Bomb was a San Francisco-based rock band started in 1986 by singer/bassist Michael W. Dean, guitarist Jay Crawford, and drummer Tony Fag (Anthony Paul Short, A.K.A. Blind Tony Fag).
... Bomb was a San Francisco-based rock band started in 1986 by singer/bassist Michael W. Dean, guitarist Jay Crawford, and drummer Tony Fag (Anthony Paul Short, A.K.A. Blind Tony Fag).
Their first show was July 4, 1986, opening for Flipper .
Bomb's sound was deep, hard rock with melodic guitars, relentless tribal drumming (reviews referred to Fag as "The Human Drum Machine"), strong pop singing, and sometimes-cryptic lyrics. Common subjects of the songs were death, sex, drugs, girls, boys, love, loss, Satan, God, cross-dressing, girls, suicide, hope and girls. Song titles include "I Loved You, Then I Died", "Healthfood and Heroin", "Because Tiffany Feels", "Painglorious", "Love-Fed Hate", "Gigi", "Spoked Feet", "Bigger Than Fun", "Die", "To Elvis In Hell", "Vagrant Vampires" and "Mrs. Happiness." Record covers and posters featured dark, highly stylized art. They were mostly designed by Fag and executed by Richard Carse (RIP--shot by police.) In reviews, Bomb has been described as “a cross between Bauhaus, Boston, and The Bay City Rollers.” They released recordings on the independent record labels Wingnut Records and Boner Records as well as Reprise/Warner Bros. Records. The band also released a German 45 in 1991 which included a hard-rock cover of Depeche Mode's "Personal Jesus". They were also one of the bands who contributed a recording to the seminal 1990 queercore compilation, J.D.s Top Ten Homocore Hit Parade, put out by J.D.s zine, with their song entitled "B/E/A/F/A/G".
