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Television Personalities – Khyber 4-9-1992

October 27, 2011 / admin

I saw that Dan Treacy who basically is the Television Personalities was in a coma see the article I remembered I had a live tape of them from the Khyber. I haven’t been able to find any updates on his health but hopefully Dan will pull through. I think the tape is from April 9th 1992 but I’m not sure. According to Dan Treacy’s web site Mad Scene opened up for them that night and I also have a live tape of Mad Scene from the Khyber.
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01 – Good And Faitful Servant / Very Dark Today
02 – My First Nervous Breakdown
03 – She Can Stop Traffic
04 – She’s Only The Grocer’s Daughter
05 – I Hope You Have A Nice Day
06 – Goodnight Mr Spaceman
07 – Younger Than You Know
08 – Conscience Tells Me No
09 – La Grande Illusion

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Rocknoceros

October 21, 2011 / admin

This is the second band that I have been sent music by a member to put up on this blog. Which I am very happy to do so if any other Philly bands want to be on email me. Here is the info on Rocknoceros.
The band:
Deb – Vocals, is now an artist in St. Louis
Rachel – Backing vocals, is now an artist in Australia
Chris – Drums and backing vocals, is now an artist in NYC and was in The Hunks and Scarpetta after he moved to NYC.
Dan – Guitar, also played in Double Penetration, Cactus Love, The Sinners, and The Illegitimate Sons and Daughters
Tom – Guitar & Bass, also played in Jack Lord’s Hair and Mud Pie and now plays in Mud Pie Sun
Let’s see..there was the story of our tape being mastered. We had recorded it in Tom’s west Phillly basement on a 4 track and sent it to Valley Forge Music for mastering and reproduction. When we didn’t like the dolby they put on it, the president of the company decided he would master it himself. He took one listen and sent the tape back to us saying it was obscene and that he did not want our business! He refused to reproduce it! We were banned!

Tom came to me one day and said “wanna be in a band? i want to put a band together that’s like the punk version of Kiss”. So we always dressed up in crazy outfits. Tom had some sort of lion suit (or something like that!). We played a lot of parties (Funk Dungeon, Rodman St. block party etc…) When we played at Khyber the 1st time, Debbie Katon (our singer) wore this home made bullet bra contraption, like the one Madonna made famous but it was before Madonna did it!
We played at the Fairmount Prison Block party. Mega Jimmy drove us there and when we got there it was full of kids and grandmas and family types. We convinced Deb that we should still play. At one point, a tween girl came up to the stage and yelled at us “CAN YOU TURN DOWN, YOU’RE GIVING EVERYONE A HEADACHE!” There was one teenage boy that loved us though, so it was worth it.

Not much else to say. It was my favorite band that I’ve been in and a lot of fun. I still think that the songs were good. – From Dan

Deb and Chris were art students at PCA so they might have gotten class credit for making Rocknoceros outfits. I remember going to a theatrical costume shop in Philly that had these sales where you could fill a bag with old costumes for five dollars. Dan found a sort of colonial minuteman coat, and I found a leopard suit with the ass torn out and some red lamé fabric that I made pants out of. And I spray painted a pair of platform shoes bright yellow that I nearly broke an ankle on. Chris dressed in total whacked-out drag and even somehow made huge and scary strap-on female genitalia that looked hilarious when he sat down at the drums and hiked up his skirt. – From Tom

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01 No One
02 Big Cats
03 Sam the Man from Mars
04 Swimming Man
05 Big Balls
06 Zero
07 My Hero Zero
08 Second Skin
09 Start It All Over Again
10 Rocknoceros Theme
11 Call of the Rockno

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Beat Happening / Unrest Maxwell’s 03/16/1991

September 23, 2011 / admin

Beat Happening and two Unrest songs from a show at Maxwell’s – 1991. I’m not sure why I only tapped two Unrest songs my guess is we either got there late or I only had one tape with me. I believe this was the only time I saw Beat Happening – I’m not sure if they ever played Philly (or maybe if they did I just missed them.) Sorry I didn’t have time to figure out the Unrest song titles – if anyone knows please add a comment. (Plus the one Beat Happening title I couldn’t figure out.

