First started playing drums:  Age 9

First band:  Elementary School Orchestra (Snare Drum).

First rock band:  Sixth Grade.  We didn't have a name and only played one song.

First band to get thrown out of:  Junior High School Orchestra ("The music teacher was a babe though")

First band to learn something:  High School jazz band

Music training: U.C. Santa Cruz, music minor

Favorite drummers: Buddy Rich, John Bonham, Keith Moon, Max Roach, Mitch Mitchell, Charlie Watts.

First punk gig to see:  Sex Pistols, Fillmore West (San Francisco, CA)

First punk band:  The Mystery Spot, Santa Cruz

                               M o v e    t o    L o s    A  n g e l e s

First L.A. band:  Red Cross, with Greg Hetson

Second band to get thrown out of:  Red Cross.   Greg quits a week later.  Simultaneously, Keith Morris quits BLACK FLAG.  Keith knows Roger from THE TERMINALS.  All 4 rent a rehearsal place in the Valley write BACK AGAINST THE WALL.    Form the Bedwetters.

Next:  Lucky hates the name "The Bedwetters" and says he'll take any other name but that.

Then, Keith Morris blindly stabs his finger in a Dictionary of Slang Words and comes up with the name CIRCLE JERKS.  Lucky says "fine."

Next Day: CIRCLE JERKS' first gig opening for THE GERMS at King's Palace, Hollywood, CA.   More gigs to follow.

Favorite Gigs:  Venus' birthday party at the Stingers in Long Beach, CA; Diana's birthday party in her parents garage (Seal Beach, CA); USC Frat Party (with Bad Religion); w/ 999 at Hollywood Palladium;  w/ Fear on New Year's; w/ L.A.'s Wasted Youth at the Whiskey a Go Go, w/ the Dead Kennedy's at the Mabuhay Gardens in San Francisco

Discography:

Decline of Western Civilisation OST

Rodney on the Roq

Group Sex

Wild in the Steets

Let them Eat Jelly Beans

Short Music for Short People

American Hardcore OST

Bands:

Mystery Spot

The Limit

Red Cross

Circle Jerks

Bad Religion

L.A.'s Wasted Youth

Darby Crash Band

Movies:

Decline of Western Civilisation

The Slog Movie

American Hardcore

*Some Trivia*

Lucky's 5 Favorite Records   

Houses of the Holly (Led Zeppelin)

Never Mind the Bollocks (Sex Pistols)

Abraxas (Santana)

The Record (Fear)

Are You Experienced?  (Jimi Hendrix Experience)

Lucky's Favorite Drum Licks

DRUMMER                                  SONG                                            ARTIST

Woody Woodmansy          SUFFROGETTE CITY                  David Bowie

(Studio Version)                        (First drum break)

Buddy Rich                           MERCY, MERCY                         Big Swing Face

Spit Stix                                 WE DESTROY THE FAMILY     Fear

Assorted                               BLACK MAGIC WOMAN         Santana

Drummers

Bill Bruford                            HEART OF THE SUNRISE         Yes

Don Bonebreak                     WE'RE DESPERATE                    X

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