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Well it's been over 20 years since Johnny and I started this crazy ride. We started out in Detroit as The 13th Floor. We quickly started playing all the clubs sharing the stage with Seduce, The Trash Brats, The Meanies, Ugly But Proud, Almighty Lumberjacks of Death and many other bands in Detroit. We played everywhere we could but Blondies on the westside was our home away from home (geting our asses kicked by the westside punkrockers was an added bonus each time we arrived at the club). After a short time we started to headline shows and get a good following. Then we decided to roll the dice and move to Los Angeles and never looked back. We played every club from The Whiskey to Bar Deluxe...you name it we played there. We went thru a lot of bass players, R.I.P. Alex. We made alot of great music together. So for now that's about it. It's been great getting back together, and with the addition of George Wright from Ugly But Proud on bass and SickBoyTodd Bishop on rhythm guitar, The Neuritics are sounding better than ever. Keep an eye out for future shows and a record in summer 2010. Falling James from The La Weekly wrote: The Neurotics kicked around Detroit in the late 1980s with a straight-ahead, tunefully driving punk & roll sound that drew heavily from the Ramones and the Heartbreakers. But the Motor City's vaunted garage-rock revival was still a decade away, so the group eventually moved to Hollywood, where they stood out for a little while as one of the more authentically rocking bands in a scene then dominated by grunge and metal mercenaries. Drummer Roy Morgan (the Excessories, Nikki Corvette, Kevin K) and lanky singer-guitarist Johnny Neurotic, who resembles the Dils' Tony Kinman and yowls with a coolly insolent sneer, recently started up the trio again with a new bassist, George Wright. Their compact power-punk songs are as catchy as ever, albeit once again out of step with prevailing trends. How good are the Neurotics? Well, they're able to take one of the worst and sappiest Rolling Stones songs, "As Tears Go By," give it some speed and fuzz, and transform it into a viably hooky punk anthem. Even better, though, are such originals as "Not Right Now" and "What Was it Like," which aim for a power-pop melodicism but have so much swarming punk energy, they instead evoke lost Australian bands like the Psycho Surgeons. The Neurotics are billed tonight with simpatico Blondie-influenced New Yorkers the Choke.