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Slovenly – Live Revival Philadelphia 11/6/87

May 12, 2011 / admin

Slovenly from Revival in 87. They opened for Firehoose on the James Worthy Tour. They did allot of songs off the Riposte album which had yet to be released (I think) and then a few from Thinking of Empire and After the Original Style. One of the SST bands of the late 80’s that never really got the popularity I thought they deserved. They had a truly unique sound which it seemed like people loved or hated. If you want more info on Slovenly read this. I don’t think they played in Philly again after this at least I don’t remember seeing them again and I would have gone. Currently their guitar player Tom Watson was touring with Mike Watt. After Slovenly broke up some of the members released a couple of albums as Overpass. I’m not sure what anyone else from the band is currently up to.
Note the first song Movement the recording is really bad the volume must have been too loud (you can hear when I turn it down- sorry)

Audio files

01 – Movement
02 – The Way Untruths Are
03 – Prejudice
04 – Sand
05 – Orange Crush
06 – Enormous Critics
07 – Myer’s Dark
08 – Cartwheels Of Glory
09 – Old/New
10 – Distended

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Minutemen – Short Live Video – East Side Club

May 11, 2011 / admin

Short Minutemen video clip from the East Side Club show which included Black Flag and Nig Heist. It includes the end of the song Cut, Felt Like A Gringo, Ain’t Talkin’ ’bout Love (Van Halen cover) & Life As A Rehearsal. I found More clips from this show on You Tube. Below the video I made some sudio files from the video.
Thanks again to Pete at Drugmusic.com. for the beta tapes

Audio files

01 – Cut(partial)
02 – Felt Like A Gringo
03 – Ain’t Talkin Bout Love
04 – Life As A Rehearsal

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Photo of the Minutemen from Love Hall Thanks

Firehose – Live Revival Philadelphia 11/6/87

May 6, 2011 / admin

Firehose from Revival in 87 – a bunch of songs from their first two albums, one minutemen cover and a BOC cover. I along with two other KDU dj’s had set up an interview with Mike Watt through SST. So of course when we got there he had no idea we were coming. So we waited out in the cold and got a six pack. Evidently we got in and did the interview and Mike Watt was really easy to talk to and was a much better interviewee then we were interviewers. But the plus side of doing an interview was we were already in Revival and didn’t have to worry about getting carded by the bouncers. I missed most of Trained Attack Dogs but I got to see Slovenly. I really liked Slovenly – they seemed to fall into the you either love them or hate them bands (I have some of their set on tape I’ll put up later.) Firehose came on and were great – ok they weren’t the Minutemen and at the time it was hard to not compare the two. But now with time Firehose had some great songs and Mike Watt and George Hurley are so together and tight it was amazing. Check out Mike Watt’s Hoot Page

01 – Locked In
02 – Hear Me
03 – Under The Influence Of Meat Puppets
04 – Operation Solitaire
05 – For The Singer Of REM
06 – Brave Captain
07 – One Reporter’s Opinion
08 – On Your Knees
09 – In Memory Of Elizabeth Cotton
10 – Someimes
11 – Relatin’ Dudes To Jazz
12 – Backroads
13 – Soon
14 – Chemical Wire
15 – Me You Remembering
16 – Another Theory Shot To Shit
17 – Choose Any Memory
18 – Making The Freeway
19 – Red And The Black
20 – Thunderchild
21 – Perfect Pairs

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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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Homo Picnic – West Side Club

Homo Picnic – Star Theater, Camden NJ – 4/6/85

From a CRUNCH show with Oblivion, Beefeater.& Scream.

Articles Of Faith – Live Videos

April 27, 2011 / admin

Live @ Elk’s Lodge Atlantic City

Articles of Faith Live video from the Elk’s Lodge in Atlantic City on July 26, 1985. They headlined the show with Die Kreuzen and Electric Love Muffin opening. Wide range of songs from Up Against the Wall from the Peace Comp through Give Thanks and In This Life. I would guess this is probably there last tour since they broke up in 85. Articles of Faith are one of my favorite Chicago bands. Musically they had a unique sound and the lyrics were always great both the political stuff and they more personal In This Life lyrics. Hard to say because In This Life didn’t actually get released until 86 (two years after it was recorded) but I bet that album was a big influence on DC Revolution Summer bands like Rites Of Spring & Grey Matter. They recently got back together for a show at the Riot festival in Chicago. There is some video of the reunion on Youtube or on the I have A Brain in My Ass Blog. They also released a 7″ of new songs called New Normal Catastrophe which you can get here Plus Alternative Tentacles put out 2 collection cd’s which pretty much includes everything they recorded. There page on the Alternative Tentacles site is here (then select AOF from the dropdown)
Thanks again to Pete at Sounds of Tomorrow for the beta tapes and Crunch Productions for the amazing shows.

