Slaughter and the Dogs were an early Britishpunk band in the late 1970s, best remembered today for having Steven Morrissey as their singer for a brief period.
Do It Dog Style, day-glo cover and all, is exciting, energetic rock'n'roll heavily indebted to the New York Dolls and Damned.
Slaughter reunited in late '79, replacing Barrett with ex-Nosebleeds shouter Eddie Garrity (aka Ed Banger) in time for Bite Back, a nothing platter of guitar-rock noise produced by ex-Mott the Hoople drummer Dale Griffin.
Live at the Factory (later reissued as Rabid Dogs) is a posthumously released concert disc (with Barrett) that contains renditions of the band's singles and flipsides, as well as superior early versions of four Bite Back tunes.
Formed during the initial onslaught of U.K. punk in 1976, Manchester's Slaughter and the Dogs were the first group to release a single (the overlooked classic "Cranked Up Really High") on trailblazing hometown independent label Rabid Records.
However, disagreements with Decca and the departure of vocalist Barrett, a key to the group's sound, combined to sabotage a promising career.
After this unit's breakup in the summer of 1979, there was a Slaughter reunion late in the year with Barrett making a token appearance before being replaced by former Nosebleeds singer Ed Banger (born Eddie Garrity).
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