It was ten years ago today that Reagan Youth’s original bass player Andy Zapathy passed on to a better world. We wish to always remember him; our bandmate, our friend, the coolest human being we had the pleasure to know….rest easy.

madamestbeatrice:

DUST ANGEL’s Paul Cripple on guitar and yours truly, Madame St. Beatrice on vocals will be playing an acoustic set Monday, June 4th at The Local 269, located at 269 East Houston St. New York, NY and the song “Midnight at the Oasis” by Maria Muldaur will be a song we’ll be covering; a tune that is so right on for the occasion.

Kenny Ahrens from Urban Waste reppin’ like a true original.

“I believe the best social program is a job?” - Ronald reagan
Where are all the jobs now ?

Ronald Reagan is the man most responsible for that!
Ronald Reagan got rid of all the regulations that kept Wall Street from screwing the tax payer, yes, the 99% of us while the 1% got rich without paying taxes.

Hundreds of billions of dollars were needed to bail out savings and loan institutions that either had failed during the deregulation frenzy of the eighties or were in danger of bankruptcy. Nice job, shit head!

This country was founded by rich, white men who didn’t want to pay taxes, and make no mistake this country is still about rich white men who still don’t want to pay any taxes.

But that will change because people are becoming more aware. And gosh darn it Dave Insurgent, now this band’s spiritual guiding force, let the world know that way back in 1980 before Reagan was elected, when Reagan turned the republican party into a facist machine, away from President Nixon’s whose republican party was so much better, so much more liberal then Obama’s democratic party has ever been.

But Mr. Reagan, you are, by far, the worst president this country has ever had. Ever! Even a no name president like William Taft was better and he didn’t do squat. But at least he didn’t do all of this;

http://liberalslikechrist.org/about/Reagan.html

Growing up in Queens, Dave Insurgent and I went to our share of Met games. Lighting up big spliffs as the pot smoke fizzled into the air watching them fron Staub to Strawberry. Just wanted to say “Way to go Mets!” as they got their first no hitter, and with all that great pitching in their history. Now I’m gonna go listen to some Santana; Black Magic Woman/Gypsy Queen, Soul Sacrifice, Evil Ways, Oye Como Va and whatever else as I reminisce about going to Shea Stadium all those years back, in the 80’s, with that incredibly smart and cool as fuck Jewish guy, with the longest dreads, smoking up mad bud with him as we watched our home team, with red eyes and stoned minds…………………sigh

King Rattlier’s photostream on Flickr.

Always liked the idea of The Germs having a girl bass player; Lorna Doom. Now I have my own female bass player and she is way cooler than the last two guys that Dave Insurgent and I had to play with. Now on this Memorial Day I do miss very much my first bass player; Andy Zapthy. And even though Dave Insurgent made me fire Andy he still remained a true friends to me like no other band mate I ever had.