tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-191166602024-03-05T00:59:37.336-04:00Atlantic Canada Hardcore & PunkDocumenting the hardcore and punk scene in Atlantic Canada. Bands from Nova Scotia, PEI, Newfoundland and New Brunswick - from the 80's to present day. Focus will no doubt be on Halifax, NS as that's where i'm from!!Ianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10767375217833858750noreply@blogger.comBlogger38125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19116660.post-69940532035429369652022-03-27T17:50:00.007-03:002022-05-10T22:28:18.061-03:00PUBLIC ENEMY<p><i>Public Enemy were a hardcore band from St. John's, Newfoundland in the mid 1980's. Obviously not to be confused with the hip hop group that came out a few years after. They released one demo tape and played a bunch of shows around St. John's. Members went on to be in Schizoid! Here is a quick interview with their guitar player Bob Average from Feb 2022.</i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhTFbEEXfeP4p-GjBSIXShDaMiRK3oXBVwrlmXOSpbVAsTXUkFUwPD1RSxjr-LVoEnk7rLcrxPAfWtDqxCiOd6hrmJv7kb5x8jhEO_EHNch2NFEkDyaNjGfx_q2vgwugQ-tlomiVY0wreHsXJErF2qORxi2raulUbBMiRsu0WtE8230iYvdtHg=s674" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="670" data-original-width="674" height="636" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhTFbEEXfeP4p-GjBSIXShDaMiRK3oXBVwrlmXOSpbVAsTXUkFUwPD1RSxjr-LVoEnk7rLcrxPAfWtDqxCiOd6hrmJv7kb5x8jhEO_EHNch2NFEkDyaNjGfx_q2vgwugQ-tlomiVY0wreHsXJErF2qORxi2raulUbBMiRsu0WtE8230iYvdtHg=w640-h636" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: left;"><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p><b>When did Public Enemy start out and who was in the band? Did the lineup change over time?</b></p><p>We started in 1983 … me on guitar, Craig Murray on vocals, John Pastore on bass and David Clarke on drums. We played three cover songs at our high school talent nite as a first show. There is a jam tape floating around with two of our own uncollected songs. In April of 84 we opened for DOA .. all covers again and one was a REALLY OLD DOA song … pretty dumb but we did do a Slyme cover! </p><p>For this show, Randy Mausokopf drummed. We had a different drummer every show except last going off.. Llew Thomas played twice and on the demo. We drifted apart with Craig and got Hardcore Tony to sing - on the demo tape and for two shows. He went on to start fanzine IRK in Toronto and partnered in some shows. And sang with Godcorp.</p><p>I forgot to mention Dave Sweetapple was in a band called the Riot which he quit to play second guitar with Public Enemy before Hardcore Tony joined. The Riot only had one original that never came out.</p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgNPXLxSRaHhceRUZeq2OPj177Z_32JKapCO4dWrwtlMJdyX12XFGEo9CxZG7G0ottBpvhdUa0ZwKyz12wRkEmvj_0UUXrj6pWkmmdIXhJ3WoobWzlc1vI3gKBiXgqlJpk83LuBNJNvke5F-kkGFbpuAHB5aPrRMdnsDNU-WZcBmF9muTnPaEY=s1676" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1676" data-original-width="1490" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgNPXLxSRaHhceRUZeq2OPj177Z_32JKapCO4dWrwtlMJdyX12XFGEo9CxZG7G0ottBpvhdUa0ZwKyz12wRkEmvj_0UUXrj6pWkmmdIXhJ3WoobWzlc1vI3gKBiXgqlJpk83LuBNJNvke5F-kkGFbpuAHB5aPrRMdnsDNU-WZcBmF9muTnPaEY=w568-h640" width="568" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Newspaper clipping about the DOA/PE show!</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p><b>Did you play shows outside of St John's?</b></p><p>Only played St John’s .. Schizoid started after Public Enemy.. Murray and I were friends with a guy named Rod in junior high through music. We all liked KISS, CHEAP TRICK … the first two Def Leppard records. And somehow some Sex Pistols as well. I can’t remember how we got Never Mind The Bollocks but I had a friend that came back from England with Swindle, PIL and the first AC/DC DIRTY DEEDS record… and we all taped off of him for sure. He had Maiden too of course. So anyway Rod and I drifted apart but I would see him now and then as his brother lives next door. One day we bumped into each other in the driveway. I had Animosity and he had Onslaught Power from Hell … we freaked out a bit and decided to start a band… I think we moved to Toronto after one jam or something.. in the dead of winter with typical running shoes and barely any money. Stayed at HAPPY HOUSE nearly froze in basement… but got to see Descendents in 85! We started fucking around and came up with song ideas … moved home and got serious with band.</p><p>We created the scene .. and I’m not bragging … but when u left there were three or four bands .. I heard later there were hundreds .. I booked one of our last shows .. Place was packed .. I looked around and I knew no one … I thought .. this is cool.. things are getting somewhere. We used to know EVERYONE!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhnUGqEiIWRVAG8Qe7r6qcd6JlZi9qhhUf2dmyg0Ow74Pc08uGRsDs-7o2RgJTwsYlQXddsfGU_8mqpjlZ8bQw1EI0g6vUyzGlRw5e9pMolP-ovBFh093onQvEq2Dkl45kc6tpFzFZDqKXQK4mD7pYRHVar8E39M4WfL5omu1ktiAeLsegUeGA=s1058" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="819" data-original-width="1058" height="496" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhnUGqEiIWRVAG8Qe7r6qcd6JlZi9qhhUf2dmyg0Ow74Pc08uGRsDs-7o2RgJTwsYlQXddsfGU_8mqpjlZ8bQw1EI0g6vUyzGlRw5e9pMolP-ovBFh093onQvEq2Dkl45kc6tpFzFZDqKXQK4mD7pYRHVar8E39M4WfL5omu1ktiAeLsegUeGA=w640-h496" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /><p><b>What can you tell me about the demo you released</b></p><p>The artwork we used for the few we made and sent around was kinda like the "Life Is Not Worth Living" art” .. but if I remember correctly we called it “Wanted: Dead Or Alive” … that hand writing on “life’s not…” is mine. But I don’t remember writing something so stupid… the one you uploaded was official cuz I put that stupid dance stuff on it. We broke up by the time the tape came out.. so did my due diligence and sent it around a bit (including one that got reviewed in Maximum Rock N' Roll) … but that’s about it. A few orders trickled in and I traded with some bands and stuff… I wish I was more organized… I should know how many are out there! No one in town really knows it. I’d like to put it out again.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjnIGbSB0lw7V0ehv9UmFJvERHWxnrOERikX27VOodNKSYcYUivfItpVCbaNp2UmLlIwuWPAEAsBXRb3OuoCxRDXQOOcH1LDwvjJc071tki9xnJW01OjrS2y0cM0MYg9nMaAYlyoJEKQyDuNBoARBrUJT7y2f2PMFrRhAmYgfNbvh-SWRwsyFs=s1109" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="776" data-original-width="1109" height="448" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjnIGbSB0lw7V0ehv9UmFJvERHWxnrOERikX27VOodNKSYcYUivfItpVCbaNp2UmLlIwuWPAEAsBXRb3OuoCxRDXQOOcH1LDwvjJc071tki9xnJW01OjrS2y0cM0MYg9nMaAYlyoJEKQyDuNBoARBrUJT7y2f2PMFrRhAmYgfNbvh-SWRwsyFs=w640-h448" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p><b>What can you tell me about recording the demo?</b></p><p>Recording the demo was kinda lame. Some cock rocker had a studio in his basement… we were in separate rooms and stuff playing along with bed tracks… should have been done more off floor. But it was good we did it. If it was a single, we would have made a pretty good mark for ourselves.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjZ1mLizgkPcaz-Q1fxm2Nt40g01IecEXwzKg_CkaN_ZyC601RiDNqTjeh6yC7Wo1p3pp-Ebf_8b8K5i5Sya7-qo7xpy9vW70BeF13Qy0aFQ7zdm318dvqnAz93FSDN9dG3u7WnifM7G7AeLU1p50BTJQvBi7GhNEJ4uFk5S7m6W-xV4SBAMKA=s640" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjZ1mLizgkPcaz-Q1fxm2Nt40g01IecEXwzKg_CkaN_ZyC601RiDNqTjeh6yC7Wo1p3pp-Ebf_8b8K5i5Sya7-qo7xpy9vW70BeF13Qy0aFQ7zdm318dvqnAz93FSDN9dG3u7WnifM7G7AeLU1p50BTJQvBi7GhNEJ4uFk5S7m6W-xV4SBAMKA=w640-h480" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p><b>There is also a live set from Reg's Bar - what do you remember about this show?</b></p><p>Reg’s was out of desperation… we wanted shows with Tony before he moved. Not sure if John had decided on moving at that time. Ya we had to play a couple of sets and two nights or something … needed more than 15 mins of our own shit. </p><p><b>I see you did lots of covers - Minor Threat , 7 Seconds, Asexuals, Raw Power, etc - where were you hearing those bands at the time. Could you buy those records in store in St John's in the time, or did you have to mailorder? Or was it tape trading?</b></p><p>We tape traded. Mail ordered as well, and got a ton of free records from making a zine called WABANA RIOT. We used to race to the mailbox … whoever’s there first got the random stuff ! Haaa! I always won !</p><p>The fact that we still did covers in 84 and 85 was terrible.. but our isolation was real .. I brought most of the music to town … mailorder … I would go to preppy parties of people I didn’t know and some punks would take over and I’d hear these mix tapes I made for somebody but the quality was fucked … obviously 16th generation but it made me feel relevant.</p><p>But Fred’s records sold some stuff .. just the old high price bullshit. Plus they only had DKs and maybe DOA - WAR ON 45. Me and Murray had a book called INTERNATIONAL GUIDE TO NEW WAVE … we called everywhere in that book .. even Jello once but he wasn’t home. We’d get a bag of chips and cokes and make long distance calls in Murray’s fathers office! Bad... I guess .. not sure if he cared. That’s where we made the zine too! He had a business so it was a full fledged office setting. </p><p>Murray and me got all the pistols and clash boots and early DOA by calling used record stores in NY and Vancouver! We also called Shithead and booked that show … or maybe it was the manager .. Ken Lester I think . Oh our shitty FM station OZ was pretty cool back then and one midnite a DJ played some stuff that he just bought in Vancouver… he played Let’s Fuck by DOA .. I loved it .. my new fave band .. I hunted him down and he taped it for us. The rest was history … we loved those guys!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgfU91IoizFNOF-gUOnBuGYZvt4bnyxkiNVLpFuVHETV9CV2oNG2CJhdZRPGyRKAx55v68P_ujZ5kb8QsPbFb2yygpBEy1lLq3G5ETqAjHk1o0V_oTilDbQ7N2qzCbAqfa_N_6BSKbPd3YcMdTLQR8PB3iLtaFkOjzgIlEFm7iY8LG5v1cxgnE=s900" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="644" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgfU91IoizFNOF-gUOnBuGYZvt4bnyxkiNVLpFuVHETV9CV2oNG2CJhdZRPGyRKAx55v68P_ujZ5kb8QsPbFb2yygpBEy1lLq3G5ETqAjHk1o0V_oTilDbQ7N2qzCbAqfa_N_6BSKbPd3YcMdTLQR8PB3iLtaFkOjzgIlEFm7iY8LG5v1cxgnE=s16000" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><b>When did you first find out about Public Enemy - the hip hop group? I think you were a couple years ahead of them!</b></p><p>Ya I bet ya it was '87 or something… we shoulda said something! Even the same logo …wonder if they really did steal it. It's probably impossible....</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEinYtRxPzJUMdFBejrwAwsA7ELk1_bVFXhMgTk00VERiGB8ub1T-kh3oit0QtdXsf5Pku3NnY_nLTUL626E3RC_MgJZGIXEjg4jpz4Y14Jm-uKF8twaxYvBZSuEojcGrqh0iYvyLHvgX7aX2knf6qV9DtZ_ylG3cMV9DY6_xybbi2zNPJPUNfU=s1263" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1263" data-original-width="987" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEinYtRxPzJUMdFBejrwAwsA7ELk1_bVFXhMgTk00VERiGB8ub1T-kh3oit0QtdXsf5Pku3NnY_nLTUL626E3RC_MgJZGIXEjg4jpz4Y14Jm-uKF8twaxYvBZSuEojcGrqh0iYvyLHvgX7aX2knf6qV9DtZ_ylG3cMV9DY6_xybbi2zNPJPUNfU=w500-h640" width="500" /></a></div><p></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Was there a member of great big sea in the band at one point? I thought I heard that but maybe that was another band.</b></p><p>Bob Hallett (of Great Big Sea) opened for the Reg’s shows with his band The Reckoning.… they were new to town …they played DKs and Black Flag covers. The Reckoning eventually became the band Dead Reckoning and had few releases of original music and even moved to Toronto at one point.</p><p><b>Why did PE break up and w</b><b>hat have band members gone on to do?</b></p><p>PE broke up cuz John and Tony moved away and Dave Sweetapple left Public Enemy to go to school in Ontario. So Llew stayed in St John’s and has some sort of 9 to 5 I think. Hardcore Tony is doing his thing somewhere in southern Ontario. I just retired after 32 years at CN Rail. John is in Brooklyn and Dave is in VT. Dave has been tour managing, playing in Witch and SWEETAPPLE, working for Tee Pee … putting out tons of records on various labels currently Outer Battery. He also does some Land Rover club stuff in Vermont.</p><p>Musically John and Don and me were in Rise with some Fair Warning guys … Don is an engineer with own studio … and in a million bands. I was in a band called Soulstorm with Adam from Monster Voodoo Machine and I was in a band called WHITE TRASH COMPACTOR with some friends from Newfoundland… one show, no release. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p><b>DOWNLOAD THE DEMO (plus live sets & a cover song) here:</b></p><p><b><a href="https://www.mediafire.com/file/dzxoy1kkbgudipu/public+enemy.rar/file" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">PUBLIC ENEMY DISCOGRAPHY</span></a><br /></b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Listen to the demo and live set from Reg's here:</b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/TWmLTv9eTtY" width="465" youtube-src-id="TWmLTv9eTtY"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="364" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/candRL35GbM" width="464" youtube-src-id="candRL35GbM"></iframe></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #0084ff; color: white; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
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They also became one of the city’s most formidable live acts, with </i><i>their St Partick’s Day shows being particular highlights. </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>The following is an interview with two </i><i>of their key songwriters </i><i>and long-serving members, bassist Brian Whalen and guitarist Dave </i><i>Robertson.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Interview by Ian Dares</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div></i><div style="clear: left; display: inline; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-s-lgjeCSdqc/YTy-qc-sVFI/AAAAAAAASIg/tE3r82N7D_AHTh6KXeMGsmbIT99UfLlDQCLcBGAsYHQ/s361/Newbreed.JPG" style="display: inline; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="244" data-original-width="361" height="432" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-s-lgjeCSdqc/YTy-qc-sVFI/AAAAAAAASIg/tE3r82N7D_AHTh6KXeMGsmbIT99UfLlDQCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h432/Newbreed.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Live at Cafe Ole</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-s-lgjeCSdqc/YTy-qc-sVFI/AAAAAAAASIg/tE3r82N7D_AHTh6KXeMGsmbIT99UfLlDQCLcBGAsYHQ/s361/Newbreed.JPG" style="clear: left; display: inline; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></div></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>1) How did The New Breed get started and what was your original line-up?</b></div><p style="text-align: justify;">[BRIAN] Started towards the end of 1996. Spur of the moment, I suppose. A jam turns into two jams, then you find yourself on stage at Cafe Ole, as was the style at the time (ed. note – along with wearing an onion on your belt). Original lineup was: Jonny Stevens - vocals, Me - bass, Ryan (last name unknown) - guitar, Chris Meagher - drums.</p><span style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;">[DAVE] I came in as a replacement for Ryan on guitar, a couple months after the band started jamming. They had not played any shows or anything by this point. Brian asked me if I wanted to play, I told him that I’d give it a shot. He & I sat down a few times, going over the few songs they had so far and off I went to “try out.” I kept showing up and nobody ever told me leave. The terrible band name was chosen before I arrived by the way...hahaha!</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"></blockquote><b style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>2) On your first demo, you guys had elements of 80’s hardcore and more aggro-style </b>street punk. By the second demo, you seemed to be moving toward a more <b>traditionally anthemic and rootsy sound. Was this a conscious choice?</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div></b><span style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;">[BRIAN] Not at all. You tend to gravitate towards what works for that band. I love old hardcore but it just didn't click with us.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span><span style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;">[DAVE] That first demo was such a hot mess of songs and styles to be honest. I’m glad there are very few of those out there. By 1998, we had definitely grown as players and songwriters and the more consistent sound of the songs on the 2nd demo tape reflected that. The New Breed was essentially the first band for all of us - and the first for Chris playing drums - so we were all learning how to play and write songs as we went. We just ended up playing what sounded best for us. You’d almost never know it was the same band between the 2 demos that were released only a year apart.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"></blockquote><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-pMFF3Do0v0U/YY2LwepSsgI/AAAAAAAASyA/qWU5RNTv5JMjEN39SUZvB_JCvEVBsu6GwCLcBGAsYHQ/R-20195515-1631371429-9856.jpeg.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="435" data-original-width="599" height="464" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-pMFF3Do0v0U/YY2LwepSsgI/AAAAAAAASyA/qWU5RNTv5JMjEN39SUZvB_JCvEVBsu6GwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h464/R-20195515-1631371429-9856.jpeg.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-pMFF3Do0v0U/YY2LwepSsgI/AAAAAAAASyA/qWU5RNTv5JMjEN39SUZvB_JCvEVBsu6GwCLcBGAsYHQ/R-20195515-1631371429-9856.jpeg.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="357" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/e8Oqca1L6EQ" width="484" youtube-src-id="e8Oqca1L6EQ"></iframe></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"></blockquote><b style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>3) You got to release a 4-song 7”, Blue Collar Blues, through the local label Subprofit </b>Records. What was that experience like and how do you feel about that record now?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></b><span style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;">[DAVE] So, we had a good friend named Ian Dares (ed. note – aw, shucks). He asked us if we wanted to do a live set on his Saturday evening radio show, 7200 Sloppy Seconds, on CKDU 97.5FM. We said “Fuck yeah, that’ll be fun. Lets do it.” Shortly there after, late one Saturday evening, we were humping all our gear up the back stairs of the Dalhousie SUB building to the top floor to the radio station. We set up, had sort of a sound check, with various microphones set up around the main control room. We played some new songs that we had been working on. I’m not even sure if we had played all of them live or not yet at that point. It was a good time.