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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

Seam tshirt

Seam – Khyber 6/25/92

August 10, 2011 /

Seam bio from Touch & Go site: Seam began as a three-piece in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Although Seam’s “pedigree” included Bitch Magnet and Superchunk, Seam’s reticent melodicism and subtly moving guitar washes occupy a realm quite different than the illustrious pasts of Seam’s members might suggest. Seam released their first single Days of Thunder on Homestead Records in October of 1990, and their second single Granny 9X on Merge Records in early ’92. The band released their first full-length, Headsparks, on Homestead in 1992. After a move to Chicago, Seam also moved to Touch and Go for the release of an EP and three full-length albums, the last being The Pace Is Glacial in 1998.
This is a live set from the Khyber from June 25th 1992. They were the headliner with CakeKitchen opening up for them. A couple of tracks from Kernal but mostly from Headsparks and the early 7″s. For more on Seam go to the Touch & Go Site. Also, check out Sooyoung Park’s current band Ee at Facebook

Audio files

01 – Decatur
02 – Grain
03 – Sweet Pea
04 – Sky City
05 – Feather
06 – Atari
07 – Pins & Needles
08 – Kernel
09 – Granny 9x
10 – Days Of Thunder

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CakeKitchen – Khyber 6/25/92

August 8, 2011 /
Cakekitchen

CakeKitchen is Graeme Jefferies with various other musicians. Graeme had been in Nocturnal Projections and This Kind of Punishment with his brother Peter Jefferies. I’m not 100% sure but judging by the time frame it was probably Graeme with bassist Rachael King and drummer Robert Key. This show was on June 25, 1992 at the Khyber opening for Seam. Lots of tracks off the World of Sand album and the earlier Time Flowing Backwards album. Greame is still putting out releases – the latest is Kangaroos In My Top Paddock. For more on Cakekitchen (including buying cd’s directly from the band) check out the Cakekitchen Facebook Page.

Audio files

01 – ?
02 – Airships
03 – This Perfect Day
04 – Big Fat Mouth
05 – ?
06 – Crimson To Gunmetal
07 – Walking On The Glass
08 – Dave The Pimp
09 – Fahrenheit 451
10 – Tomorrow Came Today

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Nirvana - JC Dobbs Ticket

Nirvana – JC Dobbs 10/1/91

August 5, 2011 /

Nirvana from JC Dobbs the last tour before they became big rock stars. Their third time at Dobbs from October 1st 1991 with the Melvins. I wish I had taped the Melvins but I unfortunately didn’t. It was a little weird to me that Nirvana became the big band at the time I was way more into Mudhoney and thought they would be huge. Shows what I know. But one of the things I respected Nirvana allot was paying homage to the bands that influenced them. Having Pat Smear join as a 2nd guitar player and wearing a Daniel Johnston shirt on mTV are just a few examples. At this show they did a good mix of Nevermind, Bleach and other stuff. According to a site dedicated to Nirvana shows it was reported Kurt was feeling well so that may be why they didn’t do an encore.

Audio files

01 – Jesus Wants Me for A Sunbeam
02 – Drain You
03 – Aneurysm
04 – Floyd The Barber
05 – Smells Like Teen Spirit
06 – Polly
07 – About A Girl
08 – Sliver
09 – Come As You Are
10 – Blew
11 – Been A Son

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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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Meatmen Flyer

Meatmen – Longmarch Philly 6/16/84

July 27, 2011 /

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 - ELks FLyer

Black Flag – Elk Center 06/04/1982

July 25, 2011 /

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 /

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

MediaFire Zip of video audio

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