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More Fiends

More Fiends

August 12, 2011 /

More Fiends sound is hard to describe. Here’s an attempt to describe them from the Sounds magazine (London):
An explosion of vivid colours both in looks and personalities, More Fiends prove to be illuminating musically too. With superfuzz thrash, disoriented voodoo rhythm and gloriously camp vocal extremities, they have come up with one far out wild party. The powerful effect of the Fiends’ multi-ingredient homebrew is a drug free buzz for quality kitsch lovers everywhere.
I know for me they expanded my musical horizons further than just the faster & louder hardcore that dominated the 80’s all ages scene (not that I didn’t like that as well)

To me they are one of the Philadelphia bands most in tune with the true spirit of punk. The idea of early Punk was bands setting out to be their own weird thing. More Fiends achieve that – they sound like no one else and you couldn’t pigeon hole them into some category (i.e. hardcore, crossover, emo & all the ridiculous labels that exist today.)

The core of the band was Elizabeth and Allen Fiend plus many other people over the years. Here are at least some of the other members: Ron Fiend, Rich Poor (Total Fucking Destruction, Brutal Truth). Bob Bludgeon, Julie, Tony, Dave Fiend (Kitschchao) & Bob Fiend.
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Below I have 3 cd’s worth of More Fiends. Music From Big Tea Party (the musical backdrop to the show. – some of which I believe is solo Allen stuff), Dark Side Of Genius (Like an explosion through a maze of sound with jagged schizophrenic convulsions. The weirdest of all More Fiends music. Demented and abrasive lo-fi basement recordings. Your Mother won’t like this one! – Mostly the later Dave & Bob Fiend era) and Nibble (live recording mostly from 1992/1993 see the notes below the tracks for info on who was in the band and where it was from.) Below that I’ve collected a bunch of flyers for your viewing pleasure.

Audio files

More Fiends Music from the Big Tea Parry cover
More Fiends Music from the Big Tea Parry back

Music From Big Tea Party
01 Big Tea Party
02 Vinyl Grind
03 Fatty Humps
04 Confusion is a Blessing
05 Lizard Tail
06 Clear to Me
07 Lust
08 Wild West Philly
09 Chew On This
10 Flash of Frustration
11 Watch Yr Back

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More Fiends Dark Side Cover
More Fiends Dark Side back

Dark Side Of Genius

01 Attack of the Giant Squitos
02 Saboteur
03 Blind Man
04 Shock
05 Happy Bars
06 Crater Face
07 Boo Hoo Hoey
08 Lava Flow
09 Blowin’ Yer Load
10 Lentils
11 A Dark Deception

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More Fiends Nibble Cover
More Fiends Nibble Back

Nibble

01 The Message is the Same ★
02 Ramrod ❄
03 Made to Propel ★
04 Whipping ❽
05 White Lady Wears BoBos ★
06 Toad Lickin Intro- ❽ Song- ★
07 The 1st State ⌘
08 Denze Pack ❀
09 Dumpster ⌘
10 Piercing Question ❽
11 Feathered Serpant ★
12 Frankenstein ➢
13 Globe Contest ❄
14 Car Stereo for a Mouth ★
15 Contest Winner ❽
16 Fatty Humps Addendum ⌘
17 Head in Dumpster ★
18 Zapaitista’s Lament ◉

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 ★ House of Beats Studio (Meth 25 – Produced by John of Meth 25) with Julie and Tony (Track 14 – written by Julie)
 ❄ 40th Street Underground – Christmas Party 1993 with Tony and Bob.
 ❽ 40th Street Underground – Halloween Party 1993 with Bob and Tony
 ⌘ 4 in 1 club Delaware with Julie & Tony (Track #7 in response to Nazi Skinhead audience members)
 ❀ 1985 show with Matt & Sandy
 ➢ Bunker House Hamburg Germany (Produced by Peter from Alien Boys) with Ron & Rich
 ◉ Kauffman Kitchen Studio with Martha

Decontrol - Toxic Reasons - Nobody's Favorite -AC

Decontrol – Elk’s Lodge AC July 20, 1985

August 3, 2011 /

Decontrol live video from Elk’s Lodge in Atlantic City from July 20th 1985. The show was Decontrol, Toxic Reasons & Nobody’s Favorite.Unfortunately I don’t have Nobody’s Favorite video from that show. Decontrol has a recent album Thoughts & Prayers or go get Songs from the Gut The Complete Collection
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Below the videos are the audio tracks. As usual there is one song left I don’t have the title for  hopefully someone will fill me in on it and I’ll update the post.

