Premature Ejaculation (band)

Premature Ejaculation (band)

Infobox musical artist
Name = Premature Ejaculation


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Origin = Los Angeles, United States
Genre = Experimental music
Avante-garde
Industrial music
Noise music
Years_active = 1981
1987-1998
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Current_members = Rozz Williams
Ron Athey
Chuck Collison
Kris Fuller
Lee Wilds
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Premature Ejaculation was an experimental music group from Pomona in the United States. It was briefly founded in 1981 but was not in existence very long; the group was refounded in 1987 by Rozz Williams of Christian Death fame and Chuck Collison.

History

Premature Ejaculation was formed originally in 1981, by Rozz Williams and performance artist Ron Athey; the two were lovers and lived together. Unlike the deathrock band Christian Death, Premature Ejaculation did not use standard "rock band" instruments, instead sound was created using various objects and lo-fi devices. [ [http://www.discogs.com/artist/Premature+Ejaculation Discogs.com] ]

Williams' group Christian Death had broken up during this year and he started this project; they played very few live performances, because clubs began refusing to book them, and some of their stage theatrics were deemed controversial. One of the acts included Athey eating a dead cat (the animal was roadkill), documentation of which can be seen in the book "Hardcore California". [Peter Belsito and Bob Davis, "Hardcore California", Los Angeles: Last Gasp, 2004] Christian Death was reformed in the summer of 81, and Premature Ejaculation was put on ice.

Rebirth

The band was reformed in 1987, two years after vocalist and songwriter Rozz Williams left Christian Death. He was joined by Lee Wilds, and then Chuck Collison and Kris Fuller. The group's themes remained avante-garde throughout and focused on the bizzare and taboo, they would use sound clips from crying babies to chainsaws and film clips. In their early live shows, the duo would sometimes throw meat and eyeballs into the crowd.

Collison played a big part in the reformed group, especially in regards to higher quality electronic gear and better recording facilities which he brought. Collison started his own record label "The Happiest Place On Earth" to release the groups recordings. Its name was soon changed to "The Happiest Tapes On Earth", in order to avoid potential legal problems which may arise from Disney. [http://www.discogs.com/label/The+Happiest+Tapes+On+Earth Discogs.com] ]

The first two full length records were released via their own record label, at first these were only available on cassette format. "Death Cultures" was the first to be released in 1987, and was followed up by "Blood Told In Spine" and then "Assertive Discipline" in successive years. In total the reformed group released seven recordings, "Anesthesia" is the most "well known" of which, this was released on the more professional German label Dark Vinyl Records. They also released on the Cleopatra and Triple XXX labels.

Premature Ejaculation, although not always Williams' most well-known project of the 1990s (see; Shadow Project with Eva O) remained active in some form or another right up until his death in 1998, with the last record by the group been released posthumously.

Project members

*Rozz Williams
*Ron Athey (1981)
*Chuck Collison (1987-1998)
*Lee Wilds
*Kris Fuller

Discography

*"Death Cultures" - (1987)
*"Blood Told In Spine" - (1988)
*"Assertive Discipline" - (1989)
*"Anesthesia" - (1992)
*"Necessary Discomforts" - (1993)
*"Estimating the Time of Death" - (1994)
*"Wound of Exit" - (1998)

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