[kj] OT Former POISON IDEA Guitarist PIG CHAMPION Found Dead - Feb. 1, 2006

[LONESTYLE at aol.com]

I grew up from them. I got that ep. "Pick Your King" in 1982 and I always  
thought they were a great H.C. band! I got to see them in 1999 I believe? When  
they did some dates in L.A. for my first time. And they were loud as fuck! 
They  ripped!
 
~LB 
 
In a message dated 2/1/2006 6:18:32 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
wessidetempest at hotmail.com writes:

Former  POISON IDEA Guitarist PIG CHAMPION Found Dead - Feb. 1, 2006
Thomas "Pig  Champion" Roberts, guitarist for POISON IDEA, died at his home 
in  Portland, Oregon, Monday night (Jan. 30). 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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