Tracklist:
01 – Wheedle Dee
02 – I’ve Got Mine
03 – Acceptance &
04 – Doesn’t Have To Be That Way
05 – I Objectify
06 – In Your Suit
07 – In This Life
09 – Up Against The Wall
10 – Trains
11 – Give Thanks
12 – American Dreams
13 – Everyman For Himself
14 – Five O’ Clock
15 – Cambridge & False Security
16 – In This Jungle & What We Want Is Free
17 – Substitute

Articles of Faith – Live Northeast Philly

Earlier Philly show from a backyard in Norhteast Philly (Mike Bradley’s house) until it was stopped by the police

Articles of Faith Rutgers Camden NJ, April 20, 1985

Opening for Dead Kennedys Rutgers show.

Trained Attack Dogs – Live @ Chaos Records

April 22, 2011 / admin

Trained Attack Dogs started in 1986 and released one 7 inch (Pizza EP), one track on the Discpan Hands Comp and a self released live tape (Lotsa Fun). You can listen to all of it by going to www.kenkramar.com The band included Keith Souder (vocals), Ken Kramar (guitar) and John Manhardt (bass) and various drummers plus David Thrower also played guitar with them in 1988 and 1989. The drummer on these videos from Chaos Records was Rich Hoak (later of Brutal Truth and currently TFD.) I’ve been told this was one of his first shows with them. I’m not sure what everyone in the band is doing currently but Keith is djing as DJ K.L.Diablo. They played a bunch of shows in the last few years but I’m not sure if they are still back together as of now. Below the videos there is audio files and a slide show of all the flyers I could find of Trained AttacK Dogs.
Thanks again to Pete at Sounds of Tomorrow for the beta tapes

Audio files

01 – Love Song & Flamehead
02 – Surrender
03 – Clean Your Own House & Friend Larry
04 – Big Black Cowboy & Indian Medicine Car & Religious Experience

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Electric Love Muffin – Live @ CEC

April 19, 2011 / admin

The Muffin live from the CEC in West Philly – A rock against hunger show with Constraint (From Leigh Valley) and Government Issue. This is the last video I have of them – As usual they put on a great show. Some time I will try to get the Constraint and GI video from this show up as well. I’m not sure I have anything else to say about Electric love Muffin since this is my third post on them. I did get asked if I had any video or audio of their cover of Highway Star and I think they started doing that after all the videos I have so if anyone has any more video or live audio please let me know.
Again there are a couple of songs I remember but I couldn’t figure out the titles. So, if anyone knows please let me know in the comments. Thanks

Thanks again to Pete at Drugmusic.com. for the beta tapes

Audio files

01 – This Time I’m Gone
02 – American Family & Tomorrow’s Regrets
03 – ? & One Year Removed & I Should Have & ?
04 – I Don’t Mind & Look For Me
05 – NorwegianWood

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Decontrol – Live @ CEC in West Philly

April 8, 2011 / admin

Decontrol was born in 1980, started as a two-man hardcore outfit by Adam Avery. Adam played a combination guitar / bass along with a bass drum over original singer Zero’s caterwalling vocals. It was horrible, but soon became 100% better when Adam fired the other half of Decontrol and recruited the amazing skills of Ritchie Birch on guitar and Keith Lenderman on drums. Adam settled on bass and vocals. (stolen from their website)
These videos are from the CEC in West Philly I’m guessing from 84 or 85. Most of the songs from their album Songs from the Gut are here which by the way you can buy (along with lots of extra tracks) at cdbaby. Another Philly band that should be up there with all the legendary hardcore bands from the rest of the county. It’s amazing how a little thing like starting songs off with A-B-C-D instead of 1-2-3-4 can stand out so much but I’ve never heard another band do it and I will always identify it with Decontrol. The good news is if you missed them they are back together and working on a new album. I have to admit I have not seen them since the 80’s but I plan to make up for that next time they play a show in Philly. I have more Decontrol video I will try to get up at some point one is a show from AC opening for Toxic Reasons and the other is opening for Scream at the West Side Club.
If your on Facebook go to their page and “like” Below the videos are the audio tracks and a slide show of Decontrol flyers. As usual there were a couple of songs I wasn’t sure of the titles but 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

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Ken @ the Fire

April 4, 2011 / admin

Videos from a Ken show at the Fire on March 20th 2010. My best guess is Ken has been around now for over 15 years. Going through many different singers and drummers in the early days until the current lineup that has been together for at least 10 years now. They released one 7″ and two cd’s (you should buy them here) Ken doesn’t play out much these days but when they do it’s worth the wait. I’m not very good at describing music and I can’t think of another band that Ken sounds like so just check it out. Also go to the I Like Ken Website. (I tried to fix the audio on the videos but it’s still a little crackly. My flip style video camera I discovered does not have a volume control and it recorded a little too loud.) I also included a video for the song “Happy Suicide” directed by Paul Hazlett and the audio files are below all the videos.