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[edit] The Max Lazer Band
The Max Lazer Band was a four-member glam punk group based in Los Angeles in the late 1970s. It was fronted by Max Lazer (Born 1950), a lean, peroxided blond, whose real name was Jarrett Miles. Max, curiously,was employed as a gardener in a Los Angeles cemetery. The Max Lazer Band played in various clubs around the Los Angeles area, especially on the Sunset Strip and Venice .Several of their songs "Street Queen" and "Saints of Rock and Roll" appear on a compilation CD, "The Godfathers of LA Punk" released on the Siamese Dogs label. This Indie label was co-founded by a French producer, Philippe Mogane who had been residing in Los Angeles at the time. One can hear the driving punk beat punctuated by saxophones and Max's laconic yet tauntingly aggressive singing which hits the listener with the force of machine gun fire. They were a perfect fusion of glam and punk rock. Other groups beside Max Lazer that formed the sadly-forgotten but thriving punk scene of that era were Black Flag, The Circle Jerks, The Controllers, The Germs, The Heaters and The Cats. The British group Dogs d'Amour were largely influenced by The Max Lazer Band when they played in London. Something of Max Lazer's strut and swagger can be seen in the performing style of later bands such as Guns and Roses.The Los Angeles punk scene was basically ignored by the mainstream media but the local radio station KROQ devoted a fair amount of airspace to groups such as Max Lazer.
