Musiccosmos

It was that kind of genuine negative energy that made Drunks With Guns the greatest punk band ever to bulldoze St. Louis. An ongoing battle between Doskocil’s obnoxious mouth, Stan Seitrich’s Flipper/Black Flag/Sabbath guitar and the massive dumbo rhythm section of bassist Mike DeLeon and drummer Fred Broadhacker, DWG began its rampage in 1984. The quartet’s self-titled debut single sports one of a classic sleeve showing four sauced, weird-looking guys sitting stupefied atop kegs with beers in hand and countless empties of Milwaukee’s Best and Meister Brau at their feet. The three songs inside (mastered from cassette after the reels “accidentally got erased”) are some of the heaviest, stupidest post-HC around — messy, visceral mono-riffs with Doskocil groaning low-rent paeans to car races at the Kiel Auditorium, “giving drugs to little kids” and getting his lights punched out. – [ Trouser Press / Badaboom Gramophone #3 ] St. Louis’ noise punks  Drunks with Guns ‘ ori...