What do ya know. You get the only black punk in West Mifflin to write about a bands history thats just starting out. I really have no clue as to what to say... I guess by the begining of the band. Our original Band name was The Rat Finx. It was a 5 set band consisting of me Dom, Hickey, and Kenny Dudas( now a B-Boy). We were really messed up kids at the time. We didn't know what the hell to do.
Well The Rat Finx didn't turn up as planned. No one was really practicing. We were all just messing around to get the feel. No one was really serious about it... After Ken left it was just me and Dom. Hickey left to some gay band named Pinstripe 13 to be their bassist. It was just Dom and I. We were walking around just looking for things to do and people to play with over the 2002 summer. We came across a chick bassist... Brandy... but she's now a junkie 'n the moutains somewhere, but that was a sad story. I think chick Punks are awsome. The punk chicks these days arn't afraid to get in the pit and take off some heads. The awsome thing about it is that most chicks kick the guys around at punk shows. So don't piss off the punk chicks. You'll get your face beat.
Anyway after Pinstripe 13 broke up "because they suck" , Hickey stopped with the Emo phase and opened his eyes to the truth. The originals finally came togeather, excpet Kenny. At our school we asked this metal head of a kid named Buzzy to be in as our drummer. Once he accepted it was all up hill from there.
Buzzy is an awsome drummer, he mix's up the metal beats with the punk beats to make up his own style in a way. One of Dom's friends named Vaughn joined the band as our singer. We then changed the name to CDS " Crack Dungeon Suicide." Our sound was like a Casualties type of sound. Thats what Vaughn sounded like anyway. His working and stuff wasn't really working at the scedualed times... and he never really showed for practice but he was an awsome singer. It be cool to do a co-op song with him. But thats another story.
We decided not to go for that Kill 'em all sound. We wanted to talk about stuff other then goin around beating up crap and then blowing up the Gov't. We sing about the finer things in punk. The drinkin and chillin while thinkin bout life type of punk. The kind that makes ya wanna party till you fuckn die.
So once vaughn was out and I became the singer... Singing and playing guitar ain't all that easy... well we all sing but I do more. So we are just a 4-set punk band from a boring town called West Mifflin, PA. I hate the hills here 2. Hills bite... Now its just Dom, Hickey, Buzzy, and myself. We make up Rotten Deal. People just laugh when they hear it but its nice to make people laugh... not enough smiles in the world. The new generation of punks go for the " Sid Vicious" look. Most of 'em don't know who Tom Yohannon is. (yeah I know your gonna go online lookin him up you poser).
Now back to the topic... Now we're actually doing better as a 4 set. We spend our time practicing... school... and in the pits... when were not grounded. Well I can't tell you our whole life story cuz somethings are better left unsaid... But I will tell you that its been a hard road. I'm just glad were starting stuff rather then fucking around. Thats the story so far. I guess all things come to an end huh?
