Kinda picking up the torch, where I left off with some music in the last post. As I had mentioned, my bros in The Underlings (Eugene, Oregon) and Splinter Cell (Manila, California) played a show at the Alibi in Arcata, California back on February 6th. James shared some of the Splinter Cell set and now, a few days after that post, Ed has kindly shared some of The Underlings set. So here’s those tunes for you because I think their worthwhile sharing and one of the few instances where I have permission to do so around here (ha,ha). Not bad for an audience recording, knowing Ed he probably uses that same 35 year old tape deck we used to record our rehearsals with. The vocals are too low but if you want to hear them sounding studio sweet check the posts I did on them a while back or better yet get their CD or 7″. Every tune rocks here, the last one is a Helios Creed cover.
Vice Squad
Second Best
Black + White
Hyperventilation
You’ve gotta love this pic, sort of symbolic of shared ideas, or maybe it’s just nifty. Wish I had more Public Enemy in my crates. Anybody into those guys? Accused of being anti-Semetic, homophobic and maybe a few other things, but there was something about a more intelligent approach to rap as opposed to the gangster variety where every other word is nigger, bitch, ho, or money. Oh what the hell, how about a tune that might be relevant to this post, Public Enemy – She Watch Channel Zero!
Edit: Summary of the next paragraph: I watch sports, sports suck, the media sucks worse, ultimately the human race sucks.
I don’t know about anybody else but I’m glad the winter olympics is over. Sort of in an odd place with sports myself because I can respect and admire athleticism but I could do without nationalism and the whole jock mentality. Ultimately I guess it’s just kids playing. As a kid I played all kinds of sports with the other kids in the neighborhood over at the dirt lot (mostly broken glass and pebbles) next door to the apartments we lived in. Still have the scars to prove it. With organized sports, I played baseball and soccer up until my knee exploded on my 16th birthday. In college you could take coed sports as a class, but what that really amounted to was getting drunk and/or high after classes and mostly just messing around. It got serious sometimes but for the most part it was a chance to hang out with your friends, get buzzed and earn half a credit. I played goalie in indoor soccer because I couldn’t run for shit anymore, but the real sport for me, I took it every semester I was in school, was softball. Anybody ever play softball on mushrooms? My first semester I played on a mostly native team and it was sadly stereotypical because we were just a bunch of drunk indians. I don’t think we ever won a game and we’d always be missing a few people because they were in jail or the drunk tank. For a couple of years I lived down the street from the ‘Rugby House’. At HSU rugby was not a school sport but was a club that played against other school clubs. We used to party with those guys all the time and even though they were jocks, they were more of the scumy variety. My bro Match was a gifted athlete, but watching him play rugby was violently beautiful. The ’sport’ that I’m best at is ping pong. If I detect a smile there, I will insist that ping pong is more of a ’sport’ than hunting, fishing or even golf. Definitely not Olympic status but in all modesty at the height of my game I kicked some serious ass. Spent a month in rehab (the last time I had the pleasure of doing that and actually if you’ve been in that situation you know that the detox is the absolutely worst part of that experience) and I was the undefeated ping pong champion the entire time I was there. Had the unstoppable super slicing silly serve.
