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Smegma started in 1973 in Pasadena, California, as a reaction to\u00a0the “bad fusion rock” from their region. Among it’s original members\u00a0were Dennis duck, who later went on to help form bands such as “The\u00a0Human Hands” \u00a0in the late ’70’s and “The Dream Syndicate” in 1982. Ace Farren Ford later of The Child Molesters , The Mystery Band and with Rozz Williams became part of EXP and other Goth acts.<\/p>\n
Richard Snyder went on to join Capt. Beefheart’s Magic Band in 1979\u00a0as “Midnight Hatsize Snyder”.<\/p>\n
Smegma left Pasadena for Portland, Oregon in 1975. They\u00a0released “Glamour Girl 1941” on the L.A.F.M.S. label in 1979, along\u00a0with three singles on their own label. In 1980 Mute records released\u00a0a “smegma\/Non” split single (scheduled to be released on the\u00a0upcoming “Mute Singles Box Set”).\u00a0In the late seventies, they enjoyed the “punk” scene in Portland,\u00a0becoming favorites of bands like; “The Wipers” and “The Dead Kennedys”\u00a0of San Francisco.<\/p>\n
In 1982, they released “Pigs For Lepers” and “Flies Like Holidays”\u00a0on their own “Pigface” label.<\/p>\n
In 1987 “Dead Mans Curve” records (UK), released “Nattering Naybobs\u00a0Of Negativity” and in 1989 DOM records (West Germany), released “Smell\u00a0The Remains”, a greatest hits compilation.<\/p>\n
In the mid-nineties they released \u00a0three full length albums for\u00a0Tim Kerr records, including a collaboration with the japan\u00a0based “Merzbow”. Smegma was also featured on \u00a0Japan Overseas’ “Violent\u00a0Onsen Geisha Tour” along with Thurston Moore. Japan Overseas also\u00a0released Smegma’s first LP, “Glamour Girl”, on compact disc. As did<\/p>\n
L.A.F.M.S.\/Cortical Foundation, as part of their “Lowest Form of\u00a0Music” 10 Disc box set.<\/p>\n
Author and “Rock Critic” Richard Meltzer joined Smegma in 1997 until\u00a02003. 2003 also saw Smegma collaborating with “Wolf Eyes” for an album\u00a0titled “The Beast” and Steve Mackay (saxophonist for The Stooges’ “Fun\u00a0House” LP and Violent Femmes guest sax. player) for Smegma’s “30 years\u00a0of service” recording.<\/p>\n
In 2004 Smegma toured the west coast with; Wolf Eyes, Comets On\u00a0Fire, and Rubber O Cement. where they were joined by Tom Recchion and\u00a0Ace Farren Ford in Los Angeles, introduced by Jello Biafra in San\u00a0Francisco, and joined again to play in San Francisco with Steve Mackay.<\/p>\n
In 2005 Smegma headlined the KRAAK fest, in Hasselt Belgium. Where\u00a0they got very good reviews for the most part\u00a0and on March, 17 2006, will Play in New York for the first time, at\u00a0the NO FUN FEST, in Brooklyn, New York\u00a0the following is a short bio written by Richard Meltzer from 1999;<\/p>\n
Now in their 28th year of existence,Smegma are a so-called “noise\u00a0band” if not exactly by their own designation. Not that they would\u00a0deny it, mind you-noise as a station of sonic oompah certainly doesn’t\u00a0rankle their metamusical ass. It’s simply that other things figure\u00a0more prominently on their collective agenda: group improvisation with\u00a0a heap of Unfinished Sixties Business factored in (the real-time-from-Socratic mutilayered equivalent of “I Am the Walrus,” let’s\u00a0say)…..Free Music in it’s grandest, and least superficial, sense (a\u00a0la the denser moments of Ornette Coleman’s “Free Jazz”)..a ritual\u00a0fusing of any and all musics and non-musics at the level of the hum,\u00a0the blap, the tink, the boom. By design as well as chance, every\u00a0performance is an utterly NEW sonic event, one capable(some nights,\u00a0anyway) of changing the way an audience will actually “hear”. (Y’know,\u00a0forever.)<\/p>\n
Richard B Meltzer 1999<\/p>\n
In 2007 3 original Pasadena members became \u00a0 part of the “touring” Band and freshly\u00a0 rejuvenated Smegma , has played some amazing fun Gigs with our old pals the L.A.M.F.S. including a 24 hour Telethon reunion at Otis Art Institute, the LAFMS London weekend 2010, at The Getty Center in L.A. 2011, and most recently at The Box in downtown L.A. 2012. Also this year Smegma Headlined the Perspectives Festival in Sweden, and played a local festival PDX POP NOW!<\/p>\n
Since 2009 at Smegma’s Studio, Ju Suk Reet Meate has been recording, editing and mixing at a unprecedented pace, sometimes with the help of our newest member Madeline Villano.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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