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The Fix | |
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| Origin | Lansing, Michigan |
| Genres | Hardcore punk |
| Years active | 1980–1982 |
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The Fix was an early 1980shardcore punk band fromLansing, Michigan, and one of the first bands to be signed toTouch and Go Records.
The Fix was formed in March 1980 bySteve Miller (vocals), Craig Calvert (guitar), Mike Achtenberg (bass) and Jeff Wellman (drums). In March 1981, The Fix released a single on Touch and Go, "Vengeance" b/w "In this Town", in a small pressing of 200 copies.[1] The first single has fetched up to $3,500 oneBay and is considered among the rarest punk rock records in existence.[2] They also contributed the song "No Idols" to the 1981 Touch and Go compilation EPProcess of Elimination.
In January 1982, Touch and Go releasedJan's Rooms, a four-song 7-inch EP. The band played on several prominent bills, including shows with theDead Kennedys,D.O.A.,Flipper,Black Flag, and many other notable punk rock bands, before breaking up in early 1982.[3]
In early 1982, Miller and Achtenberg formedBlight, which also featuredTesco Vee ofthe Meatmen as vocalist.[1] During the band's four-month existence, they recorded an eponymous 7-inch EP, released posthumously in 1983.[4]
In 1983, Miller played guitar briefly in Strange Fruit, which also featuredSteve Shelley ofSonic Youth on drums.[5] They issued one three-song 7-inch single with Miller, "On Top of a Hill" (1983, Babel Records).[6]
Wellman, meanwhile, moved back to Northern Michigan and became a real estate agent inBoyne City. Calvert played with other bands, most recently aChicago-basedblues outfit.
Miller is currently a journalist based in Lansing, and was nominated for a 2001Pulitzer Prize byThe New York Times.[7] He is the author of eight books includingTouch and Go: The Complete Hardcore Punk Zine '79-'83 (2010) and the bestsellerDetroit Rock City: The Uncensored History of Rock 'n' Roll in America's Loudest City (2013).
In 1990, German label Lost and Found Records released a double LP calledCold Days, compiling all six songs from the two singles, the compilation track, four outtakes and 12 live songs.
In 2006, Touch and Go reissued all of this material on CD in 2006 asAt the Speed of Twisted Thought..., augmented by additional outtakes and a live cover of theGerms' "Media Blitz".[8]