by "ImmoralMinority" (araimondo)
Published 12/01/2017 at 21:43
by "ImmoralMinority" (araimondo)
Published 12/01/2017 at 21:43
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When I was in high school, with the people I knew, X, Black Flag, and Fear were like the Beatles, the Stones, and the Who. They were larger than life to me, and felt HUGE. When I left SoCal for college in Colorado, I found almost no one who knew these bands. It stunned me that they were local legends, a thing that may not exist anymore
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Black Flag was better before Rollins. The 1984 live album with Rollins is remarkable, but it is the old songs. The more of a role he had, the worse it got. My best friend I elementary school lived 5 blocks from the Ginn family. When we fished for opal eye off the pier, we went to the bait shop owned by Keith Morris’ dad.
I wonder if it is possible for such a movement to happen again.
I grew up a mile from where Oingo Boingo started in Redondo Beach, and about 5 miles from where Greg Ginn’s family lived. For us, Boingo was a major band, and they sold out venues like Irvine Meadows and the Greek for Halloween and New Year’s Eve. It stunned me to discover how little-known they were outside Southern California.
I saw them 7 times in high school, and they were amazing live. (I have seen a lot of bands.) Although the style is different from the punk I loved , I cannot think of the music of my youth without Boingo.
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I still believe they were one of the greatest rock bands of all time, but most know Danny Elfman from movie soundtracks. They were awesome. If you have not heard them, check out Boingo Alive.
Who are the local legends of your youth?
"Phyrxes once again has a wagon!" (phyrxes)
12/01/2017 at 22:35, STARS: 2
/disclaimer I was in high school during the height of grunge so to some of you get off my lawn and the rest of you the rest of the post will make sense.
Strictly speaking local legends around here are few and far between due to the dearth of “local” venues out here in the VA side DC suburbs when I was a teenager and early 20s. While you could hit one of the major outdoor venues or stadiums to see the big arena acts the other side of things not so much.
You had to go into DC to hit the clubs and most/all were/are in a terrible part of town though they are now working on that 20 years later, I’m looking at you 9:30 club. Maryland (Baltimore) now has a collection of awesome smaller venues that have largely replaced the assorted venues in DC and will often get a tour date for major label but “less well known” acts but getting there during the week is a commitment.
"themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles" (themanwithsauce)
12/01/2017 at 22:36, STARS: 1
It isn’t rock music, but a local band for me known as the Moxie Strings is gaining traction and a lot of people in West Michigan know them. I saw them playing at a few taverns near me when they got started and it was so much fun to be clanging mugs against massive wooden bartops to the beat of their songs. Just this summer I saw them at a small stadium during an Irish music festival and they’re selling merch and shirts and stuff. In a few years time they could be touring the country and headlining shows while I always remember them as a couple of kids my age who played in the tavern down the street.
"SVTyler" (svtyler)
12/01/2017 at 22:42, STARS: 1
What I would give to experience the 80's L.A. hardcore scene firsthand man, that’s awesome you were around for it. Funny that no one knew Black Flag out of all of them, did it take a while for them to get nationally recognized? I thought they were really well-known even outside of California.
The Gates of Slumber were gods to middle and high school-aged me who was weirdly proud that not only was there a killer band from some crappy state like Indiana, but they were loved and respected enough to headline festivals in Europe and be counted as one of the best bands of the style. Unfortunately they broke up a few years before I was old enough to attend a show, but in hanging out at shows downtown I’ve met the old members and seen their new bands, and I’m actually buddies with their drummer which is kinda surreal.
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On another hand, another Indy band called Void King is kind of blowing up right now. They’ve already got a record deal and have toured Europe on the back on their first record so I’m super-excited to see where they go in the next few years. They’re all unbelievably humble and nice dudes so it’s awesome to see how much love they’re getting.
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"Rust and Dust - Oppositelock Forever" (rustanddust)
12/01/2017 at 22:56, STARS: 0
Oh man, memories!
9:30 and Black Cat weren’t terrible , but dear god the Capitol Ballroom was hell in 96-97, from what teenage me remembers. A buddy and I skipped a half day of high school to drive up (3.5 hrs or so) for a show, not telling parents, poorly made teenage plans, the works. Neither of us had driven in DC before (we lived in a small 125k pop city), and this was obviously before GPS and cell phones (I had a pager...). No map, just knew it was on Half Street near the Navy yard. Got lost multiple times, noticed a car on blocks at the end of a dead end when looking both ways at a 4 way stop (I started rolling the stop signs at this point). Finally found the place, and a decent parking spot. Immediately approached by a rather large, possibly imbalanced man requesting we pay $5 to park on his street. Great sales pitch about watching the car, wouldn’t want something to happen, etc. I gladly paid. Locals in line immediately let me know I’d made the right decision. He was jumping on the hood and roof of a non-paying parked car a half hour later or so.
"Phyrxes once again has a wagon!" (phyrxes)
12/01/2017 at 23:02, STARS: 0
I remember “Nation” as parking was “better” than some of the alternatives but you had to get there early if you wanted to see the show with the way they had it laid out.
