One of the Midwests’ first touring ‘industrial’ bands

 

 

Venue: The severely underutilized upper dance floor of Club Aquarius (downtown Dayton, natch!)

 

 

Opener:  American Static

 

 

 

Dementia Precox, original lineup.  By the time I moved to Dayton a later version of the band was performing, saw some of their last shows, 1988/89/90 (?) at CST. 

 

 

 

Gyn Cameron on vox.  Delivery in that new wave style.  Midnight Oil meets Fred Schneider.  Excellent.

 

 

 

 

 

I never liked Otis Reddings’ version of Dock on The Bay.  I preferred Tom Jones’.  But now I like this guys rendition…

 

 

 

 

 

Alles klar, Herr Komissar?  Being a bit of a militaria buff, I had to take a pix of this Bundeswehr dress tunic and cap (pretty sure at least the tunic is BW).  This guy is/was a synth/drum box player or tech, and worked with one of the band members on a side project.

 

 

 

Dayton 24 hour party people enjoying some good industrial/new wave

 

 

Blurb frm Neussubjex.net

 

Dementia Precox:

 

Dave Davis:

Dementia Precox from Dayton was another influential band. They put out at least 1 vinyl album and had a run of at least 10 years, depending on where you stop counting... I first saw them around 82, and the lineup changed continuously. Gyn Cameron was the founder providing continuity on keys and vocals, with Roger Revlon fronting on vocals. Lou Linden (formerly in Bitter Blood St. Theater, a Clifton band that directly influenced Alice Cooper) played a drum kit that included babydoll heads, animal bones, garbage cans and pieces of metal. In many respects, Dementia was the first "industrial band" and very much invented the hardcore sound of the rust belt, predating the Chicago Wax Trax scene. Indeed, Al Jourgensen was making prissy electropop dance records, singing with a fake english accent and calling himself Alain while Dementia was scorching the club scene in the midwest. They moved out to San Francisco, eventually returning to Dayton with a new lineup that included Eric Purtle and again, Lou Linden for a time. This was my personal favorite lineup, playing Cincy often, including shows at The Plaza on Calhoun, The Metro and of course The Jockey Club. The album they recorded in SF circa 1982 was a road map for Ministry and the Revco, and their wild JC shows challenged the local Hospital/Art Damage scene in ferocity and mayhem. Through at least the mid 90's Gyn appeared solo as Dementia Precox, usually playing dance clubs performing over pre-recorded backing tracks... while interesting, these shows were a palereminder of the original band.

 

Karl Meyer:

Great noise band, 1982-ish, from Dayton. Drummer played garbage can lids. They released one single "Dead on Two Legs Lunchonette / Mines".

 

Robert E Beatty Jr.:

Fred Pies was the bass player.

 

 

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