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Decontrol – West Side Club 4/13/86

September 16, 2011 / admin

Decontrol live video from the West Side Club. They opened for Scream which is also up on the site. This is the last of the Decontrol video and the last of the 80’s Philly bands video that I got from Pete. One last plug if you haven’t yet go download Songs from the Gut The Complete Collection.
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Below the videos are the audio tracks. As usual there were a couple of songs I wasn’t sure of the titles but hopefully I’ll get some help again and I’ll update the post.
Thanks again to Pete at Sounds of Tomorrow. for the beta tapes

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01 – I Got A Right
02 – 1992
03 – ?
04 – Never Again
05 – Born Too Late
06 – System
07 – Joe Blow
08 – Drunk And Bored
09 – Did You No Wrong
10 – Born To Be Wild
11 – Back From The Grave
12 – Almost Dead
13 – 1992
14 – Fascists
15 – Unseen Enemies
16 – Philly Cops
17 – ?

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Mothra

September 7, 2011 / admin

Mothra easily had the best costumes and 7″ and cd packaging of any Philly bands. Often those kind of things have been used to make up for lets say a lack of talent. But not in the case of Mothra – they had the kitsch of Urge Overkill but musically with more of a 70’s hard rock thing rather than lounge sound. Starting as a three piece with Dan on guitar, Neil on bass & vocals and Rob (Beretta 76, Creem Circus, Blue Train, Rockula, Stinkbomben). Then later adding Chris Hunter (Red Paint People DTO) as a second guitarist.

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Fun With Felt 7″
01 – Part Of A Note
02 – Film School

Feelin Effervescent 7″
A1 – Almost Heaven
A2 – 14 Greatest
B1 – Let’s Start A Band

The Karl Hendricks Trio / Mothra - Hooked On Hobbit ‎cover

Hooked On Hobbit Split 7″
Karl Hendricks Trio – Catch The Wind
Mothra – I Love My Shirt

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Leaning On The Fridge cd
01 – Superhero Jim
02 – Sunshine
03 – Hard Candy
04 – I Love My Shirt
05 – Happy Motoring
06 – Hey Jon
07 – Gremlin
08 – 14 Greatest
09 – Part of a Note
10 – Kings and 100’s
11 – Leaning on the Fridge
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Sebadoh live from Khyber Pass cover image

Sebadoh – Khyber Philadelphia, PA

September 6, 2011 / admin

The tape of this show has no date on it – it just says Sebadoh & Khyber. So, I’m not really sure when it is from. My best guess would be around 1992 – 1994. I’m pretty sure this is the Sebadoh with Lou, Jason and Eric although I could be wrong. My clues are it is not the Kyhber show where the band had a fight on stage and Lou left. Also, the songs are all from up to Bubble and Scrape.
For more on Sebadoh go to http://sebadoh.com.
Just put updates to the song titles Thanks for the comments. Sorry you’ll have to rename the mp3 files yourself.

Audio files

1 – Wonderful Subdivision (Drunks With Guns)
2 – Cliche
3 – Everybody’s Been Burned
4 – Vampire
5 – Homemade
6 – Losercore
7 – Really Insane
8 – Soul And Fire
9 – Forced Love
10 – Junk Bonds
11 – Pink Moon (Nick Drake cover).
12 – Two Years Two Days
13 – Soul And Fire
14 – Mind Meld
15 – Think

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Toxic Reasons – Elk’s Lodge AC July 20, 1985

August 25, 2011 / admin

Toxic Reasons live video from Elk’s Lodge in Atlantic City from July 20th 1985. The show was Toxic Reasons, Decontrol & Nobody’s Favorite. This is later then the Love Hall video I put up before. More songs from Kill By Remote Control & Within These Walls.
For more Toxic Reasons info go to this site.

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

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01 – Too Late
02 – ?
03 – No Way Out
04 – Limited Nuclear War
05 – All Known Confusion
06 – War Hero
07 – White Noise
08 – Then Came The Rain
09 – It’s So Silly
10 – ?
11 – Looking At The World
12 – Drunk & Disorderly
13 – Revolution
14 – ?
15 – ?
16 – ?
17 – Stuck In A Rut
18 – Noise Boys
19 – Destroyer
20 – ?
21 – ?
22 – Riot Squad

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More Fiends

August 12, 2011 / admin

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.

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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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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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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 – Khyber 6/25/92

August 10, 2011 / admin

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

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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 / admin

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.

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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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Tag: Philly (Page 12 of 17)

Television Personalities – Khyber 4-9-1992

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Rocknoceros

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Beat Happening / Unrest Maxwell’s 03/16/1991

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Decontrol – West Side Club 4/13/86

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Mothra

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Sebadoh – Khyber Philadelphia, PA

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Toxic Reasons – Elk’s Lodge AC July 20, 1985

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More Fiends

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Seam – Khyber 6/25/92

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CakeKitchen – Khyber 6/25/92

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