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Alastair Galbraith & Peter Jefferies at the Khyber

Alastair Galbraith & Peter Jefferies Live Khyber – Philadelphia 08/19/93

February 22, 2011 / admin

Alastair Galbraith & Peter Jefferies from (I believe) their first tour of America. This was recorded in the audience at the Khyber on 8/19/93. I tired to figure out all of the titles but both of them were in a lot of bands and other projects so I couldn’t get them all. If anyone can fill the titles in please let me know. I was and still am a big fan of New Zealand music and they were in some of the best bands like Nocturnal Projections, Plagal Grind, A Handful of Dust, The Rip, This Kind of Punishment and all of their solo albums and projects. I skipped going on a vacation road trip because this show was happening while I was supposed to be on vacation. The show turned out to be worth missing the trip. If you want to check out more this is Alastair Galbraith on Siltbreeze’s site and Peter Jefferies’ site
Also here is a pdf of an interview with Peter Jefferies from a New Zealand zine Alley Oop
Thanks to Jim for the updates on the Peter Jefferies song titles.

Electric Love Muffin – Elk’s Lodge AC 7/26/85

February 21, 2011 / admin

Video from an Electric Love Muffin show at the Elk’s Lodge in Atlantic City. The show was on July 26, 1985 and they were opening for Die Kreuzen and Articles of Faith. I was never at any of the Atlantic City shows but from what I’ve heard (and now watched) it looked like a good venue. Lenny and Crunch Productions always put on good shows. This video is from a bunch of videos I borrowed and converted from Betamax tapes from Pete at Sounds of Tomorrow So keep in mind this video was captured from a 25 year old Beta tape. I’m not sure if it the tape or the camera at the time put Rich gets kind of washed out when he is in the spotlight. Hopefully I got the song titles right besides their normal cover of Norwegian Wood – during a string break on Butch’s guitar they do Bad Moon Rising and the Who’s I don’t Mind. I’m not sure what the last song is it sounds familiar but I can’t figure it out. Also, here is an old zine article about touring with the Muffin from Free TNT zine

Audio Files

01 – Backstreet Ride
02 – 16 Years Old
03 – In Your Face
04 – Blackness That Could Be Blue
05 – 44 Ways
06 – This Time I’m Gone
07 – Tomorrows Regrets
08 – One Year Removed
09 – Bad Moon
10 – I Don’t Mind
11 – I Should Have
12 – Muffin March
13 – Norwegian Wood
14 ?

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Serial Killers – demo tape

February 15, 2011 / admin

Before White Zombie and GWAR when Marilyn Manson was just that weird goth kid smoking cloves outside his high school there was the Serial Killers (ok, I’m not sure all of that is true but I thought it sounded good) Live they were kind of like a slasher movie musical. Maybe the special effects were not Tom Savini quality but it was a good show. Once again I don’t have the cover for this demo so I’m not sure about what the line up was on it. The first three songs (two are on the same file) were also on the album (not sure if the recordings are different); Snake Pit and the cover of Iron Man I don’t believe were released anywhere else. The last song Abdullah the Butcher was from a compilation 7″. If you want to check out tthere Roadside Rendezvous album and the follow up seven inch (although you can’t download the sample of dirt from philly’s own serial killer Gary Heidnick’s yard) – the links are below:
Roadside Rendezvous CD Re-release
Heidnik’s House Of Horrors 7″
FB: Philadelphia’s Serial Killers, the only band that splatters

Audio Files

Illegitimate Son of Ed Gein
Dark Side of the Serial Killer/Serial Killer Part 2
Snake Pit
IronMan
Abdullah the Butcher

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Ruin – Terminal Flexi & White Rabbit Demo

February 14, 2011 / admin

Some more Ruin releases the first is a flexi disc that came with Terminal Magazine. There are two Ruin tracks and then some other bands (I included all of them here.) The second is the White Rabbit demo tape which came out before Fiat Lux. I didn’t have a cover for my tape but I found the picture on the Ruin Discography site Songs of Ruin.
On that site it says the tape is only the cover of White Rabbit but my tape had three songs. That version of White Rabbit was used on the cd.
Here are some quotes from the members of Ruin on this flexi and tape:
“flexi was before heho, before the compilation [proof] recording was done at some small studio if i remember correctly [that was actually someone’s attic] I don’t remember 13th & samson- i remember the attic first, & later in someone living room studio [proof first recording]” – Richard Hutchins (drummer/percussionist)
“I don’t recall who engineered it or where. Obviously it was Ruin’s first release. I got a kick out of hardcore punk being on the same disc as experimental abstract music (Furry Couch). Reflected my own schizoid tastes for such sounds.
Thanks again. Please post on Ruin’s facebook page when published. Cheers, ” – Taum
“Did we record the flexi disk material at the 13th and Samson St. studio? I can’t recall. It was prior to the release of the HE HO record if I recall correctly. Terminal magazine was run by Carol Shutzbank and Steve Fritz” – Damon Wallis
Besides that I throw in a couple more tracks one is the version of White Rabbit from Fiat Lux (I figured if you have the cd you might want this version as well) Second is a cover of Hero by Superchunk. It’s from an ep called The Laughter Guns EP. I sort of remember hearing that the drummer from Superchunk grew up in Philly and was a fan of Ruin. Besides that I fond some more Flyers, t-shirt picture from the reunion shows, an insert that I found and am not sure where it came from plus this interview from an old zine Rodman Rave click here to view it
I’m working on some Ruin video from a show from 1986 hopefully I will get that up soon.
Thanks to Brett for letting me borrow the flexi.

