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Genres
  
Punk rock

Genre
  
Punk rock

Years active
  
1981-present

Members
  
Patricia Morrison

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Labels
  
Arsenal Records, MCA Records, Triple X Records, Last Resort Records, Sewer Line Records

Associated acts
  
Bags, the Gun Club, the Sisters of Mercy, the Damned, the Adolescents

Past members
  
Patricia Morrison Mike R. Livingston Steve Soto Frank Agnew Adam Maples Eddie Wayne Derek O'Brien Tom Slick Danny Halperin Billy Koepke Jerry Jones Haskin "Mad Dog" Karla

Origin
  
Los Angeles, California, United States (1981)

Albums
  
Death of Innocence, Your Weapon, Interior Hearts, Life Sentence to Love, Take Out the Trash

Legal Weapon are a Southern California punk band, initially composed of singer Kat Arthur, guitarist Brian Hansen, drummer Charlie Vartanian, bassist Patricia Morrison (formerly of Bags and later of the Gun Club, the Sisters of Mercy and the Damned) and guitarist Mike R. Livingston.

Contents

The band's early full-length albums Death of Innocence (on which their lineup included Steve Soto and Frank Agnew of the Adolescents) and Your Weapon were well received; its later efforts less so. With her powerful voice, Kat Arthur has often been called "the Janis Joplin of punk".

Legal Weapon toured Europe for the first time in 1992 with a lineup of Arthur, Hansen, drummer Danny Halperin and bassist Billy Koepke, supporting their fifth album, Take Out the Trash.

Discography

Studio albums
  • Death of Innocence (1982, Arsenal Records)
  • Your Weapon (1982, Arsenal Records)
  • Interior Hearts (1985, Arsenal Records)
  • Life Sentence to Love (1988, MCA Records)
  • Take Out the Trash (1991, Triple X Records)
  • Squeeze Me Like an Anaconda (1994, Last Resort Records)
  • Legal Weapon (2002, Sewer Line Records)
  • EPs
  • No Sorrow (1981, Arsenal Records)
  • The World Is Flat (1993, Last Resort Records)
  • Compilation appearances
  • "Daddy's Gone Mad" on Hell Comes to Your House (1981, Bemisbrain Records)
  • "Pow Pow" on American Youth Report (1982, Bomp Records)
  • "Time Forgot You" on Dudes - The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Album (1987, MCA)
  • "Warsaw Tuinal" on Spinning the Chamber (1995, Last Resort Records)
  • Songs

    Daddy's Gone MadDeath of Innocence · 1982
    No SorrowDeath of Innocence · 1982
    BleedersYour Weapon · 1982

    References

    Legal Weapon Wikipedia