You know where I live, and I’m sure it’s like this in other places too, people are friendly, at least on the surface. In reality most people are just as two faced and backstabbing as they are any place in the world. Here, people wave to each other as they pass each other on the road. I’m not talking a big hand shaking wave or a politicians wave, but just lifting a few fingers off of the steering wheel. Not all the time though because some people forget, think they’re too cool, or they just can’t be bothered. When I was a kid coming out here to visit I thought it was pretty cool because where I grew up in the Rampart district of LA people were not friendly. I do it now even if it does feel a little bit dorky, because I am a friendly person and you never know what’s going to happen. Maybe sometime I might break down on one of these lonely two lane highways in the middle of a freezing cold night and they might be the ones to pull over and give me a hand, or not. I know my wife, who is a tall good looking woman, had a tire blowout one night and in the ten minutes it took for me to get there, she must have had ten good old boy weirdos looking to help her out. Now me, no matter where I’ve lived, it could be forever before someone stops to lend me a hand. When I lived in Cali I always had a gas can and my skateboard with me in my vehicle. If I had to I always knew I could skate to the nearest gas station even if it was miles away. In fact when my truck was stolen years ago, whoever got it, hit the motherload because they got all my tools, my gas can and my trusty skateboard. That was the deck my brothers up in Humboldt built me out of wheels, trucks and a beat up old deck they just had laying around. That board got me around everywhere and I don’t know what kind of wheels they were, but they were the best for sliding on the downhills. Do people even do power slides anymore? I forgot where I was going with all of that so on with the music.
I don’t remember where I got this tape, probably Ron and Bob, but it also had Spazztic Blurr and Wehrmacht on it, so I listened to it a lot in the mid 80′s. I don’t know where this was recorded or the tracks. I used what the singer says for the tracks and somewhere else in there it says it was a MRR show. I seem to remember this band was made up of members of Attitude Adjustment and Condemned. I always liked the music and what made it really good was the talking in between, there’s some pretty funny stuff. When I editted the tracks I seperated some of the longer periods of taking and a point where there is a broken string. Remember the track titles are just what I got off the tape. The sound quality tells me it’s either a good crowd recording or a bad soundboard. If you know more about it make a comment please.
You can download the whole show at 320 kbs here,
Thanks man,
I like ATTITUDE ADJUSTMENT, ATTITUDE, CONDEMNED, CONDEMNED ATTITUDE and of course, CONDEMNED TO DEATH !!!
This tape is great !!!
Don’t forget the excellent LP by CONDEMNED on REACTOR RECORDS…