Bunny Genghis at Club 156 (Part 3)

Bunny Genghis performing at Club 156, University of Colorado at Boulder, sometime in late 1993 (probably November).

Bunny Genghis were the first band to release anything on GSL, the "Children Under Twelve" single, in October 1993.

This show was a benefit for a compilation 7" being planned by a Denver label, Black Plastic Records, entitled "Rocky Mountain Arsenal". Boulder band Cavity opened the show, and the headlining band was the recently-reformed Dead Silence, a no-nonsense animal rights/peace-punk band. In hopes of upstaging the headliners, Bunny Genghis arrived at the show with an arsenal of animal "products" procured from local butchers and game processors, including the tick-infested deerskins they are wearing in this video. The show would probably have continued as planned were it not for the massive amounts of smoke and fog being generated onstage that was rapidly leaking out and filling the arcade where the club was located. The arcade management, having no idea what was going on in the club, called the fire department. Genghis cleared out moments before the club was invaded by firefighters and cops who were probably stunned and shocked by the site of punks in leather jackets literally clubbing each other with dumpster-dived deer limbs and pigs' heads. Needless to say, the show was over. All five Genghis members somehow managed to escape. The following morning's Daily Camera included a "shame on you"-type of blurb about how "stupid" Bunny Genghis were. Elsewhere in the paper was an unrelated article about a bunch of animal skins dumped the night before on the lawn of a wealthy homeowner on Mapleton Hill.

Dead Silence were surprisingly cool about the whole thing and rescheduled a free make-up show with Angel Hair in early '94.

At least two members of Bunny Genghis contracted Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever from the ticks in the skins, and guitarist Tom Mick was stabbed (though not fatally) at a party a few weeks later. Band lore suggested a curse on the group resulting from a chicken that was supposedly killed at the show. There were indeed live chickens present so presumably this is possible...

The 7" was released about 6 months later and the Bunny Genghis track includes an answering machine message from the club manager, Dawn Cooper, explaining that the cops were after the band for questioning in this incident.

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