this fall.
9/22/99
Hey there DGenerates and DGenerettes - we've got some pics up from PCP Highway's debut gig
the other week over on the PCP Highway page - check 'em out.
Congrats to the winner of the Capital Offender contest - Mariano A. who hails all the way from
ARGENTINA!! We actually had several entries from South America, which I think is pretty damn
cool.
Chrome Locust should also be hitting the road soon as well.
Finally, Rick has put together a Vasquez website - VASQUEZLAND - check it out.
It looks like DGeneration will be making another soundtrack appearance. The song "Hatred" will be on the soundtrack to the the movie "Universal Soldier II - Return". The disc is due to be released on July 13 on the BMG/Trauma label.
Some news to report: Jesse and Howie have been working on a new project and have already written and recorded a 9-song demo tape which they are shopping around. I do not know who else is in this new band (although Joe Rizzo's name was mentioned to me by a couple of people); I also have heard that Jesse is playing guitar in this band. The name of the new band is PCP HIGHWAY. The song titles on the demo tape are:
Also - if anyone has any photos they could scan and send me from the guys' non-DGen gigs
(Heart Attack, Vasquez, The Blessed, etc.) please let me know.
As for the site, I'll be putting up some new pics shortly, as well as a few updates to the
discography. Also, this page passed the 10,000 mark for visitors in the past month - considering
that we only had about 3,000 or so as of last January 1, this means that traffic has really picked up
here in 1999 - thanks everyone. Finally, the Chrome Locust page has been moved to a separate site
- http://members.aol.com/chrmlocust.
I am not going to dwell on the bad news but let me just say, in response to a number of e-mails we have gotten here, that regardless of the future of the band, this website will continue to remain active. And check back here soon for more new stuff - including pics from the Coney Island High show and yet another contest.
The Prohibition contest is officially over. We got somewhere in the neighborhood of 300
entries. We'll be picking the winners sometime this week.
Here on the web site, the Discography page has been fully updated with everything through the current album and we've got a couple of pics from the Ft. Myers, FL show up as well.
Finally - does anyone out there have any recordings from the Offspring tour or any video footage
from the Kiss tour or last year's European tour with Green Day???
Here's the setlist from the show in Sacramento, CA on March 31st (thanx Jordan): Lonely / Scorch / Sweet Talker / Every Mother's Son / She Stands There / Hatred / Rise and Fall / Helpless / No Way Out / Frankie
Other stuff: In case you were unaware, there are a couple of DGen chat / bulletin board things up and running - click here for links and info. Some pics from the recent shows in Philadelphia, PA and Asbury, NJ are now up in the photo gallery. There are also some pics from the recent Chrome Locust show in Baltimore on the Chrome Locust page. In addition, there have been yet more additions to the bootlegs page.
Finally, there are some QuickTime movie files from the March 20 Bowery Ballroom show up on
the official site at dgenerates.com - pretty cool, check 'em out.
In addition, I found out that Rick is not back in the band for good; he is merely helping the guys out until a permanent replacement for Todd can be found. His band, Vasquez, is still alive and well and he is now working with Sam Yaffa (the bassist from the legendary Hanoi Rocks). Right now, they are pretty much just playing around New York, so keep an eye out. He is also doing this monthly thing called California in NYC as well which sounds pretty cool - he and some other people are spinning tunes and it sounds a lot like the old Green Door parties.
There is a recent interview on-line at Rocklove.com - it can be found here.
The bootlegs page has also been updated with some newly discovered items (new to me,
anyways). In addition to the usual tapes, there now exists an unofficial, vinyl copy of the
"DGeneration" album (I have had a couple of people write me about this one). There is also a
bootleg CD floating around out there called "Drop-Outs".
3/11/99
Jesse Malin and Joey ramone will be on K-ROCK's (NYC) Sunday night show "K-ROCK'S
HARD ON" this week, 3/14/99.
There are a whole slew of pictures from the February 27 show at The Saint in Asbury, NJ are up in the photo gallery (courtesy of Mr. Chuck Homler - thanks dude!!!).
