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DISCOGRAPHY FOR KIM: 666 DEVIL ROCK 1) The Devil is Pleased Chris Auman: bass, vocals This completely ridiculous piece of music was recorded at the first meeting of Team Satan. It was played sloppily and the recording is absolutely horrific, however, the songs aren't very good either. The cassette cover, of course, is brilliant and was drawn in ballpoint by Mike Wing. "DEVIL MADE US DO IT" b/w "1996" Chris Auman: guitar, vocals The Team's vinyl debut on OFF-White Records. The jacket is all black because the original line-drawing was maybe a little too detailed for the silk-screening process and consequently, it looked like shit. Each cover was painted over with India ink although some of the originals still remain in various basements and storage rooms. Years after the release of this seven inch, Mike Dixon created the alternate cover (seen below) which inaccurately lists the record label as RoosterCow, further fanning the flames in the RoosterCow/OFF-White Record Wars. REVIEWS: PUNK PLANET TAIL SPINS ILLINOIS ENTERTAINER ZEEN THROW RUG The controversial Mike Dixon cover JR. WING EP Side One: Chris Auman: guitar, vocals Junior Wing is a monkey, of course. A very bad monkey to be exact. The Junior Wing monkey is the mysterious creature who, after everyone has gone to sleep or passed out, opens a fresh beer, drinks half of its contents, then leaves the remainder on the table to be emptied by some chump the next morning. The cover for this cassette release was a xeroxed copy which was then filled in with a Sharpie. There might have been some Wite-Out involved too. Each cassette was dubbed separately on the old home stereo. Very lo-fi. Very lo-budget. Very Team Satan. REVIEWS: ILLINOIS ENTERTAINER REGLAR WIGLAR TAILSPINS TEAM SATAN 1996-1998 01) Yeah, We're Team Satan* *Chris Auman: guitar, vocals **Chris Auman: guitar, vocals Just a big old mess of everything. The first eleven songs were recorded to 8-track in the basement of the OFF-White house. It's basically the Junior Wing EP plus "S.A.T.A.N." and then four real old songs that predate the cassette. The second part was recorded at Lab East: Kris Poulin's first recording job in Chicago. It's a shame this batch of songs never got an official release. Maybe someday... are you listening Dick Cockman? The last track is a live version of the song "John Peters", an ode to the unflappable Sneaky Petes who would later join the band, which is when we would have to stop playing it, as the song really irritated him for some reason. REVIEWS: ILLINOIS ENTERTAINER ROCTOBER FAREWELL REUNION 1) Devil Rockers/Boot Knockers Chris Auman: guitar, vocals No one in Team Satan knew this recording existed for years, but it did and it does. Recorded on some sort of hand-held device by a member of the band Fakir, this was the last live show of the re-assembled Team and features a song (track 4) that no one seems to remember writing or playing. It's been dubbed "The Devil Rock Stomp" for lack of a better title. The cover, provided by the Fabulous Fakir Boyz (as I like to call them) is not, in fact, Team Satan, but Booker Noe. Booker Noe did feature two TS members (the powerful Wing-Kolb combo). 0
TO 60 IN 73 BANDS "(You're So) Apocalyptic" Chris Auman: guitar, vocals Don't remember how this came about. Anyway, the Team posthumously contributed this song to a comp. which featured songs under one minute. Several seconds had to be clipped off the intro to "(You're So) Apocalyptic" to make it qualify, but it's an improvement overall. PHOTOS
Wing entered this photo in a contest for your team to be featured on a Cheerio's box. We also wanted to get a Subway sandwich named after us. Both of these smart business moves failed but we did manage to get the Beat Kitchen to sell a drink called 'The Team Satan' for one night. It was a shot of whisky with a maraschino cherry in it. |
HEY DEVIL ROCKERS!A LITTLE MORE DOWN On Memorial Day 1998, Team Satan, recorded their one and only full-length record at the Lab East Recording Scenario in Humbolt Park, Chicago with audio engineer Kris Poulin. Unfortunately, the Team disintegrated rapidly after its recording and the album was never officially released (although all thirteen tracks appear on the Team Satan 1996-1998 CD-R). Fear not Devil Rockers & Bootknockers, for in the year of our Lord 2013, the full version of this historic recording became available as a download from the Team Satan Bandcamp site. The album contains the hit tracks: 1) Lucifer I Featuring: Chris Auman: guitar, vocals THE TEAM SATAN STORYby Chris Auman, Devil Rocker WARNING: Contains Myspace links! The original meeting was little more than a drunken exercise in futility with me bashing out bass-lines and Wing trying to follow these non-linear transgressions with drum beats. I had never played the bass before and Wing was a guitarist, not a drummer, but that was really the point. At least in the beginning. Anyway, it wouldn't be long before I switched to guitar: an instrument I was hardly proficient at. In February of '96, recent Virginia transplant T-Bux (aka Todd Uzel) begged and pleaded his way into the Devil Rock unit. Wing and I worked with T. Bux slinging veggie hash at this place called the Chicago Diner in Boy's Town. T. Bux, a drummer by trade, insisted on being added as second guitarist. His persistence wore us down one night at the Empty Bottle (I believe it was OFF-White Record honcho, Perry Finch's birthday) and Bux was allowed into the group. We played two shows with this two guitar-and-drums line-up. Lori Kolb was the next to sign