"DipodomysDeserti" (dipodomysdeserti)
12/01/2017 at 23:18, STARS: 1
I grew up going to hardcore shows in Arizona. Hardcore music, by design, stays pretty local. The better bands will gain recognition in hardcore scenes around the country, but non-hardcore kids would never know of them. Most of the music is just made for the benefit of the local kids, somno one really becomes a legend. The goal was always to have fun, make music, and offer up a positive environment with which to unleash aggression.
Where Eagles Dare was pretty big when I was young. They had a few hundred kids show up at their last show from all over the country.
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Hour of the Wolf, out of Prescott, was another good band that did a lot of touring.
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Some friends of mine were in a band called Run With the Hunted. They were pretty successfull.
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Groundwork was a pretty iconic Arizona HC band out of Tucson from back in the ‘90s.
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"Rust and Dust - Oppositelock Forever" (rustanddust)
12/01/2017 at 23:38, STARS: 0
Preface: I’m kinda drunk
You made a post a few months ago about iconography in music that I enjoyed, and I ended up listening to old stuff after looking at show flyers till 2am, and you’ve got me going down the same rabbit hole again (this post will take forever). I actually found a 25 year reunion show coming up at the end of this month that I didn’t know about, so thanks for this post!
I grew up mid-Atlantic (SW VA) in the 90s. Trips to Baltimore, College Park MD, DC, Richmond, were common to find shows.
Swank was one of the local bands. They’re the guys that are doing the reunion show. Punk/ska/funk, brass, gang vocals, the works. My favorite album isn’t on YouTube, and I’m not sure if I can link out of Google Music, so here’s another goodie. Pretty good writing/lyrics for a bunch of high school kids, they self managed, self released a bunch, and toured pretty extensively on the east coast.
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Inquisition. 90's Richmond VA band that essentially became Strike Anywhere (hell, you may not have heard of them, either).
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Action Patrol. 90s Richmond VA. I...don’t know how to describe Action Patrol. Orange jumpsuits, brash, in your face vocals and music. God I loved them. The link for the live show is just to see the stage show, the audio is 90s camcorder in a basement terrible.
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they wanted gun control 20 years ago (Richmond was pretty rough)
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and the essential Cyndi Lauper cover:
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The Pee Tanks, College Park/Baltimore MD. Great pop punk, great guys.
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...U2 cover
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Avail. Richmond punk/hardcore. These guys were a big part of my life, and mean a lot to me. The last video kind of touches on that, they sort of became the elder statesmen of the area.
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an ode to Richmond VA (3rd per capita was the nat’l homicide ranking at the time)
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Vanarchy/Beau <3:
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Sleepytime Trio. DC/Harrisonburg post hardcore.
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Honorary Richmond band: Hot Water Music, Gainesville FL. They toured with a lot of these bands, were part of the Richmond family that era.
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"AMGtech - now with more recalls!" (amgtech)
12/02/2017 at 00:01, STARS: 1
Motion City Soundtrack is from just a couple hours away from where I grew up and only started getting popular when I was in high school, early 00's. Our sports teams would sometimes play against their high school teams.
I lived in Laramie for a year, which is where Teenage Bottlerocket is from, probably right up your alley. Sadly they never played there when I lived there.
There’s a couple others, hit it big way before my time, I think a few people have heard of them and still remember them. Prince, and Bob Dylan. I’m from the middle of nowhere, but these guy’s homes were within a two hour drive for me.
Finally, not an artist/band, but rather one of my favorite songs, NOFX’s “seeing double at the triple rock”. A little punk club in St. Paul, the triple rock, loads of fun.
"Highlander-Datsuns are Forever" (jamesbowland)
12/02/2017 at 00:44, STARS: 1
I saw Pearl Jam play a 1200 seat theater in ‘93 just after ten was released. It was almost a religious experience. They played Baba O’Riley! Fucking amazing!
"Nibbles" (nibbles)
12/02/2017 at 01:14, STARS: 1
I grew up in buttfuck nowhere. Most of us didn’t know music outside of the church or the local (country) radio stations until we learned about MTV.
I do mean learned about. Air was the only way to watch tv for ages unless you had a massive dish in your yard. Which we had and once I figured out the right combo of descramblers I found the joy of MTV. In 1994.
I’d watch that shit for hours after the parents went to bed.
"Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury)
12/02/2017 at 03:59, STARS: 1
I can’t say that the music of my youth was much different than yours because it sounds like we grew up around the same time in roughly the same area. Most of my youth was spent in south Orange County, Laguna Hills (the home of Irvine Meadows, at the site of the old Lion Country Safari) to be precise, moving to Westchester, next to LAX, in the early ‘90s. My friends and I were all Boingo fans, so it goes without saying that we were at the Halloween concert at Irvine Meadows year after year.
After escaping from behind the Orange Curtain most of my concert going was at jazz and classical concerts. I worked for a number of years as a recording engineer for an orchestra that performed in Newport Beach. I attended numerous concerts at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion (before the Disney concert hall as built) and the Jazz Bakery in Culver City as well as the House of Blues on Sunset. I managed to see to favorites, two legends (albeit not local), before they passed. The first was Oscar Peterson at the Jazz Bakery, front row seats so we could watch those hands at work. The second, with my ex, was Etta James, at HoB. ‘At Last’ was our song (a cliche, I know), and we got to hear it live at one of her last concerts. Regardless of what happened in that relationship I will always have fond memories of that night.