</div></span><span style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Couple days later Richard got in contact and asked if we wanted to do a 7” EP. We were like: “Us? You’re sure?” Richard said he liked the newer songs, wanted us to record them and he'd release them. So shortly after that we were in the studio, during the same time as The Wankin Family were recording their album, and we recorded 5 songs, 4 of which became the Blue Collar Blues EP. The 5th song was “The Times” which had appeared on the 2nd demo tape and has never been released. All in all, it was a great experience for me, personally.</div></span><span style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Somehow a vinyl release always seems more permanent. It’s the only real release with what became the original band lineup of Jonny, Brian, myself and Chris playing.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">[BRIAN] That one came together pretty quickly. I guess Richard liked what we were doing and offered to put it out. Experience was great; Richard did a lot for the Halifax scene. What punk band doesn't dream of putting out a 7"?</div></span><span style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">[DAVE| Richard is such a great guy. Not only for giving us the opportunity to put out our first real release, just in general. Without Richard the Halifax scene in the 90’s, would have been a lot different. There is a dude that should get interviewed sometime.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="353" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Bg7gDF3db6A" width="498" youtube-src-id="Bg7gDF3db6A"></iframe></div><br /><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b>4) You had the opportunity to put out your next release, Day To Day, on Blind Beggar </b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Records. What was it like to work with them? Looking back at that album now, would it </span><b>be accurate to say that it was a transitional period for The New Breed?</b></div><b style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div></b><span style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;">[DAVE] “Difficult” would be how to describe working with Blind Beggar, if my memory serves me correctly. I didn't have to deal with them really, that fell more toward Brian & Jonny.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span><span style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;">[BRIAN] Beyond trading some emails, we honestly had little contact before and after with Blind Beggar. They were a pain in the ass to work with.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span><span style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;">[DAVE] Most of those songs were ones we had written once Chris had left the band and Alec replaced him on drums. Alec was a stronger, more comfortable and established drummer, as he had played in a number of bands before joining us. The songs changed with his playing, influence and song input.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span><span style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;">[BRIAN] Transition was the constant thread through our history. Luckily, for the better, I think.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="370" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qv8EUFNfDRs" width="502" youtube-src-id="qv8EUFNfDRs"></iframe></div><br /><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b>5) Lionel Stanley is on the Day To Day CD cover but did he actually appear on it?</b></div><p style="text-align: justify;">[BRIAN] He did not. To say I'm jealous is an understatement.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">[DAVE] I believe he is listed as not played on the CD liner notes. It’s been a long time since I’ve dug that out. So I could be mistaken as well. But, Lionel had joined the band, just as we were finishing up recording/mixing of that album. Sadly, that’s only me playing on that one and I don’t know if Lionel could have made that one any better. Overall, I’ve always found that album kinda “meh.”</p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"></blockquote><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-kdaGQvvhxkQ/YY2MB7Yf0fI/AAAAAAAASyQ/VZd6c3OoehAD9ZZdfZKuKWVSulupmev_gCLcBGAsYHQ/TNB-007.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="556" data-original-width="829" height="430" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-kdaGQvvhxkQ/YY2MB7Yf0fI/AAAAAAAASyQ/VZd6c3OoehAD9ZZdfZKuKWVSulupmev_gCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h430/TNB-007.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Live at The Attic</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-kdaGQvvhxkQ/YY2MB7Yf0fI/AAAAAAAASyQ/VZd6c3OoehAD9ZZdfZKuKWVSulupmev_gCLcBGAsYHQ/TNB-007.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>6) The Port City Rebels album was released through Thorp Records. Were you looking </b><span style="font-weight: bold;">to specifically work with another label after Blind Beggar? How did you end up with </span><b>them?</b></div><b style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div></b><span style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;">[BRIAN] Definitely wasn't keen on more with Blind Beggar. I don't think they were happy with the record and I can't blame them a bit. It stinks for the most part. As for Thorp, I believe we started with them releasing Port City Rebels in the States, as it was originally on Longshot Records in Canada. Great guys, nothing but good things to say about them.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span><span style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;">[DAVE] We really weren’t happy with Blind Beggar and we all knew we’d never put out anything with them again. The distribution wasn’t great at all and if I remember correctly, it was even hard for us to even get copies of the CD from them for us to sell at shows. We actually ended up on Thorp Records the old fashioned way, I guess. We recorded the album, then we mailed out burned CD’s to record labels, seeing if they were interested in putting it out for us. Lots of rejection letters. Luckily, Thorp responded, and a contract of some sorts was done up and it got released. The final album (Off The Braten Path) was released by them as well. We joined Thorp just as they were a growing, up-and-coming label. Until that point they were mainly a hardcore label. Andy & Duane from Thorp were great guys.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="362" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/NtApZRPi9Ug" width="483" youtube-src-id="NtApZRPi9Ug"></iframe></div><br /><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8ZoDP6MGcx2wuvQHb3Nhyphenhyphen1-E3bCFHgX_A0unjhTnsd4ZILQGU9lcw12EMXgbxAlCB9lqarL_9XdeNq7oHEqOSo57ZuVqV-ZohoasyzxxMBqKNN91SDsGq6q0n-y7oZH9WswPk/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>7) Port City Rebels showcases a large step forward both stylistically and artistically. </b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Was your shift in sound purposeful and what would you attribute to the band’s </span><b>maturity? (Ed. note – Anybody that knows these guys understands that I only use the </b><b>word “maturity” to describe their music.)</b></div><b style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div></b><span style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;">[BRIAN] None of the evolutions in sounds were conscious at all. We just played together for a long time. Most people are smart enough to let their shitty first bands fade away with no record and start new ones. For some reason we just kept going; so you get a bunch of recordings that sound like different bands.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span><span style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;">[DAVE] The songs were more polished and just better overall than anything we had done previously. We were still growing musically up until that point. With just me previously at the helm of the guitar playing, there was only so far the songs could go. Lionel added new ideas and talent that we used to expand our song writing. We also played and practiced a lot between those two albums. Really, it was the foundation what became our sound, once we became a five piece and the writing and playing did mature.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span><span style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;">[BRIAN] As for maturity, that Dal interviewer probably summed it up best: "Interviewing this</div></span><span style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;">band was like interviewing Beavis and Butthead."</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"></blockquote><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nGO3tQ14Vxw/YY2MLxVEefI/AAAAAAAASyY/kRzOVo5jW4IF4-CkGi1pYS12UNEpn3D5gCLcBGAsYHQ/TNB-006.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="556" data-original-width="846" height="420" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nGO3tQ14Vxw/YY2MLxVEefI/AAAAAAAASyY/kRzOVo5jW4IF4-CkGi1pYS12UNEpn3D5gCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h420/TNB-006.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Live at The Seahorse on Argyle St</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nGO3tQ14Vxw/YY2MLxVEefI/AAAAAAAASyY/kRzOVo5jW4IF4-CkGi1pYS12UNEpn3D5gCLcBGAsYHQ/TNB-006.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>8) You guys did some touring for both Day To Day and Port City Rebels. What were </b><span style="font-weight: bold;">those tours like? Any particular highlights?</span></div><b style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></b><span style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;">[DAVE] Lots of laughs, high jinx, drinking, boredom, and getting on everyone’s nerves at some point. We also met lots of cool people, saw some great bands and terrible ones as well. We played some shows with The Class Assassins from Toronto; we always had fun shows with those guys. We also got introduced to Lemmy from Mötörhead at a private after hours party we got invited too by the club owner. Sleeping in the van and waking up with it snowing. Lionel walking down the street in St. Catherines in only a towel and sun glasses (which of course one of those things went missing). Crazy fun shows in St John’s, where at one point it seemed to be raining glass and beer, from people flying around. Or a sketchy show in Connecticut where we were playing with Blitz and riot police with dogs barged in - for something that was happening outside the venue - and shut down the show. (Blitz were on stage setting up. They never played)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span><span style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;">[BRIAN] Lots of different experiences. Forget most, remember some. Mostly playing to very small crowds in various small towns, much boredom, and living on an extremely tight budget. Met a ton of great people, many of whom were kind enough to offer a couch or floor for the evening. Lots of laughs and funny stories. I mean who wouldn't want to play music with their best friends night after night and be away from their soul crushing jobs for awhile? Highlights for me were probably the shows with Class Assassins. Love those dudes! Playing with Blitz in Connecticut and only seeing them tune up before a riot broke out was definitely THE lowlight.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="369" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/J8CDLvlTIbU" width="469" youtube-src-id="J8CDLvlTIbU"></iframe></div><br /><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8tL8TytcR4WPdNRw_Wawo-o03TWvKFJ-DhVmubHWd7sH3sy0Zjf0xCzFTKU_Uymy0CJZRfFe6QM52cKOirL2gzMot5msJ7sOkfo6UplwhTDejfi9B_yEL8qIY_gZUUpUEwHmw/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>9) Your final release, Off The Beaten Path, featured a video for “Streets Of Gold.” What </b><span style="font-weight: bold;">was it like to film that and be able to work with John Dunsworth?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><span style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;">[BRIAN] Boring, tedious and phony was my experience, can't speak for anyone else. John Dunsworth was the only highlight; he was a crack-up and a lovely human being. I've no doubt that anyone that knew him or worked with him would say the same.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span><span style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;">[DAVE] John Dunsworth was such a nice dude. It was very generous of him to take the time to do the shooting of our video. I’d like to think he had fun basically doing what he wanted. I was only able to be there for a few days; the stage shots of us playing, of course, and the bowling scene. (We played many games that day.) We received a FACTOR grant to make it and that was the only way it was possible for it to be made.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"></blockquote><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="375" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/sXuJmpVo4kI" width="604" youtube-src-id="sXuJmpVo4kI"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>10) The New Breed called it quits not too long after the release of Off The Beaten Path. </b><span style="font-weight: bold;">On Jonny’s AllMusic page, it states that “(f)eeling constrained by the New Breed's </span><b>street punk image and writing more overtly folk-influenced songs, Stevens broke up </b><b>the New Breed in 2005 to embark on a solo career.” Does this accurately describe how </b><b>the band ended? Do you regret not continuing?</b></div><b style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div></b><span style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;">[BRIAN] Well that's his perspective, I guess. Let it never be said that I impeded anyone's career with my street punk image.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span><span style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;">[DAVE] I feel this album is the strongest material that we ever did. There were, in fact, three extra songs we recorded at the end of that session. We didn’t put them on the album because they were going to be used for an EP but they were lost due to a hard drive failure. I never did get to hear them. No, we never got to hit the road for a few weeks to tour behind it. Having the CD released so late in the year didn't help. The last listed "Last Show"; I have from the old web site files was on August 27, 2005 at The Seahorse Tavern – with The Sinkin' Ships. I'd say shortly after that, Jonny made his final decision to leave in late 2005. He really just was losing interest in what we were doing over those final few months in 2005 and wanted to focus on his new solo band that he had started.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span><span style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;">[BRIAN] Most people don't know that we continued on for a year after with the remaining four of us, we just never found a permanent singer. Much rawer material - definitely another transition and a very tight band.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span><span style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;">[DAVE] We did keep writing new material; just practice recordings exist of some of the tunes. It was a slight change again, the songs were a bit “heavier” shall we say? We did try briefly to get a replacement vocalist early on. A couple of people came in to try out on some of the new stuff we were doing but nothing became of it. So, after almost a year, as a 4 piece instrumental punk band jamming a couple times a month, we called it quits some time in 2006. The only regrets for me: I really would have liked to hear what the new songs we had been working on would have turned into, if they had been fully developed into another album. Also, we never got to play an “official last show.” We just kind of disappeared.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"></blockquote><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-KHq7jHTAe3o/YY2NNlzwnqI/AAAAAAAASy8/qGmPUisM7GgBDue8qoaoMfH5tqhxqpuvgCLcBGAsYHQ/TNB-011.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="738" data-original-width="1019" height="464" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-KHq7jHTAe3o/YY2NNlzwnqI/AAAAAAAASy8/qGmPUisM7GgBDue8qoaoMfH5tqhxqpuvgCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h464/TNB-011.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Live at The Seahorse</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-KHq7jHTAe3o/YY2NNlzwnqI/AAAAAAAASy8/qGmPUisM7GgBDue8qoaoMfH5tqhxqpuvgCLcBGAsYHQ/TNB-011.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"></blockquote><b style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>12) Finally, would you say that “Erica Wilson Attacks” is The New Breed’s greatest </b>artistic achievement?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></b><span style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;">[DAVE] I have no idea to this day who Erica Wilson was - or is - and exactly what it is she attacked to inspire that classic song.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span><span style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;">[BRIAN] Can't say we ever topped that one. If Ms. Wilson only knew how much her spirit embiggened such a small band.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">DOWNLOAD MP3s of everything but the 1st demo: <a href="https://www.mediafire.com/file/z25dsrpeuzrn8p9/new+breed.rar/file" target="_blank">HERE</a></span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Demo 2</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Blue Collar Blues 7"</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Day To Day CD</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Port City Rebels CD</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Off The Beaten Path CD</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"></blockquote><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="405" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nbznmAnZ064" width="540" youtube-src-id="nbznmAnZ064"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-m89jbXCXVFw/YY2N4mG39wI/AAAAAAAASzI/PgbfsbguVsIzhZPXG5teVCrm0ZZxuWSFgCLcBGAsYHQ/TNB-Poster001%2528first%2Bshow%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1587" height="690" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-m89jbXCXVFw/YY2N4mG39wI/AAAAAAAASzI/PgbfsbguVsIzhZPXG5teVCrm0ZZxuWSFgCLcBGAsYHQ/w541-h690/TNB-Poster001%2528first%2Bshow%2529.jpg" width="541" /></a></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-m89jbXCXVFw/YY2N4mG39wI/AAAAAAAASzI/PgbfsbguVsIzhZPXG5teVCrm0ZZxuWSFgCLcBGAsYHQ/TNB-Poster001%2528first%2Bshow%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"></blockquote><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><span style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-OsZ_TevERW4/YY2N726oPGI/AAAAAAAASzM/I2NSb27ajIcGcZbkYt-H5lkj-GSXZ12xACLcBGAsYHQ/TNB-Poster005.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a></span></div></div><br /><br /><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"></blockquote><br /><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u><br /></u></span><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div></div><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div>Ianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10767375217833858750noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19116660.post-61065857959128494212020-06-08T20:34:00.000-03:002020-06-08T20:34:04.837-03:00THE WANKIN FAMILY<div style="background-color: white;">
