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THE BAND:
First, about the name: a couple of years back, guitarist, Dan Lukacinsky, suggested to his three bandmates that they change the group's name from "The Uglies" to "Jack Kevorkian and The Suicide Machines" -- not as an homage to the controversial Michigan physician / assisted suicide protagonist, but as a reflection of the peculiar fatalism which seems to afflict teens in Detroit's dysfunctional suburbs (a fatalism which incidentally prompted The Suicide Machines' members to flee the aforementioned suburbia in favor of inner Detroit's punk and ska scene). The group decided to drop the Kevorkian reference after a mob of the real Kevorkian groupies swarmed a gig in the mistaken belief that Dr. Jack was actually going to conduct a snuff symposium.
TSM's origins: following a debut gig in a friend's basement, the group opened for the Mighty Mighty Bosstones in 1992. Many basement gigs later, The Suicide Machines opened Rancids first Detroit show and in 1994 TSM joined Rancid again for a sold-out performance. Inspired, The Suicide Machines set up their own DIY tours, including a 1994 west coast stint and last year's nationwide trek with fellow ska punks Buck-O-Nine. Early recordings were bargain basement affairs: lo-fi, one take bash-it-outs. These all-too-brief trips into the studio resulted in the econo-simple Green World cassette released in 1994 on their own Old Skool Records label; and in 1995 a split CD with San Francisco's Rudiments called Skank For Brains. In addition, TSM contributed numerous one-offs and singles for punk compilations and friends' labels.
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