Ed Hunter's History of Pounded ClownPounded Clown lasted from September 1, 1989 until sometime around June, 1995. Original Pounded Clown Lineup:Following this lineup, the other former member listings are not guaranteed to be in any sort of chronological order. Ed Hunter
- guitar Out went Doug due to a crank habit that made it impossible to play music with him, talk to him, drink with him or hang around with him in any way at all. "Don't show me (the song) THAT WAY." --- Doug Martin, on why showing him the chords and riff to Night of the Elephant was the wrong method of instruction. Doug Martin, after amusing the entire community with wild antics, such as hanging by his knees from the stoplight in front of Old I and dropping bricks on his own head, asphyxiated on a plate of chicken after doing an overdose on heroin, which he'd started taking to balance all that speed. Out went Norm because, as an acid-casualty/conspiracy victim, he was plumb crazy and impossible to work with. Insisted on playing either King Tut or There's A Place In France on every song. Out went Rebecca. Actually, she kinda went away. I guess the shrooms combined with PC's 'music' harshed her buzz, man. Other lineup same-Doug In and then out came Brent. Played some at practice. Given the boot when it was learned that he planned on playing "one choice gig" and quitting afterwards. Other lineup-Brent Mike Kellogg, of the Horny Mormons joined on bass, since Rick's playing was too fucking goofy to follow and because Rick has a lot of horns. Rick begins to play at least two types of horns and begins his career as Great Composer. Other lineup+Tom - coronet Tom Knockoff/Capt 9s played one or two practices on coronet with us. Mainly, we just covered a few Capt 9s tunes. Other lineup-Chris Chris left to DJ and play with Dutch Falconi. Other lineup-Vince Out went Vince after many moons of playing with just Rick. Why? Well, Cake was going national and, shit, he had to be the only horn besides Rick. Jim was some low-rent asswipe who, SURPRISE!, Rick recruited. He made it to one gig, but didn't get to play it. We booted him after he punched some girl in the face for, I dunno, breathing. Other lineup -Jim - trumpet This sorta gets confusing. So, we killed, I mean kicked out Jim. Megan, who was "seeing" Soriano at the time started playing with us. She stuck around until she moved to Europe. Allan and roommate John joined on saxes, Felicia (Rick recruit- natch) and Billy (R-recruit-ditto) didn't stay for more than one practice. Felicia was never called back because she added a canned-heat element that we found vomit- making. Billy left because he was a paranoid parolee who had done a long bit for trying to kill himself by driving a car into a wall at top speed. Problem: He had a passenger who got dead. While in prison, Billy tried suicide again by attempting to sever his own hand. Ian never came back. We were gonna stop calling him or kick him out since he was a tweaker and epileptic who drank scarier than the rest of us. Ian was always having seizures. Drinking was bad for them. Once, he used some stuff that was supposed to go on your ass for his chapped lips. He claimed that he was related to Warren G. Harding, just like Ed. Listening to a playback, the band discovered that he barely played a note. Next lineup-Ian DeeAnn joined us for a few shows. Kenny, George, Mark and Jason played with us a little. Just a few practices and actually, George and Kenny (it was learned after a playback in the studio) didn't really play much at all. Those guys were in Filibuster, who got to tour and go to Europe and then they broke up. Next lineup+Woodhouse - guitar Woodhouse played a few sets with us towards the end of the road. He was much better than Ed. Bobby Burns only played one practice, but since he's bobby burns, I will add him. A few more notes:We also had three other people who were in the band: Star, the wig-wearing hippy, whose house we practiced at. There was also John Walstrom, who played coronet and this guy, Pat, who played trumpet. Ska: Even though Pounded Clown had horns, we were not part of the "ska revival" that brought No Doubt to the attention of A&R people all over. There were a lot of "ska" bands in Sacramento that claimed that PC had inspired them to start bands with horns and even more of the same who sucked ass to get booked with the band when shows were plentiful and packed, but mostly, we weren't accepted by that scene. Rightfully so, since we always wanted to be big band punk. A few upstrokes on a guitar don't make it ska, even though there were a lot of ska bands that thought so. Show highlights:With the Horny Mormons, PC played a lot of shows. The best one was this party in Davis, where these two guys had made about a million gallons of mead and served duck. It was a viking party and, although they'd made plenty of mead, there was nothing to eat. They were getting stoned in the backyard of the place when two park ducks walked through. Crack went the necks. One went on the grill, the other became stew. Strangely enough, not as many folks showed who could have. The people of Davis were terrified of Sacramento bands. Thought we were all gangsters. There were many shows with Schlong. I guess, since we were both on Very