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The previous band that I was in, Moronic Plague, had split up and I wanted to do something that would allow me to work on writing songs while also giving me the opportunity to become a better bass player. Lisa Verge and I were going out at the time and she wanted to start a band, too. We were really into Blitz, The Cockney Rejects, Cocksparrer, Sham 69, etc. so that was the direction that we went in. Lisa came up with name and The Wankin Family concept was born.</div>
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It started out with Lisa, myself and Damien Nee, whom I believe was in the Upchucks at the time. We jammed a few times but it didn't gel. I was singing but really didn't want to, so Lisa suggested asking Richard Lafortune, who was presently playing guitar with The Chitz. Richard is a pretty eccentric guy and the idea of him fronting a band was really intriguing. He agreed to do it but Damien quit, so I asked a good friend of mine, Gerald Smith, if he was interested. Gerald was an odd fit in that he absolutely loathed the type of music that we played - he was more of a metal/grindcore kind of guy - but he was a great guy, willing and extremely talented, so that was enough. He was also in a bunch of other bands at the time - Gorbage, System Shit, Whohedness - so I knew he probably wouldn't stay long. It was fucking hard to find people interested in playing '77 punk in Halifax at the time. All of the people that I knew that liked that stuff were already in the band or in The New Breed. We had to take anybody that was willing, basically.</div>
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This was a really fun line-up and we seemed to get along really well for a while. Unfortunately, Lisa was having issues with stage fright and she wasn't really digging the idea of practices or learning new songs, so it seemed only fair to ask her whether or not she was really enjoying being in a band. She decided to quit, so I got an old friend of mine from where I grew up, Bob Langille, to play guitar. Bob was in a local band called The Boluga Group, whom I liked very much, so I thought that he'd fit in nicely.</div>
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We played a few shows with that line-up, but Gerald really wasn't happy. I'll never forget the day that he quit; he and I showed up early for practice and I was making small talk with him and he was being really curt with me. I asked him if he was OK and he just unloaded on me. It reminded me of that episode of The Simpsons when Flanders' house burns down and all the people in Springfield built him a newer and considerably crappier version. He just snapped. It was really funny - I wish that I would have recorded it and used it as a song intro, like "Madman" by DRI. I couldn't even be angry at him for it - he had put up with us for as long as he could and then just wigged out. I was never angry about it - it was too funny and too honest to be mad.</div>
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With Gerald gone, we switched Bob over to drums and needed to find a guitarist. We had two people in mind, Dave Robertson of The New Breed and Kim Macdonald, who was a relative newcomer and not in any bands. We went with Kim largely because we didn't want to force Dave to split his time between us and The New Breed. Bob moved to Edmonton shortly after Kim joined and Derrick Gennerick stepped in on drums. Having Derrick was awesome for me because he loved a lot of the same bands that we were influenced by and always seemed to instinctively know what to play. On the downside, we now we had half of The Chitz in the band which meant taking a bit of a back seat. I also knew that Derrick was there more as a friendly favour than any real desire to be in The Wankins. Sure enough, he quit after the final Cafe Ole show and I had no desire to find yet another person to be in the band. We split up and I went on to form The Smashers.</div>
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Unfortunately, it didn't end there. Richard had expressed some regret about never putting out a proper release and we got back together to release the CD and do some shows to support it. That line-up was Richard, myself, Kim, Bob on second guitar and Selwyn Sharples - who was also in The Smashers with me - on drums. That was the line-up when, mercifully, the band finally ended.</div>
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Yeah - that was tough. We recorded it on a 4-track in Kim's basement. Derrick laid down his drums tracks and mixed them all on to one track and we all did our tracks over that. By Wankin Family standards, the process went pretty smoothly. I was really happy with the playback of the rough mix. Unfortunately, we used Richard's stereo for all of the dubbing. I know this probably seems foreign to younger people, but back then when you released a demo, you just bought a bulk amount of blank tapes on sale, photocopied your cover and inlay at the copying centre and did all your own dubbing from the master on a stereo that had two cassette decks. We never really bothered to actually listen to the cassettes that we were dubbing off and it turned out that the tape deck on Richard's stereo was pretty crappy. The whole thing sounded really muddy and grainy. My heart just sank the first time that i heard it. It sounded so bad that I gave most of them away because I couldn't bring myself to make people pay for them. I paid for the tapes and the copying out of my own pocket, so I lost a few hundred dollars in the end. However, that's peanuts to what Richard probably lost on the CD.</div>
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<b>4. Tell us about the CD. Some great hidden cover songs on there - Gassenhauer and Forgotten Rebels.</b></div>
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The Gassenhauer song was Richard's suggestion and it was a great choice. I really love that song and I thought we did a pretty good job on it. Of course, guitar solos were foreign territory for us, so that was out of the question but it turned out well otherwise. Bob was the one that wanted to do "I Left My Heart In Iran" and there wasn't much of an argument there, either. I think that our version of it is pretty middling but I am a massive Forgotten Rebels fan. <i>This Ain't Hollywood...</i> is one of my all-time favourite albums. Some of the originals are decent. I think that "Fuck The Commonwealth" is awesome. "Anarchy In Whycocomagh" is pretty fun. I really liked the two Smashers songs that we did on the CD - "T.O." and "No Justice."</div>
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Otherwise, the CD is a bit of a sore spot. In retrospect, it wasn't a great idea. I was really torn between having our music documented and having to wade through all of the band politics all over again. The rehearsals were pretty contentious and shambolic and we never came together as a band with the five-piece line-up. Steve Outhit was an absolute prince through the whole thing and he really did the best that he could but we weren't up to the task at all. We were grossly under-rehearsed, and the songs are played too fast. When I complained to everybody about the latter point, the consensus was "well we all like it that way" so that was pretty frustrating for me.</div>
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Then there was the watch incident. The rest of the band did the songs live but Kim wanted to do her tracks on her own. While she was playing, the pick-ups on her guitar were putting the ticking of her watch on the recording. Steve asked her - quite politely - to just take off her watch off while she was recording. She refused. We tried to talk some sense into her but she made a big stink about it by ranting and raving and being really rude to Steve. I told her that if she didn't take the watch off, then she could leave and I would record the guitar tracks myself. Then Selwyn got pissed off at me for being heavy-handed and that just made everything more tense. Kim finally took it off but it really pissed me off that Richard's money was being wasted on fighting and arguing when all somebody had to do a take off their watch for an hour or so. Stuff like that makes for a lot of bad vibes and just turns something that could be really fun into a painful exercise.</div>
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I also made the absolutely ridiculous suggestion that we record four tracks of guitars to try to have a huge guitar sound like <i>Hear Nothing, See Nothing, Say Nothing</i>. Well, The Wankin Family weren't exactly Discharge and the whole idea was completely asinine. In a life chock-full of idiotic ideas, it was maybe one of the dumbest ideas that I have ever had; all it did was make the CD sound muddy and indistinguishable.</div>
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Generally, you could look back on stuff like this and laugh, but then I think about the amount of money Richard forked out for it and I can't help but have a sense of guilt. The rest of the stuff is easy to overlook but that was the real life consequence and that makes it not-so-funny. I can't really listen to CD and have only heard the thing 4 or 5 times. I just feel really awful that Richard could have spent his money on something else that would have made him a lot happier.</div>
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First off, what Condon MacLeod and Gary Beazley did for the Halifax music scene is as important as and any band. They put a ridiculous amount of work into something that barely covered its own costs so a bunch of kids could have some place to play and hang out. Those are the kinds of people that make the world a better place and, for that, they will eternally have my admiration and respect. They are just really good people.</div>
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Cafe Ole as a space left much to be desired. It was poorly ventilated. The acoustics were dreadful and sometimes the sound guys didn't have a clue what they were doing.</div>
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Yet, if you were in a punk band during that era, it was great. The atmosphere was very welcoming, both because of Condon and Gary and because - at least I believe this to be true - that a lot of us that were in the scene in the late 80's/early 90's that were now the elder members made a conscious effort to make it inclusive and supportive for newcomers. The shows that I went to in my teens could be pretty violent and it was even worse if they didn't recognize you. I've had my nose broken at shows twice. On another occasion, Chris Davies hit me in the face with a beer bottle at a Donner Party Reunion show and cut my mouth open. When I stopped to look at the blood, he kicked me in the face for good measure. Mike Freeborn took a swing at me at The Pub Flamingo but missed, thank God. I've been sucker-punched in the back of the head twice. I had to fight a few times, just to let them know that I had no intention of going away. All of those incidents happened before Cafe Ole opened, so it was refreshing to go to show knowing that you didn't always have to look out for people trying to hurt you.</div>
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The bad part about Cafe Ole was that it made things a little too easy and I think some complacency set in. In the old days, bands had to fight and claw for places to play. I saw shows in churches, store rooms at the Grain Elevators, community halls, abandoned buildings. Shows were more infrequent and, if you sucked, you weren't going to be asked to play again. Conversely, you always knew Cafe Ole would be there and I think that it made bands a little lazy. Plus, everything became so fractured; the earlier shows that I went to, it was not uncommon to see a hardcore band, a metal band and an alternative band on the same bill. Now everybody just wanted to play to selective audiences and it was possible because you didn't have to worry about covering any rental costs for the space and equipment. I never liked that aspect of the scene at all. I sounds corny, but I believed firmly that we were stronger together than apart. Plus, I like all of those types of music and would have welcomed some variety. Even worse, some of the younger guys could be a little too entitled, cocky and irreverent. Those are total byproducts of too much comfort.</div>
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We did play a few shows outside of Halifax, but not very many. The Wankins headlined a show at The Arts Guild in Charlottetown with two bands that I hold in very high esteem - P.O.S. and Da Brownies. That was really fun. We opened for The Hanson Brothers in Bridgewater, which was an absolute thrill for me as a huge Hansons/Nomeansno fan. We did another show in Bridgewater with Bad Luck #13, Marky and The Mopeds and a for-some-reason reformed Shitheads that was probably my favourite show experience in which I was involved. Bad Luck are my favourite Canadian punk band of all time. The Mopeds were perfect garage-y rock'n'roll. And I fucking love The Shitheads. They are a criminally overlooked band and Mike Brigadier was a phenomenal frontman. The New Breed may have played that show, too. I still listen to The New Breed a lot - what a great band they turned out to be. They became exactly what I wanted The Wankin Family to become and did it better than we ever could have.</div>
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I can't speak for anybody else, but I felt boxed in. It was a lot of work to keep something going that, frankly, wasn't very good. I was starting to stretch out a bit musically, bringing in different tempos, minor keys, open chords and the like and it was not well-received by Kim, who really didn't want the band to change. Plus, with Richard and Derrick in The Chitz, the band was constantly second-fiddle. I don't blame those guys one bit for prioritizing The Chitz over The Wankin Family - they were, without question, a vastly superior band - but I needed to do something a little more ambitious for my own sanity. There couldn't be a Wankin Family without Richard. He was the glue; the even-tempered guy that held my worst tendencies in check. Most of all, he was the face of the band and a great frontman. So, I moved on. I told the others to feel free to keep the band going without me but there was no effort toward that to my knowledge.</div>
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The CD/reunion phase of the band was difficult from the get-go and was really easy to walk away from. I got an offer to join North Patrol and was very happy to focus on that. I'm sure that the others were similarly happy to see my arse go out the door as well as I'm sure that I wasn't exactly a peach to deal with, either.</div>
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Derrick and I are still in touch. The communication is sporadic but he has a big family and is a pretty busy guy. We're like brothers. I love him and sure that we will always be in touch.</div>
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I haven't heard from Richard in years. I made a few attempts to reconnect with him but it wasn't reciprocated. I love the guy - he is one of the most genuine, funny and interesting people that I have ever had the privilege to meet. I hope that we talk again someday. I'm betting that he still lives in the same apartment. That seems very Richard.</div>
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I haven't heard from Lisa in a long time. Somehow, we managed to have a bit of a friendship after we split up despite the fact that I was a total piece of shit to her and wouldn't blame her if she never talked to me again. I have heard that she is married and settled down but have no way to confirm that. I hope that she's happy, I certainly wish no ill-will on her.</div>
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Bob and I lost touch a few years ago. Things got a little weird with girls and the like and I think it strained our friendship too much. Too bad. We were really close. I hope that he's doing OK.</div>
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I was in touch with Gerald a few years ago, trying to get him to drum for a hardcore band that never got off of the ground with Dave Robertson and Brian Whalen. Again, great guy. Gerald is always welcome in my world.</div>
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Selwyn and I were never really close friends but he's a really nice guy and I wish him peace and contentment.</div>
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Yes! When The Wankins first started, Richard had a pile of stickers made that were just the Rankin Family logo with a ripped-out "W" from the banner of old The Daily News placed over the "R." We handed them out and they got put on everything in Halifax for a while. I heard that a bunch of guys stuck them to cop cars parked out in front of the police headquarters on Gottingen Street.</div>
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Richard gave a stack of them to Lisa and she stuck one to the dash of her dad's car, who drove a cab for Casino. One night, he picked up Cookie Rankin for a fare and she saw the sticker and was not impressed. Ken told her that it was his daughter's band. She told him that she was going to be contacting a lawyer and we needed to change the name of the group or she was going to sue. Of course, this was completely preposterous and nothing ever came of it, but it was pretty funny. Shortly after that, we were contacted by CBC for a local band spotlight but Richard was a bit spooked at the idea of being sued (he was the only guy in the band that had anything to lose, so fair enough) and we never did do the interview. That was a huge regret. One of many, as it turns out.</div>
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Ianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10767375217833858750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19116660.post-14448855690462781242020-05-28T11:29:00.000-03:002020-05-28T11:29:35.771-03:00MORAL SUPPORT<i>It's been a while since I made a post but we are back with good one! Moral Support was a Halifax band known for playing fast, raw hardcore. They were one of the first bands I saw when I started going to shows in the late 80's. Recorded material has been quite elusive, but we do have an awesome live set recorded in Fredericton in 1988! Rumors of a demo tape are currently being investigated but I would not get my hopes up. The following is an interview with their drummer Johnny Rowe done in 2018. Enjoy!</i><br />
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<b>1. Basic first question - when did the band start and who was in it?</b><br />
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The band started sometime around ‘87 or ‘88, as I remember.
