Members, then & now

Duval Russell
1977 - present
vocals, guitars, keyboards, synth, bass, co-founder, producer & manager
other bands include The Regals, The Pods, White Boy Rock, The Tards, Future Tards of Jazz, Samba Rio, Buddhist Priest and has Gigged with Machine Screw and Better Than Ezra
current project: Toothless Wha and Johnny


Jay Hagmann
1977 - 1984
vocals, keyboards, piano, synth, co-founder, wrote almost all of the early material
Believed to have died of AIDS in 1992, NOT, this was a story put out by his family to cover-up his Sex Change
Duval's $500 reward still stands for anyone that can us in touch with her.
Jennifer Dianne Hagmann lives happily, we hope, in San Francisco


James Fuselier
1978 - present
drums, percussion, madness, main drummer and backbone of our high energy rhythm section
other bands include Streetwise, The Bel-Airs, The Regals & Samba Rio

Cyle Chafin, a.k.a. Pool Boy
2005 - present
bass guitar, vocals, percussion
other bands - Buddhist Priest, Toothless Wha and Johnny

Brian Prior
2005 - present
drums
other bands include Buddhist Priest, Toothless Wha and Johnny, Pablo Cruize, Eddie Money, House Band @ the Hell's Angels MC Clubhouse, Oakland Chapter - early 80's
also, is Jazz Legend Jimmy Smith's nephew

Darius Kalil
1993 - present
vocals, guitars, bass, percussion plus
co-founder of The Wayward Youth, other projects include Samba Rio, Machine Screw, The Probes, 30 Second Flash, Braziliance, Percussion Inc., Creole Wild West Indians, Future Tards of Jazz & has appeared on CD's with Better Than Ezra & Soul Asylum

Ricky Rockett
1993 - present
vocals, songwriter
was original singer with MIB in '77, but dropped out due to pyschiatric reasons, other bands include The Wayward Youth, Hostages(new orleans), 30 Second Flash, Waka Waka, & Samba Rio


"Mama" Melanie Martinez
1999 - 2001
vocals, percussion, songwriter, guitar
other projects include Samba Rio, Machine Screw, Scat Mangione and Future Tards of Jazz
current project: Super H

Brad Schayot
1999 - 2001
Funky bass guitars, percussion, other bands include Scat Mangione, Samba Rio and countless other pick-up groups
current project: Super H

Rockin'Rick Connick
1978 - 1979
original bass player for Men in Black, he didn't know how to play the guitar, but knew how to have a good time ! left in '79 to co-found The Wayward Youth & Totally Cold, other bands include The Phase, The Rick Connick Trio(jazz trio) and 1966

Ronnie Holiday
1982-1984
vocals, bass & guitars
other bands include Umbrella Defense, White Boy Rock & played guitar with Ultravox for 2 weeks in '78

"S&M BAR / GYPSY LID", 1979, 7" 45 w/picture sleeve, 'Lectric Eye Records
Click here for your free MP3 of "Gypsy Lid"
S & M Bar Pic Sleave, this is punk rock
"HOT PORK", 1980, on "The N.O.EXPERIENCE NECESSARY", 12" compilation album, Oblique Records
Fuzz Logic - N.O. Experience Necessary comp. LP
"GYPSY LID", 1999, reissued on "KILLED BY DEATH #999", 12" compilation album, Redrum Records

"BURNING FAST", 2000, 17 song CD, 'Lectric Eye Records, click here for FREE music
1st CD release by Men in Black, limited release on
'Lectric Eye Records, available now
download it for FREE click here
download any song for free, "Burning Fast" on MP3
"STAGES OF YOUR LIFE", 2005, "NEW ORLEANS UNDERGROUND : SOUNDS BELOW SEA LEVEL" CD, Jay Hagmann song, recorded in 1983, Tom Mallone's Studio, San Francisco

NEW ORLEANS UNDERGROUND : SOUNDS BELOW SEA LEVEL
Compilation of Underground New Orleans Bands to Benifit victims of Katrina

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