Personality Crisis was a punk rock

Punk rock

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 band formed in 1979 in Winnipeg

Winnipeg

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, Canada

Canada

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. Personality Crisis is widely credited with having a more complex sound than most other punk rock bands of the early 1980s while retaining the power of the early 1980s punk sound.

Personality Crisis released one LP, Creatures for Awhile, in 1983, as well as several demo tapes.

After the breakup of the band in 1984, band member Jon Card

Jon Card

Jon Card is a Canadian punk rock drummer. He is the current drummer in the long-standing punk bands SNFU and The Subhumans.-Career:Card grew up in Calgary, Alberta and formed his first band, Plasticide in his late teens. In 1981 he joined the Winnipeg-based band Personality Crisis, with whom he...

 went on to join SNFU

SNFU

SNFU is a Canadian punk rock band formed in 1981 in Edmonton, Alberta and later relocated to Vancouver, British Columbia. They have released nine full-length albums and are cited as a formative influence on the skate punk sub-genre....

, D.O.A.

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 and the Subhumans

Subhumans (Canadian band)

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. Singer Mitch Funk played in other bands, including Honest John, while guitarist Richard Duguay would later work with Guns N' Roses

Guns N' Roses

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, including contributing guitar tracks for "The Spaghetti Incident?"

"The Spaghetti Incident?"

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.

Personality Crisis songs have been covered by SNFU and The Forbidden Dimension.

In 2008, a biography was written about the band by author Chris Walter

Chris Walter (author)

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 titled, "Personality Crisis: Warm Beer & Wild Times" and was published by GFY Press.

Original lineup (this band was called LE KILLE)

• Mitch Funk - bass
• Tommy Wharton - screaming lead guitar
• Ed Asselin - drums
• Walter Kot - guitar
• J. LePlume - wind instruments (short-lived)
• Doug Bauer - vocals

Other members

• Mark Halldorson - Drums
• Richard Duguay - Bass/Guitar
• Jimmy Green - Lead Guitar
• Duane Eddie - Bass
• Jon Card
  Jon Card
  Jon Card is a Canadian punk rock drummer. He is the current drummer in the long-standing punk bands SNFU and The Subhumans.-Career:Card grew up in Calgary, Alberta and formed his first band, Plasticide in his late teens. In 1981 he joined the Winnipeg-based band Personality Crisis, with whom he...
  
   - Drums
• Mitch Funk - Vocals

after the original Le Kille...
Ed leaves...Mark joins(1980)
Doug leaves..Mitch sings,Richard on bass(1980)
Tom leaves..Jimmy joins(now called PERSONALITY CRISIS)(1981)
Mark leaves..Jon joins(1981)
Richard leaves..Duane joins(1981)
Walt leaves...Richard joins on guitar(1982)

Discography

• Creatures for Awhile - LP on Risky Records (1983)
• Creatures for Awhile - Reissue LP on Overground Records (1989) (This LP had a different cover than the original and had four different tracks replacing four tracks that had been on the original LP)
• Twilight's Last Gleaming/The Jam - 7" on Overground Records (1989)
• Creatures for Awhile - Reissue LP on War On Music (2008) (Same track listing as the original)

Compilations

• "Burning Rain", "Sundays", "On The Sidewalk Bleeding" on Demo tape (1981)
• "Wonder What They're Thinking","Waiting","Shotgun","Empty Sky","Losing Time"(81 demo)
• "Wonder What They're Thinking", "Waiting", "Shotgun" on Charred Remains (compilation)(1981)
• "Piss On You" on Something to Believe In (compilation) (1984)
• "Case history" on Rat Music for Rat People, Vol. 2 (CD Presents, 1984)

External links

• Personality Crisis bio on Punk History Canada
• Myspace site
• http://www.7inchpunk.com/?p=48
• http://homepages.nyu.edu/~cch223/canada/personalitycrisis_main.html
• http://www.punktapes.com/ (search under Personality Crisis)