Angry Samoans

The Angry Samoans are an early-ish Los Angeles punk band, formed by rock critics "Metal" Mike Saunders and Gregg Turner. Their unspecified grudges against influential KROQ DJ Rodney Bingenheimer caused them to write a defamatory

The Angry Samoans are an early-ish Los Angeles punk band, formed by rock critics "Metal" Mike Saunders and Gregg Turner. Their unspecified grudges against influential KROQ DJ Rodney Bingenheimer caused them to write a defamatory song called "Get Off The Air", which caused many Los Angeles clubs to avoid booking them until the mid 1980s. The band's particularly offensive, politically incorrect attitude and lyrical content probably contributed to this situation as well.

In the middle 1980s the Angry Samoans returned to their roots in 1960s garage rock and put out two releases, the "Yesterday Started Tomorrow" EP and the "STP Not LSD" mini-album. Singer/bassist Todd Homer left in 1989, and formed The Mooseheart Faith Stellar Groove Band with Larry Robinson, formerly of 1970s teen pop-soul band Apollo. Turner left soon afterwards, and the band became essentially a pet project of Saunders carrying on with a wide variety of other individuals, sporadically active throughout the 1990s.