| Period | Year | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Stza and Alec form No Commercial Value with a drummer and another singer | |
| 1992? | Alec leaves to form Agent 99 with Dunia Best, Jay Nugent and Ara | |
| 1993? | Sascha Dubrul replaces Alec, additional singer leaves and drummer is booted John Dolan takes drums. Name changes to Choking Victim. | |
| Mid- | 1993 | Skwert replaces John Dolan. |
| 1994 | Some songs that later appeared on the Crack Rock Steady demo are recorded. | |
| Mid-? | 1994 | Crack Rock Steady EP recorded. Sascha quits. |
| 1995 | Agent 99 breaks up & Alec comes back. | |
| 1996 | Squatta's Paradise released. | |
| 1997? | Alec kicked and replaced by Shayne. Alec replaces shayne. Shayne replaces Alec for good in Choking Victim. | |
| Summer | 1997 | Infested is contributed to Give 'Em the Boot. Mike Trujillo records CV (Stza, Skwert, and Shayne) for Victim Comes Alive. |
| Fall? | 1997? | Victim Comes Alive released. |
| 1998? | Hellcat offers Choking Victim a deal. | |
| Fall? | 1998 | InDK (Ezra[Vocals], Skwert[Drums], Dave[Bass], Jimmy[Guitar & Vocals], Paul[Guitar]) is formed. |
| Jan | 1999 | InDK records In Decay. |
| 1999 | Ezra joins as second guitar player. No Gods / No Managers recorded. Choking Victim breaks up (Skwert kicked). InDK releases In Decay. | |
| March | 1999 | No Gods / No Managers released. |
| Dec | 1999 | The Crack Rock Steady Seven (One-time get-together of Josh Guara,Ezra,P-laf?,Stza,Alec,Marina & Leah) record Baby Jesus Sliced-Up in the Manger |
| 2000 | Name becomes Leftöver Crack as Amery "AWOL" Smith joins on drums, Mike Trujillo and Brad Logan on guitar, Alec back on bass for Rock the 40 Oz. | |
| April | 2000 | Hellcat offers Leftöver Crack a deal. Ara joins on drums. |
| May | 2000 | The recording of Mediocre Generica begins. |
| 2001? | Morning Glory is formed by Ezra, and with a horde of musicians participating in the recordings, This is No Time Ta Sleep is produced. | |
| Sept | 2001 | Mediocre Generica released. |
| Nov | 2001 | Baby Jesus Sliced-Up in the Manger is released by the Crack Rock Steady Seven |
| 2002? | Morning Glory releases a few more songs along with their "hit" single, Gang Control, on Tha Suicide Singles. JP joins Leftöver Crack to replace Ara on drums. Andy joins InDK to replace Dave on bass. | |
| Mid-? | 2002 | InDK breaks up. |
| Aug | 2002 | InDK's Kill Whitey is released. |
| Feb | 2003 | Leftöver Crack begins recording Fuck World Trade in Chicago with Steve Albini, with Alec on bass, Stza on vox and gits, Brad & Ezra on Vox and gits, with Candee and Mark(?) on drums. |
| July | 2003 | Morning Glory releases The Whole World is Watching with lineup of Ezra on vox/guitar, JP on drums, John John on guitar, Lucky on guitar, Mikey on bass. |
| May | 2004 | Leftöver Crack signs with Alternative Tentacles. |
| Aug | 2004 | Leftöver Crack releases Fuck World Trade. Brandon joins as the drummer for the ensuing tour. |
| Dec | 2004 | Brandon dies on tour. Leftöver Crack goes on hiatus. |
| Mid | 2005 | Stza & Brad form the Star Fucking Hipsterz. They play a few shows (Brad is not present) and call it quits due to busy schedules. Stza sets out on a small UK solo acoustic tour. |
| July | 2005 | Leftöver Crack starts playing a few shows in the Northeast US again with Ara back on drums, but Ezra is absent. |
| Sept | 2005 | The original lineup for Choking Victim does a few "reunion" shows (and also one in December) with Stza on vox & git, Sascha on bass, John Dolan on drums. |
| Oct | 2005 | Leftöver Crack is back in full effect (including Ezra) and plays five shows in California. |
| Nov | 2005 | Stza goes back to Europe to do some shows with The Infested, performing as The Crack Rock Steady Seven in the UK and "The Crack Steady Rockers" in 3 other show appearances. |
| Dec | 2005 | Leftöver Crack do three shows around the Northeastern US. |
| March | 2006 | Brad's label, Blacknoise Records, puts out a split 7" that includes a new track by Ezra (as Morning Glory) and a BBC recording of Leftöver Crack from November 2004. Stza forms The Crack Rocksteady Seven Mexico, featuring himself and the members of Niņo Zombi while in Mexico. |
| April | 2006 | Leftöver Crack is back in full effect with an East coast US tour. |
| August | 2006 | Leftöver Crack record a split with Citizen Fish and depart for a European tour. Brad and Ezra end up not participating; G from The Infested fills in on guitar. |
| Name | AKA | Role | Other Bands/Other |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scott Sturgeon | Sturg (& variations), Sturgeon (& variations), STZ, Stza, The Stza, Stza Crack, Crack Daddy Kane, Osama St'z Laden, Sporty Lice, Mr. Crack | Vocals, some Guitar, lyrics | Guitar & vocals for Disease(?) / No Commercial Value / Choking Victim, produced No-Ca$h's split |
| Alec Baillie | Alec, Alec B, Axel B., AlecBeh Mohammud, Alec Shaheed Mohamed, Alec Crack, Biggest-boy, Osama Bin Laden | Bass | Bass for No Commercial Value / Choking Victim / Agent 99 |
| Ezra Kire | Ezra (Glory, Crack, or DK), Tryla-G, Ez, E, Tryla Crack | Guitar, Vocals, some lyrics | Guitar & backup vocals for Choking Victim, Guitar & vocals for Morning Glory / InDK |
| Brad Logan | Brad, Brad Minus, Mr. Minus-Crack | Guitar, backup vocals | Owns Black Noise Records, guitar for F-Minus |
