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Constraint (LVHC) – CEC Philadelphia Feb. 23, 1985

June 30, 2011 / admin

This is Constraint opening a show at the CEC with Electric Love Muffin & Government Issue. I know I saw Constraint either in the Leigh Valley or in Philly but I didn’t have much info on them so here’s a guest commentary by Eric from easysubculture If anyone can fill in the song titles please add a comment.

They were from bethlehem. my best bud dave clewell was the singer. he was later in last cry, mugface, forthright, maddog surrender, etc. (check out maddog. pretty great) [see the FOE website for lots of LVHC bands]. They had the coolest punk logo of the day back then, wings and skull and peace sign that graphically stands the test of time, and was always painted on a sheet behind them. mike and rob the guitar and bassers were 2 pretty tough dudes you did not want to fuck with. ahhh, when punk = tough kids. total bad ass older kid bethlehem kids. I forgot how much i loved CONSTRAINT. they were tough dudes and totally bethlehem. i remember being so bummed i couldn’t roadie for them to this show. one of the buddy’s of the guitar and bass player, who were a few years older than me and dave (singer and mike (drummer) wanted to kick my ass over some punker comments i made and i had to lay low for a few months when they / he was around. but anyway and all that personal teen punk drama aside, they were the best LV band at that point (1984 – 1985). rob (bass) and mike were ovo-lacto vegetarians and peace punks but they were still bad ass and intimidating like punkers used to be. ‘do-gooders with a violent streak’.

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

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Constraint-01
Constraint-02
Constraint-03
Constraint-04
Constraint-05
Constraint-06
Constraint-07
Constraint-08
Constraint-09
Constraint-10
Constraint-11
Constraint-12
Constraint-13

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Die Kreuzen – Elk’s Lodge in Atlantic City Video

June 1, 2011 / admin

Die Kreuzen from the Elk’s Lodge in Atlantic City. Starts off with their cover of the Halloween movie theme. Then they played a mix of short fast stuff from their first self titled LP and a bunch of longer songs from my favorite Die Kreuzen album October File.
I remember seeing them at the Kennel Club around this time but it might have been 1986. Earlier I posted the audio from a much later Die Kreuzen show from the Khyber.
For all things Die Kreuzen go to: Counting Cracks

Thanks again to Pete at Sounds of Tomorrow for the beta tapes

Audio files

01 – Halloween
02 – Melt
03 – This Hope
04 – Counting Cracks
05 – Uncontrolled Passion
06 – Rumors
07 – Dirt And Decay
08 – There’s A Place
09 – Fighting
10 – Imagine A Light
11 – Sick People
12 – It’s Been So Long
13 – I’m Tired
14 – Man In The Trees
15 – Hear And Feel
16 – Cool Breeze (partial)

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Tons of Nuns – First 2 Demos

May 27, 2011 / admin

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

May 26, 2011 / admin

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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Husker Du – Live Videos

May 20, 2011 / admin

Husker Du from the West Side Club, they played there twice but I’m pretty sure this is the April 16, 1983 show. The 84 show at the West Side was the Zen Arcade tour and at least in this video they only did a couple of Zen Arcade songs. The rest is from 7″s (In A Free Land), Land Speed Record or Everything Falls Apart. The quality of this video is a little rough at times but I thought it was worth putting up anyway.Go to Husker Du Database for a lot more info.
Thanks again to Pete at Sounds of Tomorrow for the beta tapes

The 2nd video is from City Gardens in March of 1984. Thanks to Lenny Crunch (RIP)for this video.

West Side Club, Philadelphia – April 16, 1983

Love Hall , Philadelphia – December 16, 1983

Husker Du – City Gardens March 25,1984

Red Paint People

May 19, 2011 / admin

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).

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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Scream – Live Videos

May 16, 2011 / admin

One of my favorite bands to see live, it was so good to see them again a few years ago at KungFu Necktie. This post has 3 Scream videos from Philadelphia and 1 from NYC from the mid-80s. I just discovered that I had the video below of them from Rock Hotel in 1984. I also added another video from Love Hall from 83 that was up on Youtube, West Side Club in 86 & Camden in 85. Scream is currently working on a new album called DC Special – “DC Special tells our story through the musical history we grew up with and so we’ve invited musicians from our local DC music community, both past and present, to collaborate with us during the session.” Their Dischord albums are available on Bandcamp

Rock Hotel NYC – February, 23, 1984

West Side Club 4/13/86

This was a great day first Decontrol & Scream at the West Side Club and then Marginal Man at the Kennel Club later that night. Scream did a bunch of songs from their first two albums plus lots of covers. I’m not sure exactly when this show was but I know it was Spring of 1986. I saw Scream a few more times after this but this was my favorite time – it was more like a party then a show. Scream are back together and doing some shows (hopefully they will do a tour) go to their site for more info.
Thanks again to Pete at Sounds of Tomorrow for the beta tapes

Star Theater, Camden NJ – 4/6/85

From a CRUNCH show with Homo Picnic, Oblivion & Beefeater.

Love Hall Philadelphia 1983

Dead Milkmen – Live

May 13, 2011 / admin

Elk’s Lodge Atlantic City 1985?

Dead Milkmen Live from the Elk’s Lodge in Atlantic City. I don’t have much info on this show but I’m assuming it was in the summer of 1985. Lots of songs from their first albumBig Lizard in My Backyard plus a few from Eat Your Paisley . Around 1/3 into the video they do their big early hit Bitchin’ Camaro with what looks like most of the audience up on stage. The Dead Milkmen have reformed and have a new album out go to The Dead Milkmen Facebook Page to check it out.
Thanks again to Pete at Sounds of Tomorrow for the beta tapes

Audio files

01 – Beach Song
02 – Tiny Town
03 – Laundromat Song
04 – Junkie
05 – Right Wing Pigeons From Outer Space
06 – Tarantula
07 – Dean’s Dream
08 – Serrated Edge
09 – Big Lizard
10 – V.F.W.
11 – Lucky
12 – Bitchin’ Camaro
13 – Take Me Apart
14 – Swampland Of Desire
15 – Two Feet Off The Ground
16 – Hangin’ Round
17 – SwordFish

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Chestnut Cabaret – June 5th, 1989

Thanks for the link to this billydee! For more of his live tapes go here

Autistic Behavior – Live Kater St. 8/7/82

May 5, 2011 / admin

This video is from an impromptu outdoor show in Philly back in 1982. Autistic Behavior only got through about 5 songs and then the cops busted up the show. Instead of me explaining check out this pdf with two zine articles (Savage Pink & Die Young) talking about it Click Here to see the pdf. They had two tracks on the Get Off My Back comp and recorded an album which was finally released by SRA in 2013.

<a href="https://srarecords.bandcamp.com/album/shattered-cattle">Shattered Cattle by Autistic Behavior</a>

Thanks to Pete at Sounds of Tomorrow for the beta tapes and Bret (Noise Addiction II) for the info and zines.

Homo Picnic – Blood On The Walls Tape & Live Videos

May 4, 2011 / admin

Blood on the Wall demo tape by Homo Picnic from 84. 6 songs of early Homo Picnic with Rich Poor (currently of Brutal Truth & Total Fucking Destruction) on vocals Dug on Guitar, Tone on Drums and Chuck Treece (McRad) on bass. Homo Picnic now has a facebook page. For more Homo Picnic see Noise Addiction and all Homo Picnic posts.

01 – Blood On The Walls
02 – Trouble In Paradise
03 – How Many Lives
04 – I Win
05 – Battered Dreams
06 – War Stories

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