Bible Launcher

The San Francisco-based group/project Bible Launcher exists using the aims of satirizing Christianity (generally) and televangelists (specifically). Their design is usually a melange of metallic avant-rock, spoken term rants, screaming saxophones, and examples extracted from both spiritual broadcasts and pornographic movies. Bible Launcher’s primary users are Ron K. (acoustic guitar, consumer electronics, short-wave radio), 99 Hooker (saxophones and “unconscious vocals”), John McCoy (bass, acoustic guitar, playthings), and Dave Mairz (drums). They documented their self-titled 1st album during the period of 1995 and 1996 for launch within the Lunatic Fringe series on John Zorn’s Tzadik label. Nevertheless, due to anxieties a lawsuit would happen due to the countless uncleared samples applied to the album, it had been pulled soon after striking the cabinets. Bible Launcher was eventually re-released, by adding several bonus monitors, on San Francisco’s Radical Home label. A follow-up, merely entitled Bible Launcher II, emerged in 1998, carrying on in the same vein but adding several guest performers including saxophonist Jack port Wright and keyboardist Jai Youthful Kim, amongst others.