The band was started by myself and Greg Carter (guitar) and Jason Amey (vox) and saw several lineup changes throughout its tenure.
Our first gig was at the St. Andrews (indoor) skate ramp as I remember. I believe we had to book it to the Club Flamingo (on Gottingen) afterwards to play an opening set for (I think) a False Security / System Overload show. I could be mistaken , but that seems familiar.
Both of those bands were great.
It was a really cool scene back then.
I remember we played a lot of covers at first....Minor Threat songs, Bad Religion, DRI, etc.
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Like I said, the scene was awesome back then. There were always cool local shows...... totally d.i.y. work ethic. Not like today.
Great bands.
People actually got into it and danced and stood up front for shows instead of cowering at the back of the room looking down their noses.
Hardcore, metal, punk, scrappy rock bands... everyone played on each others bills, shared gear......supported. It was cool.
Younger bands like us learnt from the more experienced until the torches got passed on.
Great times.
There were some killer shows.
Hfx/Dartmouth , Fredericton, Saint John, Moncton (and I’m sure others) all had healthy scenes.
Guilt Parade, STD, False Security, Lizard, System Overload, Early Warning Syndrome, Burnt Offerings.... the list goes on.<br />
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Man, it’s so long ago and my memory is sketchy on this....... I remember tracking the beds and being pretty stoked about it but for some reason, there was some type of delay completing it. It was like one of those things that dragged on and on........ and on, until (I think) we kinda all just said ‘fuck it’ and didn’t bother finishing it. The bass and guitars weren’t totally in tune (we were so UN-pro back then in many ways)..... for several of the tracks and we didn’t know until we kinda heard everything and it just didn’t seem right...... bass and guitars were totally dissonant on some tracks which was very distracting, so honestly I don’t know how much of the session could’ve been salvaged, anyways.<br />
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I have never fully known wtf happened to those tapes (cause back then everything was on tape) after that session. SOMEONE had possession of them but I don’t know who. In fact I can’t even recall who it was who engineered the thing. It’s embarrassing to say now, but we were kids and didn’t know shit back then...... too much trust in other people, I guess. It’s sad that that stuff will prob never be heard...... it never saw the light of day and never (likely) ever will.<br />
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It was supposed to be THE next great hardcore ‘demo’ doing the circuit (out of the Maritimes)..... System Overload’s tape really made the rounds and we wanted it to follow the same trajectory.<br />
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<b>4. Tell me about some of the shows you played...any stand out memories? I think the first time I saw you was at Lawn Jam. </b><br />
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We played a lot locally, of course. And we typically rehearsed for several hours every Sat., usually at my folks house if we weren’t gigging. A couple times we rehearsed at Chris Evans’ house, when he was our singer, but it was usually at my place. My folks were always supportive....always liked the guys and my mom would make us sandwiches and tea.<br />
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We played the lawn jam twice (I think)? Once with Chris Evans and once later with Jon Vine.<br />
Both were great front men. Chris was more ‘Darby Crash’....... just all over the place and ‘sloppy tight’...... never knew wtf was gonna happen. Jon was more commanding on stage and had better overall presence. More polished.<br />
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The local shows were awesome. Playing at DTK festival the first time with Neighborhood Watch and S.C.U.M. was super cool. Great show and we were well received. We played that festival again with Jon Vine in, like 88 (?) and that when we were really killin it. We were pretty tight by then...... listening to a lot of crossover stuff which came out in our music. Heavier, faster. I believe it was on that trip that I heard Reign in Blood by Slayer for the first time ( I think at Nick fr N.Watch’s house)........ mind blown!!!!!<br />
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There was also a great local show we played at Acadia Bus Lines (bus hangar) back when Chris was in the band. Someone rented out a vacant bus hangar, got a generator, everyone shared backline........BYOB, $5 at the ‘door’ to pay for the space and boom!....... awesome show!!!<br />
That kinda stuff happened all the time. There was also a cool apartment gig I remember playing . Someone’s house party..... it was cool. Packed living room/kitchen....... everyone thrashing in the pit ...... awesome.<br />
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Then later, Me, Greg, Tim , with Jon Vine singing, and Mike Jackson added as a second guitar.<br />
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Not exactly sure why the band broke up. People were going in different directions. Some wanted to pursue different types of genres..... some of us just had other stuff going on that made it harder to get together...... others were getting too into partying and wasting time getting fucked up high and drunk.<br />
So, it just kinda fizzled out. It happens. I KNOW there was frustration with guys not showing at practice and stuff. Eventually those of us who still wanted to do something moved on to other projects.... musically or otherwise.<br />
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Not sure what EVERYONE is up to these days. Some guys who played in the band I just never stayed in contact with, regrettably. But several I’ve stayed in touch with and /or remained close:<br />
Jon Vine and I haven’t spoke in decades but I’d love to hear fr him. Last I heard he was in N.B. and a teacher, still dabbling in some music. Chris Evans and I have lost touch since those days.<br />
Tim Grant is ( I believe) living out in western Canada and we’ve had correspondence online. I always loved his sense of humour.... funny guy. I think he enjoys a lot of outdoor pursuits.<br />
Greg Carter last I heard was living in Vancouver. I think he’s been battling some demons over the yrs. I hope he’s OK and getting healthy. He is online but we don’t really keep in touch.<br />
Mike Jackson and I are still great pals and keep in touch. We went on to play more music together and we have recorded together as recently as a few yrs ago for one of his solo projects . He, of course, went on to work in TV and film (<i>he played Trevor in Trailer Park Boys</i>), and still lives in Dartmouth with his girlfriend.<br />
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I was recently re-connected with Jason Amey ( our very first singer) who’s sister lives in Toronto in my old neighborhood. He is there now and I bump into him every now and then. He was living abroad in Thailand for some time and has many stories under his belt.<br />
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Myself - still playing tons of music ...:competitive pipebands as well as the rock n roll thing. I currently play in Papermaps (indie rock power trio) and Stark Naked and the Fleshtones (surfy new wave punk) both out of Toronto.Before in moved to Ontario I played with Aimless, Thruster, Adrenalin, and King Konqueror most notably. I also do studio rec / teaching sessions. I currently live in Hamilton with my wife and infant son. I work for a craft brewery<br />
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For me, everything. I grew up listening to Sabbath, Maiden, Priest, Motörhead...... a lotta metal.... and then we discovered the magic of punk. So, the Misfits, Suicidal, DRI , Cro Mags, Agnostic Front, DOA, Descendents, Black Flag........the door was blown open!!!! Then as you mature, you realize that EVERYTHING is cool and everything can influence everything else. It’s the beauty of music.<br />
I think the band was influenced primarily by Minor Threat, DRI, the Accused, Agnostic Front ..... bands like that.<br />
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Some of my fave memories were just (I know it sounds simple) getting together on those sat jam /rehearsals and rippin tunes and having some laughs....., hangin out. Music was fun back then. We were all so innocent in so many ways. We’d all hangout, go to shows, trade records. It was just a cool scene. It’s so different now. Still lots of great music, but the days of having shows like THOSE days are gone, sadly. But, things change and evolution is part of the process whether one likes it or not.<br />
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Around 1993, Dave Hiltz (guitarist) and I started jamming out shitty acoustic punk songs. We started playing shows with a rotating roster of bassists and drummers, until Kevin Dupuis (drummer) came on board after a chance meeting at a house party. On paper Chris Neville was our bassist, but the joke was that he never jammed or played shows. Really we were a 3-piece. That’s how we jammed. That’s how we jellowed. <br />
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Dave Hiltz’s brother Derrick Hiltz would always be willing to make me mix tapes of all these punk records he had. He picked out lots of the classics, but also he chose local bands, and more specifically bands that did not play anymore. It was a history lesson on the local punk scene. “People on the street all goddamn day. with nothing to do and nothing to say”<br />
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The Upchucks and The Boluga Group. There is no scene without other bands and these were the bands that motivated us to keep playing especially in the early days, when we had no fucking idea how much we shat. <br />
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Obscene Jesture. This was Dave Hiltz and Chris Neville’s other band. They were the better band. Hands down. No question. Chris Neville actually played bass in this band. <br />
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I vaguely remember shows, because my modus operandi was to get drunk. The band’s shtick for shows became how fast we could play our entire catalogue of songs without stopping. In the end we were playing a typical 30 minute set in 13 minutes. When you try to play this fast you are fortunate when your drummer is a competitive swimmer.<br />
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We just played at Cafe Ole. Except once out of town with a bunch of other Halifax bands. We did play at the pavilion, but it was a reunion type of show and it was shit. We should have never “reunioned”. There are reasons why shit gets buried deep under ground so it doesn’t stink up the place anymore.<br />
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The first was recorded live at the top level of an old barn in Kevin Dupuis’ backyard. This was where we would practice. The recording was shit. We were shit. Very forgettable.<br />
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The second was recorded by Derrick Hiltz. At the time he was recording bands with his four track and offered to record us. Carla Gillis from Absolutely Nothing/Plumtree had tried to record us before Derrick, but she didn’t realize how shitty we were under natural lighting and desirable acoustics, so that never panned out. No fault to her. Somehow Derrick Hiltz made it happen.<br />
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Dave Hiltz left for agricultural college and Kevin Dupuis left to the USA on a swimming scholarship. Typical band break up story. University. Distance.<br />
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I own & operate a small business. I ran into Dave Hiltz 5 years ago while he was in town with his girlfriend. If I remember correctly, they were living in Thunderbay. I ran into Kevin Dupuis more recently, he coaches competitive swimmers.<br />
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Useless Solution started in mid 1998 following the break ups of two notable Halifax bands - Snot Party and Falling Out. As was many of the punk and hardcore bands during this time, these two bands were inbred, sharing several members between them. On the heels of the joke just not being funny anymore, Snot Party members Gerry Hubley and myself (Morgan Carpenter) came together with Falling Out members Nathan Doucet and Keith Porter. The intent was to form a hardcore band that stood apart from what Halifax had seen already - drawing influences from the heaviness of bands like His Hero Is Gone and Acrid, to the intensity of emotional hardcore bands like Frail and Portraits Of Past, to the speed and precision of grindcore units like Despise You.<br />
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The original lineup of U.S. was unlike anything I had experienced as a musician to that point, nor during the subsequent 20 years of playing bringing us up to now. The four of us gelled so unbelievably well. There was an immediate connection when we came together, and a shared understanding of where we were going and how to get there. Each member played a nearly equal roll in writing the music - so much so that in listening back to the first two cassette releases, I can easily tell which is a Morgan song, a Gerry song, a Nathan song, etc.<br />
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Shortly after getting our first batch of shows under our belts, we colluded with Jon Hut (of Equation Of State, Sebutones, Recyclone) to record our first demo. Like both of our releases, it was nearly a full length of material, but because the only format that was affordable to us was cassette, the releases have largely always been referred to as demos. The material was recorded via analog 4-track in our 5’x8’ practice room and released by Ant Records, our sound adding to their thorough roster of black sheep. Upon listening back to the material now, merging influences of grindcore, emo, and experimental noise was a tasteful feat for a bunch of 15 year olds.<br />
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What would come to be the last official release of U.S. was the ‘March’ cassette, again recorded by Hut and released through Ant Records. This time around we were heavily incorporating more metallic guitar playing, controlled oscillating noise, as well as experimenting with melody - as evidenced in covering a song by Halifax band By Any Means (originally written by Doucet, U.S. drummer). The night after completing the tracking for ‘March’, the band performed a full live set on the long running CKDU radio show, 7200 Sloppy Seconds. By the following morning, I had shredded my vocal chords so badly doing what was nearly a full day of screaming that it took the better part of a month for me to get my voice back.<br />
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After playing several great shows with both local and touring bands, the original era of U.S. quickly came to a close. This coincided with an undeniable shift in the Halifax punk scene - arguably rooted in the growing popularity of Christianity throughout the scene, there was a noticeable divide that took place between bands and friends. Keith decided to leave the band to focus his musical efforts of Led By Regret, whom he was currently playing guitar for, and was replaced by scene veteran Ian Hart. With the addition of Ian, the song writing began leaning more metallic with songs getting longer and more complex. With this lineup we made several small accomplishments, including having the opportunity to play Halifax On Music festival (which is what the Halifax Pop Explosion was known as briefly during that period).<br />
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Not long after Nathan also decided to leave and the band entered a long hiatus of trying to find a replacement. Eventually one was found in Gerald Smith (of Existench, System Shit, Sloth, etc). I switched singing only, and Mike Day (of The Build Ups) came aboard on second guitar. This lineup stayed active for the better part of a year, now fully incorporating much heavier grindcore, black metal and death metal riffing and song structure. <br />
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Eventually in 2001, Gerry and I (the lone two original members) admitted that the spark had gone out and the band had become to much work to keep tight and active. We played our last show in March of that year and dubbed it “The Funeral” encouraging the audience to wear all black (a feat which now seems laughably second nature). We opened our final set with a hap-hazard rendition of For Whom The Bell Tolls and included songs from the entirety of our existence, many of which that hadn’t ever been played by the current line up. There were plans for a reunion show a year or two later but that never actually took shape.<br />
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Following the demise of U.S., Gerry went on to start The Shotgun Solution and Oh God, Ian kept up long running Envision and eventually started Risky Business, Gerald started Thy Flesh Consumed and I started Flesh Made To Suffer, as well as drummed for Envision.<br />
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Ianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10767375217833858750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19116660.post-8876818638390771172017-02-11T14:55:00.001-04:002017-02-11T14:56:52.647-04:00MADHAT<i>Madhat were a pop punk band from Lunenburg, Nova Scotia from the early 1990's. We sat down with singer/guitarist Kirk Comstock and had an in-depth discussion about life. And by that I mean I sent him a couple questions on Facebook and he answered them. In any case...read about MADHAT!! MP3 Discography at the end! </i><br />
