History Trivia / DOA

* BreakupBreakout: Though D.O.A. and Chuck Biscuits' contributions on drums are respected as it is, Chuck's later stints in Music/BlackFlag, Circle Jerks, Music/{{Danzig}}, Music/SocialDistortion and even Music/RunDMC (on the album ''Tougher Than Leather'', at the request of Music/RickRubin) are what cemented his legendary status.

** Though music has taken up most of his life, Joe “Shithead” Keithley is also a published author (having written two books about his experiences playing with D.O.A.) and an occassional actor (most notably playing Officer Friendly in the Vancouver-produced dystopian satire ''Film/TerminalCityRicochet''). Since 2018, he’s also served as a city councilor in his hometown, and several news articles noted the irony of someone who wrote songs like “Smash the State” becoming an elected official.

* HeAlsoDid: Though music has taken up most of his life, Joe “Shithead” Keithley is also a published author (having written two books about his experiences playing with D.O.A.) and an occassional actor (most notably playing Officer Friendly in the Vancouver-produced dystopian satire ''Film/TerminalCityRicochet''). Since 2018, he’s also served as a city councilor in his hometown, and several news articles noted the irony of someone who wrote songs like “Smash the State” becoming an elected official.

* NoBudget [=/=] StarvingArtist: D.O.A. is known for recording, touring, and making videos on a shoestring. Their self-released debut EP ''Disco Sucks'' was paid for with welfare cheques, and Joe's books ''I, Shithead'' and ''Talk - Action = 0'' are full of stories about living and touring in abject poverty in the band's early days, including an anecdote about touring on a ''two dollar'' per diem per member in early 1983--equivalent to about five-and-a-quarter dollars a day in 2020--with beer and cigarettes substituting for food. It was rumoured in 1983 that D.O.A. had provided their new drummer Greg James a luxurious lifestyle (including a Corvette and a penthouse apartment), when in reality he and guitarist Dave Gregg would often feed themselves at soup kitchens.

* HeAlsoDid: Though music has taken up most of his life, Joe “Shithead” Keithley is also a published author (having written two books about his experiences playing with D.O.A.) and an occassional actor (most notably playing Officer Friendly in the Vancouver-produced dystopian satire ''Film/TerminalCityRicochet''). Since 2018, he’s served as a city councilor in his hometown, and several news articles noted the irony of someone who wrote songs like “Smash the State” becoming an elected official.

* AuthorExistenceFailure: Though several D.O.A. members have passed on, drummer Ken Jensen was the only one to do so while still a member; he died in a house fire in January 1995. The band’s next album ''The Black Spot'', featuring John Wright of {{Music/Nomeansno}} filling in on drums, was dedicated to his memory (as well as that of Dimwit, who died of a heroin overdose in 1994).

* BigNameFan:
** Though they were influential to countless punk musicians, the highest-profile person quoted on the back cover of Joe's autobiography is Music/DaveGrohl of Music/{{Nirvana}} and Music/FooFighters, who says "They've changed a lot of people's lives." In addition: accounts differ, but according to at least some people (including Creator/NardwuarTheHumanServiette) Music/KurtCobain and Music/CourtneyLove met at a D.O.A. show in [[UsefulNotes/{{Portland}} Portland, Oregon]].
** Superstar record producer Bob Rock--best known for working with bands like Music/{{Metallica}}, Music/{{Aerosmith}} and Music/BonJovi--got his start in the Vancouver independent music scene around the same time as D.O.A. and produced their 2008 album ''Northern Avenger''.
** Anthony Kiedis and Flea of Music/RedHotChiliPeppers are both fans. Anthony wears a D.O.A. t-shirt in the music video for "Under the Bridge" (Joe says it was given to him after Kiedis played a round of golf with Wimpy and Jon), and Joe says Flea once told him he would listen to ''Hardcore '81'' whenever he was depressed. Additionally, original D.O.A. drummer Chuck Biscuits briefly replaced Cliff Martinez on drums in the Chili Peppers in 1985 or 1986.

** The album ''Win the Battle'' features a new versions of "Lumberjack City" (retitled "Return to Lumberjack City") and “We’re Drivin’ to Hell n’ Back”, presumably because their original album ''True (North) Strong and Free'' was never reissued in Canada.

