The FIends

From: Vancouver, B.C., Canada

On April 1st 1993 The Fiends story really began in the small fishing village of Vancouver, situated on the South West Coast of British Columbia Canada. The Fiends first consisted with Greg Johnson (The Worst) on vocals, Brian Olinek (The Enigmas) on Bass, Dan Small on Guitar, James T Massacre (JP5) on Drums and Johnny 13 Fingers (Color Me Psycho) on organ. This short lasting line up produced there first EP "Zombie A-GO-GO" on Primitive Records weeks later and the line-up curse has haunted them ever since…

Later that summer after many beers and an organ transplant, the mighty Sam Salmon. The Fiends had their first full length LP "Zombies Have Feeling Too" written, recorded and mixed for Music Maniac Records in Germany. It was released as volume Twelve of the Teen Trash series in 1994 and is hard to find in North America.

The curse continued in 1995 with the replacement of Dan Small to the Mysterious Vanishing Grog Watson (The Minstrels) on Guitar and Organ. This line up created the LP "In Scario" on Dionysus Records and the EP "She's Not Broken" on Dr. Mushroom Records of Greece.

Here we go again, the year 1997. James is replaced with Jayson Solyom (The Spitfires) on Drums and Micheal Meyers takes over the job of pumping the organ. These troublemakers released their second LP on Dionysus Records "Gravedigger" and the EP "She Looks Outta Sight" and the EP "Gravedigger" (Out of Print) on Sonic Swirl Records. The band also made it back alive from a trip down the West Coast, playing Seattle, San Francisco, Hollywood and Los Angles. But this was when Grog went missing, no one really knows what happened to this guitar player. Some say it was aliens and some say he was recruited by some kind of underground terrorist organization, no one can really say? In late 2004 Sonic Swirl re-released the band's debut "Zombies Have Feeling Too" aka "Teen Trash" series, but under the title name "A GRAVE BEGINNING". It was never issued in the states, most U.S. & Canada fans did not even know about the band's first effort. The new version was all re-mastered with 6 bonus tracks with much more appealing album cover art.

Today the band has once again reformed. The Fiends are working on a new LP with help of Zippy Pinhead (Dils, DOA, etc), Peter Gripp (Loverboy), Chad Homes, Riewurt Burtenaga (Night Stalkers) and Greg Johnson. Hope to have something coming out in 2006/ 2007.

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