| Ara Babajian | Ara Crack, Biggest Backbeat | Drums | Drums for Agent 99 / the Slackers |
| Name | AKA | Bands/Other |
|---|---|---|
| Candee | Candy, Candee Beat | Drums for Leftöver Crack / Antimaniax / Beatbrats |
| Amery Smith | AWOL, Awol 'Action' Jackson | Drums for Leftöver Crack / Suicidal Tendencies / Beastie Boys / BS 2000 |
| Brandon Chevalier-Kolling | Brandon Possible | Drums for Leftöver Crack / the X-Possibles / Mothermania |
| Mark | Drums for Leftöver Crack | |
| JP Otto | Juan, JP Glory, JP Stockyard | Drums for Leftöver Crack / F-Minus / Morning Glory / Stockyard Stoics / X-Possibles / Antimaniax / Readymen / Sixgun Republic |
| Skwert | Drums for Choking Victim / InDK / Morning Glory / American Distress, runs Tent City Records | |
| John Dolan | Drums for Choking Victim / Sea Monkey / Cotton and the Chore Boys | |
| Sascha Dubrul | Sascha, Sascha Scatter | Bass for Choking Victim |
| Shane | Shayne, Pezent Shayne, Pez Shayne | Bass for Choking Victim |
| Mike Trujillo | Mr. T, the Macro-Biotic Man | Produced Choking Victim, Guitar for Blindsided / Leftöver Crack |
| Lucky Strano | Lucky, Lucky Glory | Guitar for World/Inferno Friendship Society / Morning Glory |
| John John Jesse | John John, John John Glory | Bass for Nausea, Guitar for Morning Glory |
| General | |
|---|---|
| Q: |
Why do they say things like "kill yourself" and "shoot the kids at school"? |
| A: |
In interviews, Stza seems to state that they enjoy testing the waters of free speech in the United States. |
| Q: |
Why do I see pentagrams on their album covers and 666's in their lyrics if they're atheists? |
| A: |
Stza says "The symbols on our records are provocation. We don't believe in God or the Devil. The signs were just made to entice the people who believe in it, there is not a real meaning, we are not a satanic band at all." Also: "Satanism's okay if you dont believe in Satan as a being. Some of the laws from the Satanic Bible are just common sense, and are good, but I disagree with enough that I wouldn't call myself a Satanist." Ezra says "Everybody in the band is an atheist. We make a lot of jokes about Christians and religion in general and even Satanism. What I have to say about it usually is that you can't really believe in Satan unless you believe in God. We like the imagery of satanism. We like to poke fun at it. We think it's kind of humorous." It is likely that they have a distaste for organized religion because of its tendency to shape people's values and thought-processes into ones vastly differing from their own. |
| Q: |
Are they really homeless squatters? |
| A: |
Yes and no. It is pretty clear that most of them at one point or another have had no place to go. From the best I can tell, at least Stza and Ezra have permanent rooms in C-Squat, which isn't actually a squat anymore (as of 2002): "On August 19 the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development transferred ownership of eleven of the twelve remaining squatted buildings on New York's Lower East Side to the Urban Homestead Assistance Board (UHAB), a nonprofit housing development agency. UHAB, in turn, will provide assistance in expeditiously completing renovation of the buildings, and will then turn the properties over to the tenants." |
| Q: | Why don't they live like kings now that they're (relatively) wealthy and (in)famous? |
| A: |
They do. They live how they want to live (under the circumstances), and always have. Not getting radio play doesn't help their wealth. All of the members have other bands/projects/jobs to suppliment their income. |
| Q: | Stza Crack, Ezra "Tryla-G" Glory, Brandon Possible? What's with these "team crack" names? |
| A: |
Sturgeon, the lyricist/singer of Leftöver Crack is a big fan of the Wu-Tang Clan, whose two original members' monikers are the Gza and the Rza. Ezra is Ezra's real name. He calls himself Tryla-G, which he pronouces like "trilogy". A last name is a family name. Their bands are their families, so their "last names" are usually adopted from current or former bands. |
| Q: |
What's with the ö in Leftöver Crack? |
| A: |
Above the o is an umlaut, which is a diacritical mark placed over a vowel in German to indicate the way the reader should pronounce it. They are usually either placed over the second of two adjacent vowels in a word to indicate that they are to be pronounced as separate sounds, or placed over any vowel to indicate that it is not silent. Because there are no vowels around the o in leftover, you pronounce Leftöver Crack just as you would leftover crack. It was probably done to mock shitty bands like Mötley Crüe who did it for no reason other than fasion. |
| Q: |
How do I make the ö in Leftöver Crack? |
| A: |
To simply type it: Capitalized Ö: Alt+0214 Lower case ö: Alt+148 HTML: Capitalized Ö: Ö or Ö Lower case ö: ö or ö |
| Lyrics | |
|---|---|
| Q: | What's with the number 41? (Morning Glory & the CRS7's So Ya Wanna Be a Cop lyrics that Stza sings, Leftöver Crack's One Dead Cop lyrics, INDK's All 41) |
| A: |
The highly-publicized and controversial death of Amadou Diallo involved 41 shots by 4 officers. Read more about the incident here. |
| Q: | What is spangin'? ("Ya turned a spangin' job into a life-long career" from Crack City Rockers by Leftöver Crack) |
| A: |
Spanging, from slang verb "spange", is a contraction of spare change. It is the act of asking people for money on the street. |
