Chi-Pig was an Akron, OH-based new wave power trio consisting of guitarist and keyboard player Susan Schmidt, bassist Deborah Smith, and drummer Richard Roberts. Schmidt and Smith were already longtime mainstays of the Cleveland/Akron scene, having participated in the teen all-girl group the Poor Girls from the late '60s. In the mid-'70s they played in the Peter Laughner-led groups Cinderella's Revenge and Friction. Not long after Laughner died, Schmidt and Smith founded Chi-Pig, naming themselves after a local barbecue and rib joint.
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