** The band’s original lead singer was a guy known only as “Harry Homo” who reportedly barged into a rehearsal studio during an early jam session and announced he would sing for the group, that it would be called D.O.A. and that they would “make a million dollars”. He lasted one show before he was sacked for having no sense of timing as a performer; Joe Shithead then assumed lead vocal duties.

** Anthony Kiedis of Music/RedHotChiliPeppers wears a D.O.A. t-shirt in the music video for "Under the Bridge"; Joe says it came about after Kiedis played a round of golf with Wimpy and Jon at some point. Additionally, original D.O.A. drummer Chuck Biscuits briefly replaced Cliff Martinez on drums in the Chili Peppers in 1985 or 1986.

* BreakupBreakout: Though D.O.A. and Chuck Biscuits' contributions on drums are respected as it is, Chuck's later stints in Music/BlackFlag, Music/CirlceJerks, Music/{{Danzig}}, Music/SocialDistortion and even Music/RunDMC (on the album ''Tougher Than Leather'', at the request of Music/RickRubin) are what cemented his legendary status.

* BreakupBreakout: Though D.O.A. and Chuck Biscuits' contributions on drums are respected as it is, Chuck's later stints in Music/BlackFlag, Music/CirlceJerks, Music/{{Danzig}}, Music/SocialDistortion and even ''Music/RunDMC'' (on the album ''Tougher Than Leather'', at the request of Music/RickRubin) are what cemented his legendary status.

** Though they were influential to countless punk musicians, the highest-profile person quoted on the back cover of Joe's autobiography is Music/DaveGrohl of Music/{{Nirvana}} and Music/FooFighters, who says "They've changed a lot of people's lives." In addition: accounts differ, but according to at least some people Music/KurtCobain and Music/CourtneyLove met at a D.O.A. show in [[UsefulNotes/{{Portland}} Portland, Oregon]].

** The songs “Bombs Away” and “Just Got Back from the U.S.A.” both feature the repeated chant “Hey, hey, get outta my way, I just got back from the U.S.A.”

** 2018’s ''Fight Back'' and 2020’s ''Treason'' both feature the songs “Gonna Set You Straight” and “Just Got Back from the USA”.

* BigNameFan: Though they were influential to countless punk musicians, the highest-profile person quoted on the back cover of Joe's autobiography is Music/DaveGrohl of Music/{{Nirvana}} and Music/FooFighters, who says "They've changed a lot of people's lives."
** In addition: accounts differ, but according to at least some people Music/KurtCobain and Music/CourtneyLove met at a D.O.A. show in [[UsefulNotes/{{Portland}} Portland, Oregon]].

** Another early D.O.A. song, “Royal Police”, was reworked as “The R.C.M.P.” for the 2010 album ''Talk - Action = 0''. The same album included a new version of the song “‘Rebel Kind”, which had appeared on a Joe Keithley solo album a couple years previously.

** ''Talk - Action = 0'' contains rewritten versions of "I Hate Punk Rock" and "Royal Police", respectively re-titled "They Hate Punk Rock" and "The R.C.M.P."

** The album ''Win the Battle'' features a new versions of "Lumberjack City" (retitled "Return to Lumberjack City") and “We’re Drivin’ to Hell n’ Back”, presumably because its original album ''True (North) Strong and Free'' was never reissued in Canada.

** The album ''Win the Battle'' features a new version of “We’re Drivin’ to Hell n’ Back”, presumably because its original album ''True (North) Strong and Free'' was never reissued in Canada.

* HeAlsoDid: Though music has taken up most of his life, Joe “Shithead” Keithley is also a published author (having written two books about his experiences playing with D.O.A.) and an occassional actor (most notably playing Officer Friendly in the Vancouver-produced dystopian satire ''Film/TerminalCityRicochet''). Since 2018, he’s served as a city councillor in his hometown, and several news articles noted the irony of someone who wrote songs like “Smash the State” becoming an elected official.

** The band’s earliest original song, “Disco Sucks”, was re-recorded as “New Wave Sucks” for the 1981 EP ''Positively D.O.A.''

** The album *Win the Battle* features a new version of “We’re Drivin’ to Hell n’ Back”, presumably because its original album ''True (North) Strong and Free'' was never reissued in Canada.
** *Live Free Or Die* features new versions of the songs “Concrete Beach”, “The Agony and the Ecstacy”, “You Won’t Stand Alone”, “Kill Ya Later”, “Marijuana Motherfucker” and “Road Kill”, probably for similar reissue difficulties.