Serious Party Gods posted:

Yes.

PinkoBastard posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unxSXs88sNg

caleb posted:

I spent a bunch of money to record with legendary nyhc dude Don Fury and I like all of this "two 57s in a room" stuff like Flower much better than how our record turned out. I guess I got to hear weird stories about Madball but at the end of the day... I'm never paying anyone to record my bands ever again.

caleb posted:

You probably got the Coney island days.

caleb posted:

I am a sucker for intro tracks like Rival Mob, Righteous Jams, etc. Your vocalist sounded like Darby and that's

Serious Party Gods posted:

Dude "No New Dreams" is weird as poo poo. Neat. Feels truly unwieldy.

albany academy posted:

Thats cool as poo poo! Did you ever play with any of those bands?

albany academy posted:

so that means you must have seen born against?

Serious Party Gods posted:

Are you Canadian? No hate!

caleb posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrugYB7dPOA
our dear friend freaked out because he did too much blow and went on a posting frenzy.

caleb posted:

Look up like 5 posts I guess I would rather keep talking about records post a song snowy and I will listen to it

”THE DAY I GOT BOMBED AT A DEAD KENNEDYS SHOW” posted:

We all knew it wasn’t the best place for a show. There had been a brawl with locals at a Black Flag–SOA show the year before. I probably shouldn’t have returned, but I wanted Danny to see the Dead Kennedys, so we headed over to the Starlite.

Before the show, Danny and I sat on a curb in front of the club. It was a scorching-hot summer day, and punks stood around in groups talking. Then I saw a car drive up very slowly. I had gained a certain amount of street sense from living on my own in the city, and I remember saying to myself, “I don’t like the looks of this.” I thought its occupants were about to do a drive-by shooting. Danny was in the middle of a sentence when I grabbed his hand and said, “Run!” I pulled him down the street, running as fast as I could.

I heard a loud explosion, then people screaming. The occupants of the car had hurled a bomb, made with a stick of dynamite, ball bearings and BB’s, into the crowd. People ran into the street shrieking, with ball bearings and BB’s embedded in their legs and arms — one girl’s heel and ankle were severely injured. Blood was splattered over the sidewalk.

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The Clash had played at The Hollywood Palladium and it was Sold Out. John of Circle One came over to The Cathay and started mustering some people to rush the front doors of The Palladium. So we all followed him over to Sunset Blvd in front of the doors of The Hollywood Palladium and waited. John Macias organized everyone on Sunset to get ready to rush the doors as soon as The Clash played White Riot.

And that’s just what we did, someone pried the doors open with a screwdriver and we all rushed in when The Clash played White Riot.

Security scrambled to stop all of us but there were so many of us we just mowed then down as we rushed in.

They closed the show down and The Cops arrived and started wacking people not moving out of the area fast enough. Skirmishes broke out all around the Palladium. People would throw bottles at the cops and then run like hell when the Cops advanced.

James Genocide posted:

I don’t know what show was going on at The Olympic Auditorium that night in 1984 but I can tell you about The Battle Royal that went on in the parking lot and back alleys around the Olympic Auditorium that night between The Lads and The Suicidals.

I remember standing near the box office window with some friends when all of a sudden three Suicidals walked by like they were on patrol. They then walked out of the lot and across South Grand Avenue into the alley.

Lurch, Oliver and I gave each other the look and we immediately began to make our way across South Grand following these Suis through the alley towards South Olive.

Once we got as far as South Olive it was on … A three on three fight broke out with The Lads doing the rear end whipping. We took control quickly with these guys and were making short order of them when some short black dude ran from out of nowhere and cold cocked Lurch in the side of the head. Lurch was already fighting with one guy when the black guy ran up and hit him from the side. More Suicidals entered the street now and the numbers were changing on us. Then the black guy pulls a knife on us, swinging wildly at Lurch and Oli. We end up in a stand off even though we’re already out numbered. They wouldn’t commit even though they out numbered us. So we begin to make our way through the alley heading back to The Olympic.

As we’re walking back we hear some poo poo coming from behind us and as we turn to look we now see a huge crowd of Suicidals at the end of the alley on South Olive.

