On May 14, 1996, an aspiring industrial metal three-piece took to the stage of Bar Deluxe, a two-floor club in a grotty area of Hollywood known as Crack Central. Someone captured grainy footage of the band, which has inevitably found its way to YouTube.
The short clip focuses on their frontman, a skinny dude with black hair shaved close to the skull, mechanically attacking his guitar. The band’s name was Static, and the singer was Wayne Wells. The two other people onstage with him were bassist Tony Campos and drummer Ken Jay. They had been kicking around the bottom level of the club scene without much success, as indicated by the sparse crowd that night.
