Hellride

Hellride is a side project live band featuring former Porno For Pyros guitarist Peter DiStefano, former Minutemen, Firehose, and Porno For Pyros bassist Mike Watt, and former Jane's Addiction and Porno For Pyros drummer Stephen Perkins. The band, which is exclusively a live entity (although live recordings made by fans with Watt's and Perkins' blessing circulate), performs occasionally in Los Angeles-area clubs. Their entire set list is devoted to playing and reinterpreting the music of The Stooges by way of jazz legend John Coltrane. The band grew out of Watt and Perkins' more frequent collaborations in the jazz-punk improv group Banyan as well as Watt's brief stint as bassist with Porno for Pyros in 1996.

On separate occasions, Watt did a Hellride performance on Halloween 2003 with The Secondmen drummer Jerry Trebotic substituting for Perkins, who was on a Jane's Addiction reunion tour at the time. He also performed in a "Hellride East" line-up in New York City in 2000 and 2012 with Dinosaur Jr.'s J Mascis and Murph on guitar and drums respectively.

The Dangerfields

The Dangerfields were a punk rock/heavy metal man based in Comber, Northern Ireland, formed in 2000. Fronted by drummer and lead vocalist Andrew Cotswold, the band went through many line-up changes. They released one album and four EPs, and played more than 20 live gigs.

They toured with many notable bands, including P45, Swellbellys, Delicious Chocolate Boys, Lincoln Brown, Mr Nipple and FOOL. In May 2004, David Dickinson invited them to perform with him at Belfast's Mandela Hall.

Bands to have played their debut gigs opening for the Dangerfields include And So I Watch You from Afar and Black Spiders. Fellow Irishmen and former touring partners Gama Bomb recorded a cover version of the Dangerfields' song Maniac on their Zombi Brew EP.

In 2009, Bobby Steele released a line of mullet wig and drum machine combos which he hoped Andrew would sell at The Dangerfields' concerts. However, Bobby then became paranoid and thought Andrew was trying to oust him from the company, and then decided that the entire world wanted him destroyed in a left wing conspiracy; the deal was promptly called off.