Drunks With Guns - self titled 7" a.k.a. "Melissa"

1991, Glitterhouse Records
Track List:
01 - Zombie
02 - Fistpuppet
03 - WW IX
04 - Shredded Meat

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The original Drunks With Guns were a "legendary" punk band from St Louis, MO, active in the mid 80s. Internal conflict brought a split between the two "main members" - Stan Seitrich and Mike Doscosil. Each of them continued to record under the Drunks moniker, each claiming they owned the rights to the name, wrote the songs, etc. In a most bizarre movie, Stan's Drunks "hired" a "12 or 13 year old" girl named Melissa to do the singing on the last incarnation of the band. The first time I ever saw this in a record bin it had a sticker that the distributor added to it saying " 12 year old singer! Jailbait!" Stan's new DWG put out this 7", another repackackaged version with more songs, and a more appealing cover featuring the 12 (or 13) year old in all of her glory, with a somewhat questionable picture on the back of her dressed up like a lolita on the playground.

Stan now "plays" in the Strangulated Beatoffs, but that is another band for another day. There is no solid proof of whatever became of Melissa, though I have a vague remembrance of reading someone post on a St Louis music message board that shes gone on to become you're average white trash young mother. No proof to back that up, it's possible that I just dreamed that up...

Mike to this day still claims he IS Drunks With Guns, and someone is still paying the fees for web domain with 2 or 3 pictures of him on it, which looks like it was made in 1998 and hasn't been updated since. But really, who cares anymore? The original spark is long gone and I think Stan's choice in a new singer wins the battle between them hands down. Enjoy.

The cover I've chosen to include is from a different edition of the 7" that was a double and released on Behemoth records. As far as I know the recordings are the same. Lacking from this set is the second 7", which included three songs. A Ramones cover (long way back), a song called "Melissa explains it all" (an obvious reference to "Clarissa explains it all", this one was my favorite song out of the whole set), and one other I can't remember right now. Those songs might be added here later.
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From Trouser Press:
Seitrich formed the negligible, less rocking Strangulated Beatoffs with Fritz Noble. Doskocil played drums (quite well) for melodic HC middleweights Ultraman before getting kicked out and moving to Arizona. In exile, he released material with Bootbeast and Bullets for Pussy. DeLeon stayed home and founded Fruitcake. As a result of posthumous notoriety and general idiocy, Mike D. (along with one Malcolm Bliss) reformed DWG at some point. So did Seitrich and DeLeon around the same time, only they had the gall to hire some 12-year-old jailbait named Melissa as their singer. Resulting singles and EPs by both parties are simply flat. Doskocil's version resembled a dull punk band covering Drunks' tunes, while the guitarist and bassist version spat out raw riffery topped with Melissa's annoying (if disturbingly funny) sex-and-blood whimsy.