Small records, the idea was that we could sell more copies that way. One show was at a soul bar called Your Place Too. That was at a time when we played with the Sea Pigs a whole lot too. This place was pretty neat. They wouldn't serve beer in bottles because people there were known to throw them at the band on occasion. Renegade Shows:Rick came up with the idea of renegade shows. You'd go around parking car garages and use a tester on the outlets to see if they had juice. If they did and the location was good, we'd troup over after practice and plug in. The first sign of trouble was when Rick was in charge of the PA. He'd only have two main speakers and a head that worked, but always insisted on trying to use monitors that had never worked before (gotten at a yard sale, untested. What a deal!) and had no sense of how to set up sound equipment. Thus, it would take hours of hanging around a cold parking lot, drinking Sedona and looking for cops before anyone could play. Soon after, Soriano co-opted the idea and got a bunch of "political" type bands playing there. There were other shows done by other folks. Skins would show up with rifles and so on. This whole thing stopped after one show turned bad. It was the day of the Rodney King verdict and subsequent riots. The cops came to 7th and N streets, prepared for a riot. Some great mind tossed a full 40 ounce bottle at them. Up came the riot guns. After this, the Law started making a practice of confiscating equipment. No more shows like that. [Note from Dave: Those renegade shows were pretty neat. I remember one where a naked guy showed up. I think he was just some sort of random crazy guy who was walking by. When his naked dancing antics got annoying Steve Mar, Fred Hughes and myself shot bottle rockets at him until he left.] Background stuff:Rick and Vince and Ed were in Slaughterhouse Five. That band once had for a drummer, a cokehead, wife-beater named Tim Stiletto who drummed for Fang. When he stole some stuff, he moved to the Bay Area where he tried to de-tox. It didn't take. Then, Vince and Ed and Hal and Rick and Brent Arnold tried a band called Death Bop. They played one show in a park. Doug Martin joined them onstage even though he'd never practiced. That didn't matter one little bit. Here's a list of people and the other bands that they were and are in:Ed was in: Barbara's Bush, Sweet Jane, Blind Cat Twist, Los Huevos, Snowmen and The Retards. Is in: The No Kill I and The Colonels Hal was in: Sewer Trout, Well-Hung Monks and the Lizards. Is in: Ding Dang Dave is in Lizards and The No Kill I. Star sent email. Here it is: Hi Dave, Sure enjoyed the webpage but sorry to hear about my former roommate Rick's tragic accident. I just graduated top of my class from Full Sail's recording engineering school and will be moving back to New Orleans after my internship here at the school ends in March. I have had a house there the past five years or so, did some recording and playing about town and decided to learn more about technology. Will try to get on at nothing studios and/or HOB when I return home, we'll see what happens. Tell Dave Downey I love him still, he is so cute as a woman and the Pounded Clown band were the most fun of any people I EVER played with. I sold my saxes and a lot of other gear to help pay for school, don't play sax anymore since my bottom teeth were wearing down from it. The highlight of my sax playing career was several years ago playing with a New Orleans brass band as the only white person (and the only woman) on a street parade from Donna's Bar on Rampart Street through Louis Armstrong Park where we were broadcast on WWOZ New Orleans radio, back through the French Quarter and down Bourbon St. Please keep me updated with news of Sacto's scene and hi to all my old friends there. *Starr Wilson 6548 B Centerwalk Drive Winter Park FL 32792 Rick was in: Filibuster, Dutch Falconi, Barbara's Bush, Deep Six and the Snowmen, plus a million other combos that just got stoned and jammed for hours on end. I don't think he plays horn anymore. Here is why: One day, Rick went to his backyard to check on his latest project. He was trying to make booze from the figs that grew in his backyard. On this day, he noticed that there were stress fractures on the jugs he was using to ferment the hooch. Ever the great intellect, he decided to release some of the pressure. To this end, he tried removing a cap from one of the jugs using his mouth. Next thing he knew, he was flat on his back, still in the yard, surrounded by glass, fermented liquid and figs. Embarrassed and cheap, he took a cab to the emergency room. When he'd explained what had happened, in his now-squeaky voice, they rushed him into X-ray. There was leaded glass in his throat. He was in the ICU for nine days. Before his experiment, there were only seven such cases in recorded medical history. Of the seven, four died pretty quick. Of the three who lived, two of them never regained the ability to speak. Rick can now speak just fine. the eNd To contact Ed, email him at hunter_ed@evilemail.com If you played in Pounded Clown and aren't ashamed to admit it, or if you want to fill in holes in the bio, email Dave Smith gorn@nokilli.com and let him know. Last updated February 2002. |
