About Santiago Durango: Santiago Durango is an American guitarist remembered for his work with the 1980s punk rock groups Naked Raygun and Big Black. Mostly retired from music as of the early 2000s, he works as an attorney.
Until these college students came into town, we were all very poor and didn't have money to do anything.
And there was no money in Chicago for a band.
We were just a bunch of high school kids who got into the Ramones together.
And we used to do a lot of drugs and get very drunk on very cheap wine.
We played a gig and we had a song that was offensive to people of the Jewish persuasion, and we led off with it, and they were offended by it, and that was that.
There's fifty bands doing my riffs for ever and ever.
We never really wanted to play in California.
We don't analyze our lyrics.
We don't care about our audiences that much. We just go out and play.
They're there because, for some reason, they have the notion that they're supposed to be there.
Our very first gig in Melbourne was a confrontation.
