Rozz Rezabek-Wright usually Rozz Rezabek, is an American musician based in Portland, Oregon

Portland, Oregon

Portland is a city located in the Pacific Northwest, near the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2010 Census, it had a population of 583,776, making it the 29th most populous city in the United States...

 and formerly San Francisco, California

San Francisco, California

San Francisco , officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of 7.15 million people which includes San Jose and Oakland...

.

In the late 1970s Rozz Rezabek fronted several punk bands including San Francisco-based Negative Trend

Negative Trend

Negative Trend was an early San Francisco punk rock band, active from 1977–1979.The former members of Negative Trend would go on to start a number of other notable western US punk bands...

 which he formed with guitarist Craig Gray (later in Toiling Midgets

Toiling Midgets

Toiling Midgets is an influential rock band from San Francisco, California with "roots in seminal San Francisco punk acts the Sleepers and Negative Trend1." They were "one of the first West Coast punk bands to experiment with dub and post-punk elements1", and have been active on-and-off since 1979...

) and bassist Will Shatter (later in Flipper

Flipper (band)

Flipper is a punk band formed in San Francisco, California in 1979, continuing in often erratic fashion until the mid-1990s, then reuniting in 2005. The band influenced a number of grunge,, punk rock and noise rock bands...

).

Rezabek's early 1980s New Wave

New Wave music

New Wave is a subgenre of :rock music that emerged in the mid to late 1970s alongside punk rock. The term at first generally was synonymous with punk rock before being considered a genre in its own right that incorporated aspects of electronic and experimental music, mod subculture, disco and 1960s...

 band, Theatre of Sheep (ToS), was popular in Portland but never made the jump to a wider audience. In attempt to escape ongoing conflicts with a couple of girls (one being Courtney Love

Courtney Love

Courtney Michelle Love is an American rock musician. Love is the lead vocalist, lyricist, and rhythm guitarist for alternative rock band Hole, which she formed in 1989, and is an actress who has moved from bit parts in Alex Cox films to significant and acclaimed roles in The People vs...

) Rezabek moved back to San Francisco for several years. Rezabek appeared in the documentary Kurt & Courtney

Kurt & Courtney

Kurt & Courtney is a 1998 documentary film by Nick Broomfield investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of Kurt Cobain, and allegations of Courtney Love's involvement in it...

, which also featured the ToS song "Pyramid's Babylon.". Renewed interest in ToS has prompted a new limited release greatest hits CD, "Old Flames."

On November 3, 2007 Rezabek performed a set of Negative Trend songs in San Francisco at a Lennon Studios benefit for Johnny Genocide. This lineup included Bob Clic (guitar) and Rik Ficara (drums) from The Lewd with Keith Bolinger (bass) from White Noise Records

White Noise Records

White Noise Records was a record label founded in Los Angeles in 1978 by artists Ronn Spencer and Louise Spencer, writers Nicole Panter and Jim Bickhart, attorneys Gordon Rubin and Peter Paterno, and publicist Bob Merlis....

. White Noise released the Rozz and Negative Trend: The Pop Sessions CD in 1998.

External links

• "Lambs to the Slaughter" by Zach Dundas, Willamette Week
  Willamette Week
  Willamette Week is an alternative weekly newspaper published in Portland, Oregon, United States. It features reports on local news, politics, sports, business and culture....
  
  , 1999.
• "rozzrezabek.com ... loverlegendliar." by Rozz Rezabek (memoirs, blog).