Hollywood Potato Chip is the tenth studio album by the Southern California punk rock band The Vandals, released in 2004 by Kung Fu Records. A music video starring guitarist and producer Warren Fitzgerald was filmed for the band's cover version of Queen's "Don't Stop Me Now". The album's title is a euphemism for dried semen on a casting couch. Its original cover art used lettering that parodied the logo of Variety, prompting legal action and a cease and desist order from the magazine which resulted in a replacement cover with redesigned lettering. In 2010 the magazine brought further legal action against the band over third-party uses of the original cover appearing on the internet.
The original album cover, with lettering mimicking the logo of Variety.
The replacement cover with redesigned lettering, issued after a cease and desist order from Variety.
The Vandals are an American punk rock band, established in 1980 in Orange County, California. They have released ten full-length studio albums, three live albums, 3 live DVDs and have toured the world extensively, including performances on the Vans Warped Tour. They are well known for their use of humor, preferring to use their music as a vehicle for comedy and sarcasm rather than as a platform for more serious issues. Kung Fu Records, founded in 1996 by Escalante and Fitzgerald has signed and launched many punk rock bands.
Left to right: Escalante, Quackenbush, Freese, and Fitzgerald in 2011
The Vandals performing in Tucson, Arizona, in 1984, showing original members Stevo and Jan Nils Ackermann, with bassist Chalmer Lumary in the background).
Dave Quackenbush replaced Stevo as the Vandals' singer in 1985.
After the departure of the band's early members, bassist Joe Escalante retained rights to the Vandals' name and catalogue.
