Grieve Soto

[Fat Mike speaking]

Alright

I don't need the click

I'm just going to go right into it

Alright, push it

Grieving Soto

A man that we were all privileged to know

Why’d you have to be the first Adolescent to go?

There would have been so many less people cryin’

Had it been Rikk, Alfie, Frank, Casey, or even Derek O’Brien

I’m so grateful that before your end

I told you you’re my hero and my treasured friend

Bobby Pyn

Never told anyone he hustled for Paul Lynn

Or that the Black Beauties hе took were empty shеlls

He clearly knew what image sells

The beard he grew was Michelle Bell's

To be so charismatic, thought he had to play the addict

Was his suicide from drugs cuz the L.A. punks were violent homophobic thugs?

Mike Burkett!

Don’t put me in this song I’m not dead yet

I’m just singing this to make sure you don’t forget to be cautious

More respectful, less obnoxious, cuz you’ve been getting hated

Making the cool things that you’ve done in your life negated

Cuz now musicians aren’t supposed to take positions or protest our shit conditions

And yes, we should all feel violated cuz our scene’s getting castrated and annihilated

GG used to be the most hated, then Ben, now it’s me

Cuz I guess I say things insensitively

Now all the great bands who got bigger

Wouldn’t dare to sing words that Exene, Patty, and Penelope sang with vigor

We all know that Jesus Christ was a figment that must have had

A lot of pigment in his skin

Cuz he was a Semitic Egyptian, didn’t you know?

But if there was there ever gonna be a resurrection

I prefer that it was Steve Soto

Steve Soto

Steve Soto

Steve Soto

Steve Soto

Steve Soto

Steve Soto

Steve Soto

[Fat Mike speaking - on the vinyl version]

I was fifteen when I first met Steve

It wasn't at an Adolescents show

It was an hj's rock and roll orphanage in the valley

He was playing in a band called The Strike

And after the show I went up to him

And said "great show, Steve"

He said something to me that I'll never forget

He said "I'm not Steve, I'm Larry from Channel 3

Steve left like an hour ago"

'Cause that was the kind of guy Steve was

It was a kind of a bummer

'Cause I never got to see him in Agent Orange

I never saw him in Legal Weapon

I never saw him in Joyride

When I finally met my bass playing hero

It was years later

He was back playing one of the greatest

And most influential punk bands of all times: 22 Jakcs

So I went up to him after the show and said

"It's been a while Steve, but it's great to see you again"

He said "Thanks, but my name is Joe"

I really fucking miss him