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Suburban Decay

Steve-0
Drums
Pecking Order: Original Member
Where are they now: Lazy Dynamite, Cleveland Plain Dealer, McDonalds

Dave Filth - A.K.A. David James
Lead Guitar
Pecking Order: Original Member
Where are they now: MIA

Eruk - A.K.A. Eric Barth
Bass
Pecking Order: Original Member
Where are they now: Columbus (?)

Kevin Barf - A.K.A. Kevin Barth
Vocal (lead)
Pecking Order: Original Member
Where are they now: Who Knows

Bio:

Strongsville, 1983. The streets are all still two lanes. There's no mall, there's...barely anything. Nothing like it is now. Above all there's nothing to do. And this is where things like Suburban Decay happen. Negative Print founders Eric Barth, Dave James, and Steve-0 formed this band with Eric's brother on Lead Vocals originally, as a hardcore band with a sense of humor. It was for fun, a side-project to the stuff that Steve and Dave were doing in Steve-0's basement in Parma, demoing songs (that's originally what Death Of Samantha was supposed to be too really). They wrote songs like Death To Jocks, Bread ("we usually never have bread...but when we do....IT'S ALWAYS RRRRYYYYEEEEE!!!!"....that's the whole song), Hi! (consisting of a slide down the bass/guitar neck then everybody goes...you guessed it "HI!"), and 715 (a 10 second ode apparently to some sort of pills that DJ wrote, eventually made it on to an actual vinyl punk compilation! on purple vinyl! and to think, these guys actually had some real songs too!). Sadly, around when they started doing shows, Kevin quit. Steve Wainstead was auditioned once, and even said to be a member of the band in an interview with Steve-0/Wainstead/Eruk/Dave. Alas, it wasn't meant to be and they soldiered on with Eruk/Dave trading the vocal duties. After doing some shows at the Lakefront, Pop Shop etc., and making the Go Die video (which is considered to be a cinematic masterpiece to whomever's seen it, and you know who you are), they fizzled out in late 84 when Steve-0 quit both Suburban Decay and Negative Print to focus on Death Of Samantha. For a short period of time the band mutated into New Small Appliances (which did one song, sans Mr.0, on They Pelted Us With Rocks And Garbage).
(Derek de Prator)

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