Gregg Turner has toured in October 2019 with the Oblivians as a solo act, in anticipation of a re-release of the Angry Samoans discography.
Mike Saunders stopped performing with Angry Samoans in 2016. Drummer Bill Vockeroth has continued touring with a variety of additional members performing guitar, bass and vocals. Vockeroth previously used the name “Angry Samoan” to indicate the band contained only one original member, but has since changed to billing his version…
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Patrick “P.J.” Galligan was formerly a member of heavy metal band Cirith Ungol . Galligan died from throat cancer in 2014.
The Angry Samoans have continued from the late 1980s onward with Mike Saunders, original drummer Vockeroth and a wide variety of other individuals. They have performed mainly along the West Coast , aside from occasional out-of-state weekend trips and three short, successful tours of mainland Europe in 2003, 2007 and…
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Turner left in early 1992, releasing an album, Santa Fe , in 1993 with the Mistaken, which featured guitarist Sean O’Brien (formerly of Come ), bassist Heath Siefert (formerly of Backbiter ) and drummers Elizabyth Burtis and Kelly Callan (formerly of Wednesday Week ). Turner’s next band, the Blood Drained…
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Homer left at the end of 1988 and formed the Mooseheart Faith Stellar Groove Band with Larry Robinson, formerly of 1970s teen pop-soul band Apollo . In 2005, Homer formed free-jazz band the Hollywood Squaretet with comedian/drummer Larry “Copcar” Scarano, formerly of Comedy’s Dirtiest Dozen (HBO), and the 1960s New…
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In the mid-1980s, the Angry Samoans added guitarist Steve Drojensky, and returned to their roots in mid-1960s American garage rock (they had long cited bands such as the Velvet Underground , the 13th Floor Elevators and Shadows of Knight as among their musical influences). The next two releases recorded during…
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The Samoans’ first release, Inside My Brain , featuring P.J. Galligan on lead guitar as a replacement for Bonze Blayk, was one of the earliest hardcore punk albums to come out of the 1980s LA punk rock scene. Between this recording and second album Back from Samoa , the band…
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In late January 1979, Mike Saunders, Turner and Homer wrote an infamous song about longtime LA/Hollywood scenemaker and KROQ-FM DJ Rodney Bingenheimer , titled “Get Off the Air”. When the song was included on the band’s first record, Inside My Brain , the Samoans were blacklisted at the Starwood ,…
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The first Angry Samoans gig was on October 30, 1978, opening for Roky Erickson and the Aliens in Richmond, California . Erickson was sick and did not make the show (Aliens band members covered for his lead vocals) but remained a lifelong friend and inspiration to Turner. The next night,…
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