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Technically Madhat started in 1988 under the name "Smash". Then became "Downfall" and then finally settled as "Madhat" around 1992. The members at that point were Phil Zwicker (Guitar), Hughie Morris (Bass), Jordi Comstock (Drums) and me Kirk Comstock (vocals & rhythm Guitar).<br />
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At the time there wasn't really a music scene on the South Shore. We started playing the local bars with special papers at age 11 and rented out halls and put on our own all ages shows. Then Nirvana and Sloan happened. At that point all ages clubs popped up and we could tour all over Nova Scotia.<br />
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We managed to do tours through Quebec and Ontario once every summer when we were off on school break and toured around the Maritimes during the winter. We did manage to give our label president "Waye Mason" a lift from Toronto back to Halifax in a crazy snowstorm with birthday candles keeping the windshield from freezing cause the heater was broken. We loved that he could be there with us. We did do a two month tour out to BC and back by van. That was the longest tour we ever did.<br />
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Our musical influences at the time were "The Misfits", "The Sex Pistols", "The Dead Kennedys", "The Doors", "The Damned", "The Descendents", "The Doughboys" (Who we got to tour with a bit) and "The Ramones".<br />
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Monk their road manager and tech saw how I struggled with keeping my guitar in tune and showed me how to properly string my guitar. He also told Jonathan Cummins where to go if he got a little to sassy with us. John Kastner on the other hand was the most amazingly nice guy I think I have ever met and was the closest thing I ever had to a musical mentor. He would show up at our shows in the Horseshoe tavern in Toronto and places and bring his industry friends to try and help us out. Brock Pytel was really nice too. Great guys and a great band.<br />
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The band changed members a while before we recorded "Full Length" in 1998. Hughie was living an hour away and we were playing just about everyday with Simon Rienhardt just for fun. When Simon joined the band Phil left. So we became a three piece. Jordi, Simon and myself. We recorded "Full Length" with Laurence Currie at "Idea of East Studios". Laurence had recorded "Hardhitters" for us in 1995 as well.<br />
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<a href="https://www.mediafire.com/?ho534nqnzhannob" target="_blank">S/T Demo (1992) + Freak (1993)</a><br />
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<br />Ianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10767375217833858750noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19116660.post-15753205792534126532016-04-13T11:20:00.003-03:002016-04-13T12:29:26.652-03:00VARIOUS - HERE COMES THE EAST COAST<i>Back in 2001, long time Halifax scene member Louie Roberts released a CD of local punk bands. This is his story. Download at the end.</i><br />
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Why did I do it? That’s a tough question. There were lots of reasons I suppose. The first proper answer would be to contribute to the local punk/hardcore scene. I wanted to showcase the bands that were active at the time. The idea and inspiration first came to me after a break-up with a girlfriend. I needed something to do to keep myself busy and my mind off girls at the time. There may have been more selfish reasons in there as well. Ego? Maybe... Wanting to be someone who did stuff and make things happen.... But let’s stick with the official line, I did it for the scene.<br />
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I can’t remember exactly how, but Waye Mason running his No Distro at the time got wind of the comp, and got behind it. Things would have been much different if he didn’t come along. He had I think 500 copies manufactured. I got 100, and got rid of most of them at the CD release show at The Pavilion. I set it up so that you got a copy with the price of admission to the show. Waye wasn’t happy with that, as everyone who would actually want a copy got one that night, and that didn’t help local sales. Whoops.<br />
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The bands that ended up on it were pretty much the bands in the scene that were most active, that were able to provide a song or two that sounded somewhat decent. There were a couple additions that were favours. Drunk Again by the Dynamics. Brendan, was always in a band, but never seemed to ever play shows. He helped a lot putting things together for me, digitizing most of the music, so I put them in. The Burdocks song The Chase was another favour. I don’t think anyone ever accused them of being punk or hardcore. I worked with Seth at Mikey’s at the time, and he was pushing to get the Burdocks on the CD. I told him if they wrote and recorded a punk song, I’d include them. I never expected them to actually do it, but they did. In hindsight that band always got shit done, so yeah it shouldn’t have been a surprise at all. They were the only band who wrote an original for the CD, and as far as I know never put that song on any other release either. Seth ended up helping out with the final design and artwork on the CD as well. I didn’t have the means, talent or creativity to come up with anything. Brendan and I threw something together really quick and it was just awful. I think it had a map of the east coast and a pic of a guy playing bagpipes. So bad. I brought it to Waye who thankfully convinced me how terrible it was, and suggested Seth as someone who could help come up with something. The hardest part of the whole process was coming up with the final art and design, but it turned out really nice and very much in Seth’s art style. It worked. Seth was always awesome and still is.<br />
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I haven’t listened to the comp in quite a while. In probably 10 years or more. My favourite songs on the CD are Who by Nothing to Say, and Meet me at the Drive In by The Lewinskys. Here comes The East Coast never sold a ton of copies, or got amazing reviews, but for me where it does succeed is that it captured the scene at the time, helped my ego, and got me over a breakup.<br />
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1. By Any Means - All The Good It Holds (2:46)<br />
2. Deep Woods - Gotta Get Out (2:21)<br />
3. Hope - Fuck The Millenium (1:25)<br />
4. Nothing To Say - Who (3:36)<br />
5. Jokes Over - New School Loser (2:47)<br />
6. Last Few Years - Out Of Breath (2:40)<br />
7. Dry Leaf - Mind Your Own Business (3:25)<br />
8. The Dynamics - Drunk Again (1:50)<br />
9. Slump - In Retrospect (2:24)<br />
10. Led By Regret - The Atmosphere Of Bombings On Airplanes (4:03)<br />
11. The Lewinskys - Also Known As (3:24)<br />
12. Falling Short - Highschool (3:10)<br />
13. When All's Been Said - Troubled Youth (2:42)<br />
14. Jokes Over - Jokes Over (2:34)<br />
15. Hope - Victory Or Misery (2:13)<br />
16. Led By Regret - Distraction (6:39)<br />
17. By Any Means - Last Hug Good Bye (4:14)<br />
18. Falling Short - Unite (1:51)<br />
19. Last few Years - Your Need (2:44)<br />
20. The Burdocks - The Chase (2:45)<br />
21. The Lewinskys - Meet Me At The Drive In (2:41)<br />
22. When All's Been Said - All Said And Done (1:51)<br />
23. Dry Leaf - How About The Truth (2:20)<br />
24. Deep Woods - Broken Bones (2:39)<br />
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Other links of varying use:<br />
<a href="https://www.discogs.com/release/8383691" target="_blank">Discogs Entry</a><br />
<a href="http://exclaim.ca/music/article/various_artists-here_comes_east_coast" target="_blank">Exclaim Magazine review</a>Ianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10767375217833858750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19116660.post-50337428570671275972015-12-29T21:40:00.001-04:002015-12-29T21:46:06.455-04:00FYM<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>I will be honest....I think FYM is the best band to ever come out of Halifax. I'm sure it has a lot to do with being friends with them, watching them jam and seeing their shows. FYM started out in 1996 when a few friends decided to get together and write some punk songs about skateboarding. I don't think anyone in the band would argue that the mastermind behind everything was singer/guitarist Selwyn Sharples. Joining Selwyn was Damien on drums, John on guitar and Chris on bass. Even though they were all still in high school it became pretty evident that they had a serious knack for writing catchy songs. The following is an interview done with Selwyn in 2015. Damein also has a bit to say that the end. I've included downloads of everything the band officially recorded plus some never before heard songs!! Ladies and gentlemen...I give you FYM!</i><br />
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<b>When did the band start? Why? Who was in it at first?</b><br />
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Sometime around ’95 many fun-loving bands were forming and performing at the downtown all-ages club Café Ole. Maybe it was because “metro’s only club for all-ages” was municipally supported and accessible to us. Condon MacLeod and Gary Beazley made that club happen. Damien (our drummer) worked there at the time. Skateboarding was another point of connection between the original line-up of Chris Meagher, John McCullough, Damien Nee and Selwyn Sharples.<br />
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<b>Maco:</b> I remember going to the show that caused them to kick out their first bass player. He was too drunk to play. I think I offered to play bass for them at that show!<br />
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<b>When did that old bass player guy leave and how did you get Maco in the band?</b><br />
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Not long after our first show and through the fabrication of strategic dichotomies is my short answer to the question of how Mackenzie Ogilvie came to replace Chris Meagher on bass.<br />
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- Being underage; the best way to experience a bar.<br />
- Playing shows at skateparks and the odd naval vessel thanks to Jackie Dexter and Mike Grey.<br />
- Dancing to the Wankin’ Family was many a good time for a dangerously Oi sounding band.<br />
- Playing house shows (ex: Meghan Merrigan’s birthday at her parent’s place in Clayton Park).<br />
- Enjoying the revolution as the band PIGGY took prisoners including my sister and myself.<br />
- Filling-in whenever possible (is still a remarkable form of support for musicians to express).<br />
- Appreciating the unique atmosphere of the Bike Shop Café thanks to Tony and Marty.<br />
- Noticing the band BAD LUCK # 13 and how the singer BATMAN would always ask the young audience “what the fuck are all you little cocksuckers waiting for?!” followed by some self-deprecating remark about age.<br />
- Interpreting those words in two ways:<br />
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Q: If a band plays in a remote region without releasing a 7” does it make a sound?<br />
A: Yes, thanks to the internet (not so much in ’96).<br />
Together we ate take-out fast food in an off-gassing room. Recording and the supportive environments that can be a part of this cultural ceremony are like birth and death. It has been my experience that the most pronounced forms of support seem to spring up around the recording process. To be among friends while recording is both a privilege and an advantage. Much appreciation to all those who participate in this culture of mutual-aid. Thanks again to Andrew at Sustain and Richard Lafortune.<br />
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<b>You had quite a few songs that were never recorded...some earlier and some later songs. Talk about them!</b><br />
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What makes a song a song? Acknowledgement?<br />
An initial burst of material was the result of us all hanging out with one unplugged guitar, paper and a pencil. Those early songs were an honest reflection of who we were; young, insecure, afraid of women and obsessed with skateboarding. The collective approach was short-lived.<br />
Songwriting gradually centralized and moved behind closed doors (of my bedroom) with Ian Hart or Derrick Hiltz holding down a thrash beat while my visions crystallized. Can’t thank them and my parents enough! This experience was far more common than practicing with the members of the band. There was a sense of being in the studio with a trusted friend. The support was mutually expressed (with drums) and the writing took flight in the form of a troubleshooting two-piece. We worked on songs for various bands. This particular mode of song production is still a favorite recipe.<br />
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<i>This video has a few unreleased songs:</i><br />
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Bands end. Most bands only end. Just ask a person who likes the idea of being in a band. That band dragged on with some encouragement from a few dear friends [interviewer] included. My hope is that the band ended because we were all moving along with new and exciting projects. Letting go of attachment was involved. This question has at least three more answers.<br />
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<b>What have you been doing musically since then?</b><br />
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- Running from my own tyranny through various musical forms. It follows me.<br />
- Replacing control with surrender in the context of co-creating music.<br />
- Getting involved with the SAD RAD collective (highly recommended).<br />
- Coming out of a long era of self-imposed obscurity.<br />
- Reconnecting with that bedroom jam vibe as much as possible.<br />
- Currently playing with: NOISE POLICY, HALF//READ, EGOSYSTEM, T.V.P.(Tribute Von Piggy) and too many one-offs to list (see: recordingclub.h-a-z.org).<br />
Improvisation is a fetish. Analog recording is an unconscious habit. Beyond the puddle of songs that were never recorded grows a vast body of recordings that were never songs. My recent work (if you can call it that) is a tumbling tower of well-documented mistakes. Some of us have the privilege of taking band culture for granted. Are we beginning to approach what this means?<br />
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<b>Looking back, what are your thoughts on the band? Did you wish you had done more, toured, etc or are you happy with how it turned out?</b><br />
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Don’t look back. Look forward to granting me these three wishes:<br />
1. Say "NO" to two decades of my own thoughts on that band. Let it go.<br />
2. Include all members of that band in this interview process. WTF?!<br />
3. Stay present in creating music, recognizing the traps of nostalgic band culture and consumerism.<br />
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<b>And finally...when is the reunion show?</b><br />
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You ask as if it might happen? -My recent punking must look promising! The simple act of playing in punk bands represents a reunion indeed. The F.Y.M. reunion show however, is not where punk finds me.<br />
"You can't be what you were..."<br />
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<i>At least we have videos to remember the band by. Like this one where FYM played on a Navy ship. CKDU FM was doing a funding drive and one of the prizes was having FYM play a show at a location of choice. The person who won worked in the navy and decided to have the band play on the H.M.C.S. St. John's. </i><i>So about 20 punk type folks met at the gates of the navy base and were escorted onto the ship carrying gear and set up in a small mess hall. I wasn't sure if you are allowed to film on a navy ship so I tried to keep the camera hidden while taping this. It's pretty dark and bass heavy as a I was standing near the bass amp (though you can really hear Mac's bass prowess!!)</i><br />
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<b>Drummer Damien Nee chimes in with his own memories on the band:</b><br />
For whatever reason, and there are lots of reasons, my memory isn’t very good. <br />
Ian asked me if I had anything to say about FYM for a blog post he was doing. I said I did but I’d have to think about it. I’ve been thinking about it for a looong time. So long that Ian had to get on my case about it.<br />
There’s an episode of Seinfeld where George complains about how he always seems to bomb at staff meetings after getting a couple laughs at the beginning. Jerry suggests that he use the old “showmanship” trick; get a laugh from the audience, then leave on a high note.<br />
George gets a laugh 30 seconds into the next staff meeting… then walks out.<br />
I haven’t played any music since the last FYM show in 1997. Or maybe it was 1998… FYM was my high note.<br />
Ian said I should talk about some fun shows we played, but the thing is, they were all fun. Particularly any show we played with The Juveniles. They were probably the most “fun” band in our scene at the time I think. <br />
