[kj] Former Misfits Drummer Brian Keats Dies At 46

[Cliff Livingston]

haha i actually know those guys from genocide,from my NJ hometown area,not
sure if i know that drummer,cause they had a few different ones,they went
thru alot of line up changes.I saw MIA once,they were great,$5 punk rock
show.never heard that split record,but i've seen the cover hangin on the
wall of an old rehersal studio back in the day,argh memories,i feel
old,haha.

On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Karen Weil <karen.weil at sddt.com> wrote:


>  I saw MIA once or twice back in L.V. Great cover of "American Woman."

> Shame about Keats.

>

> k.w.

> SoCal

>

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> *Subject:* [kj] Former Misfits Drummer Brian Keats Dies At 46

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> I don't know really who he was.... He played in that terrible band Genocide

> who did a split LP with Las Vegas's M.I.A.  The last I saw of the Misfits

> was when they played in June of 1983 with the Black Flag reunion singer show

> and the Vandals. Robo from Black Flag was drumming with them by this time i

> believe.

>

> ~ LB

>

>

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> http://www.spinner.com/2010/01/15/former-misfits-drummer-brian-keats-dies-at-46/

>

> Brian "Damage" Keats, who played drums in the Misfits<http://www.spinner.com/tag/Misfits/>during its final Glenn

> Danzig <http://www.spinner.com/tag/GlennDanzig/>-helmed lineup, died

> Tuesday after battling liver cancer, according to a press release<http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=133423>.

> Keats, who was 46, was also a veteran of punk bands Verbal Abuse and

> Genocide.

>

> Damage was first asked by Danzig to join the Misfits in the autumn of 1983

> and played with the band at a Halloween gig in Detroit . The show wound up

> being the final Misfits gig with the frontman.

>

> But Keats, a Brooklyn native, was undaunted, remaining on the New York

> music scene throughout the 1980s, playing with a long run of outfits like

> Hellbent, the Kretins, the Hellhounds, the Skulls, Angels in Vain, Princess

> Pang, Raging Slab and the Diamondbacks.

>

> Keats eventually settled in Los Angeles and collaborated with outfits like

> Sylvain Sylvain, Low Pop Suicide, the Fusztones and even former Bangles<http://www.spinner.com/tag/Bangles/>frontwoman Susanna

> Hoffs <http://www.spinner.com/tag/SusannaHoffs/>, among a long run of

> others. He is survived by his wife and one child.

>

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