One bad pig

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One bad pig
General information
origin Austin , Texas , United States
Genre (s) Crossover , Hardcore Punk , Thrash Metal , Christian Metal
founding 1985
Website http://www.onebadpig.com/
Current occupation
Carey "Kosher" Womack
Electric guitar , vocals
 Lee Haley
Drums , vocals
 Phillip Owens
Electric bass , vocals
 Daniel Tucek
Electric guitar, now also vocals
 Paul Q-Pek
former members
Electric bass
 Kevin Phelan
Electric bass
 Brian "Streak" Wheeler
Drums
 Jon Taylor
Drums
 Phil Helms

One Bad Pig is an American crossover band from Austin , Texas that formed in 1985.

history

The band's history began in 1985 when vocalist Carey Womack and guitarist Paul Q-Pek drove with friends from Austin to the Cornerstone Festival in Illinois . Womack was studying to be a Baptist pastor, and he was later, and Q-Pek had already sung in a gospel choir. In St. Louis they stopped at a Pizza Hut that advertised the local radio station KSHE 95 . There they saw the station's mascot: a pig who wore sunglasses and an undershirt , had a mohawk and an earring and also wore an electric guitar. When Womack commented “Man, that's one bad pig!” And Q-Pek replied that this could also be a name for a punk band , they joked about playing in such a band for the rest of the trip.

Two months later, Q-Pek performed at the Labor Day Music Festival in Austin with his band, The Paul Q-Pek Band. The band called themselves One Band Pig at the festival and played both their own and cover songs. Due to the success of this appearance, further appearances as a separate band One Bad Pig in local club followed. The band also had a small fan base, as the members had spent months with club-goers, talked to them about God and won them over. Due to their religious views and the spread of these, however, the band had to experience insults and violence.

Their first EP was released under the name A Christian Banned in 1986. In addition, the group appeared in 1986 at the Cornerstone Festival. Due to the success at this festival, the band was able to hold gigs in the USA for the next year and a half. While performing in Austin, Billy Smiley of the band White Heart became aware of One Bad Pig and worked as a producer for the formation. Since he was not interested in The Paul Q-Pek Band, this meant the end of this band. In 1989 the album Smash was released , which was joined by Swine Flew in 1990 . The latter album featured guest posts by Dann Huff , Phil Keaggy , Tommy Sims , Dale Oliver and Bob Hartman . The band consisted of the drummer Phillip Owens, the guitarist Paul Q-Pek, the singer Carey "Kosher" Womack and the bassist Streak Wheeler. The members of the musical instruments also took on singing passages. The band also covered the songs Christmas Time by Larry Norman and Judas Kiss by Petra . On the album I Scream Sunday , which was released in 1991, a cover version of the Johnny Cash song Man in Black was included, with Cash again as a guest musician. In 1992 the live album Live! Blow the House Down , which included a cover version of the clash song Rock the Kasbah . The compilation The Quintessential One Bad Pig, Vol. 1 , which was released in 1994, contained four new songs. After that, it became quiet around the band and has been performing occasionally ever since. In addition to a few concerts a year, the members mainly took care of their private lives. This was also the case in 2000 when the band played at the Cornerstone Festival, the performance being recorded and released as a live album. The band now consists of singer Carey "Kosher" Womack, guitarist Lee Haley, drummer Phillip Owens and bassist Daniel Tucek. In addition, Paul Q-Pek did not take part in the concerts as often as possible as a guitarist. The members of the instruments still occasionally take over vocal passages.

style

According to the band biography on onebadpig.com , Carey Womack had interspersed text passages between the songs at the first concert at the Labor Day Music Festival, which would have resembled sermons. According to Allmusic's Brian Mansfield , the band members didn't understand punk culture properly, so the group could be seen either as a parody of a punk band or as an ordinary thrash metal band. According to Garry Sharpe-Young in his book AZ of Thrash Metal , the band was one of the few Christian thrash metal bands. According to Martin Popoff in his book The Collector's Guide of Heavy Metal Volume 3: The Nineties , I Scream Sunday funk and thrash metal riffs can be heard. The band sounds like a hardcore punk version of Terrorvision . The songs would cover subjects like disapproval of alcohol and other drugs . Mark Allan Powell wrote in the Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Music that One Bad Pig is perhaps the best-known Christian hardcore punk band. The band play a mix of punk and heavy metal . The core of the songs is comparable to AC / DC . You can also hear influences from Henry Rollins and Perry Farrell . The Johnny Cash cover of Man in Black is now more like AC / DC's Back in Black . The song Cut Your Hair is a warning against metal bands with guttural singing , while Up Your Nose speaks out against drugs. Chief of Sinners is referring to a passage in the first chapter of Paul's first letter to Timothy . The song contains an Indian beat , but it is inappropriate. Take a Look at Yourself as influences from Adam Again on.

Detlef Wullbrandt from Metal Hammer described the music on Swine Flew as Skate Thrash with Christian text content. In addition, the music is characterized by changes in tempo . He assigned the song Red River to Power Metal . Martin Groß from the same magazine assigned the band to hardcore punk, crossover and funk in his review of I Scream Sunday and made comparisons with groups like Heads Up , Token Entry and Scatterbrain . One Bad Pig also has the metallic power of suicidal tendencies .

Discography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d e Mark Allan Powell: Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Music . Hendrickson Publishers, Inc, Peabody, Massachusetts 2002, ISBN 1-56563-679-1 , pp. 651 f .
  2. ↑ a b Pigstry. onebadpig.com, accessed October 21, 2014 .
  3. ^ A b Garry Sharpe-Young : AZ of Thrash Metal . Cherry Red Books, London 2002, ISBN 1-901447-09-X , pp. 298 .
  4. ↑ a b Detlef Wullbrandt: One Bad Pig . Swine Flew. In: Metal Hammer . December 1990, p. 62 .
  5. ↑ a b Martin Popoff : The Collector's Guide of Heavy Metal Volume 3: The Nineties . Collectors Guide Ltd, Burlington, Ontario, Canada 2007, ISBN 978-1-894959-62-9 , pp. 326 .
  6. ^ Christian Metal. uffen.org, accessed October 22, 2014 .
  7. ↑ a b George incense: ONE BAD PIG: Interview with Daniel Tucek. powermetal.de, accessed on October 22, 2014 .
  8. ^ Brian Mansfield: One Bad Pig. Allmusic , accessed October 21, 2014 .
  9. ↑ Martin Groß: One Bad Pig . I Scream Sunday. In: Metal Hammer . December 1991, p. 63 .