DOA (band)

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DOA
DOA (2015)
DOA (2015)
General information
origin Vancouver (Canada)
Genre (s) Hardcore , punk
founding 1978, 2014
resolution 2013
Founding members
Vocals, guitar
 Joe "Shithead" Keithley
bass
 Randall "Randy Rampage" Archibald († 2018)
Drums
 Charles "Chuck Biscuits" Montgomery
Current occupation
Vocals, guitar
 Joe Keithley
bass
 Mike "Maggot" Hodsall (since 2014)
Drums
 Paddy Duddy (since 2014)
former members
guitar
 Dave Gregg (1979–1988, † 2014)

DOA is a hardcore punk band founded in Vancouver , Canada in 1978 . The band name is an abbreviation borrowed from the English-speaking rescue service - the acronym for the patient report Dead on Arrival means “ dead on arrival at the end of the day”.

Band history

DOA is the longest-serving and most successful Canadian band in this genre. The only original member since it was founded in 1978 is only singer, guitarist and songwriter Joey "Shithead" Keithley. Drummer Ken Jensen, who was hired in 1992 after several months of band inactivity (we already talked about breaking up) and who was largely responsible for the development of hardcore punk, died in a house fire in January 1995. DOA was best known in Europe with the album Last Scream of the Missing Neighbors , a collaboration with Jello Biafra , the former singer of the Dead Kennedys . The left-wing political orientation of the band is clearly expressed in their lyrics. Frequent topics are anti-racism , criticism of globalization , freedom of expression and social injustice . On the occasion of the band's 25th birthday in 2003, the Mayor of Vancouver, Larry Campbell, declared December 21st to be "DOA Day".

In 2013, DOA announced that they would give a few more gigs until the end of February and then disband; then Joey Shithead wanted to devote himself to a political career with the New Democratic Party in British Columbia .

style

It is beyond dispute that there was a punk phase at the beginning. The Touch and Go - Fanzine ruled for example via the debut single The Prisoner of 1978, she was a "stunning reinterpretation of all that what is at 1977 went (the year of punk explosion)". When the style became rock or hardcore is judged differently. For the sake of simplicity, Frank Jinx divided the EB / Metronome into calendar decades: The 1970s were the punk phase, the 1980s the hardcore phase and the 1990s the rock phase. Henning Richter ( Metal Hammer ) had a concert in Berlin in 1996 and found it was punk with a “good shot of catchy hard rock”. In the Sub Line , Hartwig Schröder characterized the years around the 1990 Murder album as "tired", after which the hardcore era began. For Dirk Schneidinger from the music magazine Spex , who also wrote of a "dull and listless" phase that had set in in the mid-1980s, this was just over with Murder .

timeline

Discography

Studio albums

  • 1980: Something Better Change (Friends Records)
  • 1981: Hardcore '81
  • 1983: Bloodied But Unbowed ( compilation album , CD Presents)
  • 1985: Let's Wreck The Party
  • 1987: True (North) Strong And Free
  • 1990: Murder
  • 1992: 13 Flavors of Doom
  • 1993: Loggerheads
  • 1995: The Black Spot
  • 1998: Festival Of Atheists
  • 2002: Win the Battle
  • 2004: Live Free Or Die
  • 2008: Northern Avenger
  • 2009: Kings of Punk, Hockey and Beer
  • 2010: Talk-Action = 0
  • 2012: We Come In Peace
  • 2015: Hard Rain Falling
  • 2018: Fight Back (Sudden Death Records)

Live albums

  • Talk Minus Action Equals Zero (1991)
  • Welcome to Chinatown (2013)

EPs

  • War on 45 (1982)
  • DOA & Thor - Are U Ready (2003)

Collaborations

  • Last Scream of the Missing Neighbors (With Jello Biafra ) (1989)

Web links

Commons : DOA  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Dirk Schneidinger: DOA Fuck paper processing mission etc! In: Spex . August 1990, p. 12 .
  2. ↑ a b Frank Jinx: DOA Talk Minus Action is Zero (Live '89) […] In: EB / Metronom . 35 (December / January), 1991, Just for the Record, pp. 51 (collective review).
  3. ↑ a b Ken Jensen. † Jan. 29, 1995 (aged 29). In: deadpunkstars.com. Retrieved July 6, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Ken Jensen . In: Music Week . The news magazine for the music industry. No. 8/1995 , February 20, 1995, Ticker, p. 6 .
  5. ↑ tape resolutions . In: Rock Hard , No. 310, March 2013, p. 7.
  6. ^ Tesco Vee & Dave Stimson: Touch and Go. The Complete Hardcore Punk Zine '79 -'93 . 3. Edition. Bazillion Points, New York 2013, ISBN 978-0-9796163-8-9 , pp. 10 .
  7. ↑ Henning Richter: DOA, Nomeansno, Itch. Berlin, SO 36 . In: Metal Hammer . November 1996, Live, p. 140 .
  8. ↑ Hartwig Schröder: DOA Thirteen Flavors of Doom . In: Sub Line . Indie-Progressive Rock & Pop Magazine. November 1992, Sub Line CDs + LPs, p. 60 .