Sunday, August 25, 2013

Danger Zone

I meant to mention this sooner but it has been a couple months since the passing of Frank Ruffino of China White, and like a few of the punk bands from the early 80's in SoCal they had an influence on my music. If you can find this pick it up and spin it, good production and ripping guitar, this band set themselves apart from many others but somehow seem to never get mentioned much.
I remember once in a Flipside 'zine interview Frank was asked who his guitar influences were and he mentioned Judas Priest as one of the bands that came to mind and for some reason that little piece of the interview always stuck with me.
Criminal was always my favorite China White tune and that was on the first of the 2 LIfe comps, "Life Sucks So Why Not Kill Yourself ", along with the song Solid State. Great HB punk from where slam dancing came from, rock on.