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Caravans Islands In The Freeway ? Spider Rabbit Myth

SST - The Tour w/ SWA, Saccherine Trust, Meat Puppets, Minutemen and Husker Du SWA (pronounced swǒ) the band originally started as a concept defined by Chuck Dukowski, former bassist of Black Flag while he was still a member of that band. The name was created by assigning an alphabetical value to numbers on a gaming die, then rolling the die three times. SWA the band came into existence in 1985, a few years after Chuck left Black Flag and disbanded Würm, his band prior to Black Flag. The band was created a year after the formation of SST Records "supergroup" October Faction as an opening act for the 1984 Black Flag US summer tour consisting of parts of the east coast, mid west, and Canada. Following that tour, Chuck and Octoberfaction drummer Greg Cameron began trying out guitar players to form SWA. Several tried out, including Ted Falconi of Flipper. Ray Cooper of the Descendents had recently become available, Greg Cameron's best friend from high school, after the break up that year of the Descendents for whom he played guitar. Along with Ray, guitarist Richard Ford formerly of the Frantic Technoids joined up on lead guitar. Merill Ward, who was close to the SST family, joined up at Chuck's request at lead singer. In 1986 Sylvia Juncosa joined the band as guitarist, playing on XCIII.

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