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Alice Donut – Live

Alice Donut is a punk rock band from New York City formed in 1986. The band released six albums on Alternative Tentacles before splitting up in 1996. They reformed in 2001 and released three more albums and a documentary Freaks in Love. Hopefully Alternative Tentacles re-issues there albums sometime.
The occasionally do reunion concerts like the one I went to a few years ago in Brooklyn. They are one of my favorite bands to see live, wish I had recorded some of the shows I saw. But someone did here are two live tapes one from the Khyber and one from City Gardens.

Alice Donut Live at Khyber Pass on 2003-08-11

Alice Donut Live at City Gardens on 1991-01-13



Flipper / Fang / Iron Cross – Love Hall 5/21/83

Jeff Jenkins played part of a live tape from the May 21, 1983 show with Flipper/Fang/Heart Attack/Iron Cross/Urban Waste/Murphy’s Law/YDI/F.O.D. @ Love Hall – Unfortunately it was not all the bands but at least we got Flipper, Fang and Iron Cross. Maybe some day the full tape of this show will be found. But for now here is what we have.


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Dicks – Live from Love Hall

Austin TX band the Dicks audio tape from Love Hall May 13, 1983.01 – Babysit02 – Bourgeois Fascist Pig03 – Purple Haze04 – Little Boys Feet05 – Kill From the Heart06 – Dicks…

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Various Short Videos

Short video clips I got from Flipo from the Excuses Flipper – Sex Bomb from Elks Center Mar 12 1982 Executive Slacks – Our Lady Video from the Our Lady 12″ album Bunnydrums…

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Franklin

I saw that there was a re-release of Franklin’s Go Kid Go [Remastered & Expanded] so I decided it was past due I did a post on this 90’s Philly band
You can Pre-order it here (or Bandcamp)

Franklin’s Go Kid Gowhich has been remastered from the original tapes by Dan Coutant. This deluxe 2xLP collection brings together the band’s complete recorded output from 1993–1996.

It includes the long out-of-print Go Kid Go album, along with the Something Blue Automotive, They Said It With Fireworks, and Roy Is Dead 7″s—plus rare compilation tracks and two previously unreleased studio recordings. To complete the collection, a bonus 7″ features two tracks from !franklin’s earliest demos—making this an essential release for fans and collectors alike.
It releases on 7/17/26

For more info on Franklin go to this GoKidGo blog article or the Loud! Fast! Philly! interview with Franklin’s singer/guitarist Ralph Darden

Go Kid Go [Remastered & Expanded]


Building In A & E” LP


Double LP

More releases on their Bandcamp site

Freemartin

Freemartin was from Philadelphia & formed in late 1991. The band consisted of a famous museum curator, an African taxi driver, and a radical book publisher. The band gave all of their releases away, not charging any money for them, and played their shows for no admission. They were on my show on WKDU – the tape doesn’t say when it was – I assume 93 or 94 most likely. The audio drops out at a few places I tried to fix it the best I could. Also I put up there first 7 inch. I don’t have there follow up album All Living Things Still Living but if I come across it I’ll add it.

Dear Consumer 7″

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PDF of the booklet that was included with the 7″

Live on WKDU

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Stick Men

Stick Men were a punk rock/no wave/funk band from Philadelphia in the late 70s early 80s. The Lineup for the band at this timeFronted by guitarist/painter/sculptor Peter L. Baker and keyboardist B.A.L. Stack (Beth Ann Lejman), bassist Billy Bradfield and percussionist Jim Meneses. There are versions of this show tape already on YouTube but Bob Dickie send me the files from his tape (Thanks Bob) so I’m putting them up anyway. This is the Stick Men from the East Side Club – September 24, 1981.
I’ve also included the Bandcamp of the Insatiable CD retrospective, some other live videos on Youtube and when they were on the Uncle Floyd show. Defiantly one of the bands that makes me wish I was older and went to college in Philly earlier.

