THRASH EATERS

“Apparently people don’t like the truth, but I do like it; I like it because it upsets a lot of people.“

“I was always the new kid in school, I’m the kid from a broken family, I’m the kid who had no dad showing up at the father-son stuff, I’m the kid that was using food stamps at the grocery store.”

“I guess because I had such a horrible life growing up, going from place to place not knowing what I was gonna do and ending up being homeless, there was a lot of pain and a lot of anger that was coming out through my guitar playing.”

“What I couldn’t say verbally I was able to express physically through the guitar.”

“When the band asked me to join, I said, “Look, I’m three years into UCLA. I’m not gonna quit school. I’ll take time off and try to work around you guys, but you guys are gonna have to work around me.” And I think that put a lot of pressure in the long run, and definitely created some problems.“

“Black Flag was not very famous at UCLA. I was a scumbag as far as they were concerned. There were a couple people that were a little punky maybe, but it wasn’t where you found a contingent, like now.”