With several personnel changes and only one remaining founder member, a gig with
the Venice Beach thrash metal outfit Suicidal Tendencies is no place for a
musician planning a safe pension and a comfortable retirement. Since forming in
1980 the band have had a rollercoaster career playing their distinctive brand of
uncompromising hardcore thrash metal. They've courted controversy ever since
being voted Worst Band in a 1982 edition of 'Flipside', the popular LA based
punk magazine. Curiously, the following year the same magazine voted them Best
New Band.
In the band's early c...