Victim December 1983 San Diego Public Access Victim

December 1983 episode of the San Diego public access TV program Club 33 featuring Victim performing Victim was a 1980s heavy metal band founded in Spring 1983 by Brian Thoryk (who played with cover band Desire and a punk group called Skullbusters) and three members of another cover band named Syndrome; Rocky Reiger, Mike Pfahler, and Junior Solis. This lineup remained extant until Autumn 1984. Their 1984 debut album Power Hungry was engineered by Mike Harris and recorded in the fall of 1983 at Western Audio Recording Studios. It included a track called Victim that also appeared on a KGB Homegrown compilation. A followup album, By the Neck, was recorded in spring 1984 at Western Audio, but the masters were lost during a period of financial difficulty for the band and not recovered (thanks to engineer Mike Harris) until nearly 30 years later. A later lineup (late 1984 to early 1986) featured Reiger and Thoryk backed by another player from Desire, guitarist Scott Hackwith br, br,