"Get Off The Air" Controversy
Shortly after the Angry Samoans formed in late 1978, Mike Saunders, Turner and Homer wrote an infamous song about longtime LA/Hollywood scenemaker and KROQ-FM DJ Rodney Bingenheimer, titled "Get Off the Air." When the song was included on the band's first record Inside My Brain, the Samoans were blacklisted at the Starwood, Whiskey and any other club in Hollywood/LA proper for about two years during mid-1980 through late 1982, due to Bingheimer's strong influence with the LA/Hollywood club scene. The band's ostensibly offensive, politically incorrect attitude and (somewhat humorous) lyrical content was not a factor in this situation.
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