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THURSDAY
MARCH 15, 2007, 9:00pm with
COUNT DANTE AND THE BLACK DRAGON FIGHTING SOCIETY, |
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On Thanksgiving Day, 2006, shock rock radio pioneer Dennis Erectus had a very serious heart attack. His recovery has been a long one and he has been at San Mateo Medical Center since then. Dennis was only working part time as an engineer at KBAY-FM and KEZR-FM when he fell ill and had no health insurance. To raise money for Erectus' mounting medical bills, The Bottom of the Hill and a group of Bay Area bands are putting on a benefit for the innovative deejay on Thursday March 15, 2007. Years before Howard Stern hit the airwaves, Erectus perfected the shock jock formula but did it with an intelligence and style that made him a uniquely Bay Area phenomenon. He was the nighttime deejay at KOME 98.5 during the station's most envelope-pushing years in the late 70s and 80s. With such raunchy skits as "Celebrity Gang Bang," Erectus' show was the slice of airtime that had thousands of South Bay 13-year-olds strapping on transistor radio |
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Erectus
and The Poontangler at the Fillmore during one of Dennis' many Incredibly
Strange Wrestling appearances.headphone sets because they didn't want their parents to know what they were listening to. Unlike Stern, who would use a similar shtick to make fun of the homeless and mentally disabled, Erectus' targets were always racists and the powerful elites. Televangelists, the Reagans and Maggie Thatcher were often on the receiving end of those audio gangbangs. In the 1990s, Erectus brought his show to KSJO 92.3 FM, but a stricter FCC and the increasingly corporate nature of radio limited the level of subversion that Dennis could bring to his show.
Headlining the Bottom of the Hills' Erectus Benefit will be pro wrestler turned motivational martial arts guru and rock and roll bandleader Count Dante. Dennis Erectus managed The Count in San Francisco's punk rock lucha libre extravaganza, Incredibly Strange Wrestling from 1997-2001. Erectus fought side with Dante against double teaming Masked Mexican Wrestling Women, Macho Sasquatcho and a slew of crazed characters.
Also appearing will be the searing speed metal of Stone Vengeance. This trio from Hunter's Point have been playing it hard and heavy for 27 years and have just been named "The Best Unknown Metal Act" by the SF Weekly. "It's about time that the trio's raw, leather-clad speed metal attack (which fucks eardrums in the fine tradition of Venom, Raven, Celtic Frost, Manowar, and Iron Maiden) gets some well-deserved attention," The SF Weekly states before adding, "the Vengeance shows no signs of slowing down."
Opening the show will be The Makes Nice, the latest project from Fucking Champs founder Josh Smith. Where Smith explored the sonic soundscapes of harmonized heavy metal guitars with The Fucking Champs, his new band delves into psychedelic pop with plenty of moments of heavy guitars that sounds like a crossbreeding of Blue Cheer and Brian Wilson.
All proceeds from this show will go to the Dennis Erectus benevolent account set up by his friends in radio. For more information, contact Count Dante at countdante@pacbell.net.
If you can't make it to the show and would like to contribute, donations are being accepted in Dennis' benevolent account. Jona Denz-Hamilton is its administrator. Checks made out to either Dennis Netto or Dennis Erectus may be sent or brought to Jona at:
KBAY Radio 190 Park Center Plaza #200, San Jose, CA 95113
