[3] During 1978, both Turner and Mike Saunders played with rock critic Richard Meltzer in the Los Angeles punk band VOM, which issued a posthumous five-song EP, Live at Surf City, on White Noise Records in early summer 1978.

In the mid-1980s, the Angry Samoans added guitarist Steve Drojensky, and returned to their roots in mid-1960s American garage rock (they had long cited bands such as the Velvet Underground, the 13th Floor Elevators and Shadows of Knight as among their musical influences).

[9] In late January 1979, Mike Saunders, Turner and Homer wrote an infamous song about longtime LA/Hollywood scenemaker and KROQ-FM DJ Rodney Bingenheimer, titled "Get Off the Air".

[12] Turner left in early 1992, releasing an album, Santa Fe, in 1993 with the Mistaken, which featured guitarist Sean O'Brien (formerly of Come), bassist Heath Siefert (formerly of Backbiter) and drummers Elizabyth Burtis and Kelly Callan (formerly of Wednesday Week).

Turner's next band, the Blood Drained Cows, issued two albums, and occasionally features autoharp player Billy Angel (née Miller) from the Aliens.