on, also joining the team in '96. Lori was employed as a server at the Diner. We had let it be known that the next person to show up at one of the band's rehearsals, with a bass guitar in hand would be the new Team Satan bass player. The challenge was accepted by Lori Kolb. Kolb, like Uzel, was recently arrived from Virginia and was the perfect addition, adding the low-end to what could be a very trebly sound. Team Satan practiced every Tuesday at noon, usually after partaking of Wing's piping hot "Monkey Bread" and a pot or two of coffee, and (at least in the early years) a little pot as well. It is in the basement of the OFF-White House that the band would practice, record and play live shows. The group's only seven inch, "Devil Made Us Do It" b/w "1996" was recorded here. With no production values and muddy sound quality, this first release was hardly a milestone in recorded music, but over the next year we wrote more songs and played more shows, usually at the divey Mexican restaurant slash bar, Big Horse. One problem faced by Team Satan was that, although we were always ready to mobilize for a gig, we lacked the proper transportation, which was any transportation whatsoever. OFF-White Records owner Perry Finch was recruited to drive us to early gigs in his van, but was not amused by the Team's drunken post-show antics. Mark Morton (who would later achieve much success in the metal band Lamb of God) was also imposed upon to provide the use of his van. Eventually, we had to rent vans for shows ensuring that we would lose money every time we played out. The songs for the Team Satan cassette Junior Wing EP were recorded around this time. The sound quality remains abysmal and the graphics rudimentary at best—I think they call it DIY. Sometime in 1997, Lori Kolb left the band and moved back to Richmond, Virginia. Fellow Virginian, John Peters (formerly of the RVA's great Hose Got Cable) stepped in on bass. (Petes had also worked at the Diner for a spell, but was working as an auto mechanic when he joined.) No sooner had Kolb decided to move back to Chicago, than Uzel decided to move back to Richmond. He had become frustrated with Team Satan's lack of touring ambition—no vehicle and no money was a huge impediment. Kolb returned to the Team on bass with Sneaky Johnny Peters moving to guitar. With John Peters in the group and Lori back in, we instantly got tighter and more focused and continued to practice and play out, moving on from the Big Horse to venues like the Empty Bottle, Beat Kitchen and Lounge Ax. On Memorial Day 1998, Team Satan recorded their first full-length at the Lab East Recording Scenario in Humbolt Park, Chicago. This would be engineer, Kris Poulin's first recording project in his new basement studio. Unfortunately the album, tentatively titled A Little More Down was never officially released, although all thirteen tracks appear on the Team Satan 1996-1998 CD-R. With a full-length CD in the can, an appearance on local cable access show Chic-A-Go-Go and an Empty Bottle show booked, John Peters sold his amp and left town in the middle of the night, two days before he was supposed to move into the three bedroom apartment I occupied in Uptown. We did Chic-A-Go-Go as a three piece (it's lip-synching anyway) and played the Bottle show with T. Bux who was trying to keep the band going. The rest of us were all kind of over it. We played one last show with Bux at Lounge Ax and threw in the towel. A Little More Down never came out... until (see above). WHERE ARE THEY NOW? After the Team Satan fire burned out, Wing and Kolb got married and formed the surf/western trio Booker Noe with drummer Jake Huppert. A move to Fort Collins, CO soon followed where the band continued with a new drummer until morphing into the Southern-fried, good-time, rock & roll band, Leghorn. The Wing-Kolbs have two sons, Joe and Jake. After the Leghorn stint, Mike Wing continued the rock tradition in Harvey Knuckles, which later became Dinero. Lori currently skates as LuLu Ferrigno in a new roller derby league in Ft. C. In 1999, Todd Uzel and myself tried to start a new band called Hitlicker with JenCharles (bass) and Steve Kiraly (drums) but the project never propelled itself out of the basement of the OFF-White House (now called the Winthrop House or Club Winthrop since OFF-White Records had vacated). In 2000, T. Bux formed The Winthrops with Mike Dixon, Theo Hild and Corey Stateler. After that short-lived project, he formed the hard rock band, Decibators. Decibators toured and gigged around Chicago for five years recording several self-released EPs and a split single with Reagan National Crash Diet. After the break-up of the Decibators, Uzel joined Imperial Battlesnake for a short time, before moving to London in 2007. Also in 2000, JenCharles, Steve Kiraly and myself, along with Carol Bales, formed Reagan National Crash Diet. Over the next four years RNCD would release two CDs and some 7" singles on RoosterCow Records. We played throughout the Chicago area and the Midwest. After the eventual demise of RNCD, I formed Soft Targets in 2004. Soft Targets released four full-length LPs, and a whole bunch of EPs and singles which you should buy multiple copies of. I also recorded some stuff with Mr. Poulin in 2014 and 2015 as Empire Smalls, which you should also check out. John Peters resurfaced in Richmond as the bass player for Alabama Thunder Pussy, but is no longer involved with them as far as I know. TEAM SATAN LIVE 1996 ?/96 PHYLLIS MUSICAL INN What a mess. I remember
the stage vibrating so much my vodka and soda tipped over during a song.
