| 1988 sucked. Just like 1998 sucks but with more hairspray. It was then that a small group of friends began venting their sexual frustration and hatred of all things proper in a little band called The Blood Sucking Pigeons From Hell.
But what started out as a harmless exercise in brutality unexpectedly exploded into an underground cult-like frenzy. How underground? Unless you were a teenage outcast in their remote part of the country you probably never heard of them, but those that did ate it up like mad. The rise and fall of the Pigeons had all the drama, sex, violence, and humor of the best Hollywood movie with a plot line too unbelievable to be made up.Telling the whole story in one short essay wouldn't do the experience justice so I'll leave you with a quick overview of what happened. Like most high school bands, the Pigeons started out playing house parties, known to everyone around as Pigeon Parties. Pigeon Parties were evil and always illegal. In fact, a whole book could be written about what went on in Peters house when his parents were out of town. Perhaps one highlight was after one Pigeon had finished repeatedly fucking his 14 year old girlfriend before and after she passed out and left all the used rubbers in her hair only to piss himself with fear when her biker dad barged in the house screaming for her. Or the time they decided quite casually to light a city street on fire. The WHOLE STREET! All the while the soundtrack to the festivities was the obnoxious howl of the Blood Sucking Pigeons From Hell. As the band's popularity grew they continued to hide their identity from their fans. It was this mystique and anonymity that led to countless Pigeon imposters all claiming to be band members and hordes of kids making their own Pigeon shirts and bootleging the bands demo recordings. All this did not go unnoticed by a small independant record label at the time, Heavy Metal Connection, who's president signed the band to a four album deal based souly on one live performance at a small club called The Rust that the band had played illegaly underage. The band had been run out the club when bassist, Dave G. Simmons, became annoyed with a heckler and pissed on his table from the stage during their second song. The band released four albums with Heavy Metal Connection but was cursed with problems marketing it. Record stores refused to carry it and even college radio stations scarcely played the singles. Merchandising, however, helped keep the band afloat. One local junior highschool actually banned Pigeon t-shirts from the school grounds and bootleg copies of the albums were everywhere. It was bootlegging, however, that contributed to the loss of the Pigeon's record deal in 1990. Album sales, despite the band's outrageous popularity, would not warrant a second deal with the label. Rumor also has it that the label was threatened by outside parent groups into denying the band a renewal. The band then unofficially disbanded as members went off to college and pretended to grow out of it, although, Peter later released two albums on his own with the help of Dave G. Simmons. The future of the Blood Sucking Pigeons From Hell is now as uncertain as it ever was. |
