GENERAL STRIKE
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GENERAL STRIKE
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GENERAL STRIKE IS A PUNK/SKA BAND FROM COLUMBUS, OHIO. THE BAND STARTED IN EARLY 1998, AFTER J. CHAOS LEFT HIS FORMER
BAND DAY OF DECISION. J. THEN RECRUITED HIS LONG TIME FRIEND MIKE ALCOHOL AS THE BASS PLAYER OF A BAND THAT THEY WOULD
CALL DEATH TO PETER, WHICH WAS LATER RENAMED GENERAL STRIKE. KYLE BILE BECAME THE DRUMMER MAKING THE BAND A COMPLETE
THREE PIECE. AND GENERAL STRIKE WAS BORN. THE BAND RECORDED TWO 8 SONG EPS AND PLAYED A SLEW OF SHOWS ALL OVER OHIO.
SOON AFTER THOUGH IN EARLY 2000 KYLE LEFT THE BAND. THEY NEEDED A NEW DRUMMER BUT THEY DECIDED THAT THEY ALSO WANTED
TO GET A LEAD GUITARIST. THE BAND PLACED ADS THROUGHOUT OHIO FOR THE LEAD GUITARIST POSITION. ENTER SHAWN MAYHEM.
SHAWN WAS ORIGINALLY IN THE SKA BAND REGATTA 69 THAT WAS BASED OUT OF NORTH CAROLINA AND SIGNED TO MOON SKA RECORDS. SHAWN PASSED
THE AUDITION AND BECAME THE NEW GUITARIST. THIS STILL LEFT THE PROBLEM OF FINDING A DRUMMER. ENTER JASON RIOT. JASON USED
TO PLAY IN BANDS WITH J. WHEN THEY WERE YOUNGER BUT HAD LOST TRACK OF EACH OTHER OVER THE YEARS. AT THAT TIME JASON WAS
PLAYING IN A BAND CALLED THE SPASTIC CHILDREN. WITHOUT HESITATION JASON QUIT THE SPASTIC CHILDREN AND THEN BECAME THE NEWEST
DRUMMER FOR GENERAL STRIKE. THE BAND THEN STARTED PLAYING BACK OUT, PROMOTING THEMSELVES HARDER THAN EVER. IN ADDITION TO
SHOWS THE BAND BEGAN TO WORK ON ALL NEW SONGS FOR THEIR NEW ALBUM.
SOON AFTER, GENERAL STRIKE DECIDED TO MAKE J. CHAOS THE TRUE FRONT MAN BY INCORPORATING ANOTHER GUITARIST TO TAKE J.'S
PLACE ON GUITAR, ONLY MAKING J. THE LEAD SINGER. BOB IDOL BECAME THE NEWEST MEMBER OF GENERAL STRIKE. WITH THE NEW FULL
SOUNDING BAND IT WAS TIME TO GO INTO THE STUDIO AND START RECORDING THEIR NEW ALBUM. WHILE THE BAND WAS IN THE STUDIO
THEY MAINTAINED THEIR CONSTANT DRIVE FOR PROMOTION AND CONTINUED BOOKING SHOWS ALL OVER OHIO AND STATES BORDERING OHIO.
SOON AFTER THE FIRST FEW SONGS WERE RECORDED IN THE STUDIO BOB WAS BOOTED FROM THE BAND IN EARLY 2002 PUTTING J.
BACK BEHIND THE GUITAR ALONGSIDE SHAWN ONCE AGAIN. THE BAND PLAYED CONSTANTLY, BOOKING SHOWS AND TRADING SHOWS WITH OTHER
BANDS AND CONTINUING STUDIO WORK ON THEIR NEW ALBUM.
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