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RAGING SLAB
THE AMBASSADORS OF BOOGIE-ANGST

“…TOO hard for country and western fans, TOO slow for thrash fans, TOO cerebral for hard rock fans and TOO rock and roll for alternative fans; RAGING SLAB has spent its’ 10+ years making music that is too something for somebody…”
This observation, however, is nothing that would surprise the self-appointed “Ambassadors of Boogie Angst” —- because there is but one commandment etched into the Slabs’ stone tablet - and that is ” being ‘too rock and roll’ is like being ‘too good looking’…absolutely impossible!”

New Yorks’ lower east side would seem to be an unlikely mountaintop for the reciept of such an edict—-especially in the noise-laden -No Wave of the early 80’s—-But this is exactly where the Slab found their burning bush …right on the corner of tenth and third.
Singer/Guitarist/Songwriter Greg Strzempka and Slide Guitarist; Elyse Steinman were two punk rock refugees who had been shot thru the new wave grease and, by 1983, came out…well… a bit disillusioned… Greg recounts ” Punk music was so busy breaking rules …that no one seemed to be aware that it was making a whole set of new ones…” to which Steinman adds…”…and Raging Slab was started to never play by anyones rules…!”

All text above ©1996 by Greg Strzempka.

From Wikipedia: The group formed in 1985 when Buffalo native Greg Strzempka and Elyse Steinman, both guitarists, met in New York City. After a period of cohabitation they eventually married. The two had a shared interest in the heavy rock sounds of 1970’s style “boogie” rock and such contemporary punk rock groups as the Ramones and Black Flag.

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