Thanks again to Pete at Sounds of Tomorrow for the beta tapes and Dave thanks for filling in the song titles

Video Tracklist & Audio files

1 – Bunker
2 – Too Much Pressure
3 – Drunk Again
4 – What You Gonna Do
5 – Pillhead
6 – Death Wish
7 – ?
8 – Depraved Condition
9 – This Doomsday
10 – Philly Cops
11 – Hoiliday In New Jersey
12 – We Are All Prostitutes
13 – Fascists_Paint It Black
14 – Suburban War
15 – Dead Life
16 – Born To Be Wild
17 – Back From The Grave
18 – 1992
19 – Jack The Ripper
20 – Summertime Blues

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Uptown Bones

August 1, 2011 /

Heritage Plaza – Philly Soul Punk ep

7 song side project by Uptown Bones guitarist Andy Clees – Continuing the Bones sound with an additional bluesy stones feel.

01 – Squatters-Pie
02 – Redeem the Day
03 – Heritage Plaza
04 – Morning Song
05 -at12th n Ridge n Spring Garden – On the Avenue
06 – I See You
07 – The One

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UPDATE Uptown Bones have released a compilation album (Time to Die (the best of (’86 -’93 & ’21) remastered. On LP and streaming on Bandcamp.



Uptown Bones 7inch cover

Uptown Bones were one of my favorite Philly bands of the late 80’s early 90’s. They seemed to be heavily influences by the Love Muffin but added in some psychedelic and noise elements to it. The band was Rich (Ashtabula, Latimer) vocals & Guitar, Andy Clees on Guitar and Noel on drums. The original bass player, Scooter Anderson (Thanks Eric & Art) was later replaced by Art (Photon Band, Tons of Nuns, Lilys, etc.) Collected below are 2 demo tapes (I don’t have the track names for the 2nd one) the first 7″, the split 7″ with Les Thugs and then the 2 cd’s that came out on the French Black & Noir Records. As an added bonus there some Flyers at the very bottom + a video I shoot from Johnny Brenda’s which was a sort of reunion with Noel, Art, Rich along with Brian from ELM. It was before the newish band Mt Vengeance which is Rich Fravel – guitars and vocals & Brian Campbell (Electric Love Muffin & Poppy)- bass & Nick Santore – drums

Audio files

Uptown Bones Split cover

1988 Demo Tape

01 – D
02 – Why
03 – Starin (At The Floor) 04 – Long Gone

1989 Demo Tape
01 – Slowly Something
02 – ?
03 – ?
04 – Locust
05 – ?
06 – ?
07 – Starin At the Floor

Locust 7″
A1 – Locust (On Time To Die comp)
B1 – Stargazer

Split 7″ with Les Thugs
A1 – Les Thugs – Falling Apart
B1 – Uptown Bones – Spring is A Cat (On Time To Die comp)

Comps
A la Folie
Uptown Bones-Do Watcka Do
On Another Planet
Uptown Bones – Beautiful

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Uptown Bones E Cover

01 – Connect
02 – 3 Hours (On Time To Die comp)
03 – Tarantula (On Time To Die comp)
04 – Flowers Fall (On Time To Die comp)
05 – Weird Deal
06 – Sex Me Down
07 – Starin At The Floor (On Time To Die comp)
08 – Imaginary Friend (On Time To Die comp)
09 – Spring Is A Cat (On Time To Die comp)
10 – Magic Place
11 – Fearless (On Time To Die comp)
12 – Slowly Something (On Time To Die comp)
13 – Adios Motherfucker

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Uptown Bones Move Cover

1 – Airplane Driver
2 – Down On The Sun (On Time To Die comp)
3 – Dig (On Time To Die comp)
4 – Pussycat (On Time To Die comp)
5 – National Philadelphia (On Time To Die comp)
6 – Foreign Language Lessons
7 – Overseer
8 – Sexy Pop Popsong
9 – Dy-No-Mite Feelgood

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White Trash – Mne plevat’ na zritelia

July 22, 2011 /

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.

