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Revolting Cocks Also Known As RevCo Are An American–Belgian Industrial Rock Band And Sometime Supergroup From Chicago Illinois United States That Began As A Musical Side-Project In 1985 For Richard 23 Of Front 242 Luc Van Acker And Al Jourgensen Of Ministry. The Group Was Founded By Richard 23 And Luc Van Acker With Al Jourgensen As Their Producer. According To Jourgensen The Band Got Their Name After A Fight In A Chicago Bar In 1983. Jourgensen Richard 23 And Luc Van Acker Celebrated The Formation Of The New Band With A Few Drinks. The Evening Then Ended Up In A Brawl With Bar Stools Being Thrown Through The Establishment's Windows. As He Was Throwing The Trio Out The Owner A Man Jourgensen Recalls Was Named Dess Shouted "I'm Calling The Police! You Guys Are A Bunch Of Revolting Cocks!" The Trio Subsequently Decided To Use The Name For Their Band. Their First Release Was No Devotion On Wax Trax! Records In 1985. The Single Was Quickly Followed By An Album Big Sexy Land 1986 Featuring A Mix Of Industrial Hard Rock And EBM With Dominating Sampling And Strong Synthesized Beats. Losing Richard 23 Due To Creative Differences The Group's Remaining Two Members Were Augmented By A Rapidly Changing Set Of Musicians Centered On Chris Connelly Cocksure Bells Into Machines Murder Inc. And Damage Manual Paul Barker Ministry Lead Into Gold Flowering Blight And Bells Into Machines And Bill Rieflin Ministry Pigface R.E.M. And King Crimson With Around Twenty Others As Irregular Contributors Or Guest Artists. The Following Live Album You Goddamned Son Of A Bitch 1988 Featured A Return To Ministry-Like Industrial Rock - The Big Sexy Land Tracks Embedded In Shouting And Noise. This Trend Continued On Beers Steers And Queers 1990 Layering Sample Over Sample And Pushing Ever Further Into Distortion. Linger Ficken' Good 1993 Was Released By Sire Records And Was A Tamer Affair Most Tracks Returning To The Less Layered Material. Included Was A Cover Of Rod Stewart's "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy? " Also Released As A Single. A Tour Was Planned But Cancelled And The Band Quietly Came To An End In 1994. In 2004 Jourgensen And Phildo Owens Skatenigs Snow Black Revived The Group. They Released An Album Entitled Cocked And Loaded 2006 . Caliente Dark Entries A Cover Of Sorts Of Dark Entries By Bauhaus With Vocalist Gibby Haynes Butthole Surfers Was Featured On The Soundtrack To Saw II In 2005. After Assembling A Touring Line Up To Open For Ministry On The MasterBaTour Of 2006 Jourgensen Chose Vocalist Josh Bradford Stayte Simple Shelter V.H.S. Keyboardist Clayton Worbeck Stayte Simple Shelter And Guitarist Sin Quirin Society 1 Ministry And ReVamp As The New Full-Time Members For The Revolting Cocks Now Simply Being Called RevCo. The Group Recorded Sex-O Olympic-O And Officially Released The Album On March 3 2009. It Was Followed Up By The Last RevCo Album Got Cock? Released On April 13 2010. In Celebration Of Wax Trax! Records The "Wax Trax! Records Retrospectacle 33 1/3 Year Anniversary" Was Held From April 15-17 2011 At The Metro In Chicago Illinois United States. As A Part Of The Lineup Chris Connelly Paul Barker And Luc Van Acker