'Crazy' Steve Goof 7:06AM (vocals)
Bambi (guitar)
Mad Dawg (drums)
Scrag (bass)
Godzilla (replaced Bambi on guitar 1985)
Merrick "Scumbag" (replaced Scrag on bass)
Stompin' Al (guitar; replaced Godzilla 1995)
Baron Wasteland (second guitar added)
Thor (bass; replaced Scumbag)
KingKonGoof (replaced Thor on bass)
Airock Shin (replaced Stompin Al)
The Bunchofuckingoofs "coagulated" on November 26, 1983 at the late, lamented Larry's Hideaway in Toronto on a dare from Ruth Taylor of the band United States. The BFG's aren't just a band, but a communal way of life that has the band's membership shifting as fast as its music. Vocalist 'Crazy' Steve, a former real-estate salesman and frequent political incumbent in Toronto's Ward 5 Spadina Riding, keeps the faith with his band of anti-drug crusading community activated neighbourhood police force-cum-punk band.
They do business of righting wrongs - like discouraging Nazi skinheads and drug dealers - from their self-made fortress of solitude called the Goofort (a punk rock version of the Warhol Factory) in what has been dubbed Goof World, better known as Toronto's Kensington Market.
The police see them as a gang and the remainder of the world see them as one of the most aggressive hardcore acts in the world. They've become their own lucrative community with band members appearing in US TV shows like 'Amerika', 'War Of The Worlds' and 'Short Circuit II'. They've built a video editing suite, band rehearsal rooms, a tattoo parlour and Canadian chapter of SHARP (Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice). They even run their own club out of various condemned buildings around Toronto called The DMZ.
1991 saw the band in it first full-fledged national tour called "Flush The Toilet 1991 Western Canadian Tour". The band finally made a leap to compact disc with 1992's 'Carnival Of Chaos + Carnage' on Fringe which was 16 tunes spanning their entire career.
with notes from 'Crazy' Steve Goof 7:06AM.
Singles
1986 There's No Solution...So There's No Problem [2 x 7" singles] (Back Alley)
Albums
1988 Drunk? Destroyed? Demolished! The Demo [7 song cassette] (Back Alley)
1992 Carnival Of Chaos + Carnage (Fringe)
1997 Totallyunfuckingmarketable (Back Alley)
1999 Barrage of Battery and Brutality (God + Back Alley)
Video
Compilation Tracks
1985 "Destroy All Automobiles", "Alcoholiday Turned Alcoholocaust", "KAL 007" on 'Questionable' (Jonestown)
1993 "Coke - The Real Thing For Real Assholes" on 'A Touch Of Fringe (Fringe)
1993 "Problem" on 'Dead On The Road' (Raw Energy)
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