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T.S.O.L.
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The next T.S.O.L. concert is scheduled for Friday, July 25, 2025 at Lido in Berlin, Germany. See all 6 upcoming concerts
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About T.S.O.L.
Hometown
Huntington Beach, CA, United States
Formed
1979
Genre
Rock
T.S.O.L. were major players in the West Coast punk scene of the ’80s, due in large part to Jack Grisham—a complicated, polarizing figure both infamous for his misdeeds and revered as a SoCal punk pioneer. The Long Beach band started out as Vicious Circle in 1978 before becoming T.S.O.L. (True Sounds of Liberty) in 1980. Their self-titled 1981 debut EP displays a raging hardcore sound with Grisham’s equally fiery, anarcho-political lyrics. By the time of their first full-length album, Dance With Me, they had already begun evolving into a less frenetic, more musically sophisticated style replete with gothic and death-rock overtones and sometimes morbid lyrics. After a 1983 gig turned into a riot, Grisham, keyboardist Greg Kuehn, and drummer Todd Barnes quit the band, but T.S.O.L. continued on, drafting Joe Wood as frontman and developing a harder rock sound that would eventually border on metal. Grisham rejoined in 1999 to lead the band through several records in the 2000s and 2010s that marked a return to their early-’80s sound.
Members of T.S.O.L. include, or have included, Todd Barnes, Frank Agnew, Mike Roche, Ron Emory, Joe Wood, and Gentleman Jack Grisham.
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