Lead vocalist Simon Smallwood was the frontman of Dead Hippie when they were mentioned in the Spin magazine after the album was released in 1983 and a photo of those times on the MySpace page showed other band members such as guitarist Mike Hagen, drummer Paul Mars (also Paul Black , and in fact - Paul Martin Marmorstein) and bassist / synthesizer Bob Mann. The pianists Jacqueline Fritz and Debra Exit also appear in the photos with the band, and the latest one, dated 1985, shows the already named Simon Smallwood and Bob Mann, as well as Robert Williams and Mike Dewey. It seems that the latter is the same person as Big Mike D, who also has a page on MySpace, where he tells about his participation in the band Dead Hippie. Another keyboardist Bob Friedman (Bob Friedman) also has messages on the Internet saying that he played for a short time with this band.
However, all these late members had nothing to do with the only album Dead Pulse Records released on the obscure label Pulse Records, one of the few punk rock bands that cultivated the genre-long long instrumental passages in songs that were moving in completely unexpected directions. Instrumentals or just long introductions before singing at one time practically disappeared from rock for several decades, and in the approach to music that is used in punk rock, they hardly ever existed at all. And the performance style of Dead Hippie is recognized by some bloggers-reviewers rather theatrical and even dramatic, which is mainly due to the singing of the frontman, and the estimates of how Simon Smallwood sings vary from "awfully good" to blind copying of Arthur Brown in his work " Crazy World "(remember the famous song" Fire "!). But there are a lot of those who believe that now, unfortunately, the already deceased Simon Smallwood had a rather fascinating voice, and it was possible to see epithets like "great", "terribly strange" and "funny" under some of his photographs.
After the demise of Dead Hippie, little later Simon Smallwood joined the punk rock band Würm, also from the City of Angels, whose style of play is classified as "sludge metal", originally active from 1973 to 1977; Smallwood was in the group in the short period of the end of 1985. On the Internet, you can still find a few videos, where Simon Smallwood in 1991, performs with the group TuTu Band from Portland.
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