The Meatmen from Longmarch on June 16th 1984. This was the Meatmen after Tesco Vee relocated to DC with Brian Baker and Lyle Preslar of Minor Threat. The show was shortly before the War of the Superbikes album came out. So there are some songs from that album and others from We’re the Meatmen and You Suck & Dutch Hercules. Meatmen put on a great show with something to offend everyone. I don’t know if there really were people offended by the Meatmen but how can you take a band seriously that has a song called Crippled Children Suck. Just good twisted obnoxious fun. To check out all things Tesco Vee and Meatmen go to TESCOVEE.COM

Thanks again to Pete at Drugmusic.com. for the beta tapes

Meatmen – 01 – Longmarch Philly 6/16/84

Songs- 01 – Abba God & Me, 02 – Mr Tapeworm, 03 – Razamanaz. 04 – Meat Crimes

Meatmen – 02 – Longmarch Philly 6/16/84

Songs- 05 – War Of The Superbikes, 06 – Tooling For Anus, 07 – One Down Three To Go, 08 – Pillar Of Sodom

Meatmen – 03 – Longmarch Philly 6/16/84

Songs- 09 – Punkerama, 10 – Buttocks, 11 – God’s Bullies, 12 – Cadaver Class

Meatmen – 04 – Longmarch Philly 6/16/84

Songs- 13 – Crippled Children Suck, 14 – I’ve Got A Problem, 15 – Wine Wenches And Wheel, 16 – What’s This Shit Called Love

Meatmen – 05 – Longmarch Philly 6/16/84

Songs- 17 – Lesbian Death Dirge

Black Flag video from the Elk Center at 16th & Fitzwater. This was from the Damage tour with Henry singing, Dez Cadena had moved to be the 2nd guitarist along with Greg Ginn. Chuck Dukowski was on bass and Emil Johnson on drums. They do a lot of their earlier songs but you can see them moving towards the sabbath influenced dirgy stuff. I’m sad to say I never got to see Black Flag by the time I moved to Philly they never played here. I remember once there was a rumor they were going to play a skate board park in the NorthEast (was there even a skateboard park in the Northeast?) but it wasn’t true. I should have broken down and gone to Shitty Gardens but Black Flag was one of the bands that Randy Now made a deal with so they wouldn’t play Philly. I’m not 100% sure that is true but at the time it kept me from going there to see them.

I’m not sure what is going on in the encore song it sounds like they are re-playing the music to Damage 1 but different lyrics.
Thanks to Bret at Noise Addiction. for the video.

SST sent a copyright infringement to Youtube so I had to take the videos down. Sorry

White Trash scurried out of the ashes of a Philly band called Nobody’s Favorite sometime in 1986. We played our first show at Abe’s steaks on 40th. street. It was a small room with better than average sound and a truly great crowd of regulars. We rocketed through a set that was largely comprised of songs that we were getting ready to record for our yet untitled EP.

We recorded JETLAG every other Sunday night over the course of three months. We used a borrowed Fostex x-15 four track recorder and two microphones

The two live recordings were back to back shows. We played John’s on July 4th 1987 and the Rodman street block party the next day. The show at John’s was basically a drunken loud mess with Steve and Parris fighting early on in the set. The block party was also a drunken mess, but without any fighting. It was our last show ever.

live recordings
John’s:
We turned everything up till it hurt and got shit-faced before the sound check. I remember Steve and Parris arguing about something and thinking that any minute they would start punching each other.
We had more beers waiting to play and by the time we did play we no longer cared about the audience. We opened with Riled by a Nazi playing it so fast that everyone took a couple steps backwards away from us. We basically sucked that night.
Rodman street:
The day after John’s…a Sunday. We drank Iron City beer waiting to play. It was a long wait because we were the last band to play that day. Clouds rolled in and the sunny day turned into that weird yellow-purple pre storm sky. We opened with Love Ain’t Pretty and gently worked up the crowd until there was spinning and crashing in the pit. The rain held off till after we played. That was our final show–we didn’t know it at the time though. Fortunately, we didn’t suck that day.

John-bass, vocals

Dave-mouth

Steve-drums

Parris-guitar

the title quote,
“Mne plevat’ na zritelia”
“I spit on the spectator”
from Dostoevsky’’s Notes From the Underground

Thanks to Dave for sending me all of this stuff.

M-80′s from the CEC in West Philly. Same CEC show where the video from Nobody’s Favorite and Decontrol on past posts was from..

Thanks as always to Pete at Drugmusic.com. for the beta tapes

M-80′s – CEC Philadelphia

DC’s Void Live video Feb. 25th 1984. I’m not sure where this video is from. The flyer I put up with it is from Love Hall in Philly but that was 2/18. So, originally I thought maybe one of the dates was wrong and this was from Love but Love never had a disco ball and it doesn’t quite look right. So, if anyone knows where this is from please let me know. The only Void stuff I knew abpout was the split with Faith. But this is later Void when they were one of the earlier hardcore bands to add metal influences. Allot of people compared later Void to COC (or argued which one was the first hardcore/metal crossover) Personally I don’t care who was first I just care about if it’s any good. Void had an album they did for Touch & Go which has never been put out but you can find it if you click here
Thanks again to Pete at Drugmusic.com. for the beta tapes

Void – 01 – Live Feb 25 84

Void – 02 – Live Feb 25 84

Void – 03 – Live Feb 25 84

Void – 04 – Live Feb 25 84

Void – 05 – Live Feb 25 84