Hellride
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Hellride is a side project live band featuring former Jane's Addiction and Porno For Pyros drummer Stephen Perkins, Minutemen and FIREHOSE bassist Mike Watt, former, and former Porno For Pyros guitarist Peter DiStefano. The band, which is exclusively a live entity (although live recordings made by fans with Perkins' and Watt's blessing circulate), performs occasionally in Los Angeles-area clubs. Their entire set list is devoted to playing and reinterpeting the music of The Stooges by way of jazz legend John Coltrane. The band grew out of Perkins' and Watt more frequent collaborations in the jazz-punk improv group Banyan as well as Watt's brief stint as bassist with Porno for Pyros in 1996.
Watt, almost ironically, has since gone on to replace deceased bassist Dave Alexander in the reformed Stooges with original members Iggy Pop, Ron Asheton, and Scott Asheton.