Members of the crowd were pointing at us and with that the crowd began running at Lurch, Oli and I at full sprint! We began to run in the direction of the Olympic but about midway through the alley I was hit from behind by that black guy we had fought with earlier.

The black guy tackled me from behind and I rolled onto my back and swung up. He swung down, then the crowd arrived and kicked the living day lights out of me. Just dudes whaling on me and kicking me. I balled up, covering my face, on the ground, while they thrashed me.

Then, I felt it… Something being poked into my leather jacket. It was that black guy stabbing me in the back. I could feel the knife get stuck in my leather jacket as he was stabbing me.

Serious Party Gods posted:

So much good stuff! I promise I won't share any more personal details or "joke around"...

caleb posted:

That's way easier to spray paint than the crown and the down. I have never seen or heard of it before but it rules.

caleb posted:

This stuff is all fascinating and way cool and I have been sharing it with my friends who are all also upstate punks who were in pampers when this all went down. Idk what my point is thanks I guess

Serious Party Gods posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TbnyHZ9-iM

albany academy posted:

SOIA being that high on the list might just be from when the list was compiled - i know pushead loves jocky hardcore (see: glue-step) but that album was huge when it came out, less so as the years rolled on. hindsight would probaly drop that in favour juicier nyhc, and i'd rather see sheer terror's just can't hate enough over anything soia released.

caleb posted:

Also lol that I immediately knew which song you were posting after "been listening to suicide..."

Serious Party Gods posted:

No doubt, but for the folks (including myself) that aren't in the "90-99th percentile" of knowing what's up, it's a treasure trove of weird, good poo poo.
There is SO much material that's been uncovered and lauded in the last 30 years; everyone back then had sort of a limited scope.

bvj191jgl7bBsqF5m posted:

Is this a good place to talk about how Pat Fear (Bill Barrell) from White Flag was a police fetishist who had a major crush on my dad and would write him love letters to my dad's secret gay PO Box?

bvj191jgl7bBsqF5m posted:

Tbh there isn't a lot more to tell about it other than he became a cop for a while but quit after a few months of having to interact with other cops

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They were from Catasauqua, which kids on the scene used to call Little England. Catasauqua (or Catty) was one of the punkest small towns in America. there were some truly amazingly stacked shows from 84 to 86 there. it was like the Huntington Beach of Pennsylvania; as if Catty High was the PA version of Edison High in HB. And most of those kids were a bit crazed and tough. it was totally Class Of ‘84.

Every other high school in the LV had maybe 5 or 6 punkers each. but at Catty High it seemed to me like every single student was a punker, or at least wouldn’t give you poo poo for being a punker. i mean i would go to the Catty High dances with Larry Deiter and Story from The Complaints and hang high up in the bleachers with the punkers. I never even thought of going to a dance at my own high school in Bethlehem! I mean gently caress, that thought gives me shivers.

By the early 80s for some reason Catty had such a deep punk tradition and i don’t really know why…. To this day i still wonder about Why That Was. Someone brainiac should figure it out and do an ethnography.

There were even dances at some church in Catty that I and other LV punkers would attend. First time I went my mind was loving completely blown: little elementary & middle school kids (no lie) pogoing around with spiked hair, sid vicious chain necklaces with locks, and engineer boots. Tracy Pain’s gnarly older brother was DJing (999, pork dukes, sex pistols, uk subs, all Catty faves). The chaperones were all singing along to Friggin In The Riggin and dancing around.

I couldn’t believe it.

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Now 63, Glenn asked me to refer to him by first name out of professional concerns. In the early 1980s, he was a member of a punk rock group, and one of his bandmates suggested he attend an APRC meeting. He recalls that during the second or third session he took part in, APRC regulars began spitting out ideas on how to boost the local music scene. “We should start a record label!” one person may have said, to the delight of everyone in attendance. But another would then ask, “Okay, who has some money?” and the room tumbled into silence. The same result came when someone else said, quite ambitiously, “We should get the city to give us a building to hold shows in!” Finally, one attendee said, “We should have a free concert hotline!”

Serious Party Gods posted: