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Jeff McDonald (born 1963, in Hawthorne, California) is a rock and roll singer and guitarist who co-founded the alternative rock, power pop band Redd Kross with his younger brother Steven Shane McDonald and remains in the band. In the early 2000s he played in Ze Malibu Kids, with his wife, Charlotte Caffey, of The Go-Go's, his brother, and sister-in-law Anna Waronker. , he and his brother are preparing and executing a series of Redd Kross reunion shows. Redd Kross is an American alternative rock band from Hawthorne, California, who had their roots in 1978 in a band called The Tourists, while they were still in middle school. With the addition of friends Greg Hetson and John Stielow on drums, the band's first gig was opening for Black Flag. Full of the brothers' pop culture obsessions, ''Born Innocent'' featured odes to Linda Blair (who starred in a television movie of the same name), a cover of "Look on Up from the Bottom" by the Carrie Nations from ''Beyond the Valley of the Dolls'', and Charles Manson (whose song "Cease to Exist" they covered). The album also contains nods to Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, Tatum O'Neal, and Lita Ford. Not long after the release of the album, the group was threatened with a lawsuit from the International Red Cross and changed their name to Redd Kross so as not to be confused with an International Aid Organization. ==Redd Kross== In 1984, Redd Kross returned with drummer Dave Peterson to record ''Teen Babes from Monsanto'', an album featuring songs originally by such artists as Kiss, David Bowie, The Rolling Stones, and The Shangri-Las. In 1984, lead guitarist Robert Hecker joined the band, as Redd Kross embarked on tour in support of ''Teen Babes from Monsanto''. In that same year, they were featured on the soundtrack of ''Desperate Teenage Lovedolls'' with their cover of the ''Brady Bunch Kids "It's a Sunshine Day". Jeff and Steve appear in the movie, along with Robert in the sequel ''Lovedolls Superstar'' which the brothers co-wrote with Dave Markey and Jennifer Schwartz. Both movies are available now on DVD. In 1985, drummer Roy McDonald (of The Muffs and formerly of The Things, and no relation to the brothers) joined the band. In 1987, Redd Kross released ''Neurotica'', an album reportedly influenced by Saturday morning cartoons and breakfast cereal (one of the songs was called "Frosted Flake"). Although the album itself was successful, the band's label, Big Time Records folded. The band continued to tour during these years however, and in 1988, drummer Victor Indrizzo joined the band. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jeff McDonald」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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