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.
Some photos from the late 80s (I think) taken by Laura. Not sure who all of them are so if you know what bands the Unknown ones are please let me know.
Serial Killers
A Subtle Plague
Unknown (One has Steve Marasco but not sure what band it is)
October of 1988 show from the Irvine Auditorium at Penn with Michelle Shocked opening up for Billy Bragg on the Worker’s Playtime tour. Thanks for the Live tapes Don Sheluga
Billy Bragg played the Chestnut Cabaret allot – Here are 3 live recordings one from 1985 I found on Archive.org and 1989 & 1991 that I got from Don Sheluga…
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…
Formed in late 1985 by guitarist Rob Coye and bassist Roger Bodine (aka Food-Gas) in their hometown of Syracuse, NY, Grisly Fiction is a band that has weathered many changes…
DTO had a sound that was kind of a mix of old Hardcore and Garage rock. Probably because of the influences of all the past local bands the members were…
Beretta76 was founded in 2003 by Camille Escobedo, Pete Rydberg and Rob Giglio (Mothra, Rockula, Stinkbomben, Bottom Feeder, Creem Circus). They have shared stages with bands such as The Muffs, Visqueen, Shonen Knife and The Fleshtones, and were performers at the 2007 WXPN XPoNential Music Festival. Their music has been compared to The Runaways, Cheap Trick, Ramones and Suzi Quatro. They have had a few different Bass players including Peter Santa Maria (Jukebox Zeros, The Thirteen, Stuntmen) who was on the Black Beauty cd. All of their releases are available on BandCamp (see below)
Zen Guerrilla were a rock band from San Francisco, California. Musically, the band evolved over their career. Their early sound was characterized by pyschedelic elements, such as delayed guitars and noise washes. Later, Zen Guerrilla fused blues, rock and gospel to create a sound which could be likened to bands such as the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
Zen Guerrilla formed in Newark, Delaware in the late 80s. Band members Andy Duvall (drums), Marcus Durant (vocals/harmonica), Carl Horne (bass), and Rich Millman (guitar) came together from local bands Marcus Hook, The Gollywogs, and Stone Groove.
The band released their self-titled CD on Philadelphia-based Compulsiv records in 1992. Soon after, Zen Guerrilla moved to Philadelphia and were regular performers around the city at clubs such as the Kyber Pass Pub. Around this time the band began a grueling touring schedule, which would have them cross the country multiple times through the end of the decade.
A fusion of blues, rock, and gospel, Zen Guerilla’s musical style comes as naturally to them as licking gravy. Their sound is as genuine and as pure as Al Green’s sweat. It screams, it moans, it shakes and it moves.
Zen Guerrilla relocated to San Francisco in 1994. Their constant touring increased their exposure, and, combined with their explosive live show, helped to release albums first with Alternative Tentacles and later Sub Pop.
The band dissolved sometime around 2003. –Wikipedia
Philly punk band from the late 80’s that recorded two demos. Demo 1 has Nancy Danon singing and demo 2 hasRick Dobrowolski (Stalin’s Daughter, booked lots of shows at Firenze, Upstairs at Nick’s and as co-owner of Tritone.) singing. Other than that, the members are the same: Guitar – Rich Birtwell (Crib Death, Blunder Boys) Bass – Dave Birtwell (Crib Death, Blunder Boys, Love Gutter, Blue Train) Drums – Bob Labar, some backing vocals in “Late Great Me”
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
Philly Punk Rock band from the early 90’s that released a 7 inch and cd on Black Hole Records. Dave Birtwell (Crib Death, Blunder Boys, The New Byles, Blue Train), send me a copy of the Demo tape. He was bass player on a few of the tracks on the cd. (Thanks Dave)
A little Love Gutter history*. The seeds of Love Gutter were in 1987 or ’88. Jim was managing the Philly band Stalins Daughter. But he wanted to make music. So he grabbed co-worker Brett to sing. Veetha was a fan of Stalins Daughter and she had a couple tunes she wanted to do. Drummers were hard find, so they poached Rush from Stalins Daughter. The name of the band was Wykkyd Pyss. They ran in the studio and recorded a few tunes. It’s important to note that Jim was on bass and Veetha was on guitar. One of the songs from the session is on the Love Gutter CD. “Lizard Man”. If you are wondering who did the guitar lead that pervades the song it was a guy named Vince Perri. Wykkyd Pyss only performed once. It was at a Halloween Party in Rush’s basement. From their Facebook Page
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