The most memorable times for me playing with FYM were the practices. We practiced in what was arguably the world’s smallest practice space, Selwyn’s bedroom. If it was 8 foot by 10 foot, I’d be surprised. It had all the regular stuff you might find in a teenagers bedroom; bunkbed, chest of drawers… but there was also a drum kit, 3 small amps and a little P.A. The room just fit the four of us, as well as the occasional guest. It was so loud in that little room… I regret nothing, except maybe the tinnitus. When we took breaks, we would skate the worlds tightest backyard mini-ramp. It was amazing that Mr. and Mrs. Sharples let us practice in their house twice a week. Sometimes we were even invited to stay for dinner. As a parent, I’m not so sure I’d put up with that kind of noise between work and dinner.<br />
The last show we played was one I’ll always remember, not so much for the show itself (I’m fairy sure it was one of the “Uncle Sucko” shows that Mike and Jackie put on in Bridgewater), but for how it ended. After the show, we all went our separate ways back to Halifax, but for some reason, Johnny, Peter Hall, Dave MacLeod and I ended up in Lunenburg where we got caught poaching a swimming pool at a cottage owned by a rather upset older lady who thought we were with her son. We weren’t. By this time we had had a few too many and decided to sleep on a beach and ate some canned beans that John had brought along for some reason, earning him the nickname “Johnny-Bean”, which stuck. <br />
That was my George Costanza showmanship moment, my musical high note. <br />
Playing music at that time in Halifax was pretty special. It is definitely one of the best times of my early life (so far). The story wouldn’t have been the same without even one of the many characters. I’d especially like to thank Condon for giving a generation of young punks a venue to make a big load of trashy old noise, Selwyn for the brilliant music of a genius and Richard for preserving it in wax. <br />
And of course John, Maco and Chris Mars-Attacks too. <br />
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* In retrospect, the last show I played may have been a Killer Beez show, but I'm pretty sure I only ever played in Bridgewater with FYM.<br />
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Now you can listen to their 7" plus some bonus tracks here:<br />
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Or DOWNLOAD their Discography here:<br />
<a href="https://www.mediafire.com/?leox5dfpmf1abuw" target="_blank">Free Your Mind 7" + Other Studio Songs</a> (Great sound quality! A MUST DOWNLOAD!)<br />
<a href="https://www.mediafire.com/?75obw46116f4uzs" target="_blank">Unreleased live songs, practice tape and radio session</a> (Not-so-good sound...for super-fans only)<br />
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Though really you should own the 7" - add it to your want list on <a href="http://www.discogs.com/FYM-Free-Your-Mind/release/4015936" target="_blank">DISCOGS</a><br />
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Check out the FYM page on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/FYM-112326338869084/?fref=ts" target="_blank">FACEBOOK</a><br />
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<br />Ianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10767375217833858750noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19116660.post-88820874233787625652015-09-23T10:44:00.001-03:002018-02-15T17:09:54.664-04:00Various Artists - No ClassNo Class was a cassette only compilation of local bands (not just punk, but a mix of genres (pop, grunge, hip hop). There are some good songs, and not so good songs. Bunk was one of the stand out tracks and they got quite popular at Cafe Ole around this time. One of Plumtree's earlier songs as well! It was released by No Records around 1993 and compiled by Chris Trowbridge and Waye Mason. Let's hear what they have to say about it!<br />
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<b>Chris:</b> Been awhile but as I recall it all started with an episode of Fat Albert. One of the characters says "you're like school in the summertime... no class". I used that dialogue on CKDU as the intro to the Motörhead song No Class. And suddenly I realized that I should do a compilation of high school bands called No Class. Many of these bands were dropping off tapes at CKDU at the time, my favorite of whom was Bunk from Dartmouth. Cafe Ole had just opened I think so there were already a bunch of bands around. We just asked for bands to submit songs on CKDU and word of mouth. I remember trying to talk someone into putting up some money - later found out they thought I wanted to do a compilation of high school marching bands. Waye ended up doing all the hard work.<br />
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<b>Waye:</b> Basically if the majority of the band was in high school we put it on there. None of it was really bad, some of it was really good. Chris T and I currated it together. I have a DAT and I have one side of the tape in mp3s, the guy who copied them didn't understand there was a 10 minute gap and then the other side started!<br />
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You may also notice there is a song on here (Track 6) by the Tim Robbins Experience that is not listed on the cassette cover. This is actually Thrush Hermit (or at least most of the band). Chris explains "As I remember it, the Thrush Hermit guys didn't want to be identified as a "high school band" at that point, even with their side projects.Or maybe it was even a contractual thing? Could they have been signed to a major already by that point? Maybe they had a publishing deal or something.<br />
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1. The Monoxides - Armaround<br />
2. Essen - Jill<br />
3. Shingai - Blackness I Hold <br />
4. Potbelly - Birthday (Live at LSPU Hall) <br />
5. Liquid - Faceless<br />
6. Tim Robbins Experience - Baby Tonight<br />
7. Hip Club Groove - Straight Steady Swingin'<br />
8. Bunk - Mass of Confusion<br />
9. Burnt Black - Novocaine<br />
10. Plumtree - Follow You<br />
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Ianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10767375217833858750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19116660.post-80969603040465980372015-06-16T15:34:00.000-03:002015-06-16T15:44:12.333-03:00DEEP WOODS<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
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Lumberjack Punks from Timberlea, Nova Scotia. Starting out in 1989 under the
name Septic Tank, the band went through some line-up changes and settled on the
name Deep Woods. If you were going to shows in Halifax in the early 1990's you
no doubt saw play more than a few times. Here we have an interview with
their singer Don Trim-Macdonald done in March 2015. It's a bit more
conversational then the other interviews I've done and has been edited to flow
better. MP3's included as per usual - you get the very rare 1994 demo tape (thank you Greg Baller!!) plus a live set from the Green Room at the Dalhousie Student Union Building
from 1992! Enjoy!<br />
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<b>How did Deep Woods start?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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started playing late '89 or '90. I grew up with all of them. Gordie and Rob
Francis were brothers and lived down the street from me. Rob Mills who was the
bass player… he lived up the road a ways. But this was the first
go-around...this was Septic Tank. They were a bit more into metal. We were all
headbangers but the punk came from me going to St Andrews ramp. Rob listens to
a lot of punk that I don’t… like Stiff Little Fingers. I know the first time I
played the DKs for them and they laughed and laughed. They
couldn't get over Jello's voice. We had the band together but it sort
of fell apart. Then I jammed with No Offense. We never recorded anything – I
just jumped on a set they played at a party behind KOD on Blowers St. I wound
up singing for them because I knew all the words. That was pretty short lived.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For me –
black flag, circle jerks, SNFU – seeing that first show of SNFU and seeing Chi
Pig and the way he jumped and leapt all over the place…that was a real big
influence on me. All I wanted to do was be a rubber ball. I remember Robert
screaming at me cuz I started leaping off the bass drum cuz I’d seen Chi Pig do
it…and he was losing it that I was gonna break his drum kit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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really liked the song. May have been rob mills who wanted to do that…it wasn’t
my idea. I like the Cro Mags…I never bought anything by them but I liked the
songs that I heard like Hard times or We Gotta Know. I was never into the whole
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changed from the original lineup. When we first started, we had a guy playing
drums named Greg Rankin. He was a friend of Zack from Pro Skates. I met him at
Zack’s place on Morris St. and I hung out there a lot cuz I skated with Zack. I
met this guy Greg who played drums and that’s actually how the band got back
together. We got talking and this guy Greg really wanted to jam. With him we
were more…I wouldn’t want to say RHCP cuz we weren’t as skilled by any
stretch of the imagination, but the songs were a little more…jazzy….but they
certainly weren’t hardcore. They weren’t as heavy. But he went to university in
St John's…so when he left we didn’t have a drummer so that’s when Rob Francis
became the drummer for Deep Woods cuz he was off doing whatever with other
bands. And that was a big change cuz all of a sudden we got heavier cuz Greg’s
influence wasn’t there anymore….he was quite outspoken trying to keep Gord and
Rob Mills slowed down. When Robert first showed up he was just trying to learn
the songs and pretty much did what we asked him. And he is an incredible
drummer. So we got heavier and tighter. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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show was in March 1991 pub flamingo $2 Tuesday. We opened up for DPR. There
weren’t many shows, so everybody came to shows back then. There was like one
show a month. If it was metal or punk or anything remotely heavy, everybody
went. Which was cool...it was a good mix.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>I know you had a demo tape? Was it ever for sale?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It came
out just as we were breaking up. We may have sold it at our last gig in 1994 at
Café Ole. We played there a lot…at least once a month. For a while there,
Donner Party Reunion and us would literally play there two times a month, maybe
three…it was a lot! We played with them a lot everywhere. The 2 bands went
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up to play a show; I can't even remember the name of the place. We went up on a
Friday night. We were supposed to play Saturday night and we thought we'd go up
a night early and check the place out and just have some fun of it. So our
whole band went in a van and Jon Johnson and Reg and maybe Dean (of Donner
Party)...there were only 2 or 3 of them. Anyway we went to the bar next door to
where we were going to play. We walked in and there was a band playing and they
seemed pretty good. We are sort of walking around, I remember distinctly
pulling Reg off to the side and saying something is not right here, like we are
seriously getting stared at and he's like "no, no people don't know who we
are it's all good." Right, they're wondering who these people are. We went
in the bath room, came back out, we're standing there drinking and all of a
sudden the band on stage, starts playing a Skrewdriver song. <span style="color: #262626;">Which
is very racist band and all these guys with shaved head stood up and started
put on bomber jackets, covered in KKK patches and nazi symbols. And John and
Reg at least were wearing bomber jackets with S.H.A.R.P patches. So you see
where this starts going. So anyway we kind of realized things weren't good. The
idea was nobody was supposed to go outside by themselves. Immediately after we
made this decision, somehow Gord Rob Mills wound up outside by themselves. And
somebody punched Rob in the back of the head and his glasses went flying off.
The police got called, we wound up in the back parking lot. There was like 8 of
us or something like that. And I think 30... but I'm assuming time making me
blow it a little out of proportion so it's probably more like 20 of these guys
squared off. The funny part was Jon Johnson had a bat that he had drawn on with
a sharpie and it said S.H.A.R.P. on it. So back to the van, Jon with a baseball
bat in his hand and this group of them wanted to pulverize us. And the police
showed up. One of those guys got arrested because he had an outstanding
warrant. We parked the van at the police station for the night and slept in the
club that we were going to play. Now the club was attached to the other club
that we had been at via one of those glass doors. And they were in there all
night drinking after the club closed, playing music. You could hear them and
we're all sleeping on the floor. And about 4 o'clock in the morning the alarm
went off, the burglar alarm. So everybody was like going around to the doors
with weapons and stuff checking to see if somebody had snuck in. It was a
bizarre situation, everybody wanted to go home.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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stayed, we played and absolutely nobody showed up. There might have been 15
people. That's pretty terrible. We made no money, it cost us money to go there.
The guy couldn't pay us anything because he didn't bring in anything at the
door. He gave us some free subs for supper.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>Back to the recordings you did. Was there anything else besides
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was another recording done by Jake Evans when he was in the band briefly. It
was done on a reel to reel at Jake's place. I haven't seen it in a while
but I did have the reel. I think there were 2 reels actually. Guessing
there were 15 to 20 songs on it. Everything we ever did or could think of
including possibly a cover of beat it by Michael Jackson. Jake
could play it on the guitar; it seemed funny at the time. I looked into getting
it transferred onto cassette or CD, and there was something to do
with the machine he had used a thinner, tape like was quarter inch to half inch
or something and nobody had anything that would play it or you could get it off
of. And I know because he had a small studio in his basement for a while when
he was living in Spryfield. He's living in this little house across from all
these ghetto apartments. Anyway somebody broke in and stole all the gear,
including his instruments I think. So yeah that went missing, so we could never
get the actual and nothing ever became of it. I may have even thrown it out a few
years ago.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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yeah, yeah I've heard that we've played a few shows at the green room, I like
that place. Yeah it was neat with the sunken floor. We play a few
shows there; Gord's got one on VHS somewhere. He lent me a tape that we
had of us playing. It was a different one at the green room. We probably had 3
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that's the one out of Thunder Bay or maybe one of the bands was out of Thunder
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<span style="color: #262626;">I don't
know, I got a letter in the mail? Yeah....letter in the mail because D Rock had
done a thing I think, a story on Halifax scene from Maximum Rock N Roll. We got
letters from like Hungary and stuff like that. We are looking for tapes, looking
for music and I never sent anybody anything. So terrible, I wrote a couple of
people back but we really didn't ever get anything out. We did have the stuff
that was live to the floor for cab can hear. That was at the Double Deuce,
we're told not to use it but we did. Obviously I mean Greg hands me, here's a
tape, master tape for your show, pick a song and one other compilation. He's
like and I want the tape back, you can't keep all those other songs, obviously
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played Kentville. There was a small venue in Kentville for a short period of
time, but Donner Party had been up the week before us and I not exactly sure
what went down. The people that owned the place weren't overly pleased with
them and when we got there, there weren't a lot of people. And all they kept
saying was like somebody handed them a script. I was like "so why don't
you guys like Donner Party - they're great we play with them all the
time." They left the bad taste in our mouth is what every kid said, almost
word for word. It had something to do with Jon smoking something in the
basement. But I mean really that's not that big of a deal. And I was there
skateboarding out in front and stuff and it was crazy .They said we had to stop
skateboarding on the sidewalk or the police are going to come and they're going
to take it. It was funny, it was very strict.</span> We probably played
Truro maybe, played Bridgewater a few times. Yeah we played a show with Hip
Club Groove at the Exhibition in Lunenberg once, yeah we played a few shows
around I can't remember where they all were now.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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was one in Timberlea at the fire hall. Septic Tank played and Adrenalin played,
Adrenalin was the headliner. When we were in Septic Tank we got to play at the
Dartmouth Sportsplex show in that little room. The place was packed; it got
destroyed that's why there was never another show there again. Holes in the
roof, in the walls, it was crazy. Actually Zavin’s band was there too - Poke.
