When he heard a report spinning round the Chinese Whisper gallery of Greenbelt that ONE BAD PIG had disbanded it was enough to get Tony Cummings on the phone to Austin, Texas. Fans of the Pig can rest easy... The Pig liveth.

In 1988 One Bad Pig signed with Pure Metal Records, at that time a subsidiary of the CCM indie Refuge Records. The resulting album 'Smash' wasn't that. A complex set of corporate takeovers and buyouts involving Refuge/Puree Metal saw the album lose out in the promotion stakes. But as a piece of hard-edged garage punk it was a revelation. Getting a fairly authentic hardcore sound was the task of producer Billy Smiley, better known for his cleaned-up AOR sound with White Heart. Bringing in guest guitarists like WH's Gordon Kennedy and Dale Oliver of Geoff Moore And The Distance gave the band added fire in the axe department while starting an ongoing relationship with a gifted producer (Smiley has produced both subsequent Pig albums) and a tradition where seemingly every muso who happens to be around the studio at the time of a One Ban Pig session gets to help out on a track.

'Smash' contained some of the mainstays of their live set which so dazed and devastated Greenbelters when they played the Festival in 1989. 'Smash The Guitar' lashed America's cult of materialism while 'Don't Be Fooled' warned against those who use lies to block our path towards God.

It wasn't until 1990 that One Bad Pig finally got the full attention of the Christian music world. Their Myrrh debut 'Swine Flew' is furiously exciting yet over all the mosh pit urgency the band continued to display a razor-sharp edge in their lyrics. One outstanding song, 'We Want You", was straight in the face of the radical rocker.

Dale Oliver (Geoff Moore And The Distance) and Bob Hartman (Petra). It was an inspired idea to thrash up a version of Petra's classic 'Judas Kiss'. Paul Q-Pek told Heaven's Metal, 'We did it in a hyper drive kind of way, speed metal-type delivery. The lyrics fit that type of delivery really well. The lyrics are real hardcore about denying God. 'It must be just like a nail going through your wrist again when somebody sins. It must be just like Judas' Kiss, being betrayed by your closest friend'."

"So, I had the idea to do that and I thought, 'Why not take it one step further and go full circle and get Bob Hartman to actually come in and do a guitar solo on it. Usually he plays the Petra stuff...it's pretty rockin', but it's not One Bad Pig. Billy knows everybody in Nashville and he said, 'I'll give him a call.' Bob took a little bit of convincing, because he was told, 'Yeah, it's real fast...come in and lay down this real thrashin' solo.' He was a little bit leery of that, but he did come in and laid down an excellent, excellent solo. It looked like he was having fun.

He's a very quiet, shy guy. He seemed genuinely excited about the fact that we were doing one off his old tunes." 'Swine Flew' is furiously exciting yet over all the mosh pit urgency the band continued to display a razor-sharp edge in their lyrics. One outstanding song, 'We Want You', was straight in the face of the radical rocker.

"So many people with so many solutions/So many music makers making noise pollution/So you can play a guitar/ Does that mean we have to listen to all your humanistic philosophies?/But we play the music and tell you something you can believe."

For the last year a new bass player has been a member of One Bad Pig, Daniel Tucek. Explains Paul: 'Daniel was going to the same church as the rest of the band. Mission Hills, and was often out on the road with us running sound. He played guitar but when we announced we were going to audition for a bass player he asked if he could audition." Paul is very keen to stress the importance of the Mission Hills church to all the band. 'There's such a strong current of anti-authority in a lot of rock music that it's very important that a band such as ours is accountable to the local church.' They sing as much in their songs.

"(You) don't respect your leaders, put 'em on a shelf/The only thing you care about is yourself/Why throw away the cards you're dealt/All your dreams of glory are going to melt." ('Cut Your Hair' from 'I Scream Sunday')