Agent Orange (band)
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| Agent Orange | ||
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| Background information | ||
| Origin |  California, USA |
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| Genre(s) | Post-punk Punk Rock |
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| Years active | 1979 – present | |
| Label(s) | Posh Boy Records | |
| Website | Official Website | |
| Members | ||
| Mike Palm Perry Giordano Dusty Watson |
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| Former members | ||
| Scott Miller James Levesque Brent Liles (deceased) Derek O'Brien Sam Bolle Charlie Quintana Steve Soto Steve Latanation Bruce Taylor |
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Agent Orange is a punk band from Fullerton, California. They were a surf-punk band from the 1980s and first gained attention with their song Bloodstains which they wrote for a local Orange County compilation album. After the compilation album the group's then managers presented KROQ, Pasadena radio station's D.J. Rodney Bingenheimer with a demo tape which soon became one of his show's biggest hits.
Besides having Mike Palm and Scott Miller as original members, Steve Soto was the power trio’s first bass player, the one who played on the first “Bloodstains”. The darkness version of this song later appeared on Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4. He later left the band to form The Adolescents. With new member James Levesque on bass, (the best known bass player and writer of such hits as "Everything Turns Grey" and "Living in Darkness") the group found their way to the famous Living In Darkness sessions at Brian Elliot recording studio (Elliot is most known for having composed Madonna’s hit Papa Don’t Preach). The result of these sessions was their first long player, Living In Darkness (originally released by Posh Boy Records in November 1981), as well as a single and one or two bonus tracks that later surfaced on some E.P.s.
Agent Orange has had an enormous influence on the punk and hardcore scene[citation needed], even though band members stated on Living in Darkness that "We don't feel a part of that scene at all." Agent Orange was one of the first bands to pioneer what would later be known as the skate-punk or skate-core scene. They developed a following in Fullerton along with The Adolescents. The band is still together today with few member changes. Their most recent album was in 2003 with Sonic Snake Session.
[edit] Discography
- Living In Darkness - 1981
- Bitchin' Summer - 1982
- When You Least Expect It... - 1983
- This Is The Voice - 1986
- Virtually Indestructible - 1996
- Blood Stained Hitz Greatest and Latest - 2000/2004
- Sonic Snake Session - 2003
[edit] Members
Entire history of band:
- Mike Palm
First two albums:
- Scott Miller
- James Levesque
Other former members:
- Brent Liles
- Derek O'Brien
- Sam Bolle (CD "Virtually Indestructible")
- Charlie Quintana (CD "Virtually Indestructible")
- Steve Soto (first "Bloodstains" single)
- Steve Latanation
- Bruce Taylor
Current:
- Perry Giordano
- Dusty Watson