That was probably 88, 89 something like that.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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been trying, I've been talking everybody knew cause I knew you, I do a lot of
people in the scene from skate boarding. And I was trying to get shows but
shows were few and far between and the bands that were well liked. It was hard
to break in when you were new back then cause like I said there might have one
show a month or one every two months. And I mean it was always going to be
moral support system over load right. And I'm not knocking those bands because
they were great I love seeing them play and stuff but it made it hard to get
your foot in the door. And then you know Reg and I were out skating and
drinking or both. I was complaining to him about it, he's like we got to two
back Tuesday, we've only got so many songs. So an opening band would be good
and the place was freaking packed. We postered for like a month and a half
leading up to it. I was sticking posters up in the buses, like where the little
ads went, all over the universe like everywhere; my parents had a photo copier,
a black and white photocopier, so I made hundreds of copies.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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we really just got on each other’s nerves after a while. Towards the end,
we were showing up, we were jamming at Rob Mill's place and this could
have been another reincarnation cause that band got back together several
times. But yeah we basically were just getting on each other's nerves, I mean
it happens. Relationships are hard enough when there are two people, let alone
5. That was in 19</span>94, but them of course like I said there were reunions. We got
back together in probably 2000.<span style="color: #262626;"> We played a show at the Pavilion; we had
written a couple of new songs. A friend of mine came out dressed like leader
face with a chain saw, cut me up on stage. We played with the Dayglo Abortions
there and got in a bit of a rowel. Not with them per say but with Jacquie S</span>he booked
the show and the band she was in. It was her and Mike, nice guy. I know a few
people who know him, the guy who worked with off shore knows him pretty well.
Yeah they were playing way over into our time slot, like 4 songs or staring the
5th or something like that. And I got kind of mad and I walked out on stage
when they finished the song, shot off all the amps, grabbed the mike and said
thank you good night, which didn't go over very well. We also opened for Chixdiggit at
the Marquee and they were really cool..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yeah I
went on and did Slitch, I was in Butter Side Down for a while...that was a
little more rock and roll.<span style="color: #262626;"> I know Rob still does cover
bands... he's sort of like a hired guy, he'll play for whoever when their
drummer is sick and out. But yeah he does The Persuaders quite a bit. Rob Mills
plays bass in a band I don't know what they're called. It might be sort of
jazzy or something like that. But yeah he still plays a lot. Gord doesn't play
at all, I don't play at all anymore.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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sure, if we could get like No Offense or The Shitheads or Donner Party. If we
could make a night of it and get three or 4 bands from the day, that would be
neat. A couple of years ago, Gord wanted to get back together again,
but then trying to organize time that we'd all show up... They jammed without
me one night and I got kind of mad because it turned out I was actually home.
They were like, well we just assumed you were at work and I was like well you
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I don't
know.... I've had a lot of fun, met a lot of cool people. I met some people who
weren't so cool, like MDC - Millions of Dead Cops. What a bunch of asses. Yeah
they sort of seemed nice at first, but they were staying at Jakes house. Jake
Evans was in Deep Woods for MDC. They ate him out of house and home, made all
kinds of collect calls when he wasn't around. And they went and did an
interview with Richard and then started slagging us because they didn't like
the name Deep Woods cause lumberjacks are evil cause it cut down trees. They
missed the whole fact that it was a joke. Well compared to like some other
bands I've met, like yeah they were just a bunch of burn outs. That drummer
reminded me of Jim Ignatowski from Taxi. He was literally across the street
from Jake's house trying to score crack. But I mean you know people have
problems. Yeah that's it, lots of fun, lots' of cool people, lots of fun shows.
Play the double deuce when it first started. We got in on that before
there was a stage or anything, before it was cool. It was nice to be there to
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Ianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10767375217833858750noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19116660.post-74956598849336249192015-04-29T12:28:00.000-03:002015-04-30T08:32:27.852-03:00SHRINE OF AMERICAN MARTYR<i>Morgan Carpenter once again tells the story of one of his many bands! Today we hear all about Shrine Of American Martyr, who were around from 1999 to 2001. You can download their demo at the end of this or even check it out on youtube first! Now...take it away Morgan!!</i><br />
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Shrine Of American Martyr, or The Shrine as we came to be called was in some ways a super group at the time, starting in ‘99. Making up the band was me and Mac Ogilvie on guitar and sharing vocals, Lance Purcell (from Snot Party and Falling Out) on drums, and Scott Leighton on bass. At the time Mac and Lance had a lot of notoriety for being in The Plan, Mac had just come off of singing for influential Halifax hardcore band Equation Of State, and I was doing Useless Solution and Envision. Scott was a hermit from Truro.<br />
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The band was kind of Me and Mac’s brain child. We wanted to form a really chaotic, intense hardcore band that appealed to several factions of the hardcore/punk scene. We combined influences from the emerging "screamo" scene - bands like Orchid, Page 99, and The Locust, and combined them with moodier stuff of the 80's like Joy Division and The Cure...though the result was all power. Mac and I traded off lyrics creating a co-frontman dynamic, and our shows were always super chaotic, sometimes superseding the music. The hardcore trend of wearing shirts and ties while playing hadn't really exploded yet, so in the beginning this was something we did at every show.<br />
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We had set up a short Canada and east coast US tour sometime in the winter of 2000, and in turn every show got cancelled in the weeks before we left but one show in Boston, MA with Orchid. At the time, we were still all obsessing over that band, so decided to drive down to play it anyway. We rented a van and loaded all of our gear and made a 3 day trip out of it, only to arrive to the house the show was at in Boston and find out that Orchid wasn't playing. In fact, they were never even asked to play - a friend of a friend of the promoter said he'd ask them and forgot. We still got to play with Eulcid, who ended up buying all of our demos to sell on their tour. <br />
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We made the rounds around Halifax and PEI, building a reputation for our intense live shows. We got arty and incorporated projected video into some shows, did unexpected covers (like Suck My Left One by Bikini Kill), and in our later songs played into long winded, jammier interludes, though very little of that stuff was ever documented.<br />
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With Mac and Lance doing The Plan simultaneously, Lance felt like he didn’t have the time needed to dedicate to our later, more involved stuff and decided to quit. Not really sure where to go from there, I started playing drums in practice to keep the band active, but I couldn’t match the talent Lance brought. We were unable to find a suitable replacement, and additionally I believe there was tension between Mac and I for creative control of the new material. Such is the problem with having two frontmen. We decided to call it a day, and Lance came back in to play a last show in 2001 at the TKO space. I somehow set Gerry’s guitar amp on fire during our set. Oops.<br />
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We recorded a four song cassette and self released it at (I believe) our first show. It was recorded by Mike Catano (of The Plan, North Of America, The Holy Shroud, Thrush Hermit, etc.) in his parents basement. Mac and I went in with no lyrical structure, and the result was amazing. The fact that it was recorded in 8 track analog made it really powerful as well. I’m not sure how many were made. The Shrine was a band I was really proud of what we achieved, and the demo we produced. I’d like to see it be released on vinyl someday as I think it holds up against the test of time.<br />
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There’s never been a reunion show since our last official show on Good Friday of 2001. I’d like to think it will happen eventually.<br />
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<br />Ianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10767375217833858750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19116660.post-63073065259702222412015-04-28T17:32:00.001-03:002015-04-28T17:32:37.371-03:00FALLING OUT<i>Falling Out might be considered Halifax's first Straight Edge hardcore band....or you could argue that was the previous band featured on here, Spent. In any case, FO were short lived, only played a few shows, but still may be able to lay claim to that title. Morgan Carpenter reflects back on those simpler times, before everyone hated each other. Read on</i><br />
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Falling Out began on the heels on Snot Party’s existence and just prior to Envision’s birth, which would have been around 1998. Steve and Lance from SP had decided to form a straight edge band with Nathan Doucet (from By Any Means, later Useless Solution) and Keith Porter (later Useless Solution, Led By Regret). Steve wanted to be the frontman, Lance stuck to drums, Keith played guitar and Nathan on bass. I (Morgan) came on as a second guitar player most likely out of convenience because the practices were happening in the same basement as the SP practices. <br />
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Halifax was never a hotbed for the straight edge scene, but in the late 90’s, it was probably about the hottest it has ever been. The Falling Out songs fit right into the trends in hardcore of the time, but by today’s standards are very bland and by the numbers. The band couldn’t have existed any other time and be taken with any degree of seriousness. Even then it was marginal.<br />
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We had about a set’s worth of songs and recorded a demo with Phil Clark (from Equation Of State, AV) at the newly opened Pavilion in it’s first incarnation. There wasn’t a huge amount of shows played, and those that were were solely in the HRM. The most memorable for me was playing the basement show at Food-Not-Bombs-hat-girl’s house (a girl who wore a hat with a FNB patch on it, but that no one had ever seen at Food Not Bombs) in Dartmouth, which was probably the summer of ’98.<br />
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Falling Out didn’t last long, and was barely a blip on Halifax’s radar. Like most straight edge bands, inner quarrels and edge weakening eventually brought it all to an end. Ironically, Steve and I had a falling out, and I quit the band. The same reasons brought Snot Party to an end at the same time. Once I was gone, Falling Out didn’t last much longer (I don’t believe there were any shows afterwards). This was probably partially because I poached Nathan and Keith to start Useless Solution (with Gerry from Snot Party).<br />
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Shortly after Lance started Led By Regret with Keith, and eventually started The Plan. Nathan kept doing By Any Means and started Useless Solution with Keith and I. In addition to Useless Solution, I started Envision around the same time with Ian Hart, and quicky started other bands like Shrine Of American Martyr, Coleridge, joined Existench, etc. Steve was playing bass with By Any Means for a short time before leaving, which I believe ended his musical tenure.<br />
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The Falling Out demo had 5 songs (I believe) and sounds okay at best. You can hear a miss-mash of influences in there, from chugging Victory Rec stuff, to a-tonal Ebullition style minor chords - all very typical of the time. The demo cover is terrible, even by straight edge band standards. We covered ‘Impact’ by Chain Of Strength, which was probably the biggest crowd pleaser.<br />
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Exactly zero members of Falling Out are still straight edge today.<br />
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<br />Ianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10767375217833858750noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19116660.post-66368016778603757272015-04-14T11:25:00.001-03:002021-12-12T14:52:35.389-04:00SPENT<div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">My first band was called Wite Out - Marc/Mark (not sure which) Ducharme (vocals), Steve McCulloch (sp?) (guitar), myself (bass) and Mike Crosby (drums). Wite Out was more goofy/ironic than a lot of the angst-ridden local hardcore bands. We played a few shows in 1986 at The Bible Society and the YWCA. We played some covers (Question Authority - Circle Jerks, Gas Chamber - Angry Samoans, Trust - 7 Seconds) but we had a bunch of originals. We made very rough live recordings of our half dozen songs at our rehearsal space but we never had a release. </span><br />
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">After Wite Out, Steve McCulloch (guitar) and I (now guitar) formed Aware with another guy named Chris Murphy aka Zombie (vocals), Colleen Britton (drums) and Gordon Krieger (bass). Aware played only one show at The Club Flamingo on Gottingen St. in 1987. </span><br />
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">I always thought of myself as straight edge. I don’t know if the bands would have considered themselves straight edge but it seemed no one drank except Colleen Britton. Chris Murphy and I and our friend Scott Kennedy went on what was essentially a pilgrimage to Washington D.C. in 1987 and again in 1988 with all of Spent, to soak up the city that had produced Dischord Records, Minor Threat and Straight Edge. We were pretty into it. In 1988, we saw what I believe was Fugazi’s 3rd show. </span><br />
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0px;">I don’t know. I feel like I was introduced to that Chris Murphy at the Dal SUB but I can’t remember what was happening there. I’m sure we were introduced because we had the same name. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Track 3 I’ve Seen What Can Happen (??? not sure)</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Track 7 “Dag Shag” unfinished instrumental</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I feel like I wrote all of the music for tracks 1-4 and Steve wrote tracks 5-7. We were getting good but split up for whatever reason. I forget.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I want to be clear that all the guys in Spent played one show as a 5-piece called Aware at the Flamingo on Gottingen with Collen on drums and myself on 2nd guitar. Colleen was out and we changed our name to Spent. The demo did not include Colleen.</span></span></div>
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Ianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10767375217833858750noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19116660.post-75144348501770056442015-04-09T10:50:00.001-03:002020-05-28T16:49:46.012-03:00NEXT OF KIN<i>Next Of Kin - late 80's hardcore punk from Fredericton, NB featuring members of <a href="http://atlanticpunk.blogspot.ca/2013/08/neighbourhood-watch.html">Neighbourhood Watch</a>. I missed my one chance to see this band open for Sudden Impact in 1989 in Halifax, a decision I have always regretted. They put out one demo tape which is one of my favourite Atlantic Canadian punk releases. I got the details from their bass player Nick Oliver, so let's find out what he had to say!! And JUST ADDED....singer Peter Mccarty's recollections!!! MP3 download at the end!!</i><br />
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<b>When/where did the band form and what were your influences? Were Guilt Parade and Neighborhood Watch already formed by that point?</b><br />
<b>Nick:</b> Not exactly sure.. sometime in '87 I think. We were all high school buddies. At the time I was listening to a lot of straight edge HC, & thrash metal like DRI & SOD. Pete was really into The Exploited at the time as I recall. And yes, <a href="http://atlanticpunk.blogspot.ca/2010/12/guilt-parade-were-punk-hardcore-band.html">Guilt Parade</a> and Neighbourhood Watch had already been going since all us guys were in our early teens. They were the bands ahead of us.<br />
<b>Peter: </b>Next of Kin started in the garage of my skateboard friend Rob (can’t remember last name, sorry Rob). It was Steve Dugan (from Absolute Choke), Colin, Rob and myself. We were just goofing around and wrote what became “where is my head?”. Colin had a guitar, Rob had a bass, Steve did rhythm just on a plastic pail or something and I did vocals. I met Roman one morning skateboarding to school. He was a drummer and went on to take over for Steve. Rob had some hand issues and would cramp really fast. Nick would take over his duties. Tristan Pym joined as lead guitarist for a very short stint but didn’t stick it out. So the core band line up for quite some time was Colin, Roman, Nick and myself. Nick went to Montreal for University. John Vine had moved to Fredericton to go to University so we invited him to join. But he was a guitar player. Colin know how to play bass too so he moved to bass to allow John to take the guitar roll. I listened to DRI, the Accused, Dayglo Abortions, Scum, Corrosion of Conformity...<br />
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<b>Who was in the band?</b><br />
<b>Nick:</b> Me, Nick Oliver - bass, Peter Mccarty - vocals, Colin Maicher - guitar, Roman Van Liempt - drums<br />
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<b>When did you first play out live? What were the shows like then?</b><br />