Terminal Flexi

A1 Ruin – Phenomenal Expression
A2 Ruin – Twilight
A3 Bunnydrums – SwitchBlade
B1 Atomic Thinkers – InternalOrgans
B2 Furry Couch – PlanetOfWater

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White Rabbit Demo

01 LifeAfterLife
02 WhiteRabbit
03 Proof

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Extra mp3’s

Whtie Rabbit (Fiat Lux Version)
Super Chunk covering Hero

Maximum Rocknroll #21 Review

Big Black @ the Crypt 10-30-85

February 10, 2011 / admin

This video is painful for me I was at this show but left before Big Black went on. I was a freshman in college and had an early class the next morning. The worst part which I couldn’t have known then was I would later change my major and leave Drexel for the much cheaper Temple ( I could have gone anywhere but Temple is a hell of allot cheaper). I don’t even remember what class it was so it couldn’t have been very important. It was a packed show which for the Crypt (a basement in a West Philly row house) was not hard to do. So the video is basically all one static shot of Steve Albini and Santiago Durango. What more do you need a close-up of the drum machine?. It show was October 30th 1985 so there’s some songs from Atomizer but it was before the album was released. The video (I believe) was shot by ex-KDU DJ Jeff Jenkins. Thanks to Pete for giving me a copy of this – check out his site Sounds of Tomorrow

Audio files

01 – Steelworker
02 – Rip
03 – Passing Complection
04 – Cables
05 – Rema Rema
06 – Pigeon Kill
07 – Big Money
08 – Dead Billy
09 – Kerosene
10 – Deep Six
11 – Jordon Minnesota
12 – Bad Houses
13 – Fists Of Love

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Legitimate Reason

February 9, 2011 / admin

This is Legitimate Reason Philly band from mid-80s. Their sound was influenced by DC/Dischord but they were very much a Philly Hardcore band. Although around only a short time they seemed to play a lot of shows (some flyers in the slideshow below) the members of the band seemed to be at every show, party, etc. Dan & Jon were also later in Stepping Razo. Dan is currently? in The Mojo Machine. If I get more info on what the former members of this band did after or are doing currently I’ll update the post. Included in this post is their 7″ on Plus Records (Recorded at Inner Ear) and their demo tape which include a cover of Let it Be and the last untitled thing is not really a song just something that was on the end of the tape. Also check out the LoudFast Philly interview with John Finn

Legitimate Reason 7″

01 – He Steals
02 – Can’t Go Back
03 – Don’t Close Your Eyes
04 – Too Young To Die

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Demo Tape

A1 Stubborn Man
A2 Can’t Go Back
A3 Fool
A4 Killing Time
B2 Puppy Dick
B2 Something Inside
B3 Let It Be
B4 untitled

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Doomed To Obscurity (DTO) @ the Tritone

February 8, 2011 / admin

This video was shot at the last Doomed To Obscurity (DTO) (of this lineup) show which was at the Tritone. To me 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 in. DTO is made up of Roger Bodine (Grisly Fiction, Underraga, Suktub, Heroics) – Bass / Chris Hunter (Red Paint People, Mothra) – Guitar / Jason Clouser (Kitschchao) – Guitar / Jason Ranck – drums / Billy Taz (Mama Volume, Angus Kahn) -Vocals (2005-present) / Tristan Egolf – Vocals (2002-2004) At the bottom of the videos I put a video for the song Better Days with animation by Judith Schaechter which is my favorite song from the lineup with Tristan. He was also the singer for Kitschchao and an author – sadly he died in 2005. Below the videos I made mp3’s of the audio from the video if you want them.

