Desperation Squad

D-SQUAD WARPED TOUR VIDEOS (LONG VERSIONS!)



Pt. 1

Pt. 2



Long version! Uncut and uncensored!

The shut down! (With apologies to B. Wilson!)



Videos by Steve and Laura Cormack



D-SQUAD WARPED TOUR VIDEOS (SHORT VERSIONS!)



"You Suck"

"Jello Ball"



Short version! The trash is a-flyin'!

Mr. P Throws a Hot Dog Back to The Crowd!



Videos by Kev'Mo



D-SQUAD ON TV!



"Band!"

"Puppet Man"



D-SQUAD CLASSIC VIDEO 1 - PUPPET MAN 1986



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From "America's Got Talent" - 2006

From "Public Access Cable - 1986



ESSENTIAL D-SQUAD VIDS!



"Garage Tapes - Isla Vista"

"Warped Tour 2001"



D-SQUAD GARAGE TAPES 1 - ISLA VISTA



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D-SQUAD WARPED TOUR VIDEO 1 - PHOENIX ARIZONA 6-22-01



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Acoustic version shot in Bob's garage!

By the next day, the band was kicked off the bus!



D-SQUAD IN THE NEWS!



SmashedChair.Com!

L.A. Times Blog!



"It was the weirdest gig I've ever played," said Mr. P, lead singer of the Desperation Squad

"WARPED TOUR: PULLING THE PLUG, AND OTHER ACTS OF DESPERATION"



Photo by Orlando Pina - Story by Nathan Solis

Photo and story by Kevin Bronson



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RANDOM TIMELINE OF EVENTS



1977 - Singer Mr. P sees Iggy Pop in concert at Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. Life changed forever.

1980 - Debut of Nixon's Revenge. "Your Girlfriend's Ugly" played for first time.

1983 - First D-Squad recording, "That Thing".

1984 - First D-Squad live performance on back of pickup truck in Sav-On parking lot, Pomona California.

1985 - Open two shows for Red Hot Chili Peppers at Pomona Valley Auditorium and one show in October with The Minutemen at Spatz in Newport Beach.

1987 - Debut new crowd favorites "I Need A Girl (With A Car)" and "Me and My Drug Problem". First appearance of Panda Man.

1988 - Cassette only release of "(In Memory Of) The Soul Cleanser)"

1989 - Drunken run-in between D-Squad guitar player Bob Jones and Poison gutiar player C. C. Deville backstage at Whiskey A-Go-Go, Hollywood.

1990 - First CD release "Hot Diggity Dogs". Open several shows for Social Distortion, including over 2,000 people at Cal Poly Pomona show.

1993 - Mr. P runs for mayor of Pomona. Promises to "put boom box in mayor's office and crank tunes all day." New cassette single "I Am The Mayor (The Rock and Roll Mayor) includes flip side sung in Spanish "Soy El Alcalde (El Alcalde de Rock and Roll)"

1993-1998 - Mysterious "hiatus" period.

1999 - D-Squad resurrection, with all original members. Infamous "beef penis" incident at Old Town Pub, Pasadena.

2000 - Band debuts "new" more mature creative direction, including new songs "Best Ass in Rock and Roll," ""I'm An Asshole (For Rock and Roll)" and old Nixons Revenge favorite "(We Ain't Getting) No Pussy Tonight". Also, food stuffs introduced to act.

2001 - Invited to play Warped Tour. Debut new CD "This is Our Demo", which features song "Taco Truck". After one week, kicked off tour bus in Los Angeles and sent home in stretch limo. Band returns in rented vehicle and plays 30 more shows, showing off new "EAT MY FUCK" t-shirts. Submit "This is Our Demo" CD to manager of Tenacious D, for tour consideration. They are turned down. Band featured in online photo galleries of Rolling Stone and NYRock. Also written up in Cleveland Scene. In preperation for show in San Francisco with the Incredibly Strange Wrestlers, introduce tortilla-throwing during "Taco Truck".

2003 - Jack Black "MTV Diary" segment shows Tenacious D working up new song entitled "Taco Truck From Hell".

2003 - Courtney Love arrested in New York, comes out the next night wearing custom made D-Squad "EAT MY FUCK" shirt. Shirt eventually seen by millions after being featured in, among other magazines, Rolling Stone, Q and Zinc.

2005 - Appear on cable program "Queer Edge with Jack E. Jett". Anna Nicole Smith Show star and media whore Bobby Trendy gives approval to Mr. P g-string.

2006 - Appear on No. 1 new prime time TV show of the summer, America's Got Talent.

2007 - Return to Warped Tour for one show - shut down after three songs after crowd starts trash riot.