Audio files

01. Love Ain’t Pretty
02. Act Now
03. Mexarg Soap
04. Webwork
05. Energy Level
06. Why We Die Like Dogs
07. Nouveaugçö Filthy.
08. Her Name
09. Jet Lag.
10. Nothing Else
11. Five O’clock Jet Lag
12. Cruisin’ With Kurt
13. Bite Your Head Off
14. Riled By A Nazi
15. Deep Fried Chicken Backs Police Fun
16. Insults And Punchlines
17. Thick Ankles Spoil Your Appearance
18. Pretty Woman (Live)
19. Zsa Zsa Gabor
20. Purple Haze

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M-80’s – Live CEC Philly

July 21, 2011 /
M-80's


The M-80s, a short lived project in 1985 with myself on bass, Chuck Treece (McRad) and John Gilmour (She Males) on guitar, Bobby Ray Williams (Executive Slacks) on drums and Keith Souder (now of Stones cover band Brown Sugar, his start in show business) on vox: Robyn of the great Initial Attack
Description and Photo stolen from Chuck although the Photo is Bill Rude’s skateboard
This video is 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..

Get the M-80’s demo at the Mace Canister Recordings Bandcamp page

Thanks as always to Pete at Sounds of Tomorrow. for the beta tapes

Videos

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Nobody’s Favorite band photo

Nobody’s Favorite

July 8, 2011 /

Nobody’s Favorite from the CEC in West Philly. I’m not sure when this show was since I can’t find a flyer for it but it was with M-80’s (who I also have some video of for later) and Decontrol (that video is already up). Thanks to Dave who was the singer for sending me a couple of emails with all this info and stories below: Nobody’s Favorite had Robbie Birch who was (Richie) decontrol’s guitar player’s brother in the band. Their bass player John (Wolfinger) went on to play and record with Decontrol until his death in 1990. Their drummer was Steve Malone, who was in the marching band in high school resulting in near perfect timing on his part. He would always raz me for mucking it up. At this show the stage monitors burned out early and we relied on the sound bouncing back from the back wall of the CEC. The video also reminded me ( Rob had a big NF on his shirt) of a show at the Crypt where four guys surrounded me on Walnut street because I had a NF logo on my sleeve and thought I was in the National Front. I was like, no no I’m no fascist as I pointed to a flyer on a pole, I’m with the band. They were about to beat the piss out of me, but we all had a good laugh about it in the end. After they broke up some of the band went on to form other bands including: White Trash and Crash Happy. Hopefully I will get some White Trash audio to put up at some point.

Worse Than Live! (1984) Tape

01. Hell House
02. I Dream Of Evel
03. Another Song
04. Only Way Out
05. Riled By A Nazi
06. G.I. Joe Was A Soldier
07. Missing In Action
08. Police Fun
09. Bite Your Head Off
10. Webwork
11. Life Is Always Life As Always
12. Zsa Zsa Gabor
13. Mall Rats
14. Christ Was A Commie
15. All About Ted
16. Thick Ankles Spoil Your Appearence
17. Our World
18. Warzone
19. Riled By A Nazi
20. Evel Jam

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Thanks for the demo tape files Brett Noise Addiction II

Maximum Rocknroll #21 Review

Maximum Rocknroll #21

Video from CEC Philadelphia

Thanks as always to Pete at Sounds of Tomorrow for the beta tapes

Video Tracks & Audio files

1. Life is always life as always
2. Only way out
3. Thick ankles spoil your appearance
4. All about Ted
5. GI Joe was a soldier
6. Missing in action
7. Hell house
8. Why we die like dogs
9. Zsa Zsa Gabor
10. Webwork & I dream of Evel
11. Riled by a nazi
12. Off to war
13. Bite your head off
14. Energy level
15. Mall rats
16. Our world

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WKDU Band Bash 85 FLyer

WKDU Band Bash October 5th 1985 (Homo Picnic, 5 Story Fall, Oblivion, Fabulous Fondas, M-Fakter)

July 1, 2011 /

WKDU free band bash from October 1985. There were a lot of bands at this show – most of the Video is of Homo Picnic and 5 Story Fall but there is also some of Oblivion, M Fakter, and Ambush Bugs. Apparently more bands where going to play (Dead Milkmen plus others) but the company doing the sound and/or Drexel security pulled the plug. At the end of the 2nd Homo Picnic clip there is a short interview with them. I just realized I forgot to try and figure out the song titles (if anyone knows them please add them in a comment) Also if anyone has the 5 Story Fall demo please let me know it would be great to put those up.

