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Uptown Bones

August 1, 2011 / admin

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.

<a href="https://uptownbones.bandcamp.com/album/uptown-bones-time-to-die-the-best-of-86-93-21-remastered">Uptown Bones – Time to Die (the best of… '86-'93 & '21) remastered by Uptown Bones</a>

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

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

Demos & 7″s MediaFire Zip

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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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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Meatmen – Longmarch Philly 6/16/84

July 27, 2011 / admin

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

Audio files

01 – Abba God & Me
02 – Mr Tapeworm
03 – Razamanaz
04 – Meat Crimes
05 – War Of The Superbikes
06 – Tooling For Anus
07 – One Down Three To Go
08 – Pillar Of Sodom
09 – Punkerama
10 – Buttocks
11 – God’s Bullies
12 – Cadaver Class
13 – Crippled Children Suck
14 – I’ve Got A Problem
15 – Wine Wenches And Wheel
16 – What’s This Shit Called Love
17 – Lesbian Death Dirge

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Black Flag – Elk Center 06/04/1982

July 25, 2011 / admin

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
But this has been up for a while so maybe it will stay up.

Audio files

01 – Instrumental
02 – Tv Party
03 – I’ve Heard It Before
04 – Depression
05 – Scream
06 – Jealous Again
07 – No Values
08 – Life Of Pain
09 – American Waste
10 – Clocked In & What I See
11 – Padded Cell
12 – Damaged I
13 – Revenge
14 – I’ve Got To Run
15 – My Rules
16 – Six Pack
17 – Fix Me
18 – Rise Above
19 -(encore)

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White Trash – Mne plevat’ na zritelia

July 22, 2011 / admin

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 / admin

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
<a href="https://maceistheplace.bandcamp.com/album/m-80s-philadelphia-1985">M-80s Philadelphia 1985 by M-80s</a>
Thanks as always to Pete at Sounds of Tomorrow. for the beta tapes

Videos

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Void – Live Videos From 1984

July 14, 2011 / admin

DC’s Void Live video Feb. 18th & 25th 1984. The video from the 18th is from the CEC in philly. The video from the 25th is from Rock Hotel in NYC. (Thanks Chris for the info and flyer). So, if anyone knows where this is from please let me know. The flyer I put up with it is from an older Love Hall show. The only Void stuff I knew about 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 Potion For Bad Dreams they did for Touch & Go which has never been put out but you can find it here
Thanks again to Pete at Sounds of Tomorrow. for the beta tapes

Void – CEC Philadelphia 2/18/84

Void – Live 2/25/84

Government Issue – CEC Philadelphia

July 11, 2011 / admin

DC’s Government Issue from the CEC in West Philly – A rock against hunger show with Constraint (From Leigh Valley) and Electric Love Muffin. John Stabb mentions that the first song Mad At Myself is from their new album which would be The Fun Never Ends. I re-edited these videos using the GI Live Bootleg Series audio which was 100 times better than the audio from the video. The live audio is available on GI’s live Bootleg series
Thanks again to Pete at Sounds of Tomorrow for the beta tapes

Nobody’s Favorite

July 8, 2011 / admin

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

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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The Dicks – Elk’s Lodge, Atlantic City

July 5, 2011 / admin

The Dicks from the Elk’s Center in Atlantic City. I don’t have a flyer for this one but I’m assuming it was the same summer as the other ones I posted so 1985. The Dicks and the Big Boys were my favorite of the Austin bands of the early 80’s. I never got to see either of them live but did see a lot of later bands (Sister Double Happiness, Bad Mutha Goose, Monkeywrench, Swine King, Scratch Acid) by members of both. They did a good mix of songs from all their releases in this set. Both sides of the Peace/War 7″ and both albums Kill From the Heart and These People. It looks like the only Dicks music available is the Alternative Tentacles comp 1980-86 It has songs from all their releases but I have no idea why they just didn’t put everything on the cd.
Thanks again to Pete at Sounds of Tomorrow. for the beta tapes

Audio files

01 – Dicks Hate Police
02 – Rich Daddy
03 – Hope You Get Drafted
04 – Doctor Daddy
05 – George Jackson
06 – Decent And Clean
07 – Off-Duty Sailor
08 – Executive Dive
09 – No Nazi sFriend
10 – Anti-Klan
11 – Sidewalk Begging
12 – Dead In A Motel Room
13 – No Fuckin’ War
14 – Little Boys Feet
15 – Marilyn Buck

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

July 1, 2011 / admin

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