In other news, Dgen's wayward sons - Michael Wildwood and Todd Youth are currently out on
the road with their new band, Chrome Locust. They kicked off their tour last night down here at
Hal Daddy's in Baltimore where they tore the place a new you-know-what. For some more info on
this band, as well as tour dates, click here to go to the Chrome Locust page.
Speaking of shows, here is the setlist from the recent show at The Saint in Asbury, NJ (February 27th), a bootleg recording of which has already popped up:
Scorch / Sweet Talker / Every Mother's Son / Helpless / She Stands There / Only a Ghost / Good Ship Down / No Way Out / Rise and Fall / ChinaTown / Lonely / Hatred / Capital Offender / Frankie
Other stuff - someone has taken the time to put up a DGen guitar tabs page, which can be found at
www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Underground/5314/index.html.
First of all - Yes the lineup of the band has changed yet again. Michael and Todd have left DGen and will be devoting their musical energies to their Chrome Locust project (with an album due out in March or April, as I understand). Michael's replacement is a guy named Joe Rizzo and Todd has been replaced by The Atomic Elf - Richard Bacchus. For those of you new to DGen - Richard was one of the original members of the band; he left in 1997 and was replaced by Todd Youth (formerly of Murphy's Law). Now Todd has left the band and is being replaced by the guy he replaced - go figure (although I have heard conflicting stories as to Rick's permanance in the line up). Anyways, the dgenerates.com site has a few new pics of the current lineup.
Second, a lot of people have asked about the cover of "Sweet Talker" on the Prohibition EP. It was
originally done by a band called Sister Double Happiness. Here is some info about them that I got
(indirectly) from Jesse: "Sister Double Happiness were a San Francisco band, led by Gary Floyd,
who originally was the lead singer for a very cool Texas punk band called The Dicks. They had a
song called "Dicks Hate Police" which was an underground favorite. The song Sweet Talker is off
of S.D.H.'s debut LP which came out in 1987. It's a great record if you can find it, it's not on
CD. Gary Floyd has a new band called Sister Kalima that plays around S.F. They still do Sweet
Talker. The guy has an amazing voice and writes great songs."
Jesse recently brought this guy in to do a show at CIH and I hear that it was pretty good.
The "Helpless" single has been released to radio stations - so call up your local stations, bug the hell out of the DJ's and ask them to play it.
The Release Party for Through the Darkness will be held on Tuesday, February 23 at Irving Plaza in New York City. In addition, the band is finally starting to schedule some shows, with a couple lined up in CT and NJ surrounding the release party. Check the shows page for info.
Finally - the DGENERATES.COM website has been updated, and it includes some cool, new
band photos
Also, the Discography is going to be moved around in a big way this coming week, so you might
find that page to be down at the moment. It should all be put together again within a few days.
Not too much to report, except that a new TV commercial for The Faculty is out that has "Helpless" playing in the background of the spot (kind of cool to see that). Have to admit that I have not seen the movie yet.
Finally, Jesse joined Ronnie Spector and Keith Richards on stage at a recent holiday shindig at Life
in NYC to sing "Christmas Baby Please Come Home". Here's a pic of Jesse and Keith and
Ramones manager Monte Melnick that night (thanks Mary).
The Discography section has been partially updated with all of the band's recent releases and
compilation appearances up through the new record. This page can now also be viewed as either a
text-only document or with all of the album cover scans. I'll probably be shuffling the Discography
section around a bit over the next few weeks, so if you find that a link is down or a graphic is
missing, just yell at me and let me know.
Mikey and Todd are currently touring around with a band called Chrome Locust and they will be
playing at The Continental on December 5. I don't know any other tour dates for this band,
so you'll just have to keep an eye out for them (if anyone knows of any other shows, please drop
me an e-mail).
