The Amazing Shits were a White Rock band comprised of Buck Cherry and Dash Ham, guitars, Bill Shirt, vocals and Bad Bob and Mud Bay Slim on bass and drums. Now they belong to the ages

01 Shuffling Youth

03 Bondo

Active Dog: White Rock Scum meets East Van psychedelic greasers to form one of the early West Coast punk bands. Buck Cherry and Terry Bowes (guitars), Dash Ham (organ), Ross Carpenter (bass), Bill Shirt (vocals) and Robert "Spider" Bruce on drums. 
Check out posthumous YouTube videos and Ross Carpenter's Active Dog vids on YouTube

"The Active Dog© Saga
In June of 1978 famed White Rock country punks 'The Monitors', broke up amidst a flurry of Alcohol related booze problems.
Seizing the opportunity, Buck Cherry hitch hiked to the bustling seaport of Vancouver to join the existing trio of: Ross 'mooch' Carpenter, Robt.'Spider' Bruce, and Terry 'Mr' Bowes ie: Active Dog....they were soon a six pack.
Buck and Bill's drinking problems were happily mirrored by that of 'Spider' and **Dash Hamhocks drinking problems.
(this led to many fine songs of desperation, degradation, and horror, set to blithe teen beat melodies...............).
Chaotic live appearances impressed audiences with their severe personality disorders (see the so called urine-gun incident--in 'Snot Rag magazine#7--)The mixed up lads paused in their career to reconsider their..um..options......
Enroute to an up-country detox centre the bus carrying the five delirious members swerved tragically to avoid an oncoming liquor store and everyone aboard, perished screaming to all damnation in the ensuing explosion and Hellish firestorm."

02 JUST ANOTHER DAY

03 Rat Race

06 Teen Chow

09 The Beach

13 Fun

The Amazing Shits - live demo recorded to cassette, early 1977, White Rock BC

Fit to Die

one-off jam session, recorded to cassette in BGD's basement, circa 1985. Art, Buck - gtr/vox, MJJK, bass/voc, Brian, drums

01 Good Guys Jam 1 Jam2 Jam3 Get It Straight Short 1 Still Holding

01 Still Holding on to You Good Guys Don't Wear White Can't Keep Nothing Down (multiple)

Sal Mineo

Party Girl

Child of the Mooon - Modernettes

From the first time I saw them in Rock Scene and Creem, when I was about 15, the Dolls were something special to me. Even without hearing them - the interviews were  so perfectly what i thought and the sense of humour so like my own, I knew I'd ffound spiritual kin. Then when i heard them, they were everything I hoped they'd be and more. So I wrote a song about them - a long overdue  thank you

Buck Cherry

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