Sometimes you have to question why you're going down the path you have chosen. The question has been asked, why Kali's Thugs?
It seems that we have spent our whole lives trying to communicate something that cannot be communicated. Something that lives so deep in each of us, but never finds the fizzers in our cast iron facades. Never finds any way to reach the surface to be viewed and shared by the world around us. Some of us pile layer upon layer of protection around us, saving us from the pain, which is a constant in our world; but in that protection, in those layers of religion, culture, genetics, family and fear, we find ourselves unable to transmit or receive information. We become conduits, garbage in garbage out, don't interrupt the content, don't intrude on the flow of information by expressing personal thought..
So why Kali's Thugs? Is it just something to do, a grand art project? No, for us it is another opportunity to communicate and connect.

No time for time and Dust of death by Kali's Thugs

 NERVOUS GENDER   GUITAR   INCARNATION. 
 

NERVOUS GENDER WALL OF GENDER 1985

Nervous gender/wall of gender/nervous voodoo 83 Los Angeles
From January 1983 to August 1986, The Nervous Gender lineup consisted of original members Velasquez and Stapleton and Wall of Voodoo members Marc Morland (guitar), Bruce Morland (Bass), Chas Grey (synthesizers & Keyboards) and Ned (Drums). This line up was often referred to as the "Wall of Gender".
M.M.C.Gerardo Velazquez lyrics

Mommy's Chest

I don't know what to do I'm a failure
I don't get up till two o'clock 
Then I wander the streets and I get depressed 
So I run on home To my mommy's chest

My mommy's chest, my mommy's chest
I get all that I want from my mommy's chest

My mommy’s chest is well stacked With Librium and valium and methamphetamine 
I get the remedy because she understands
The way to fake a living from a total mess
My mommy's chest, my mommy's chest
I get all that I want from my mommy's chest

Manic-depressive parents Is all I got from God  
So mommy and I we never know what to do 
So mommy and I get stoned on Librium and glue 
While mommy and I we watch the Bullwinkle Moose 
While daddy brings home the booze
My daddy brings home the booze

My mommy's chest, my mommy's chest 
I get the remedy from my mommy's chest 
My mommy's chest, my mommy's chest 
I get all that I want from my mommy's chest
My mommy's chest, my mommy's chest
I got to get home to her medicine chest...

My Mommy's Chest 84

1980 Gobscheit was aside project created by Edward Stapleton and Patrice Repose, with Gerardo working the sound board. It was an opportunity to put more emphasis on the words (synthpunk poetry) from a female point of view. The electronic music, in this case, became the backdrop not the main focus. It was an experiment to see if people would accept Nevous Gender's harsh erotica preformed by a woman.

synth punk poetry

GOBSCHEIT  morbid Christian guilt 1983

Synth Gender kiss kisss kiss……Gerardo Velazquez lyrics.

NG 2010 single

Green Tile Floors 2010

Edward Stapleton from NERVOUS  GENDER/  RELOADED new song 2017 

Vocals and lyrics Edward Stapleton 
Music Matt Comelone
Sound loops Donald Trump



The eejit* spews his cesspool of lies
Creating a slag heap of deception
Yet they swallow his subtext of existence
While his bigotry becomes the law of the land

Your fear has become our warfare
Our resistance is not futile
You will become the beggar
that rides the horse to hell

The mounds of decaying piglet flesh
has become the source of their opinions
a pox upon them and upon your house
as they bark ther ugly words in unison

Your fear has become our warfare
Our resistance is not futile
You will become the beggar
that rides the horse to hell

Seeds of Hate  2017 Edward Stapleton from NERVOUS  GENDER/  RELOADED new song 2017

Vocals Edward Stapleton
L.A.Drones!: Production, Sound Design and Synths
Matt Comeione Mapping and Drums Programmation - synths  (intro and end)

"Monsters" is a parody of the Sonny and Cher song "Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves" from 1971.  and new lyrics by  Gerardo Velasquez rip

Re-recorded by Nervous Gender, with altered lyrics by Gerardo Valesquez 
1981 LP Music from Hell
Edward Stapleton from NERVOUS  GENDER  


Nervous Gender aka Wall of Gender

Nervous Gender was conceived in 1978 by early synth punk pioneers Edward Stapleton and Gerardo Velasquez.   From the late seventies through the eighties they performed in clubs, lofts and galleries during the burgeoning West Coast punk rock scene in Los Angeles and San Francisco.

