Like a bastard child of some Charlie Pickett/Eat/Johnny Thunders clusterfuck, Ian (Rusty) Hammond was a staple of the SoFla scene, sharing the stage and studio with Moss and just about every one else who played rock 'n' roll at the time. The DT Martyrs eventually became the name of whatever group of people Hammond was with (with one glaring exception). But before that, well, let's let Mr. Hammond covey a bit... "...the Martyrs were formed immediately after the last RAF show (dual bill at Finders with Al Harmon's band Lumpen) which had Moss filling in for Steve Sincere on bass. The next weekend Al walked into Open Records in Progresso with a kitchen dustbin filled with ice and bottles of homebrewed beer. We sat around all afternoon listening to music, drinking and generally just musing on the scene. We ended up at Pickett and Moscaro's place in Dania and it was decided by the end of the evening to get together a band. The original lineup was arranged that very moment. It was myself and Al, the RAF drummer Doug Gilbert (who had played in the Roll 'n Pinz with MacIvor) Moss played bass with us for a couple of months until Jim Johnson came aboard. Tony replaced Doug about a year later and when Jim moved on to the Chant, O'Brien started playing with us after one of the many "breakups" of the Eat.” Here then are the results of that fated union, a band that would continue on and off until 1997 (about). Between then and then the band line up mutated and changed more often than Menudo, but the core of Hammond and drummer Tony Bazemore went virtually unchanged until, well, Crete.