Stick Men from the East Side Club – September 24, 1981

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Insatiable CD retrospective (2001, Cuneiform Records)


The Stick Men Live at Ripley Music Hall + Interview – Philadelphia – 25 May 1982


THE STICK MEN – Live @ Trenton City Gardens 1983


Stick Men on the Uncle Floyd show


Informed Sources

Informed Sources was a primary force in Philadelphia’s music scene during the 1980s. Sprung from blunt punk rock origins, the group quickly grew artistically, pushing the boundaries of “punk” with a literate approach to lyrics and thoughtful-but-powerful arrangements, while sharing stages with legendary bands ranging from Black Flag and X to Dead Kennedys and Bad Brains.
– from Informed Sources site (with lots of storeis, photos, flyers, songs lyrics, etc) Check it out.

Fun Under the Sun

From Philly Hardcore 1981-1986 Part 1 Post
Informed Sources – City Gardens, Trenton NJ 3-82 [from cassette tape]
01. In God We Trust

Informed Sources – WXPN, Philadelphia 12-83 [from cassette tape]
01. Final War 02. title unknown
03. Situation Tragedy
04. Going Out
05. In God We Trust
06. Why Should I
07. This Was The 1980s
08. title unknown
09. I’ve Lost Control
10. In The Mind Of Phyllis Schlafly
11. title unknown
12. Stuck In My Hole
13. Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner
14. Forever Never Came
15. Nothing But Lies
16. Dense Pack

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From Get Off My Back Comp Post
INFORMED SOURCES –Right & Wrong, Dense Pack

Artifacts of the Improbable 1.0

A collection of Philly show flyers put together by James Lewes – I hope he doesn’t mind me putting this up – I’ve keep it the way it was from the early 2000’s web design straight from the cd-rom. You can navigate to either the clubs or the bands alphabetically by first letter on the left.

Here is the intro from James:
Welcome to The Rake online Flyers exhibit. Most of these
hung between 1979 and 1990. This should not be seen as an exhaustive set of
flyers. Rather it reflects the eclectic and aesthetic tastes of a number of
people, including cosmic Jackie, Albert Dagit, Helen and James Lewes, Todd Kimmel, Linda McGothigan, Elizabeth and Alan Moersh; as well as the various band members who pasted the flyers together or club/gallery owners and staffs who had commissioned the flyers in the first place.

While most of these were unsigned, and intended as momentary ephemera and advertising, the site includes posters made by and for Very Tall Todd and his Mambo Movers, Matt Morello, Joe Duffy and More Fiends.

I invite you to include any comments and reminiscencies you may have of the various punk, new wave, indie, hard core and grunge scenes that flourished across the United States and Europe in the late 1970s and 80s. If you want to contribute images of flyers in your collection feel free to do so.

Discpan Hands / A Philadelphia Compilation

Philly comp and Rave Records #1 from 1987 One (or sometimes two tracks) from some of the best bands in Philly at the time. Added bonus for me was the cover photo was shot by Pete who was one of my roommates at the time in our kitchen on 41st and Woodland. You can buy it on itunes

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Fuck Monster Live on WKDU 10-30-91

Fuck Monster playing live on Jackie’s show at WKDU on Mischief night 1991. The Band was George Lind, Butch Lauer (Electric Love Muffin, Boss Hook-Up) and brothers Anthony & Greg Montone. Greg sent me his recollection of this show – “I was in 12th grade 1991, I played bass, my brother Anthony played drums, the guitar player butch was the guitar player from the electric love muffin, , that night was crazy drinking 40s and smoking joints rich poor was there, I had someone tape it off the radio, it was mischief night, we practiced at the rave warehouse, rich poor was in double penetration at the time he recorded a 4 song 4 track demo.”

It was also filmed for DU tv I’m trying to track down to see if there are versions of the DU tv live from WKDU videos anywhere.
Thanks Rich for the tape from George’s collection.

01 – Horror Business
02 – FM Theme
03 – LYF
04 – Dark Room
05 – Summer of Blood
06 – Snakebite
07 – Get Down &
08 – Last Call
09 – Mr Pain

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