These days my broken down fat ass is exclusively a sports observer. I enjoy the idea of a person training hard and dedicating themselves to something to the point of where you’re in awe of what they can accomplish. At the same time I never let myself forget that they are jocks, plain and simple. I don’t think I need to describe that mentality, even if you are a jock, you know what I’m talking about. Jock=Idiot Nothing has changed about these people just because they have aged beyond the awkwardness of being a teenager. Macho or a prima donna, it lives on. So even as I watch and am amazed, I realize what makes them tick. The only athletic events I can afford to go to is the local high school stuff and I see it in those kids, but at the same time I’ve grown up and it’s just kinda cool, beyond that attitude, that they’re having a good time. They probably beat up on the nerdy kids and treat their equally idiotic cheerleader girlfriends like shit, but that’s life. At my high school the jocks never fucked with the punks or heshers. I do watch sports on TV but you either have college or professional sports. The college kids are just slightly grown up dickheads, who aspire to be professional dickheads and make mountains of cash. I watch all kinds of sports but what I regularly watch is professional American football and mixed martial arts (MMA). Before you think anything, I will say to you that both these are lame for oh so many reasons. I know this. The fact that young people aspire to become grossly overpaid professional idiots within organizations, institutions really, that are symbolic of the gluttonous disease that infects the human race, is beyond sad. At the same time I am a sucker and I enjoy watching it, if for nothing more than my own misanthropic and apathetic entertainment. Football even slightly more than baseball or basketball is this disgusting monster that defines the United States. In other parts of the world it may be soccer or some other sport. What a thing to owe your allegiance to, a team. Now MMA has become it’s own monster, specifically the UFC, in it’s desire to become just as huge in the shameless money making department as the NFL. I don’t know what it is though, I just enjoy seeing two guys beat the shit out of each other. I can take a punch pretty well but I was never a very good brawler. In fact I avoid fighting unless you really piss me off (really just when I was drunk). Most of these guys lack the honor that I was taught when I took martial arts, and actually they’re more often than not they’re the type of guys you could find at a bar anyplace in the world who just enjoy beating people up. On the plus side with these organized fights they are both willing participants, it’s not like getting sucker punched while you’re sitting in some bar minding your own business and trying to drown yourself in your drink. So what is it about watching football and MMA that I dig? I think it’s that inner jock or better yet my own personal inner idiotic asshole (if only I could take my ping pong skills on the field or in the ring. Anyway, back to me being glad the winter Olympics are over. I’ve always used Yahoo for my email, I think Yahoo is 15 years old now. Not because Yahoo is somehow superior to anything similar. If you use it you know that the home page where you sign in is a deceptive mix of news and advertisements. I never hit up the ads and seldom check out the news, because for too many reasons to explain here it just pisses me off. Sometimes I check it out in curiosity if it’s something scientific or historical, otherwise I just read the ‘headlines’ (or what “they” choose to be the headlines). So with the Olympics in full swing at least two headlines, every time I checked (they change and then repeat themselves as the day goes on), was something about the colder sports. Every fucking time though, I swear, it was about nationalism (who’s got the most medals) or worse yet the drama that in most cases is behind the scenes, but today is right there in your face. “Some effeminate male skater doesn’t care that people are pissed because he chose to wear fox fur on his costume. Someone who was expected to win the gold, didn’t, and now they are sad and tearfull. So and so was cheated out of victory”. And yet I’m stupid for expecting anything less from something that reflects this society. That’s how we are, very little interest in the real and tangible things. Instead a summary of the human condition, just a fascination with shiny objects. Ha, ha and I said I was going to cut my posts in half, yeah right.
In other news
my bro Mike turned me onto a sweet all around site. Good writing accompanies the posts, which to me makes it even more worht the time. As the title suggests, the subject matter is 80’s Punk Videos.
After the last post too, on the subject of Mystic/Nardcore bands, it was suggested by Jay and Davrick, that in that category, Dr. Know was the best. Damn good suggestion, and they’re probably right if there is such a thing as objective truth in music, but it got me thinking. How about RKL – Love To Hate or RKL – Life In A Bottle? So fucking good. They’d be worth posting too, I think 3 of the original 4 members did suicide by addiction.
What did I say, “Just because, every post could potentially have a live Motorhead tune thrown in”. Josh and Brian mentioned a couple that I kind of took as requests, so I slaved away night and day, under a hot lamp with no ventilation, a knife to my throat, and did my usual thing ripping the audio from live youtube stuff.
Motorhead – Bomber (live)
Motorhead – Ace Of Spades (live)
…and how about this cover
Motorhead – R.A.M.O.N.E.S. (live)
Got this comp 7″ from 1988 for fairly cheap, not too long ago. At the time this was released by Sounds Magazine (I think), the versions of these tunes and maybe even the tunes themselves were exclusive to this release (that’s what the sleeve says anyway). I dig these various artists 7″, just for the sampling of bands they usually provide and it’s easier if you already know there’s one tune you’re into. That tune for me, one of their slightly later four peice things, was
Motorhead-Killed By Death
The second tune is by a band I am very familiar with, but did not recognize the tune. Let me tell you, this one is nothing like they’re early stuff like Stupids-Live To Rock
Outside of Venom, Slayer and few others, my metal experience, until recently is pretty limited. I own nothing by Kreator and couldn’t tell you if I’d ever heard them before. I think this tune was released as a single but as I said it’s probably a different version. Actually some pretty decent speed metal (is that the right category?) here,
Kreator-After The Attack
I heard Celtic Frost back in the 80’s and didn’t really get into them. Recently though I got into Hell Hammer (prehistoric bone crushing simplicity ala Venom), a pre Celtic Frost band, and figured maybe I should give CF another spin. They’re decent but aren’t as good as Hell Hammer,
Celtic Frost-Visual Aggression
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