MOST MYSTERIOUS CHARACTER IN ROCK N ROLL

DWARVES

He Who Cannot Be Named has been playing punk rock for almost 30 years, most of that time with the legendary Dwarves. An original member of this San Francisco based combo, he wrote or cowrote many of your favorite tunes from the early Sub Pop albums “Blood Guts and Pussy” and “Thank Heaven For Little Girls”. He was voted guitarist of the year by Flipside Magazine in 1991, but is mostly known for his unusual stage wear, or lack thereof. His trademark look can best be described as “naked and wearing a mask”. According to James Orme from Slug Magazine, He Who… is “maybe the most mysterious character in all of rock n roll”.

DEATH HOAX

Perhaps his infamous “death hoax” has something to do with this air of mystery. Sputnik Music published an account of this macabre bit of rock history.

In 1993 the band (Dwarves) issued a press release stating their guitarist

“HeWhoCannotBeNamed had been stabbed to death in Philadelphia. Though this later turned out to be a hoax, the band even went as far as to attach a tribute to the “late” guitarist on their 1993 Sub Pop-released album “Sugarfix”. Sub Pop did not respond well to the hoax and summarily dropped the band from its label.”

SUNDAY SCHOOL MASSACRE

Finally, in the summer of 2010, He Who Cannot Be Named released his first solo album titled “Sunday School Massacre” to rave reviews. AMP called it one of the most important punk rock releases in recent memory, and went on to say that it is everything you would come to expect from the guy responsible for most of the nasty riffs that kicked your ass when you were back in high school”.

HUMANITERRORIST

Hewho’s second album, “Humaniterrorist” was released in October 2012. This collection of songs continued where the first album left off, with Hewho’s own style of short, fast and funny punk. A music video from one of the songs on this album, “Getting Pissed” was released around the same time

UK Shows

In August of 2013 He Who Cannot Be Named returned to the UK. This time he appeared twice at the “Rebellion Festival” in Blackpool. For this exclusive appearance he was reunited with UK drummer Spike Smith.

MY DEGENERATION

2016 saw the release of Hewho’s third album, “My Degeneration” on Extra Medium Fidelity Records. This record saw the addition of San Francisco musicians Keith Mueller (Bite) on lead guitar, Mark Adams (Black Furies ) on drums, and Mike Wampler on bass.

Chris Barrows

The collaboration between Hewho and Florida punk legend Chris Barrows (Pink Lincolns) started around this time as well. Barrows sings lead vocals on a few He Who Cannot Be Named tracks from this period and Hewho played Farfisa organ on Chris Barrow’s albums “Human Being” (2014) and “Fake” ( 2016).

In 2015 A split 7” with the songs “Be My Girl” and “Human Being” by Barrows and “Don’t Tie Me Down” and “Pica” by He Who Cannot Be Named was released on Extra Medium Fidelity Records.

A 7” with the songs “Lovedoll” and “Donna Tossico” came out around this time as well.

LOVE/HATE

In March 2013 LOVE/HATE was released, exclusively on CD. This collection of 22 songs was primarily a repackaging of the first two albums, but contains a few previously unreleased tracks.

THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE BRUTAL

Hewho’s fourth album, “The Good, The Bad, and The Brutal” was released in the fall of 2018. Krazy Keith Mueller again appears on lead guitar with the addition of drummer Diablo and bassist Bobby Ramone. This album is a collection of songs, half with the word Good in the title and half with the word Bad. It also features guest vocal appearances by Spike Slawson (Me First and the Gimme Gimmes), Chris Barrows (Pink Lincolns) Sean Wheeler (Throw Rag) and Nick Oliveri (Dwarves, Mondo Generator, Queens of the Stone Age). Two songs in this collection were co-witten with bay area punk singer/songwriter Dustin Umberger (Grim Deeds) who also sang on the album.

This album came out on God’s Candy Records https://www.godscandyrecords.com

Spaghetti Town Records https://spaghettytownrecords.bigcartel.com

Ghost Highway Records http://www.ghosthighwayshop.com/es/

Hewho and his band toured Spain in November 2019. An exclusive 7” release of 4 rare versions of his songs. A live video was made of the song Duct Tape Love.

Revolts

Around this time Hewho dusted off his vintage Farfisa Organ and began to play with San Francisco Super-Punks “Re-Volts”. He appears on three 7″s released on Pirates Press, “Wages”(2018), “Equator” (2018), and “Leeches” (2019).

Man of Mystery

Very little is known about Hewhocannotbenamed’s secret identity. Some say he is a high ranking GOP politician, or an undercover agent for a foreign government. He has banned from venues al over the world and Interpol reportedly has an ongoing warrant out fro his arrest on undisclosed charges. He rarely appears in public and very few have seen him without a mask.