http://www.mediafire.com/file/c6ag30d2yi918bv/Corporate_Wh%2Ar%2As_And_UPS.zip/file"Useless Pieces Of Shit were formed in September of 1983 out of the demise of two prominent Tucson bands: ‘The Corporate Whores’ and ‘Civil Death’. Lead singer, Lenny Mental, was the lead and main driving force behind ‘Civil Death’ one of Tucson’s most popular bands. The remaining members were made up of ex ‘Corporate Whores’ Duck Sticks (who later became known as Dr. Blood) on drums, Slug Useless on guitar, and the Sludge on bass. The Corporate Whores were Tucson’s first manic thrash hard-core band but broke up before gaining much recognition.
After U.P.S.’s first show in November of 1983, the band went through some radical changes. Sludge left the band to join ‘Conflict’ (another Tucson band), Paul Young joined the band in December of 1983 on lead guitar (also in Civil Death with Larvae), and U.P.S. was evicted from their practice house leaving the band without rehearsal space.
After a couple of months of inactivity the band started again with Duck Sticks (Dr. Blood) moved from drums to bass and Tommy Mosh (ex-Savage Circle of New York) joining the band to fill in on drums. After a month Mosh was forced to quit the band for medical reasons and Dog Shit (ex ‘Free Cheese’ of Michigan) stepped in to fill the vacancy at the drums.
With Dog Shit on drums and Dr. Blood on bass the band was for the time solidified. Now the band went into intense practicing for the next several months playing out occasionally and going into the studio to record a five song demo tape, 'Ugly In Public'. In August of 1984 U.P.S. brought their refined set out to the public with a big show with two leading European punk bands. Shortly after this Paul Young left the band for personal reasons.
U.P.S. went on their first U.S. Tour, ‘Ugly in Public’, in the Summer of 1985. The band was well received throughout the East Coast, Southeast, & Midwest. Their unique fast, ferocious, and innovative hard-core manic thrash punk rock was well loved and was described as sounding like a wall of sonic mayhem with a dervish obstinate stage presence.
Upon return, the band went through more musical and personnel changes with Lenny Mental and Dog Shit leaving the band and Sleepy Pieces (FT13 from El Paso, TX) taking over on vocals, Slug Useless on guitar, Dr. Blood on bass, and Rat Shit as the new drummer (Rat had auditioned for the band when Tommy Mosh left but didn’t get the job because he was only 14 years old at the time).
With this new lineup in place U.P.S. began to prepare for another tour in the fall of 1986. The ‘STUPID PUNK U.S. TOUR’, took the band through the Midwest, Northeast, down the East Coast, and back west through the South. The band produced several items to sell such as T-shirts, tapes, stickers, a comic book/lyric book, among other things. Dr. Blood also brought his tattoo machine so all the gnarly punk rockers went under the gun and got a Stupid Punk Tour Tattoo!!!
After the tour the band was forced to again make a change at lead singer. Sleepy moved back to Texas to get married and Dumpy Pieces (not his brother) was added to replace him. This new lineup was the best U.P.S. yet. U.P.S. went into the studio to record their first vinyl record. In the fall of 1987 ‘Fuck Shit Up’ a seven inch vinyl record was released. The band even performed a live music video of ‘Fuck Shit Up’ on local T.V. in Tucson. The record sold out quickly so the band went back into the studio to record a second seven inch vinyl record to be called, ‘It Is Written’.
Over the next few months the band was busy playing out in the Tucson & Phoenix areas. They did a surprise acoustic set at a trendy coffee house dressed like beatniks, several big shows in full clown makeup, and even performed part of a punk rock opera entitled, ‘Politico Voice’. Sadly though after this the band just slowly fell apart and in June of 1989 Slug moved to Seattle and Useless Pieces Of Shit were officially declared dead."
