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Members: Scott, Andre, Dave, Greg, JR, Riggs, Jim, Mike, Josh, Kev, Darga

Fast Actin' Fuses were a rock band from Boston, MA. We formed in 2001 and broke up in January of 2006. In that time we managed to release one CD titled "Sayonara" as well as numerous appearances on compilations.

This here F.A.F. Pure Volume site is home to some of the more difficult to find recordings. I.E. never officially released...live songs, demos and unreleased studio tracks. Grab a cold one, kick back and prepare to be aurally assaulted.

Here are some cool things people had to say about us at one time or another...

"Fast Actin' Fuses. What can i say? Smoke machine, strobe lights, and big dumb riffs played through full stacks. Plus a drummer (JR from Sam Black Church) who beats the shit out of his drums and rocks the cowbell. This is the kind of rock that isn't around much anymore, not punk, not metal, something in-between. It inspires drinking and yelling, which is what it's all about, Right? Right."

"A hard-rocking band with a Japan fetish? Fuck yeah, I'll have some of that. Opening up with the (line) ripping anthem "Cocaine Samurai," this is the rekkid to pop in your car stereo while on your way out to a show or just to raise hell at a party somewhere. Their songs sound like the kind of songs that Dee Dee Ramone was writing in the late 80s and early 90s, which means (for the Ramones-deficient) mid-tempo rock anthems with an in-your-face 70s punk attitude. Oh, and my scientific experiments have determined that this album sounds better when locked in a bar after hours, pounding through several rounds of Jagermeister and 151 until 4 in the morning."

"A couple of weeks ago, the Fast Actin' Fuses packed the Middle East upstairs for a 9:30 opening slot - not bad for their second-ever gig. Tattoo'd head Fuse Lovely Kevin Darling babbles and squeals like Tesco Vee and Handsome Dick Manitoba locked in a cripple-baiting contest; the tunes are like AC/DC outtakes that've been sent away to Poison Idea's charm school. The source of their misterioso superpowers is revealed on "Cocaine Samurai," a set highlight that's sorta like Drunk on Cock-era New Bomb Turks assuming the position next to Accept's "Balls to the Wall." Plus, the recorded version bears the telltale one-note piano solo of dyed-in-the-wool Stooges fetishism. Cred? Lovely Kevin once fronted the sub-G.G. scumfuck band Masterbleed, who were so terrible that Anal Cunt's Seth Putnam owns two copies; some of the other guys were in awful hardcore bands like Razorwire and Bastard Squad. An album is said to be in the works. Meantime, see 'em live: they're the only band in town with the gonads to cover Turbonegro's "Rock Against Ass.""

"The Fuses pump out a flurry of full on Angus fueled raunch metal, they're scorching - black leather stallions, bare back and free, ripping a huge hole through T.T.'s meager, pop damaged sound system. Somewhere between louder than God AC/DC riff rawk frenzy and the cock rock strut of bands like Turbonegro or the Hollywood Superstars, when the FAF get going, they're a fuckin' steamroller of bad boy boogie."

"Any song that begins with the words "Fuck you!" is okay in my book. Frankly, I don't think there's enough of it. That's from the track "Nuthin' New," one of many playing-with-an-angry-hornet's-nest ditties seared onto this disc. Picture a machine that's poorly built, unpredictable, possibly insane but in control enough to function-don't get too close to it; step away from the curb or you'll get run over; you'll put your eye out with that thing...Fast Actin' Fuses is "The Mangler" of the local musical tribes. Any sudden shift to the side on your part during one of their juggernaut cruises is liable to cut an ear off no matter what your proximity. It's Alice Cooper if he hadn't been kidding, if he'd stuck solely to cocaine. It burns when you pee, but the cause of the disease is worth it. It makes my neighbors complain; that alone makes it worth owning. If you don't buy this CD, they'll beat you senseless. If you do, they'll beat you senseless. The choice is yours."