Great accounting of that period in time! I know it runs kinda after this timeline but Get In The Van is a great read, as well as Joe Carducci's "Regarding Naomi" about Naomi Peterson who was Black Flag's erzatz photographer in the eighties. I don't really like anything Henry Rollins did .. I didn't dislike it EXCEPT I LOVED T.V. Party. What a great song. They're not taking themselves too seriously, and calling out their favorite TV shows was very clever. I sing this song to myself a lot. I think my brother had the 1st SOA single. Either one of their songs or one on 30 Seconds Over DC (no SOA on it) has a song that switches from 4/4 to 2/4 without changing tempo. Pretty Clever. The standout song on the 30 seconds is I Hate by White Boy. 1/2 Japanese shows up on that compilation as well. Bro lived in DC when all this went down (77-81) and saw some epic shows at the 9:30 club. I digress as usual.
Lastly, after seeing Keith Morris front Black Flack in the fall of '79, all other singers seemed like such a comedown. Well except Henry singing TV Party! I mean I still saw a few of their shows and chit-chatted with Greg Ginn a few times, but the magic was gone without Keith. He was like nothing I ever saw. No punk regalia. Corduroy jeans and JC Penney print plaid shirts. No mohawks, none of that stuff. Pure south beach intensity.
Oh yeah.. True! You also gotta really search to find one during the Sex Pistol's first run without Johnny Rotten having one in his hand. I can't say I blame him - all the stress they hadda deal with then!
interesting to hear Rollins was good at managing an ice cream store. same can be said of Aaron Cometbus and used bookstores. I worked at Codex on Bleecker Street while doing my phd, so I know him not as a zine writer but as the boss
no I had never heard of him, and once I learned about it I decided it would be better for our relationship if I didn’t read it...but now that I don’t work there maybe I should read one
Loved first wave punk, still do, always will, but hardcore was never my thing. I was a little too old, maybe. I liked melodies, songs. Hardcore repudiated all that. I may not have had enough angst. Still, the energy was good, and the arrogance and certainty of superiority was pure punk, and I admired that aspect at arms length if not quite from afar. And "Rise Above" is a good song. Hallucinations of Grandeur sounds good -- but too pricey to buy. Henry Rollins should reissue it with a new introduction and maybe comments by others as appendixes and sell it for something bearable.
Great accounting of that period in time! I know it runs kinda after this timeline but Get In The Van is a great read, as well as Joe Carducci's "Regarding Naomi" about Naomi Peterson who was Black Flag's erzatz photographer in the eighties. I don't really like anything Henry Rollins did .. I didn't dislike it EXCEPT I LOVED T.V. Party. What a great song. They're not taking themselves too seriously, and calling out their favorite TV shows was very clever. I sing this song to myself a lot. I think my brother had the 1st SOA single. Either one of their songs or one on 30 Seconds Over DC (no SOA on it) has a song that switches from 4/4 to 2/4 without changing tempo. Pretty Clever. The standout song on the 30 seconds is I Hate by White Boy. 1/2 Japanese shows up on that compilation as well. Bro lived in DC when all this went down (77-81) and saw some epic shows at the 9:30 club. I digress as usual.
Lastly, after seeing Keith Morris front Black Flack in the fall of '79, all other singers seemed like such a comedown. Well except Henry singing TV Party! I mean I still saw a few of their shows and chit-chatted with Greg Ginn a few times, but the magic was gone without Keith. He was like nothing I ever saw. No punk regalia. Corduroy jeans and JC Penney print plaid shirts. No mohawks, none of that stuff. Pure south beach intensity.
you first told me about Black Flag. You mentioned that there were no known phtotographs of Keith Morris when he didn't have a beer in his hand!
Oh yeah.. True! You also gotta really search to find one during the Sex Pistol's first run without Johnny Rotten having one in his hand. I can't say I blame him - all the stress they hadda deal with then!
interesting to hear Rollins was good at managing an ice cream store. same can be said of Aaron Cometbus and used bookstores. I worked at Codex on Bleecker Street while doing my phd, so I know him not as a zine writer but as the boss
We’re you aware of his zine?
no I had never heard of him, and once I learned about it I decided it would be better for our relationship if I didn’t read it...but now that I don’t work there maybe I should read one
yeah, it was a big deal in the zine world. it was really good. the earlier ones are probably the better ones. (there are hundreds of them)
Talking From The Box was a revelation back in the day.
Loved first wave punk, still do, always will, but hardcore was never my thing. I was a little too old, maybe. I liked melodies, songs. Hardcore repudiated all that. I may not have had enough angst. Still, the energy was good, and the arrogance and certainty of superiority was pure punk, and I admired that aspect at arms length if not quite from afar. And "Rise Above" is a good song. Hallucinations of Grandeur sounds good -- but too pricey to buy. Henry Rollins should reissue it with a new introduction and maybe comments by others as appendixes and sell it for something bearable.
I was thinking someone might know who this was .... but funny how much the same all hardcore setlists are http://hardcorearchaeologist.blogspot.com/