Jon Cougar Concentration Camp

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Jon Cougar Concentration Camp (JCCC) is an influential and now-defunct punk rock band from the San Diego, California area. They have released several music albums, including the 1996 Melon (BYO Records) produced by the legendary Blag Dalhia, and the 1999 No More Room in Hell (Recess Records) which was in effect an album of unreleased demos.

Jon Cougar Concentration Camp formed in January of 1994 in San Diego, California by Chris Fields, Clint Graham, Travis Spatter, and Travis Milligan. “There were a lot of people coming and going back then. We were just the four people that happened to be jamming together that night we came up with the name.” said Chris Fields speaking of the punk house he dwelled in at the time. They played their first show at the Casbah on January 31st, 1994. Less than two months later they released their first 7”ep on their own label. JCCC toured up and down the west coast over the next 6 months. Word of the band traveled fast and before they knew it they were releasing their first full lenth album. They juggled drummers over the following year and when asked to tour the entire US, Dave Swain came in to replace Clint and Travis. JCCC were a three piece when they signed to BYO Records. During a break between tours and recording Chris joined The Queers in 1996 to support the album Don’t Back Down. Chris jumped between The Queers and JCCC for a year before bringing fellow JCCC member into The Queers as well. “I felt bad putting JCCC on hold all the time and leaving Dave hangin.” Fields said. They both did both bands for a while. JCCC even went out in support of the Queers on a US tour, and filled in for them in Italy. During the recording of JCCC’s Melon the band brought in punk rock legend Blag Dahlia (Dwarves) to produce the album. Blag was impressed by Chris’s talent and asked him to join the Dwarves. After being overwhelmed by all three bands, Chris left the Queers and ended Jon Cougar Concentration Camp in 1999. He played in the Dwarves over the next three years and still has close ties with them. Dave is still with The Queers. JCCC have recently played shows in San Diego with the original members. We’ll see what happens.

As of 10-31-06 Chris' newest project is called End Of Power and he is also going back out with The Dwarves.