Since 1997, The Generators have been among the spearhead of the Los Angeles punk scene and have been named the most underrated punk band of our day by no less a newspaper than USA Today.
Although The Generators didn't see the light of day until the late '90s, the success story of this band and its members started back in the '80s when the LA hardcore punk movement was becoming a true musical revolution.
When the Los Angeles punk scene started to get noticed by the rest of the world, 16 year old singer Doug "Dagger" Kane was one of the youngest faces on that scene, making clubs like The Vex, The Cathay De Grande and Godzilla's unsafe with his first band Doug & The Slugz. In 1983, Doug & The Slugz were considered one of the first US OI!Street Punk bands and made the stages, along with bands like The Abandoned, Ill Repute, Mad Parade and Fower Leopards, unsafe.
In 1989, Dagger fronted Southern California punks Schleprock and supported bands like Green Day, Rancid, The Specials, Sublime and many more with them over the next few years. After countless releases and non-stop touring, Warner Bros. snatched up the guys and took them into major label mangle. So in 1996 they released their major debut "Americas Dirty Little Secret". However, due to excessive drug use and internal squabbles, the band broke up in 1997.
Next to Dagger as a founding member of The Generators, there was his sandbox buddy Mike Snow, who emerged on the mod scene in LA in the 80s and played a few shows with Doug & The Slugz, among others, with his first ban Subways. After that, Mike was part of California street punkers The Choice, among others, and then formed, along with Dagger, The Generators. Dagger was replaced on vocals in 2009 by former Schleprock and Decry guitarist Sean Romin, and with bassist Brandon Lutz and drummer Lou Guzman, The Generators continue their mission of "Rock N Roll" to this day.
In September 2011, the Californians released their 8th album "Last Of The Pariahs", produced by Rich Mouser (Weezer, Chris Cornell). The new album once again underlines the typical characteristics of The Generators, their own interpretation of Californian punk rock with a lot of melody and subtle influences of 77s punk. The melodic, heartfelt "Angels Looking Down" not only kicks off the new album, but tells Dagger the story of how he was separated from his son for 21 years and found him again last year. Other songs like "3am" and "Condition Red" highlight the influences of bands like The Clash and The Ruts. "Last Of The Pariahs" will, of course, be accompanied by an extensive European and US tour this fall.
The album was last followed by "Earn your Stripes" in 2016.
The "California Boys" always manage to reinvent themselves without upsetting their fans, on the contrary with The Generators you always feel at home.
20 years after their foundation, the guys are more agile than ever and are coming to Europe again in 2018!
Support: The Voodoo Godz
The Voodoo Godz - Old Fashion with Passion. Punk rock from the very beginning and forever anyway... The Buzzcocks, Iggy & the Stooges, Ramones, Sex Pistols, Dead Boys and the other usual suspects from the seventies were loitering chain-smoking outside the delivery room when this band was born... This birth trauma is worked through therapeutically at every The Voodoo Godz- concert... The band's (English-language) songs are about self-experience, stories from the media and some nasty horror movies. Melody + hardness + level = The Voodoo Godz!
Source of lyrics and more information about this event: https://bett-club.de/event/the-generators-support-the-voodoo-godz/
