Raggare is a Bunch of Motherfuckers!!

The Vaudeville Series from Reason, turn the lights to these three punk/hardcore icons.

Ron Reyes (alias Chavo Pederast):


Ron was the second singer for California based legendary group Black Flag. Basicly he was a streetkid who had been following the band since the beginning and already knew all the songs, so when they needed a singer to go on a tour to Vancouver he jumped right in. Reyes quit the band mid-show in Redondo Beach in May 1980. He was drinking heavily at the time and was tired of the fan violence and escalating police harassment.

He was credited as "Chavo Pederast" on the "Jealous Again" EP after Black Flag toured the West Coast a second time and ran into an angry and very intoxicated Reyes while he was living in Vancouver playing in local bands. Reyes hit Dez Cadena, the new singer, in the head with a brick and later smashed their touring van's windshield. Reyes had also alerted the Canadian border agents to the band's lack of work permits (thus preventing them from playing their final Canadian show of the tour). We didn't want to give him credit cause he wanted to tear us down, you know? Fuck that schmuck. is the bassplayer Chuck Dukowski's comment on the alias credit. Ron Reyes is now a Born Again Christian living in Vancouver.

Richard Hell:


In 1974 Hell formed the band Television and their performances at CBGB helped kick-start the first wave of punk bands, inspiring a number of different artists including Patti Smith who wrote the first press review of Television for the Soho Weekly News in June of 1974. Television was the band that convinced CBGB owner Hilly Kristal to book rock bands at his club, and they built its first stage.

In 1976 he started the band Richard Hell & The Voidoids. As a frontman Hell was an originator of the punk fashion look. The first to spike his hair and wear torn, cut and drawn-on shirts, often held together with safety pins. Malcolm McLaren, manager of the Sex Pistols, has said Hell was of some inspiration for the Sex Pistols' look and attitude.


Sid Vicious:


Born John Simon Ritchie, later known as Sid Vicious, joined the Sex Pistols in February 1977. Before joining the band, Sid had associations with The Bromley Contingent, the fashion avant garde that followed the Sex Pistols, and had become a friend of vocalist Johnny Rotten. Ritchie was asked to join the group after Glen Matlock's departure.In his time in the band, Sid was renowned for his lack of ability to play the bass. When Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones was asked why he instead of Vicious recorded the bass parts of Never Mind The Bollocks, Jones responded Sid was in a hospital with hepatitis so he couldn't really play, not that he could play anyway. At times during performances, other band members would unplug Sid's bass because his playing was so bad.

On the morning of October 12, 1978, he awoke from a drugged stupor to find Nancy Spungen, his girlfriend, dead on the bathroom floor of their room (room 100) in the Hotel Chelsea in New York City. She had suffered a single stab wound to her abdomen and apparently bled to death. He was arrested and charged with her murder although he said he had no memory of the event. There are several theories that Spungen was murdered by someone else, usually said to be one of the two drug dealers who visited the apartment that night, and involving a possible robbery as certain items (including a substantial bankroll) were claimed to be missing from the room. Bail of USD $50,000 was put up by Virgin Records at McLaren's request. The plan was for Vicious to record an album with fellow Pistols Steve Jones and Paul Cook in order to raise funds for his defense.

On February 2, 1979, a small gathering to celebrate his bail was held. Sid had been weaned off heroin in jail, and was now clean. At the dinner gathering, he obtained some heroin from his mother and overdosed that night. His new girlfriend revived him and much later that night, the couple fell asleep together. Sid Vicious was discovered dead the next morning. New York Chief Coroner Michael Baden explained at the time, when a person has an accidental heroin overdose, and then falls asleep, their heart slows with every REM phase. John Simon Ritchie died at around 10:00AM, at the age of 21, after the repeated REM phases throughout the night. Forensic experts subsequently found the heroin was 99% pure.



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