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
Tag: Philadelphia (Page 21 of 24)
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 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
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
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
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
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
Audio files
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
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)
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
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
Demo 87
01 – I
02 – Tenths
03 – Niner Thousand
04 – Colorado Bound
05 – Jane
06 – Any Time At All
07 – Shade
08 – Moscow
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
MediaFire Zip of all files
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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