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The band members' onstage costume includes bowties, plaid pants, taped glasses, pocket protectors and short shorts. [2] The costumes are a homage to the film Revenge of the Nerds . [ 2 ] Perfect World Entertainment created a fictional biography for the Spazmatics as part of the band's gig.
The band supported Enjoy! with a tour through the Summer of 1986. [3] [4] Following the tour both Carrion and Cooper left the band, and were replaced by Karl Alvarez and Stephen Egerton, respectively, from the Utah band Massacre Guys. [4] [9] [10] In 1987 New Alliance was sold to SST Records, who re-released Enjoy! on cassette and compact disc.
Guitarist Richie Stotts was a co-founder of the band and a mainstay of the pre-breakup core group (1978–1983). [7] After the full breakup of the band following the release of Coup d'etat, Stotts was edited out of band videos and was not referred to by name in a 2006 compilation DVD released by Plasmatics Media LLC (via plasmatics.com).
The Yardbirds are an English rock band formed in London in 1963. The band started the careers of three of rock's most famous guitarists: Eric Clapton (1963–1965), Jeff Beck (1965–1966) and Jimmy Page (1966–1968), all of whom ranked in the top five of Rolling Stone magazine's list of 100 greatest guitarists. [5]
The Five Man Electrical Band (known as The Staccatos from 1963 to 1968) [1] is a Canadian rock band from Ottawa, Ontario. They had many hits in Canada, including the top 10 entries "Half Past Midnight" (1967) (as The Staccatos), "Absolutely Right" (1971) and "I'm a Stranger Here" (1972). [ 2 ]
The band's final line-up consisted of Ruth Radelet (vocals, guitar, synthesizer), Adam Miller (guitar, vocoder), Nat Walker (drums, synthesizer), and Johnny Jewel (producer, multi-instrumentalist). The band originally featured a trademark sound indebted to punk and lo-fi that was described as "noisy" and "chaotic". [ 6 ]
The Muffs were an American pop punk band based in Southern California, formed in 1991. Led by singer and guitarist Kim Shattuck, the band released four full-length studio albums in the 1990s, as well as numerous singles including "Lucky Guy" and "Sad Tomorrow", and a cover version of "Kids in America". After a long hiatus beginning in 1999, the ...
John Nova Lomax (February 6, 2008). "Spazmatics = Revenge of the Replicants". Retrieved December 7, 2014. How is a no-name blogger a credible source? Just because this guy thinks that the band's image is in "homage" to Revenge of the Nerds, doesn't mean that was the band's actual intent.