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SMWRG Music

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Some  People  Deserve  to  Suffer


Digital Download
23 tracks

Rock Against Reagan

Live in Houston April 6, 1984

Digital Download
16 tracks

The Last Supper

Live at the Theater Gallery

Digital Download
15 tracks

I Love Jim Jones

Rare Tracks
12" Vinyl
8 tracks

Rock Against Reagan

Live in Houston April 6, 1984

12" Vinyl
13 tracks

The Last Supper

Live at the Theater Gallery

12" Vinyl
14 tracks

SMWRG history

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SMWRG Gallery

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SMWRG Posters
30 posters
Live in Dallas
70 photos
Live in San Antonio
30 photos
SMWRG in the news
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Lyrics, Set Lists, etc.
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SMWRG Fans & Misc
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SMWRG Comics, etc.
16 photos
Bag of Wire
25 Posters & photos
The Nervebreakers
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Teenage Queers, etc.
0 photos
Miscellaneous Photos
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during live concert
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SMWRG band

band biography

STICK  MEN  WITH  RAY  GUNS

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Stick Men With Ray Guns (SMWRG) formed in Dallas, Texas, in the spring of 1981 with Clarke Blacker on guitar (ex-Nervebreakers & Bag of Wire), Bobby Soxx on vocals (ex-Teenage Queers & the Enemy) and Ft. Worth drummer Scott Elam. We were active through January, 1987 when we took a break to work on other things. SMWRG reformed in 1988, playing a few shows in Dallas and around the state before breaking up for good in the summer of 1988.

SMWRG was performance art. We used extreme methods to point out the irrationality of life, hatred, violence and racism. Although obviously based around front man Bobby Soxx, SMWRG soon developed an unusual stage persona, one with no pretense of rationality. We simply let the band seek its own level, and that level was strange indeed.

What you hear with SMWRG is exactly what we wanted to do together. We could not have cared less if it was popular or if it ever made any money. I wish that more bands felt that way, maybe their music would be more interesting.

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