Angry Samoans

War Is Declared!

The Angry Samoans celebrate Carrie Gold's birthday. Hey, where's Gregg?

Deadly As A Gun! (AUDIO)

Metal Mike demo immortalizes Gregg Turner's Golden Gun, July 1978,
over 6 Megabytes of rich 16-bit MONO MONO MONO! AIFF goodness straight from the Metal Man's Sony cassette!

100% Fake Samoans may strike again at a club near you!

"ALL PHONY, ALL THE TIME!"
"And remember, folks... watch out for flying chairs!"

See the LATEST booking info and gig listings!

Can't get enough stupid? Deconstruct this, baby! "Parasites Like Me: The Angry Samoans Deepest Secret"
"...the Angry Samoans are a postmodern shitstorm from hell" sez Chris Ziegler!

In the beginning... -- let there be VOM!

"I read Bonze's version, Metal Mike's MySpace version, Gregg's version, and then... I ATE THEM!"

Fallout here and there from the family tree.

Puzzling evidence from the Center for Revisionist Angry Samoan History...

LYRIC SHEETS Genuine scans of historically authentic lyric sheets!

-- Are You A Square -- Carson Girls -- Get Off The Air -- Hot Cars -- I'm A Pig -- I'm In Love With Your Mom -- Inside My Brain -- Lights Out -- My Old Man's A Fatso -- Not Of This Earth -- Right Side Of My Mind -- The Todd Killings -- Too Animalistic -- You Stupid Asshole --

... and a few suspicious reconstructions ... Death of Beewak -- Gas Chamber -- HOMO-SEXUAL -- High On Drugs -- Staring at the Sun -- Steak Knife --

Angry Samoans TODAY

Do the Angry Samoans still exist? Well, sort of--which is the same status as always.

The Samoans have been gigging again since Spring 1996. In 2007 they did a whirlwind tour of Germany... California towns covered include Gilman St./Berekeley, San Francisco, Santa Cruz, Petaluma, Sacramento, Sonoma, Gilroy, Davis, San Jose, San Diego, Corona/Riverside County, and San Joaquin Valley towns Manteca, Oakhurst, and Sonora.

The present lineup of the Samoans:

• Mike Saunders: Guitar, Vocals
• Bill Vockeroth: Drums, Vocals
• Kevin Joseph: Guitar
• Rick Dasher: Bass Guitar

The current set list, September 2007:

     ELECTROCUTE YOUR COCK
     RIGHT SIDE OF MY MIND
     GIMME SOPOR
     GAS CHAMBER
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     LITTLE BLACK EGG
     BBC
     I'M IN LOVE WITH YOUR MOM
     HOT CARS
     THE TODD KILLINGS
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     HELP (damned verson) 
     TIME TO FUCK
        (mike switches to drums)
     TEQUILA/KNOWLEDGE (dance contest)
     NOT OF THIS EARTH
     YOU STUPID ASSHOLE
     SLAVE TO MY DICK
        (bill back to drums)
     STEAK KNIFE
     LIGHTS OUT
     YOU STUPID JERK
     HOMO-SEXUAL
     PSYCH-OUT 129
     CARSON GIRLS
     INSIDE MY BRAIN
     BABY ONE MORE TIME (30 sec only)
     TIME HAS COME TODAY (short) / into
        HAIZMAN'S BRAIN IS CALLING (short)
     BALLAD OF JERRY CURLAN
     THEY SAVED HITLER'S COCK
     GET OFF THE AIR
     WASTED / NERVOUS BREAKDOWN
     MY OLD MAN'S A FATSO
     ---------------end of basic set------------
     I'M A PIG (bill vocals / mike drums)

SO THAT'S WHAT THEY'VE DONE LATELY, WHAT ABOUT THE FIRST 40 GIGS?

Metal Mike's 100% Utterly Official Scrapbook

Click on the pig to get the Big Picture!

