Regressive Aid was an instrumental band consisting of Simeon Cain

Sim Cain

Sim Cain is an American drummer probably best known as a member of the hard rock group Rollins Band from 1987 to 2000...

 (drums), William Tucker

William Tucker (musician)

William Tucker was a guitarist whose credits included work with Ministry, My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, Pigface, Chemlab, and Chris Connelly. He grew up in New Jersey where he formed Regressive Aid with Andrew Weiss and Sim Cain...

 (guitar), and Andrew Weiss (bass guitar), managed by Tom Burka. Cain and Weiss later played in the bands Gone

Gone (band)

Gone is a three-piece punk-based instrumental rock band, formed by Greg Ginn in late 1985. Originally, Gone was a side project to his main group, Black Flag.-Biography:...

, a three pieced punk instrumental rock outfit and in the Rollins Band

Rollins Band

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. During Regressive Aid's years together they frequently played at City Gardens, a punk rock club in Trenton, New Jersey

Trenton, New Jersey

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The band later would become Scornflakes, ultimately the same lineup with the addition of a vocalist (Boy White) and a shift into a sound centered on punk, rather than the jazzy-rock dissonance common in songs by Regressive Aid. Following their termination, all the members of the Regressive Aid would become long time collaborators in the band Ween

Ween

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. Members would also be involved in the Rollins Band, Ministry

Ministry (band)

Ministry is an American industrial metal band founded by lead singer Al Jourgensen in 1981. Originally a synthpop outfit, Ministry changed its style to industrial metal in the late 1980s. Ministry found mainstream success in the early 1990s with its most successful album Psalm 69: The Way to...

 and Pigface

Pigface

Pigface is an industrial rock supergroup formed in 1990 by Martin Atkins and William Rieflin.-History:Pigface was formed from Ministry's The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste tour, which produced the In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up live album and video. For the tour, Al Jourgensen brought...

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Discography

• Why Settle For Less When You Can Regress EP (Rhesus Records, 1981)
• Effects on Exposed People LP (Rhesus Records, 1983)