Clown Alley

Among the oft-forgotten contributors towards the ’80s crossover motion, San Francisco’s Clown Alley wasn’t around long plenty of to etch their name alongside those of Agnostic Front side, the Cro-Mags, D.R.We., and other even more notorious pioneers who dared blend punk rock and roll and metallic at the same time when followers of both designs tended to end up being mortal enemies. Made up of vocalist David Duran (ex-Jerry’s Children), guitarist Tag Deutrom, bassist Lori “Lorax” Dark (little girl of none apart from legendary child professional Shirley Temple-Black), and drummer Justin Clayton, Clown Alley was essentially four punks who have been seduced with the seminal hardcore of Dark Flag and Poor Brains, before getting swept up with the Bay Area’s burgeoning thrash steel scene. The effect was 1986’s motivated Circus of Chaos LP, that was created and released by Deutrom through his Alchemy Information imprint — afterwards responsible for essential releases with the Melvins, Neurosis, and Poison Idea, among various other underground legends. For Clown Alley, exactly the same spontaneous pushes that brought them jointly to begin with quickly divide them aside, as each bandmember was involved with several concurrent tasks, anyway. Included in this, both the currently famous-by-birth Lori Dark and Tag Deutrom would ultimately put in lengthy travels of bass-playing responsibility using the Melvins, as the previous also busied himself being a manufacturer and regional indie picture mogul for a long time to come. After its first discharge, Clown Alley’s lone record, Circus of Chaos, was decreased to some hard-to-find collector’s item for a long time, but was finally reissued with reward materials in 2006 by Southern Lord Information.