Finally - for some strange reason, about a dozen people recently sent me mail telling me that the
NYTRASH web site was down. Uhhh...ok. The people at NYTrash are pretty cool, especially
Adam and the lovely Marlena, but hey! I'm not affiliated with them - I appreciate the info - but
there's nothing that I can do about it. I do know that it should be up and running again soon (if it
isn't already).
Currently, there are not even any plans for a few shows around New York in the near future either,
so we won't be seeing Jesse do his Nurse Ratchett routine this Halloween. But we will be seeing
Jesse up on the big screen very soon - he has a speaking role in the latest Martin Scorcese movie
"Bringing Out the Dead". He plays the doorman at CBGB's. There is no word yet as to whether or
not DGen will have anything on the film's soundtrack, but the song "Helpless" (from the new
album) will be included on the soundtrack for the movie "The Faculty". The film will be out
sometime in December and the soundtrack will be on the record shelves December 8.
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And finally - D Generation finally has an official website. Yes, they did have a site maintained by Columbia Records but, as we all know, that site just sucked the big one. The band has got their own - there ain't much there at the moment, but they do have a basic home page up. You can check it out at www.dgenerates.com.
Ok - That's all the news for now. If anyone has anything to add, drop me a line. I'll be back to
maintaining this site on a regular basis for the forseeable future. Thanks to VinylVixen and Bran E.
Carlos for dropping some of the above news my way.
In the next few weeks, the discography page will be going down for a few days so that I can move
some files around. I don't know exactly when I'm going to do this - it'll happen whenever I have
the time to do it.
March 24, 1998: Thanks to John in New Jersey, here are the set lists for the two C.B.G.B.'s
shows, along with some comments:
February 27: Frankie / Sweet Talker / She Stands There / Too Loose / Only A Ghost / Good Ship Down / Rise and Fall / Feel Like Suicide / Every Mother's Son / Lonely / 1981 / No Way Out / Hatred / Prohibition / D-Generated
"The band seemed tired, maybe jetlagged, since they must have gotten back from Europe in the previous 24 hours or so. What they lacked in musical energy, they made up for by Todd smashing his guitar and Jesse dropping his pants."
February 28: No Way Out / Sweet Talker / She Stands There / Too Loose / Only a Ghost / Good Ship Down / Hatred / Rise and Fall / Feel Like Suicide / Sunday's Secret Saints / Lonely / 1981 / ChinaTown / Cornered / Frankie / Every Mother's Son / Prohibition / D-Generated
"This show was a lot more "up" and though very like the previous night's setlist (exept for the addition of China Town and SSS), I thought much more energy evident. No superfluous onstage pranks, just pure music (though the previous band (Toilet Boys) was amusing and just a little scary!)."
I know that at least two of the new songs, "Only a Ghost" and "Prohibition" turned up on the
European tour. "Every Mother's Son" and "Sunday's Secret Saints" are new to me - I hadn't heard
of either one before, so this weekend might have been the first performance of one or both of
them. According to Jesse, "Sunday's Secret Saints" was written by Todd. Strangely enough, Jesse
also said one night that "Rise and Fall" was a song they wrote while they were over in Europe
(although they were playing it live last summer).
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In addition, a bootleg tape has surfaced of their set at the Astoria Theatre in London on February 1. The set list for the show was as follows:
Frankie / Sweet Talker / She Stands There / Only a Ghost / Rise and Fall / Feel Like Suicide / Cornered / Hatred / Prohibition / Degenerated
Before going in to the last song, Jesse tossed out a few t-shirts to the crowd with the "suicide TV"
design (as above) and made the comment: "No, this isn't Curt Cobain...but it might be Bill
Clinton". Take that statement for what you will. Strangely, they didn't do "No Way Out", which is
probably the one song that the most people would have heard. Oh well. If anyone else out there
has seen any of the European shows, drop me an e-mail and let us know how it went.
January 20, 1997: It has just been announced that, following their European tour, D Generation
will do a couple of homecoming shows at CBGB's in New York City on February 27 and 28 (it
figures - the same weekend I'm going to be in San Diego). I have also heard that the band may hit
the road in the states yet again sometime after that in the Spring. The new album is tentatively
scheduled to be out sometime this summer.