Videos

Better Days Animation by Judith Schaechter R.I.P. Tristan Egolf

Guided by voices, strapping field hands, V3 flyer

Strapping Field Hands Live 93 & 94

January 31, 2011 / admin

Two live shows from the Strapping Field Hands from 93 and 94. The 93 show was opening for Alastair Galbraith and Peter Jefferies’ first tour of America. (I’m going to put up their part of the show soon) I actually had to tape over part of Strapping because I filled up both 90 minute cassettes and Peter Jefferies was still playing. The second show from 94 they were opening for Guided By Voices – both shows were packed shows at the Khyber (which means you couldn’t physically fit another person through the door.) Strapping Field Hands were probably the biggest band in Philly during those years and always opened for everyone really interesting coming to Philly. They have reformed and you can check out what’s going on with them at
Here’s an interview with Bob from Strapping on the Nice Popper zine site.

A couple of the songs I wasn’t sure of the titles if someone lets me know what the titles are I’ll update the post.

Khyber August 19 1993

01-When You Came
02.-?
03-Mysterious Girl
04-Just Too Much
05-Eggs In The Reservoir
06-Garden Of Earthly Delights

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Khyber August 06 1994

01-Eggs In The Reservoir
02-Red Dog And The Deconstructor
03-withMikeRepSong.mp3
04.-?
05-Looking Into The Sun
06-He’s Right_GBV cover

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Tons of Nuns

January 28, 2011 / admin

Tons of Nuns was originally a three piece band with Bern (The Julia Set), Art (later of Photon Band, Uptown Bones, Lilys, etc.) and Brian (Bad Ronald, Rear Admiral, Mad Bomber ) To check out this version of the band see the Live from WXPN tracks below. (i wasn’t sure of if I got all the names of the songs right please send me any corrections if their is a mistake) After Art left Bill Rude (the Koosmans, Bad Ronald, Rotgut, Stinkbomben, Rear Admiral) and Dan Levin (Sadly he died in a car accident July 4, 1991) joined the band . They recorded a demo which I called the 3rd demo tape (see below.) One track from the demo “What’s it Gonna Be” was on the Rave Records’ Discpan Hands: A Philadelphia Compilation which is still available on itunes and amazon.
For first 2 demos click here.

Live on WXPN

01-Sick Again
02-We Must Divide
03-3 Songs-?-Community Pig-Scarborough Fair
04-Sticky
05-As I Recall
06-I Don’t Think
07-Instrumental?
08-Burning
09-Steal This Song
10-Drining At The UN Bar
11-Most Important Person?
12-Mad
13-Let’s Drive
14-The Lion Sleeps Tonight

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3rd Demo tape

01 Community Pig
02 Theme
03 Big Hair
04 Boredom
05 I’ve Got Your Number
06 Seperate Myself from the Media
07 What’s it Gonna Be
08 Caught in the Middle
09 What Dreams May Come

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Fugazi – WKDU Band Bash March 2nd 1991

January 25, 2011 / admin

These videos are from the second time Fugazi played a WKDU show at Drexel. I shot a few videos with my Pixel camcorder from tthe side of the stage. I was hoping to move around but the show was very crowded. So all the pixel video are from the side of the stage with Guy and Joe on it. I have no idea what the order of the songs was but this is all I had. The other video was by another KDU guy Ken and was with real cameras so the quality is a lot better (for DUTV). Fugazi always put on a great show but this one was not as crazy as the first KDU one that was at the Drexel parking garage I don’t seem to have a flyer for this show but I took a few screenshots.
All these videos are up on the freedom has no bounds You Tube channel. On that channel I’ve started to collect some Philly bands and shows from Philly in the favorties section.
The full audio for this show is available in the Fugazi Live Series

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Alastair Galbraith & Peter Jefferies Live Khyber – Philadelphia 08/19/93

Audio files – Peter Jefferies

Audio files – Alastair Galbraith

Audio files – Alastair Galbraith & Peter Jefferies

Electric Love Muffin – Elk’s Lodge AC 7/26/85

Audio Files

Serial Killers – demo tape

Audio Files

Ruin – Terminal Flexi & White Rabbit Demo

Terminal Flexi

White Rabbit Demo

Extra mp3’s

Maximum Rocknroll #21 Review

Big Black @ the Crypt 10-30-85

Audio files

Legitimate Reason

Legitimate Reason 7″

Demo Tape

Doomed To Obscurity (DTO) @ the Tritone

Videos

Strapping Field Hands Live 93 & 94

Khyber August 19 1993

Khyber August 06 1994

Tons of Nuns

Live on WXPN

3rd Demo tape

Fugazi – WKDU Band Bash March 2nd 1991

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Pixelvision Videos

Reclamation

Turnover

Dear Justice Letter

And The Same

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