Hellride

Hellride is a side project live band featuring Mike Watt, former Porno For Pyros guitarist Peter DiStefano, and Jane's Addiction and former Porno For Pyros drummer Stephen Perkins. The band, which is exclusively a live entity (although live recordings made by fans with Watt's and Perkins' blessing circulate), performs occasionally in Los Angeles-area clubs. Their entire set list is devoted to playing and reinterpeting the music of The Stooges by way of jazz legend John Coltrane. The band grew out of Watt's and Perkins's more frequent collaborations in the jazz-punk improv group Banyan as well as Watt's brief stint as bassist with Porno for Pyros in 1996. 
On a separate occasion, Watt did a Hellride performance on Halloween 2003 with The Secondmen drummer Jerry Trebotic substituting for Perkins, who was on a Jane's Addiction reunion tour at the time. In February of 2011, Watt and Perkins held a performnace of a second alternate Hellride lineup with The MC5's Brother Wayne Kramer on guitar.
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Category:Mike Watt project bands