The Blasters, Violent Femmes, Los Lobos, Faith No More, L7, The Del Fuegos, and Failure were among bands whose records were distributed by the label.
Bob Biggs, the 74-year-old founder of Los Angeles independent label Slash Records, died on Saturday morning due to complications from his long battle suffering from Lewy body dementia, according to Slash’s former publicist Susan Clary. He is survived by his wife, Kim, and his son, Monty.
John Doe, singer/songwriter, guitarist, bassist and co-founder of punk rock quartet X, which formed in 1977 along with vocalist Exene Cervenka, guitarist Billy Zoom, and drummer D.J. Bonebrake, tells, over the phone, that “Bob did something that changed the music world in L.A. He was a great guy, and there’s plenty of people who didn’t step up like he did. He was representing what part of the music world was all about in L.A. He was determined to expose that to more than just the people in L.A.
“We weren’t sure what we wanted to put on it, and so he built an 8-foot plywood X and took it out to the desert and coated it in rubber cement and set it on fire,” says Doe. “He used rubber cement because he knew that would burn slower and then, low and behold, one of the frames of this 8mm movie that he took of it was this weird kind of creature that was made out of the flames on the back of it.”
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