I've added a few new graphics to the Discography page. You can now see covers for the "Capital Offender" single and the compilation discs "Loaded Volume 1" (EMI sampler) and "We Will Fall" (the Iggy Pop Tribute). I've also been trying to actually learn something about graphics and I'm in the process of streamlining the Discography page so that it loads a bit quicker.
Finally - I am still looking for a tape of the October 3, 1997 show at Coney Island High (if such a
thing exists) or any other recordings that may have the songs "Massacre", "PCP Highway" or
"Dying For a Living".
I'd also like to start the new year by thanking ShiraWild for bringing to my attention the existance of a D Generation message board on AOL. Unfortunately, since the message board is hosted on AOL, you can only get to it if you have an AOL account. If not...well then you're just s**t outta luck. On AOL, the quickest way to access iit is to follow the following steps:
1 - Enter Keyword: MMC
2 - Select the folder marked ALTERNATIVE
3 - Select the folder marked ALTERNATIVE BANDS A-F
4 - Scroll down the list until you hit the D Gen folder (between Devo and Dead Can Dance)
D Gen is heading over to Europe to open the following shows for Green Day:
January 20 - Belfast , Northern Ireland - Ulster Hall
January 21 - Dublin, Ireland - SFX Centre
January 22 - Dublin, Ireland - SFX Centre
January 24 - Glasgow, Scotland - Barrowlands
January 25 - Glasgow, Scotland - Barrowlands
January 26 - Manchester, England - Apollo Manchester
January 27 - Leeds, England - Town &;Country
January 28 - Wolverhampton, England - Civic Hall
January 30 - London, England - Brixton Academy
January 31 - London, England - Brixton Academy
February 1 - London, England - Astoria Theatre
February 3 - Paris, France - Elysee Montmarte
February 4 - Brussels, Belgium - Ancienne Belgique
February 5 - Cologne, Germany - Live Music Hall
February 6 - Amsterdam, Netherlands - Paradiso
February 8 - Copenhagen, Denmark - Vega
February 9 - Stockholm, Sweden - Stockholm Arena
February 11 - Hamburg, Germany - Docks Konzerte
February 12 - Berlin, Germany - Huxley's
February 13 - Prague, Czechoslovakia - Sky Club
February 15 - Ljubljana, SLO - Hala Tivoli
February 17 - Zurich, Swizerland - Volkshaus
February 18 - Munich, Germany - Babylon
February 20 - Milan, Italy - Palalido
February 21 - Villeurbanne, France - Transbordeur
February 23 - San Sebastian, Spain - Velodromo de Anoeta
February 24 - Madrid, Spain - Riviera
February 25 - Barcelona, Spain - Zeleste
December 19, 1997: A new bootleg tape has surfaced of the Halloween show at Coney Island
High from a few months back. The quality of this tape is great and has lots of new songs.
The Green Day tour at on the west coast is over and done with. The band is planning to go back
into the studio after the holidays to begin work on the next studio album which, hopefully, will be
out sometime in the Spring.
The band then plans to enter the studio soon after this trip to begin work on a new studio album.
November 12, 1997: I finally got around to picking up a copy of the Iggy Pop tribute album
"We Will Fall" on which D Gen contributed the track "I Got Nothing" - which is also the last thing
that Richard recorded with the band. The liner notes misspelled Jesse's name and Richard is listed
as Atomic Elf. I only gave it one quick listen to so far, but I think the band did a pretty decent job,
as did most of the bands on here.
I have added a new section to the Discography page called Unauthorized Recordings which contains a list of, and comments about, all of the D Gen bootlegs floating around out there that I am aware of. If anyone knows of any tapes that are not listed here, please let me know. This section is below the section which lists all of the band's official recordings.
I'm still looking for copies of the videos of "She Stands There" and the first album version of "No
Way Out" as well as any bootleg videos of shows. Speaking of which, a live video has surfaced of
their set opening for Social D in Minneapolis on 12/06/96 - its 30 minutes, but is a bit shaky in
parts (I guess the cameraman's last crack hit hadn't worn off completely before the show).