• 10/30/78 -- The Angry Samoans share their first billing with The Aliens (minus Roky!) presaging "The Shapes of Things to Come".
  
  
• 2 -- Blazing trails at Samo High. "Got milk?" True Story: The Samoans appearance at Santa Monica High initiated a trend of throwing milk cartons at bands making the noontime gig!
  
  
• 5 -- Club 88.
  
  
• 6 -- Mabuhay Gardens witnesses the first performance of "Get Off The Air!" 2/10/79!
  
  
• 7 -- The Mab again on 2/11/79 with the AMAZING Subhumans.
  
  
• 8 -- J. Michael's Goodtime Bar.
  
  
• 9 -- Club 88.
  
  
• 10 -- CAMARILLO State Hospital Unit 28: The Angrie Samouns' first top billing! "T.U.M.O.R.S." featured guitarist P.J. Galligan, who will soon become the Samoan's new first guitarist.
  
  
• 12 -- The Samoaners return to Camarillo's Auditorium with the Plimsouls!
  
  
• 13 13 13 -- The Rhino gig, May 6, 1979, enshrined on "Live at Rhino Records". This is Kevin Eric Saunders' last appearance with the Samoans; the Samoans soon play Camarillo again with Harlan Hollander of Tremors on guitar, this time sharing the billing with Fear (July 20, 1979).
  
  
• PJ's Job Application June 24, 1979, pg. 1 -- .
  
  
• PJ's Job Application, pg. 2 -- .
  
  
• PJ's Job Application, pg. 3 -- .
  
  
• PJ's Job Application Postmarked June 24, 1979 -- .
  
  
• 15 -- The Mabuhay.
  
  
• 17 -- Madame Wong's and The F.U.B.A.R.
  
  
• 19 -- Black Flag headline at the El Capulin Anti-Club 11/1/79.
  
  
• 22 -- Lester Bangs sneaks the Samoans into the Village Voice's Pazz and Jop critic's poll.
  
  
• "Get Off The Air!" -- Rodney Bingenheimer blacklists the Angry Samoans!
  
  
• "Letter from Lou" -- So Rodney might say ... "I'm under contract too!"
  (Just like Paul Williams as the head of "Death Records" in "Phantom of the Paradise"!)
  
  
• 24 -- Mabuhay.
  
  
• 25 -- Club 88.
  
  
• Slash Interview November 1979 -- .
  
  
• Slash #2 -- .
  
  
• 27 -- Two gigs with the Suburban Lawns and Fear headlining, respectively.
  
  
• 32 -- UC Irvine.
  
  
• 34 -- Blackie's.
  
  
• 35 -- The Hong Kong Cafe with Fear and Eddie and the Subtitles May 3, 1980.
  
  
• 36 -- Fear headlines at the Fleetwood.
  
  
• 37 -- The Troubadour.
  
  
• 38 -- The Hong Kong Cafe.
  
  
• 39 -- A couple of headline gigs at obscure venues.
  
  
• 41 -- Lee Ving of Fear "distances himself" from the Samoans! Crime does not pay and neither does insulting Rodney!
  
  
• More Rodney Hoo-ha -- July/August 1980.
  
  
• 42 -- The Mabuhay. "The Wages of Punk Rock"...
  
  
• Slush weighs in -- with an incisive critical summary October 1980.
  
  

"People talk, I can't understand a word they say"

• Samoans... PUNK rockers in denial? from Stewart Home's "Cranked Up Really High".
• Do the Trouser Press Baby.
• "In a lot of ways , they were the quintessential pop band of their era," opines John. "Abba, I mean. Although the Angry Samoans were pretty close."
• Another Genuine Arkansan declares the Samoans an unimpeachable source for punk misanthropy!
• Number One! "Live at Rhino Records"??? Mysteriously linked with... Budgie?
  "You say my hair is much too long/And you are right and I am wrong... You want to cut my hair!" -- "Rape of the Locks," Budgie rewlz!