Matt larcombe wrote:The Pig's dead? That's too bad. Although, i think the amazing thing is that he managed to live this long.

Pig Champion—Death of a Rat

Tom "Pig Champion" Roberts (the fattest one in the picture), guitarist and founder of Portland's most famous punk-rock band (that's not saying much, I know) Poison Idea has FINALLY been found dead at age 47. I've yet to see any confirmation of the CAUSE of his death, but it MAY have been related to the fact that whenever I hung out with him—which used to be a lot—he was either smoking crack, drinking malt liquor, or shooting heroin...CONSTANTLY. The first night I met him, there was literally not a MOMENT over the span of six hours where he wasn't either ingesting intoxicants or preparing them for ingestion.

Poison Idea, particularly Pig, made loud noises about how anyone who snitched on another man should be a dead man, how corrupt "The Badge" made people, and how we'd turned into a "Nation of Finks." He even recorded an album with the singer of the band Millions of Dead Cops. Being a "solid criminal" was a huge part of Pig's public persona.

Fine.

Too bad that in practice, Tom Roberts was a police informant. I should know.

The incident—revolving around when my psycho mistress smashed a rival in the head with an axe handle—is dealt with in Shit Magnet. It wasn't until I was jailed and handed a stack of police reports by my lawyer that I saw the name "Tom Roberts" listed on a report, alongside the address where I knew Pig Champion to be living. He had spoken to police about the incident.

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unpoppy wrote:I just found this article about Pig Champion from a less-than-thrilled-old-friend of his...

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