cestlamort wrote: ↑Fri Dec 28, 2018 6:48 pm
Domm wrote: ↑Tue Nov 27, 2018 1:02 pm
Seen them over 20 times! One of the bands that made a huge impact on me as a youngster and stayed with me thru adulthood. Steady diet of nothing might be my favorite.
That’s one of the better ways to spend 100 bucks...
One of the most influential bands on various levels (music, politics, activism, community, economics, Rickenbackers.... etc). I often wished I were from the “ other Washington” in the 80s.
I remember when “Ian from Embrace and Guy from rites of spring's” new band played up here (Tacoma? I didn’t find out about it in time, right around the first ep) and I was lucky enough to see them countless times up through the mid 90s along the I5 corridor. (Although the draconian all ages show restrictions in Seattle meant that you had to stick it out for all the bands, even if you’ve already seen Beat Happening way too many times already...)
A new local venue recently opened with a Dischord cover night (all the bands were pretty amazing) and “fugazi” did all stuff from later albums (and blueprint) which was unexpected and pretty genius. The night was a huge sing along warm fuzzy from start to finish. (Full disclosure: I was part of a last minute “jawbox” when another band had to back out- Teenage me was ecstatic. I first learned to play bass with that stuff but hadn’t played bass on stage since then — very much a nostalgic homecoming but totally unlike how I play guitar).
Extending it some, Dischord was great to discover new music, as pretty much every record was great even if unexpected or challenging, from Lungfish and Soul side to NOU and slant 6 etc. (Tangent: a group of now-old punks from south of Seattle all got Kingface tattoos in the early 90s). The same could be said of 4AD in many ways, albeit at triple the sticker price.
washington state must have been so amazing in the 90s.
speaking of nations of uylesses, ian svenonius is killing it the hardest currently out of any of the old school DC crew.
saw him in detroit a couple times recently and it was mind blowing. with the chain and the gang and now solo, playing guitar and all.
i saw the make up in the 90s in detroit.
also wanted to ian's brother, alec has some cool tunes. in FAITH and then WARMERS. saw the warmers in detroit in the 90s and he soooo ian's little brother. (just really played the little brother part / discription)
also saw ALL SCARS
https://www.discogs.com/artist/813376-All-Scars which was the canty bro's side project. saw them in a basement. lots of synth drums and trumpet !!