BORN LOSERS by LEIGHTON KOIZUMI: October 2012

This Years "Funtastic Dracula Festival" was a good time had by all!!! At least I had a great time. I am now just recovering after 4 days in Beindorm , and a couple of days in Estudio Tigress in Gandia , working on new "Gravedigger V" recordings . I don't have "blisters on my fingers" but I did come back with blisters on my brain and a broken rib to boot . . . So I will be reporting on all the bands , rumors, gossip , and everything in between . . . But right now it's hard for me to type and breathe at the same time so enjoy some photos . . .

EAT ME

WE WANT MORE !!!

The Gories

YOU CAN'T RAIN ON OUR PARADE


GO PALOMA GO !!!


IT'S FUNTASTIC !!!!


THEE BAT


THE "SOUNDFLAT" GUYS FEELIN THE LOVE !!!!


STONEAGE - STOMP


DAN & LEIGHTON


PHANTOM KEYS


WHAT MAKES YOU THINK I'M HIGH ??

FELA IS THE MAN

GIUDA


MOM , SEND MONEY !!!!

" There's no such thing as bad publicity " - Mick Jagger
Over the Years I have heard or read about the "curse" of "The Gravedigger V , and of my own demise from a multitude of methods and reasons in many articles. It's kind of trippy in a, cool way to read about it and all the theories surrounding the myth. And it makes for some damn good publicity , that's for sure!

THE GRAVEDIGGER V

I have never had anything to do with these rumors, starting them or keeping them going, etc . . . I have agreed that there is a curse or a theory of a curse. Also many of the details of my, or our deaths are true. And I have tried to "milk it" so to speak. Come on it's pretty good when you can use "Back From The Grave" and the general public believes it or get's confused, hahah. For example:

Sad, sad news. Greg Shaw was a pioneer of so many of the commonplace aspects in the indie music scene today. RIP. -adam

Someone (April 19, 2005)

It's sad but there is a GraveDigger V / Morlocks curse. Those associated with the band are dead (Greg, Chris Gast) or faked their deaths (Leighton Koizumi) or will be all dead soon! Sad.
from "Punk News. org

It seems the rock & roll ...
www.laweekly.com, 19 Aug 2010

LEIGHTON KOIZUMI of THE

It seems the rock & roll Gods - or the Grim Reaper - have been trying to tell the Morlocks' lead singer, Leighton Koizumi, something for a while now. After all, in 1999 Spin magazine declared him dead (in print) not long before a live album was released abroad without his involvement, titled Wake Me When I'm Dead.

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Leighton Koizumi

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After leaving the slammer around 2000, Koizumi got sober via the MusiCares MAP Fund and reunited with an old cohort: Bob Forrest of Thelonious Monster, now a counselor seen on TV's Celebrity Rehab.

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Massive mainstream success didn't happen for either, but had Koizumi not been focused on getting clean after his incarceration, he could have had a second chance during the early 2000s, when a slew of garage-style bands, including the Hives and the White Stripes, broke big. He did become part of a new psych-rock scene in Los Angeles, jamming and hanging with various musicians, including guys from the Brian Jonestown Massacre and Spindrift.

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Koizumi says he was "iffy at first."

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Koizumi calls it "dirty punk. Their bluesy quality makes them suited for the Chess undertaking, and for the most part, it's a checkmate. Koizumi's unyielding persona gives his interpretations a swagger and sonic credibility few crooners could pull off, his death-defiant existence not unlike those of the legendary artists he's covering.

In 1999, Spin magazine ...
www.skyscrapermagazine.com, 8 April 2011 [cached]

In 1999, Spin magazine incorrectly stated Morlocks singer Leighton Koizumi had overdosed and died. At the time, Koizumi was alive and well but near the end of a 10-year prison term for a botched drug robbery that involved kidnapping. Soon after leaving jail, Koizumi got sober and started to hit stages around Los Angeles with various bands, and a few years later reformed The Morlocks to tour and record: the upshot was the comeback album, Easy Listening for the Underachiever(2008), only released in Europe on the Italian label Go Down. However, copies did filter Stateside. Somebody in song licensing acquired a copy and the group soon found pieces of its catchier material used in television dramas and restaurant chain advertisements. ___________________________________

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Christ on a crutch , I can't really say if there's a curse , I can say that Chris Gast the original Bass player of "The Gravedigger V" died mysteriously in his sleep. That I'd say, more or less that around Seven to Eight people that where associated with the band are now dead , including " Greg Shaw". I know that "John Hanarrti" almost died early in the band when we went down to T.J. to buy "Beatle Boots". Back in the early Eighties we had found this small little shop with back stock of 60's everything you could get the coolest pair of boots for like 10 bucks with a little haggling. Well "John" was hungry but he didn't want to eat in TJ. he was paranoid that he would get food poisoning, so we stop at a "Jack in the Box" on the Border. Two days later "John" was in the hospital he had gotten some strange virus, he was in the hospital for like a whole Month and almost died. Years after that I had heard that he had gotten into some trouble with the "Feds. Something to do with him bringing in concealed handguns into his bank. Not to rob the bank , but to feel more secure , I guess , who knows.
I was rumored to have died from a number of reasons , mostly from drug -overdose's or "Aids"
shit like that. I think mostly this was a result of being incarcerated for a good amount of time and I just fell way off the radar. So this was somewhat easy to believe since no one knew what had happen to me. I have heard of sightings of myself , kind of like "Bigfoot". I don't have the greatest reputation for saying "no" and I am a "hibtual line stepper. So IS there a cruse? I guess you could make a case for one. The GravediggerV where only together for less than Two Years. In a way you could also chalk it up to it being a "occupational hazard. Some say that I have lived a "charmed life", I can't say that "charm" has had alot to do with it. The way I look at it in the "grand scheme of things" is that I am destined to live a long and suffering existence for all my karma . . . Boo hoo . . .