I managed to get enough of those in me by the end of the night to make up for
it. T-Bux was spitting beer on me onstage. Very disrespectful but not surprising.
I think the immortal Mike Dixon was there. First time I ever laid eyes on him.
I thought he was the guy who used to work at Wax Trax but I was wrong. People
said we were great. We probably sucked. The Robbies needed to borrow Wing's
PA, so putting Team Satan on the bill was brokered into the deal by Wing. Yeah,
you can blame it all on The Robbies but they aren't together anymore. I know
where to find most of them though. 7/13 GALLERY CABARET Wing wanted to serve food at this thing so we set up a table and laid out some lame spread. I know there were deviled eggs involved, which is never a good idea. Tripp from Jarvis Brown was drumming like such an absolute madman that he fell backwards off his drum stool during one song and before he could start another one, he grabbed an empty bowl from the buffet table and was seriously contemplating vomiting into it. He didn't. I thought they were fucking great. I think this is the first show where Wing lit up a joint and passed it around to us before we started our set. That could have got us killed I think. The bar owner looked like he was capable of it. This was probably our first show with Lori Kolb on bass. Finally a four piece. We needed that extra piece of the puzzle, believe me. The deal was that the next person to walk through the door of our OFF-White practice space with a bass guitar would be our new bass player. That'd be Miss Kolb, bless her heart. 7/27 KIMBAL HOUSE 8/18 BIG
HORSE 9/16 GALLERY CABARET 1997 1/16 OFF-WHITE HOUSE 4/?/97 OFF-WHITE HOUSE 7/3 LOUNGE
AX 10/31 OFF-WHITE HOUSE 11/9 BEAT KITCHEN 12/12 BEAT KITCHEN ? POPS ON CHICAGO 11/20 BEAT KITCHEN 11/12 PHYLLIS MUSICAL INN 1998 2/13 BIG HORSE 3/3 FIRESIDE BOWL 4/17 BIG HORSE 8/18 BIG HORSE 9/5 BIG HORSE 10/12 EMPTY BOTTLE 1999 6/24 LOUNGE AX |
FLYERSThunder & Lightning Posters by Mike Dixon LYRICS YEAH, WE'RE TEAM SATAN Yeah, we're Team Satan Yeah, we're Team Satan Yeah, we're Team Satan Yeah, we're Team Satan WE'RE NOT THOSE KIDS We're not those kids And we can be cold We're not those kids We can get our way C'MON BABY (LET'S SIN) C'mon on baby let's sin DEATH & DESTRUCTION Death & Destruction are coming Death, he's a mean motherf*cker Devil is pleased with me Devil is pleased with me Devil is pissed at me Death & Destruction are coming MUY MALO CHUNGO (VERY BAD MONKEY) (Instrumental) MAMA SAID (NOT TO LISTEN TO DEVIL
ROCK) Mama said not to listen to devil rock (8x) But I'm here to tell you, sisters Mama is a bitch (8x) Daddy said leave the devil alone (8x) But I'm here to you, brothers Daddy drank a lot (8x) Mama said take off your clothes (8x) S.A.T.A.N. S.A.T.A.N. (4x) Come again DEVIL ROCKERS/ BOOT KNOCKERS Devil Rockers and Boot Knockers FIRE There's a fire burning tonight FIRE! LUCIFER I (Instrumental) TEAM SATAN LIES Team Satan lies Team Satan lies Team Satan lies SISTER SATAN Did you know Satan has a sister? She will grab your heart and she will rip it out LUCIFER II (Instrumental) (YOU'RE SO) APOCALYPTIC You're so apocalyptic Never thought I was optimistic HENTCHMAN Ain't gonna be your henchman HEY, DEVIL ROCKER We don't have time for all your silly little predictions If you can't see then you need a stronger prescription Hey Devil Rocker! Hey Big Fish! LUCIFER III (Instrumental) JOHN PETERS John! John Peters! Peters ETC. |