Richard Bacchus & the Luckiest Girls

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Richard Bacchus is a Rock and Roll Troubadour. He has toured extensively all around the world, as a sideman, on guitar, and as a solo performer.

Richard's songs tend to be about the more sordid side of big city life, though he ocassionally slips into naive whimsy and surealism. Common characters are Junkies, Stalkers, Prostitutes, Runaways, Suicides, Paranoics, Drag Queens, Pirates and Elves, all sharing the backdrop of a crumbling post apocalyptic candyland.

Richard spent his early childhood in Great Britain in the mid seventies. Witnessing the closing of the glitter age and the birth of punk influenced Richard deeply. In 1977, his family emigrated back to the tiny island of Saint Vincent in the Caribbean, his father's birthplace. Saint Vincent turned out to be a virtual Rock and Roll vacuum, but ska, reggae, calypso and soca music filled the void. In 1979 the family uprooted once again. They moved to Woodhaven, Queens, in New York City, just in time for the golden age of B-Boy and Graffiti, as well as the birth of the New York Hardcore stance. It's at this time Richard got his first guitar, and started writing songs about all he's seen, so far. With only a guitar, Richard set off for the Island of Manhattan, where he resides today. When his family packed up to move back to England, he ran away from home, and moved into a squat with a bunch of Hardcore Punks, not far from C.B.G.B.'s. He had just turned fourteen years old.

... Richard is probably best known for starting the band New York City, anti-heroic gutter punk band D Generation, in the mid 90's, along with current singer songwriter phenom, Jesse Malin. Richard penned many of D Gen's catchier songs including "Capital Offender", "No Way Out", as well the blistering opening track, on D Gen's sophmore No Lunch album "Scorch". Rolling Stone, Senior Editor, David Fricke, described D Generation as "Pure, Guilty, Pleasure.

In 1997 Richard quit D Generation to pursue his own career. He formed Vasquez with his good friends Eric Kuby on drums, and Jim Henneghan of doubleneck bass. A short while later Jim set off to Sweden and formed The Solution with Scott and Nick from The Hellacopters. Jim was replaced by Richards close friend, and boyhood hero, Sami Yaffa, from Finnish menace, Hanoi Rocks.

Richard's career also includes playing guitar and writing with Dee Dee Ramone's Sprokett, New York Pub Rockers: The Fugitives, Jayne County and more recently, touring as lead guitarist for New York Hardcore godfathers, Murphy's Law.

Richard's work as a recording producer consists of, The Stiffs, New York Loose, The Amazing Cherubs, Miss Guy from the Toilet Boy with JoJo Americo from The Ones, Electric Monster and The Bitters.

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