November 3, 1997: I heard several reports from you guys out there regarding the Halloween
show at Coney Island High last Friday. Jesse came out dressed up in a white, vinyl nurse's outfit
andwhite fishnet stockings (anyone got a picture of this?) and the band knocked out a 50 minute set
that went as follows:
Several people have been asking me about bootleg tapes of the band. There are about a dozen
shows that I am aware of on audio tape. There are also at least 2 videos floating around out there,
one from this past year and one from New York in 1993. I will add compiling a list of all of these
to my list of things to finish up on the site (like lyrics and the biography section)
A special thanks goes out to John from New Jersey who snagged a copy of the set list off the stage after the show so we can finally put some names to the new tunes. Here's the playlist from the show:
In other news: don't expect the "official" site to come back on-line any time soon. It seems that Jesse made some remarks at their show opening for the Offspring this past summer which irked some of the suits at the record label which may be why the site is shut down.
Also - Does anyone know what the deal is with Vasquez? Are they a new band or have they been around for a while which Rick merely joined?
Finally - Does anyone have a copy of the first "No Way Out" video (the one from the EMI album)?
If so, drop me a line as I'd like to get a copy of it.
D Gen have only one more tour date scheduled that I am aware of which is at Coney Island High in
NYC on October 3. By the way, there's some new pictures up on the New York Trash D Gen
Page of the new lineup with Todd if you wanna check em out.
There's no other D Gen news I'm aware of at this time. I'll keep you poseted (or if you hear
anything - let me know).
August 7, 1997: The band has just finished up a handful of scattered dates in the NorthEast.
They will be going back out on the road for a full tour sometime in the near future (I'll keep you
posted). Although they have been performing new matirial in their shows, there are still no plans
as of yet for D Gen to return to the studio in the near future.
A new section has been added to the site entitled RARE TRAX which is a listing of songs that the band has been known to perform live, both originals and covers, which are not currently available on any official releases.
Speaking of unofficial releases, if anyone has any bootleg recordings of D Generation, Heart Attack or any other of the members' former bands - I want them! I'm looking for concerts, radio broadcasts, TV appearances, etc. on either audio or video. I'm also still looking for copies of the 1993 Wasted years 7-inch, the No God / Degenerated 10-inch and the 1995 Flipside compilation with Scorch on it.
The official web site at Sony Music is still unaccessable.
I'd also like to thank everyone who has been writing me to tell me what they think of the site
(including the one guy who took the time to e-mail me and tell me how much D Generation sucks).
If anyone would like to contribute anything to this site, please let me know.
Also - The official site at Sony appears to be down, even linking to it directly from their own index of artists returns a message that the site cannot be accessed.
A new bootleg tape has surfaced from 7 Willow Street in Portchester, NY (June 6, 1997) which includes 5 unreleased songs: China Town, Never Gonna Marry, No Lunch (?) and two others whose titles are unknown to me (one has a chorus which features the lyric "I'm a dog and I'm a cow"). If anyone can shed any light on these, please let me know. This tape also features a cover of Neil Young's Don't Be Denied. Clocking in at 55 minutes, it's the only bootleg to surface so far, except for the Baltimore, MD 12/29/95 tape, that features a set longer than 35 minutes. It's also one of two tapes going around right now with new D Gen material on it (the other is from Washington, DC on 7/03/97)
I'm still working on the Biography section, which probably won't be up for a few more weeks
yet. The lyrics section should be on-line by next week, as well as links to various D Gen articles
floating around the web.
Columbia has also just released CAPITAL OFFENDER as the third single from the No Lunch album. According to Richard, the band has no immediate plans to record a video for the song but may end up doing so if the single does well.
D Gen also has no immediate plans to be back in the studio to begin work on a new album but they
hope to do so before the end of the year. Meanwhile, look for the band back out on the road as a
headline act later in the summer.