The band's sound was an amalgam of punk rock, heavy metal, rock and roll, and country as Chris Desjardins noted in 1982: Bonebrake of X, Dave Alvin and Bill Bateman of the Blasters, and Steve Berlin of the Blasters and of Los Lobos. The Flesh Eaters were started in the fall of 1977 by punk poet Chris Desjardins, a singer known for morbid lyrical themes, as an experimental side-project featuring temporary performers from other major Los Angeles area bands, including John Curry, Dennis Walsh, and Scott Lasken of the Flyboys, Tito Larriva of the Plugz, Stan Ridgway of Wall of Voodoo, John Doe and drummer D. īillboard magazine premiered the video for the band's first single from I Used to Be Pretty, a cover of the Sonics 'Cinderella' on October 9, 2018. They played several shows in support of the new record starting in January 2019. Bonebrake and announced a new album I Used to Be Pretty that was released Januon Yep Roc Records. The band reformed with the classic 1981 lineup of Chris Desjardins (Chris D.), Dave Alvin, John Doe, Bill Bateman, Steve Berlin, and D. Desjardins's poetry has been described as 'wonderful bleeding collages of B-movie dementia, street crime, Mexican Catholicism and Dionysian punk spurt poetics'. Though a part of that era's productive punk rock scene, their music was distinctive for its apocalyptic film noir lyricism and often for its sophisticated arrangements, as heard, for example, on 1981's A Minute to Pray, a Second to Die. The band's greatest success was in the early 1980s. punk scene, such as the Plugz, X, the Blasters, and Los Lobos. While Desjardins is the group's only continual member, the Flesh Eaters' lineup has drawn from some of the most famous bands of the L.A. They are the most prominent of the bands which have showcased the compositions and singing of their founder, punk poet Chris Desjardins, best known asĬhris D. The Flesh Eaters are an American punk rock band, formed in Los Angeles, California, United States, in 1977. Bonebrake, Dave Alvin, John Doe, Steve Berlin, Bill Bateman, Texas Terri, Wayne James, Stan Ridgway, Glenn Hays, John Richey, Ray Torres, Juanita Myers, Erika Wear, Christian Free, Stuart Lederer, Bobby Bones, Madonna M., Robert Arce, Jeff Vengance, Larry Schemel

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2018 L-R: John Doe, Dave Alvin, Chris D, Bill Bateman, Steve Berlin, DJ Bonebrake.

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