Randy Rampage is back in the D.O.A. fold-again. The long-running punk-rock band's founding bassist joined D.O.A. on-stage for an eight-song set at the WISE Hall on February 19. The occasion? The long-awaited CD release of 1978's legendary Vancouver Complication LP, which documents the early days of the city's punk scene. (Sales of the CD to date, combined with proceeds from the WISE Hall gig, have raised $5,000 for the Vancouver Food Bank.)

"He came out to one practice so we knew what the heck we were doing," D.O.A.'s Joe Keithley told the Straight. "I just thought we'd do it for old time's sake, and it went so well that people said, 'When you guys were playing it was like a bomb went off.' In a good way. It just went really well. I always knew that Randy had a lot of charisma and is great on-stage and stuff like that. He's always been one of my best friends, so this is a good thing."

After he initially left D.O.A. in the early '80s, Rampage made a name for himself in the heavy-metal world with his band Annihilator. He never lost touch with the D.O.A. camp, though. He performed with the group during its marathon 20th-anniversary gig in 1998, for example (along with almost everyone else who had passed through the D.O.A. ranks up to that point). A few years later, he even rejoined the group. "He was actually back in the band in 2001," Keithley said. "We didn't do a lot of shows around here, but we went to Europe and had a big tour over there, and had a great tour of Japan and recorded an album called Win the Battle. That was the last thing we recorded with him. This time, things are going good. We're not in any big rush to do a bunch of shows. Probably a lot more next year than this year, we'll try and do a bunch of festivals. This fall we might do some recording, and we're working on a couple of live DVDs and some documentary-type stuff. So, not a lot of shows, but if something comes along that we like, then we'll go. We figure we've been at this so long that we can pick and choose what we want to do. We don't have to get out there and play every single dog-and-pony town to let people know who we are. People know who we are, and they either like it or they want to throw tomatoes at us."