In 1982 Nervous Gender recorded their "Music From Hell" album for Subterranean Records in San Francisco.  Nervous Gender was asked by Target Studios to perform in the "Live at Target" video along with Fatrix, Flipper and Zev (soundtrack released on vinyl by Subterranean Records  ).  They also appeared on "New Wave Theater", an early eighties cult classic television music show in Los Angeles.  

During the 80's they performed with, among others,  Physic TV, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Christian Death, Gun Club, and Eisturzende Neubauten.  However, no studio recordings of these performances exist.

In the mid eighties Edward and Gerardo  were contacted by Bruce Moreland of Wall of Voodoo after his hearing they were on the verge of breaking up.  He encouraged them to continue on performing and suggested that Bruce and Mark Moreland along with Chaz Grey, Ned Leukharol and Joe Nanini, of Wall of Voodoo, join forces to create the second incarnation of Nervous Gender, which was nicknamed Wall of Gender.

Which brings us forward to 2017.  During the intervening years Gerardo Velasquez and Mark Moreland passed away.  Edward Stapleton and Bruce Moreland ran into each other again and decided it would might be a good time to recreate and record the sound of the Nervous Gender/Wall of Gender collaboration. 

So with this ambition in mind, a new line up was created which consists of Edward Stapleton, Bruce Moreland, LA Drones! and Matt Comeione,

Monsters Revisited

Gangs of Whores 1983/2017 new recording Edward and Matt Comeione
This song was inspired by the sex workers in down town Los Angeles in 1983.
Who's work place was out side my widown , so many of the lines in this song come from their sale pitch to the local truck drivers.

And a nod to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamelan

Gangs of Whores uncut Rehersal

Edward and Matt 2017 I'm a living legend
Just ask anyone at the bus stop

Guts for Garters on the down-low

Music by: Matt Comeione
Vocals:  Edward Stapleton
Lyrics:  Karene Stapleton

"Baby going up
Baby going down
Baby, baby six feet under ground"

Baby Going Down

Matt and Edward

Out out body of christ in the name of lust and sanity

Christian Lovers punk-monk

t actually comes from an old koan attributed to Zen Master Linji, (the founder of the Rinzai sect).Iconoclasm
Linji is reputed for being iconoclastic, leading students to awakening by hitting and shouting. "See the darkness, hear the silence, find your peace with inner violence
Then should you meet the Buddha as you walk along your road
You can kill the fake impostor as the story has been told"…Anon.  

Matt Comeion from the Tracers 
Edward Stapleton from Nervous gender 
Karene Stapleton from Kalis Thugs 
Michael Intiere from Cello Pudding

If You Meet The Buddha On The Road, Kill Him

Reuben Jansen 
This is rad as hell. Sort of like the Residents, but really pissed-off. As a long-time Nervous Gender fan, I'm glad to know Nervous Gender Reloaded is a thing. 


Matt Comeione - Music
Edward Stapleton - vocals
Karene Stapleton - lyrics

Waiting in the shadows
the clock is striking three
the time of the arrival comes
for my nemesis and me

Christofascist

I pray to my St. John
on whose cross I stiffly stand
Balancing myself
Half punished, half damned

Christofascist

The mystery is over
the Nightshade takes effect
I'll not be here tomorrow
a few hours to forget

Christofascist

Christofascist

Song inspired by W.B. Yeats and Rozz Williams

Music:  Matt Comeione
Vocals:  Edward Stapleton
Concept:  Karene Stapleton
Back up vocals: Hazumi

Slouching towards Bethlehem

Inspired by the Rolling Stones song "Cocksucking blues"  Never released on an album.  

Music by Matt Comeione
Lyrics and  vocals by Edward Stapleton

Walking the Dilly

Music  Matt Comeione
Voices Edward and Karene Stapleton
lyrics by Karene Stapleton

Backyard Crucifix

NERVOUS GENDER reloaded 2019
doing a cover of Bonzo dog band early 60s 
We are normal Combining elements of music hall , trad jazz , psychedelic pop with surreal humour and avant-garde art,

We Are Normal - 2:24:19, 6.40 PM

Nervous Gender synthpunk 1978 /2018 Robert Imhuman: I feel this is a prime time to once again announce my love for people like Edward Stapleton, beautiful example of reflecting and sharing past faces, while continuously offering the new and now. You've only become a role model in further ways over the years, my friend

and as for the NG project, wow the 21st century is more a time for it than ever, incredible     
Mark Lane 
As usual Nervous Gender delivers the goods. A tribute to their keen ear for the avant-garde and the Bonzo Dog Band.

Nervous Gender Reloaded

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