"The Crucifucks career has been anything but boring. From the beginning, the Crucifucks endured, like many bands, a revolving-door membership. Formed in Lansing, Michigan in 1982, the only constant in the Crucifucks was lyricist and mouthpiece, Doc Corbin Dart. The original guitarist, who played on the first two albums, Gus Varner, is retired and living in New York City while original drummer, Steve Shelley, went on to an illustrious career in Sonic Youth, as well as keeping busy performing with other musicians and running his Smells Like Records label. Doc says the Crucifucks never "officially" broke up but rather drifted apart due to various "problems." Thankfully, the self-titled Crucifucks and Wisconsin releases stand as documentation of those creative and volatile beginnings.

Doc Dart went on to record two solo projects, Patricia (1990, Alternative Tentacles, LP/CS only), and the CS-only self-released, Black Tuesday, in '91. In response to "consumer demand," A.T. re-issued on the first two Crucifucks releases on CD. Entitled, Our Will Be Done, the compilation features seemingly innocuous (and now almost ubiquitous) back cover-art picturing a gunned-down policeman originally used on an illeged "public service" poster by the Philadelphia police. Who could have predicted this would set off a flurry of controversy over five years later. The shocking nature of this picture coupled with unfufilled copyright laws brought about a $2.2 million lawsuit on the Crucifucks (who, at this point, were only repressented by singer Doc Dart and drummer Steve Merchant), Alternative Tentacles Records and its leader Jello Biafra, and Borders Books and Music who carried this release, from the Philadelphia Police. Borders managed to get out of the suit without any damages, however, the Crucifucks and Alt. Tentacles eventually lost the case. This lawsuit did not mark the end of the Crucifucks, rather, it just resparked the original anger with a corrupt system that fueled them to venture forth into musical territories in the first place.

The Crucifucks surprised everyone by re-forming in 1998 and driving out to San Francisco to perform at AT's 20 year anniversary party at the Great American Music Hall." - Alternative Tentacles.

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