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wow, what a surprise!

p_gunnp_gunn 2,284 Posts
edited February 2006 in Strut Central
Pig Champion of Posion Idea is dead, sez the internet grapevine...

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  • mandrewmandrew 2,720 Posts
    so you're the sensitive type?
  • SexyBNyceSexyBNyce 371 Posts
    record collectors are pretentious assholes.
  • bassiebassie 11,710 Posts
    RIP if that's the case. one of the best bands of my youth.

    i guess i'm surprised he lasted this long...





    Record Collectors Are Pretentious Assholes!
  • LaserWolfLaserWolf Portland Oregon 11,517 Posts
    RIP

    From my home town, but I never heard him.
  • ElectrodeElectrode Los Angeles 3,130 Posts
    Making a cartoon of a scary looking white guy playing a Bo Diddley guitar in a moo-moo is against my religion.
  • holmesholmes 3,532 Posts
    Damn, if this is true, it sucks. That band was great for a time. I always wondered if there was any truth to the urban legand that it was a conscious decision to become the fattest punk band alive & when Dean Johnson refused, they vibed him out of the band?
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  • johmbolayajohmbolaya 4,472 Posts
    That truly sucks. Poison Idea were one of my favorite bands.

    Violence is funny
  • johmbolayajohmbolaya 4,472 Posts
    From the Roadrunner website:

    Thomas "Pig Champion" Roberts, guitarist for POISON IDEA, died at his home in Portland, Oregon, Monday night (Jan. 30). He was 47 years old. A founding member of the seminal punk band, he continued to appear with POISON IDEA throughout the late Nineties and into the new millennium, despite officially quitting the band in 1993. Variously described as "spectacularly fat," and "the single largest man in hardcore history," Roberts crowned himself "Pig Champion" after hitting an impressive 450 lbs. on the scales. The highly regarded guitarist was revered by a devoted following worldwide. No further information is available at this time.

    According to the Taang! Records web site, POISON IDEA was formed in 1980 in Portland, Oregon by frontman Jerry A., Roberts, bassist Chris Tense, and drummer Dean Johnson. The group debuted three years later with the EP "Pick Your King", cramming 13 songs into a 16-minute time frame; the "Record Collectors Are Pretentious Assholes" EP followed in 1985, fine-tuning the band's blistering sound and fatalistic worldview. Thanks to their notoriously insatiable diet of drugs, alcohol, and junk food, the members of POISON IDEA all ballooned past the 300-pound mark by the time of the 1986 full-length "Kings of Punk". Tense and Johnson were then dismissed from the lineup, although the former returned in time for 1987's "War All the Time", recorded with second guitarist Eric "Vegetable" Olsen and drummer Steve "Thee Slayer Hippy" Hanford; Tense was then replaced by bassist Mondo for 1988's "Filthkick" EP. Both the "Darby Crash Rides Again" and "Ian MacKaye" EPs followed a year later, another period of roster tumult which made way for the addition of guitarist Kid Cocksman (soon replaced by Aldine Striknine) and bassist Myrtle Tickner. POISON IDEA returned in 1990 with "Feel the Darkness", with a series of live releases (the "Official Bootleg" EP, the "Live in Vienna" EP, and the "Dutch Courage" LP) preceding 1992's "Blank Blackout". A collaboration with Jeff Dahl appeared a year later, concurrent with the covers album "Pajama Party"; however, in the wake of Pig Champion's subsequent departure POISON IDEA disbanded, releasing their June 6, 1993, farewell gig at Portland's La Luna as "Pig's Last Stand".
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