Smack (American band)

Smack is a Los Angeles pop/rock band formed by singer/guitarist Lantz L'Amour, current L.A. Guns guitarist Stacey Blades, former and now current Blessings bassist Jamie Zimlin, and former Junkyard drummer Patrick Muzingo.

Smack
OriginLos Angeles, United States
GenresPop, rock
Years active2002–04
Associated actsJunkyard
Supercool
L.A. Guns
Speedbuggy USA
The Blessings
Roxx Gang

The Fall of "Supercool"

By late January 2002, guitarist Stacey Blades and singer Lantz L'Amour were back in Los Angeles from playing five nights at The Wall in Shinjuku, Tokyo, with the L.A. glam band Supercool (also featuring ex-Faster Pussycat bassist Eric Stacy and ex-Enuff Z'nuff/Vince Neil Band drummer Vik Foxx) in support of their recently released six song EP "Live at the Wilcox Hotel." As the Supercool shows were relatively well received by Japanese audiences, the short-lived group showed signs of internal conflict within days of their return and disbanded by the end of February.[1]

Smack

In February 2002, Lantz and Stacey teamed up with Jamie and began writing songs for their new project.t.[2] By early April 2002 they had dubbed themselves "Smack," discreetly recruited ex-Junkyard/Speedbuggy USA drummer Patrick Muzingo, and recorded four songs ("Subterranean", "Disconnected", "Amazed That I'm Alive", and "Simple Plan") in a Van Nuys home studio engineered by New Improved God bassist Skip Whiting.

Antidisestablishmentarianism

After nearly a year of immersion writing and performing, Smack went into the studio with Faster Pussycat guitarist Brent Muscat as producer to record the band's debut three-song EP Antidisestablishmentarianism. Prior to U.S. release, the record's opening track "Chemicals" was played on The Howard Stern Show and favorably critiqued after being sent in anonymously in response to Stern Show staffers complaining that no good bands have come out of L.A. in recent years.

The Wyndham Stalls

Smack later changed their name to The Wyndham Stalls for a brief period in early 2004 before breaking up. The name supposedly refers to an incident that occurred in the first floor restroom of the Wyndham Bel Age Hotel (now The London[3]) in West Hollywood, California.

Discography
  • Antidisestablishmentarianism (2003)
gollark: That's actually one of the best ways to put it if you want people to spend several seconds wondering "what?".
gollark: Also also, "convention over configuration" being stupid. Yes, the choice of four spaces vs two isn't too significant, but being able to choose means you'll have code you can possibly read a bit more easily, and also public/privateness via *capitalization* just (in my opinion) looks ugly and is annoying if you want to change privacy.
gollark: i.e. generic slices/maps/channels but not actual generics, == being ***maaaaagic*** (admittedly like in most languages, I think), and `make`/`new`.
gollark: Also, as well as that, how it just special-cases stuff instead of implementing reusable solutions.
gollark: e.g. no map function existing or even being possible means that you have *readable* code with a for loop, but it's harder to understand *why that's there* and *what it's for*.

References
  1. Longboat, Tracey (2005-07-13). "Interview with L.A. Guns Guitarist -Stacey Blades". Glam-Metal.com. Archived from the original on 2006-03-19. Retrieved 2015-11-13.
  2. "MusicMight :: Artists :: SMACK". musicmight.com.
  3. "Luxury West Hollywood Hotel". The London West Hollywood - California.
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