Thanks to Val for the video

5 Story Fall

Homo Picnic

Oblivion

Ambush Bugs

M-Fakter

Audio files

5 Story Fall – 01
5 Story Fall – 02
5 Story Fall – 03
5 Story Fall – 04
5 Story Fall – 05
5 Story Fall – 06
Fabulous Fondas – 01
Homo Picnic – 01
Homo Picnic – 02
Homo Picnic – 03
Homo Picnic – 04
Homo Picnic – 05
Homo Picnic – 06
M Factor – 01
Oblivion – 01
Oblivion – 02

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Tons of Nuns flyer

Tons of Nuns – First 2 Demos

May 27, 2011 /

Brian sent me a tape with the first two Tons of Nuns Demos (Thanks Brian.) This is the earlier lineup for Tons of Nuns with Brian (Bad Ronald, Rear Admiral, Mad Bomber ), Bern (The Julia Set), and Art (Photon Band, Uptown Bones, Lilys, etc.). I haven’t heard these songs in a long time it was really nice to hear them again. If you want to hear the XPN in studio and the later version of Tons of Nuns see my earlier post here

Audio files

1st Demo

01 – I Love You
02 – We Must Divide
03 – M.A.D.
04 – Theme

2nd Demo

05 – Scarbrough Fair
06 – No Choice
07 – Community Pig
08 – Thoughtful Girl
09 – She Said

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The Balls WKDU flyer

The Balls

May 26, 2011 /

I don’t have much info on the Balls. All I know is that I saw them a few times in the late 80’s and they were on Discpan Hands. But it was great to have a local band heavily influenced by the Meat Puppets. So here are their two demo tapes one from 86 & the other from 87. If anyone knows more info about the Balls please add it to the comments or email it to me.
Updated info (Thanks Bob)
Steve Maglio – guitar)
Dave Eisenhower – drums)
John Swana – bass – later it was Jim Stager (Huffamoose) and then Bill Comins
Steve Maglio and Jim Stager along with DJ Bonebrake (X) can be heard (recently) on this album.

Audio files

Demo 86

01 – Moscow
02 – Song In F
03 – Gina Marie
04 – 221
05 – Full Circle
06 – Brenda

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Demo 87

01 – I
02 – Tenths
03 – Niner Thousand
04 – Colorado Bound
05 – Jane
06 – Any Time At All
07 – Shade
08 – Moscow

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Red Paint People

Red Paint People

May 19, 2011 /

Red Paint People put out a couple of 7″s and where on some compilations (including Scrabble.) They played brutal, bone-rattling rock and roll much in the vein of the Amp Rep/Touch & Go bands of the same time. In the early 90’s they played a lot of shows in Philly and along with Kitschchao brought a loud hardcore influenced rock back to the scene. The band was made up of Chris Hunter on guitar (Little Gentlemen, If, Goats, Mothra &  DTO  ), Eric Hammarberg on bass (Double Penetration, Ben Arnold) Stroller on Drums and there singer was Matt.

Live On WKDU 02-15-93 (Jackie’s show)

I had to try to normalize the audio on this one – it was I guess either the tape or the original mix but hopefully I made  it better.

00 – Intro
01 – Unknown
02 – Unknown
03 – 3 Magnets 3
04 – Stric Neck
05 – Cantaloupe
06 – Team Tough Guy
07 – Unknown
08 – Blood in Honey
09 – Cool Mama
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The tracks below are the two 7″s plus a lot of bonus songs that I got from Chris (Thanks).

Red Paint People 7 inch cover
Red Paint People 7 inch bacl

Audio files

01 – Rock Chuck
02 – Blank Space
03 – Splugde Fest Now!
04 – Blood In Honey
05 – 3 Magnets 3
06 – Cantaloupe
07 – Team Tuff Guy
08 – Stric Neck
09 – Been Running
10 – Mooselodge

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