Drunks with Guns was a punk band from St. Louis that existed from the mid to late 80's and baffled the world with the kind of music they were putting to vinyl

Frontman Mike (Myk) Doskocil is the subject of many amusing anecdotes told by the good people of St. Louis, MO. One story involves him hurling a hot, gooey bean-and-cheese-filled burrito at some art-guitar clown who was performing at a local club.

It was that kind of genuine negative energy that made Drunks With Guns the greatest punk band ever to bulldoze St. Louis. An ongoing battle between Doskocil's obnoxious mouth, Stan Seitrich's Flipper/Black Flag/Sabbath guitar and the massive dumbo rhythm section of bassist Mike DeLeon and drummer Fred Broadhacker, DWG began its rampage in 1984. The quartet's self-titled debut single sports one of a classic sleeve showing four sauced, weird-looking guys sitting stupefied atop kegs with beers in hand and countless empties of Milwaukee's Best and Meister Brau at their feet. The three songs inside (mastered from cassette after the reels "accidentally got erased") are some of the heaviest, stupidest post-HC around — messy, visceral mono-riffs with Doskocil groaning low-rent paeans to car races at the Kiel Auditorium, "giving drugs to little kids" and getting his lights punched out. Amazing.

Thirst for Knowledge has more songs, a thin sound and slightly less heft. With DeLeon off to join the Navy, Jim Broyles came on board to replace him on bass.
With both DeLeon and the thick (if still fucked-up) recording quality back, the three-song Alter Human Industrial Fetishisms is the original band's most scorching, angry affair. More noise rock than punk, Doskocil's processed scream and the band's increased rhythmic skill (especially DeLeon on "Leprosy") make Alter Human Industrial Fetishisms everything the Amphetamine Reptile roster aspired to be. With DWG sounding about to implode on record, it's not surprising that they did it for real in 1987.

Second Verses compiles demos by the authentic '80s band, including "Drunks Theme," a hysterically meaningless statement-of-purpose and an alternate "Wonderful Subdivision" that is most welcome (if abruptly edited). Side Two of the record (excluding "Two Minutes'" destroy-the-studio splatter) unfortunately compiles Doskocil's later Drunks and, obviously, doesn't attain nearly the same level of warped quality.

As of 2003, Mike DeLeon was playing guitar in a St. Louis garage punk band called Tomorrow's Caveman. That group issued an album called Today! in 2001. Now in 2021, the group has re-united with the help of Weasel Walter who has joined them on drums as well as Denton legend Rick Eye on guitar.