Performed Revolting Cocks Songs With Various Guests. For Their Performance On The 17th Richard 23 Joined Them On Stage To Sing Lead Vocals On No Devotion. In 2014 Chris Connelly And Jason Novak Acumen Nation DJ? Acucrack Iron Lung Corp Formed Cocksure A Project That Bridges The Gap Between Wax Trax! Era Industrial Dance Music And The Future Sounds Of Mass Corruption. The Project Is Very Influenced By The Early RevCo Sound And Has Been Described As "where The Revolting Cocks Left Off In 1994." Previous Members Al Jourgensen - Production Programming And Various Instruments 1985–1993 2004–2010 Luc Van Acker - Vocals Guitar Bass Keyboards 1985–1991 2006 Richard 23 - Vocals Programming 1985–1986 Bill Rieflin - Drums Keyboards Programming 1986–1993 Paul Barker - Bass Keyboards Programming 1987–1993 Chris Connelly - Vocals Programming 1987–1993 Phildo Owen - Vocals Programming 1989–1991 2004–2006 Duane Buford - Keyboards 1993 Josh Bradford - Vocals 2006–2010 Sin Quirin - Guitars Bass Keyboards 2006–2010 Clayton Worbeck - Keyboards Bass 2006–2010 Live Lineups --------- 1987 ---------
Al Jourgensen - Keyboards Vocals Guitar
Paul Barker - Bass Keyboards
Luc Van Acker - Guitar Bass Vocals Keyboards
Chris Connelly - Vocals Keyboards
Bill Rieflin - Drums --------- 1988 ---------
Al Jourgensen - Keyboards Vocals Guitar
Paul Barker - Bass Keyboards
Luc Van Acker - Guitar Bass Vocals Keyboards
Chris Connelly - Vocals Keyboards
Bill Rieflin - Drums
Nivek Ogre - Vocals --------- 1990 ---------
Al Jourgensen - Guitar Backing Vocals
Paul Barker - Bass
Chris Connelly - Vocals
Phildo Owen - Vocals
Jeff Ward - Drums
Mark Durante - Guitar Backing Vocals
Michael Balch - Keyboards
Kevin "Doc" Sullivan - Keyboards Backing Vocals
Trent Reznor - Vocals --------- 1991 ---------
Al Jourgensen - Guitar Backing Vocals
Paul Barker - Bass
Chris Connelly - Vocals
Phildo Owen - Vocals
Bill Rieflin - Drums
Mark Durante - Guitar Backing Vocals
Michael Balch - Keyboards
Luc Van Acker - Vocals --------- 2006 Ministry's MasterBaTour ---------
Al Jourgensen - Guitar Backing Vocals
Phildo Owen - Vocals
Luc Van Acker - Vocals
Josh Bradford - Vocals
Sin Quirin - Guitar
Clayton Worbeck - Keyboards
Anna K - Bass
Seven Antonopoulos - Drums --------- 2009 Ministry's LubricaTour ---------
Josh Bradford - Vocals
Sin Quirin - Guitar
Clayton Worbeck - Keyboards Guitar
Murv Douglas - Bass
Aaron Rossi - Drums
Mike Scaccia - Guitar Selected Dates Al Jourgensen - Guitar Backing Vocals --------- 2011 Wax Trax! Retrospectacle - April 15-17 ---------
Luc Van Acker - Vocals
Paul Barker - Bass
Chris Connelly - Vocals Keyboards
Duane Buford - Keyboards
Jamie Duffy - Guitar
Dan Brill - Drums
Richard 23 - Vocals Discography 1985 - No Devotion Single 1986 - Big Sexy Land LP 1986 - You Often Forget Single 1988 - You Goddamned Son Of A Bitch Live 1989 - Stainless Steel Providers Single 1989 - Let’s Get Physical Single 1990 - Beers Steers And Queers LP 1991 - Beers Steers And Queers The Remixes Single 1993 - Linger Ficken' Good LP 1993 - Do Ya Think I’m Sexy? Single 1994 - Crackin’ Up Single 2006 - Cocked And Loaded LP 2007 - Cocktail Mixxx Remix 2009 - Sex-O Olympic-O LP 2009 - Sex-O Mixxx-O Remix 2010 - Got Cock? LP 2011 - Got Mixxx Remix read less