Mike you very well may liek this album. It's available on Trance Syndicate out of TX. These guys have since split but I personally think this is an incredible album.
Minor Threat + Rites of Spring = Fugazi (in a round about way) I have some friends in Philly that are in a 3 piece called Stinking Lizaveta, they spioke highly of 9353. I haven't listened to any so I am not sure if they have a very simliar sound, but I am pretty sure they opened for them on the tour you speak of, perhaps a date in Philly? Can't remember. 91,92 was a very long time ago.
Actually, I guess the show we saw them at in '92 was three out of four of them: Bruce, Vance and Jason. Dan was MIA on that tour. It really is too bad that way too much heroin destoyed what could've become one of the most influential post-punk bands of all time.
Probably a little of both. BTW, I got the pix from this site. I'm about to rip Overdoses at Your Mother's House and Make Your Last Days Loud Days. Don't worry baby, I'm a good driver. According to that site, Jason is clean and is working as a studio engineer in San Francisco.
They were from San Francisco, on the Subterranean label. I saw Black Flag in '86, just before they broke up (I remember Ginn dropping his guitar and sulking off stage after Rollins turned 'Louie Louie' into a ten-minute free-association spoken word-over-music piece...I think without warning the band first! I also saw the DK's in 1985, a month before Frankenchrist was released. October 30, 1985--they played "Halloween" at midnight. Good times.
Where's Publius? He's a 9353 fan... Gray Matter - awesome. Dischord just remastered and reissued Food for Thought and Take It Back on one CD last year. A definite must-own. Dante now owns the Black Cat, of course, and for the club's 10th anniversary last year Gray Matter played a reunion gig. Rites of Spring. Mike, I can't believe you don't own this one. Run, don't walk to Dischord's website and buy the CD. In my head every now and then, I think of what 5 CDs I would tell a DC music newbie to buy to get a sense of the scene from the beginning to today. RoS is always one of them. Think of them as DC's Run-DMC. The scene was beginning to falter in repetition, violence at shows, etc., and RoS changed it up, brought new energy to the scene, and kept it alive. RoS only put out one LP and a 7-inch (which are now available on one remastered CD from Dischord), but that output was enough. The CD is un-f'ing-believable. I'm not even sure that the best Fugazi record (Repeater, IMO) stands up to it.
That show was awesome. Keith came on as a vocalist first and did a couple of songs, including the awesome "Wasted". Then Keith left and Henry came out, followed shortly by Ian. I know they did "Rise Above" together, but I thought "TV Party" was later in the set, after Ian had left. I remember thinking it would have been hilarious if Ian and Henry had done "Six Pack" together That show is memorable to me also because Q & Not U opened. They are easily my favorite band - both live and on record - right now, and that was the first time I saw them play.
If you like the Butthole Surfers I am pretty certain you will like Ed Hall Actually saw Helmet open for Ed Hall and Flipper at the HAur House years and years ago in Baltimore. Though I didn't make it all the way to the Flipper set, had to "evacuate" by then.
Thanks for the tip. I'll order RoS when we get home from Thanksgiving. So I've probably ripped over 300 CDs, and only one wasn't found with iTunes query to CDDB - Make Your Last Days Loud Days. I had no idea Publius was a 9353 fan.
Wow, what a thread. I never got up to experience first hand the DC Hardcore scene but I lived vicariously through vinyl and I caught some shows in Norfolk. I graduated high school in '87. I love Minor Threat and Bad Brains. Do you guys remember The Germs? I wish I could've seen the Dead Kennedys live. Does anyone remember the 4 disc Black Flag album set that had all their radio ads? "Don't forget the poontang, son!"
Only on this board could a question about joining a SC evolve into a musical free-for-all. Bless your hearts, the lot of you. BTW, who here digs Meat Beat Manifesto?
I must honestly admit I am totally lost here. I tried to get into the whole scene of going to see small bands that no one had ever heard of. That all ended in tears the night I went to see a band called Panzy Division. All I knew was they had opened for Green Day in the mid 90's. Anywho, a mixture of pot laced with PCP and the lead singer running around spraying silly string, naked from the waste down (they were a gay punk band, who knew!?!) led to some nearly tragic events that I would rather not talk about. So, needless to say, I ended my days of musical experimentation that night. By the way, Barra Brava's dad could beat up Screaming Eagle's dad. Now, off for another beer.