<b>Nick:</b> Hard for me to remember our very first show, but most shows were small, around 100 people, sometimes more if the band had a really wide appeal (a band like the Nils or DOA for example). by the time NOK were around, I was putting on a lot of the punk shows myself with a lot of help from others, especially the intrepid Steve Staples from CHSR-FM, who used to do sound tech for me at a lot of my shows for a pittance.<br />
<b>Peter: </b>First show was Dressed to Kill ’88 at the Exhibition Center in Fredericton. Great weekend!! Bands from all over headlined by No Means No (I believe). We did mostly shows in Fredericton over the years.<br />
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<b>Did you get to tour much? I know you played Halifax with Sudden Impact.</b><br />
<b>Nick:</b> Halifax, Moncton, & Saint John once I think, but that was all we did outside of Fredericton. I went away for a year or so in 1989 and the band continued on without me. John Vine (of System Overload, Safe, etc) took over guitar and Colin switched to bass. They may have done more out-of-town gigs of which I'm not aware.<br />
<b>Peter: </b>We got to open for Sudden Impact in Fredericton. That was a cool show. They invited us (or we begged) to do the show with them in Halifax. That was our largest crowd we ever performed for. Halifax had a great scene. We did a show in Moncton once in a friend of ours basement, you know who you are Pierre! Last show: April 1991 at UNBSJ in St John. Great show! We did a 4 song reunion set one time when Nick’s band from Montreal came to town.<br />
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<b>Talk about the recording the demo tape. How was it received?</b><br />
<b>Nick:</b> As I recall, we did most of the recording in Roman's basement. But lots of it we did at CHSR-FM in their studio there. A lot of local bands did. It was the easiest way to get quiet rooms with some decent isolation, and if you were a working member at the station, you could use them for free. I think they intentionally built it in such a way that setting up a full drum kit whilst still being able to use the door was a problem, so not many bands did their drums there. But lots and lots of local demos have bits of work done there, both large and small. I don't remember the local scene really making a big deal of our release. We were a bit of an orphan musically. Four angsty, teenaged guys tend to make music for the entertainment of other teenaged guys by their nature, I suppose. Maybe it can't be helped. We had a lot of fun but only took it seriously when it was necessary. Colin and I were both in other bands at the same time.<br />
<b>Peter: </b>The demo was made in the basement of a friend of ours, Andrew, over a weekend. He lived just off Montgomery St and Regent St with gear ick had borrowed from the radio station. If you wonder what the cheering is at the end of Older Generation, it took us so many takes to get that song right. It was new at the time and long and was hard for everyone to get it done. When we finally did, we were all pretty happy. Andrew thought we should leave it in so we did! Crowd favorite song was Cops Suck Shit. We wrote that after I got a ticket for skateboarding. We walked out of a Chinese Restaurant on Queen St one day. I put my board down and put my foot on top of it, just standing there. Cop walked around the corner, saw me and gave me a ticket. Cops Suck Shit was born soon thereafter. Nick and I did most of the lyric writing. Roman was involved there as well. I think he wrote all of Rapist. Then we would just figure out the music together. Songs that I am proud of: Cops Suck Shit, Stage Dive, Blood on the Square. Favorite lyric (from Older Generation): “Lawrence Welk is not our God, and for that you think we’re odd” & “Look at me this what I am”. Wow, as I listen to this song, I remember how powerful the lyrics of that song are, the whole song.<br />
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<b>Tell me about the (what I assume is) fake rivalry with <a href="http://atlanticpunk.blogspot.ca/2011/11/system-overload-were-hardcorepunk-band.html">System Overload</a>.</b><br />
<b>Nick:</b> The song "System Overload Sucks" is indeed just a joke song. SOL were among my favorite Atlantic Canadian bands. I travelled with them for about 10 shows through Ontario and Quebec in 1988, and I think as far as punk bands go, the rest of the guys felt the same as I did. Peter Rowan's Dressed To Kill Music Fest in 1988 saw f'ton play host to Moral Support and System Overload opening for Montreal's S.C.U.M. (now with Frederictonian Pat Oancia doing vocal duties). Bootleg tapes of both MS and SOL performances circulated our scene for a long time after that. So we had lots of love for them. I wrote the song out of frustration of so many of my own riffs were unintentionally turning out to sound like so many SOL songs - so I wrote a song where I could make a medley of them.<br />
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<b>Nick:</b> After I moved away the band went on with John Vine as mentioned previously. Peter and his girl moved in together. We never really spent as much time together again. Colin and I would play together again in another band that could never seem to decide on a name (but Rail and Ricky Lizard were among two that we did use). Roman kept playing the drums for a long time I think. I'm really not sure. it's been years since we've really spoken.<br />
<b>Peter: </b>The band just kind of dissolved. I was going to College in Moncton and we just kind of didn’t have time for the band. Looking back, our first songs are kind of simple. But as we grew up and were together for a bit, we began to come into our own. Cops is definitely a good one. I think the last song I wrote “He’s coming for you” was very good also. We only performed it once, our last show in St John. I remember John having a copy of it on cassette…which I had a copy of that!<br />
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developed through the summer of 1985 with just myself and Bob jamming in my
parents basement. The idea came about because we were both old high school mates
and we happened to meet one day. I just came back from England and bought many
albums that were starting to make an impact in the scene. I was more on the
metal side and Bob was more punk. We just thought we'd mix them both and see
what would happen, and as you're probably aware of, this became known as Crossover.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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had written a track (Schizoid aka Possessed), Bob's band at the time Public
Enemy were coming to an end so we decided to find a few local guys that might
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official line up was Bob and myself along with Clarke Hancock (who went on to
form WAFUT (What A Fuckin Ugly Truck)), Chris Jerret and John Pastore (Who later went on to form</span><span style="color: #222222;"> Rise in Montreal….a band Bob and Don would later join). </span><span style="color: #222222;">We started
rehearsing in the winter of 1985 and the first recorded jam was at John's, which
contained only two tracks (Possessed and Youth Crusaderz - this track was from
Bob's previous band Public Enemy) This was to be the only jam or recording of
this line up and only remaining member to stay was Chris Jerret (Vocalist).</span></span></div>
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we had Phil Winters (Guitar) and Danny Thomas (Bass) join the band. Danny was
from another band in town called Tough Justice and Phil was just a friend who
hung around. This line up stayed together until August of 1986. The first
performance featuring this line up was March 2nd and last was in August after
Danny decided to leave the band. The last show with Dan was the Peace A Chord. We then
found Don Ellis to play Bass and this was the final and most recognized line up
for Schizoid.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222;">Rod: </b><span style="color: #222222;">The scene by the time Schizoid were around, was becoming very vibrant. Everybody was excited and there was this serge of new bands forming all around. </span><span style="color: #222222;">DUPP </span><span style="color: #222222;">(Dead Upturned Puppy Productions)</span><span style="color: #222222;"> </span><span style="color: #222222;">were always involved in the shows because we would book the venues. When I look back over the various show flyers they always seem say a DUPP Production. </span><span style="color: #222222;">From various flyers i have some of the bands sharing the bill were WAFUT, The Asmathix, Malpratice, Bottom Dogs, Red Scare, The Crypt, Inferno, NRK,and The Riot. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;">Shows were usually all ages and booked for the afternoon. </span><span style="color: #222222;">No clubs would book us so we had to find old age homes or the basement of a bingo club on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon.</span><span style="color: #222222;"> This was at the beginning and overall the St John's music scene was unaware of what was going on at the time. The city mostly had night club cover bands doing "Your mama don't dance " or Eagles favourites. The underground scene was not considered music but overtime you could see the scene gradually getting bigger and some new local clubs were opening up and they had a better open minded understanding. This meant we didn't always have to book our own shows any more, and each band could play on their own instead of always together. This is when the scene really starting coming alive,this was around early 1989.</span><span style="color: #222222;"> St John's was refreshing - with so much talent and expression, going to clubs to check out new bands was very versatile, from jazz to death metal it was all there and thankfully this remains that way today. If a show was downtown, you were sure to bang into someone you knew.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;">For me, and I really can't speak for the others on this, but I noticed the change when Schizoid got asked to participate in this contest titled Star Search '89. For us even to be asked was a real feat and just showed how far we and the scene became in a such a short span. </span><span style="color: #222222;">During these performances I noticed a change in attitude among the crowd. Everybody from all genres of music was in one place and everybody had a open mind. There was no shock or disgust on their faces - everybody accepted everybody. A wonderful feeling being involved in this. </span><span style="color: #222222;">I also noticed among our crowd that they looked proud to be who they were, heads held high and screaming yeah this is our music,our band,and our friends. I think we all felt accepted for the first time. After that most clubs featured all forms of music - you no longer had to play Steve Miller to get a gig. Bands with originals were being looked at more closely instead of being ignored.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;">Even local radio stations were beginning to feature more local talent and putting out local CD compilations. The St John's Music Scene became one big happy family but outside influences and a changing scene worldwide helped open those doors also. I hate to say it, but bands like Nirvana being played mainstream opened the doors for acceptance.</span><span style="color: #222222;"> When Schizoid started the bands before us started to drift off. </span><span style="color: #222222;">Da Sylme had now become Dog Meat BBQ and they had their crowd who was our crowd also but with them they had their followers from Da Sylme days, so there was still a difference. When we started that scene really became a new scene and developed from there.</span><span style="color: #222222;"> From what I remember the bands that stood out were Schizoid, Tough Justice & Dog Meat BBQ. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="color: #222222;">Rod: </b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Total Fuckin'
Mayhem! (still love this title)
was recorded at my parents house on 08-18-86, recorded with only two mikes
running through a mixer hanging over a chandelier. By this time with having
other writers in the band we had compiled enough to record our first demo.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="color: #222222;">Bob: </b><span style="color: #222222;">There is only one guitar on that demo as Phil could not make it for some reason.</span></span></div>
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the Mayhem demo was well received and by this time the local HC scene had accepted
the different style of Schizoid and what I mean by this is my approach as a
drummer was different from what the local scene were use to at that
time, because my background was more Metal/Classic Rock it contained many more
rhythms than the typical straight forward HC beat. When we started there was no
double kick drums being heard on most releases and our style of writing and
arranging songs were at times wrote around that,so the many stops/starts and
tempo changes was something the scene had to get use to.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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showman and his stage antics stood out from the other bands at the time. He was very
energetic and his lyric approach varied from war to personal issues like
suicide. Phil Winters was at the beginning stages of writing and playing but
this brought something special to the table cause in reality his influence was
coming from what he was hearing music wise within the scene and this shows with
his writing - part metal and punk influence. Bob Armstrong was really into the HC
scene and his rhythm style of playing really shows. You can hear his various
influences within his written tracks - the staple of the band stems from his
style of writing. Now Don Ellis was the heart of the band and reason I say this
is because Don could play anything you threw at him - very versatile and offered
many of the ideas that went through our songs. Take all of this and put it
together and it really was Schizoid. Everyone involved played an important role
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the demo was picking up some interest from Toronto because the tape was
featured a few times on the local college station CKLN. Being played on Brian
Taylor's Metal Show helped to get our name noticed. From the few copies we made
they all sold locally and some were sent to Toronto.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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demo we decided to hire a sound engineer by the name of Wallace Hammond,who in
his own right was a legend in the city with forming the city's first punk bands - Da Slyme and Dog Meat BBQ. Wallace is well respected in the city and was the
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Don's house over a two day period on March 11-12-87. The title came about from
watching a CTV W5 news special about Satanism in Rock. It was a pun to that and I still think the guy on the cover looks like Blackie Lawless from WASP (well
does to me anyway).</span><span style="color: #222222;"> The reason for
going all out with an engineer this time instead of taking the self produced
approach is because Brian Taylor from Toronto started showing interest in the
band and he wanted to produce a full album with us to come out on the Diabolic
Force. This label featured such bands as Sacrifice, Sudden Impact and
Slaughter. We were flattered to join that roster. </span><span style="color: #222222;">With such short notice
we couldn't come up with the appropriate funds so we decided we would record
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recording was not up to Diabolic's standards and we were asked to come to
Toronto to record there with Brain producing. In the meantime we decided to
release the recording as Datin' Satan. </span><span style="color: #222222;">By the time of
this release we were getting a larger momentum around the city. Shows were
becoming larger with not only locals coming from within the scene to check out
the shows. I guess this also could stem from the fact that music was changing in
'87 and bands that were signed to bigger labels were opening the doors for
other bands trying to get in and made the average listener become aware of a scene
they didn't even know existed. T</span><span style="color: #222222;">his demo was
well received but taking tracks from those sessions and releasing them at the
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>Rod: </b></span><span style="color: #222222;"> The idea come up to take some tracks from Datin' and release them as a 7"</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.</span><span style="color: #222222;"> What happened
was we took off for Toronto to record with Brian Taylor for the Diabolic Force
label. To our surprise they wanted a certain amount of money upfront to
cover recording cost and in return they would handle printing the album
cover, marketing and distribution. But being young at that time we just didn't
have the means to raise that type of money. It's unfortunate but things like
this happen.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="color: #222222;">Bob: </b><span style="color: #222222;">We all moved to Toronto to make a go of the band. This included being closer to Diabolic Force and hopefully getting our record out. Back then the deal with those guys was you had to pay your own recording costs. It wasn’t going to be much, but we couldn’t come up with it. The band broke up for awhile, some of us moved back home, some stayed. We ended up regrouping and Rod and I put up the $$ for the record.</span></span></div>
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the first patch contained an error. By accident the song Grief written by Phil
was included, so we decided to send them back to be repressed but before that
was done we kept a few for ourselves with the record plant's permission. I don't know
how many we actually kept but I think it was around 50 (I guess the actual 1st
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222;">Bob: </b><span style="color: #222222;">There was one song on there twice and one song that shouldn't have been on it. It was a dream come true for a record collector!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="color: #222222;">Rod: </b><span style="color: #222222;">Cover art and
idea was Bob's and the saga of the Beer Thief came about because somebody
somewhere (he/she knows who they are) were responsible for always taking our
beer at parties. It was a tribute to that. Over the years we're all been blamed
but we still don't know who the local legend is</span><span style="color: #222222;">.
(I guess it's one of those take it to the grave stories) </span><span style="color: #222222;">From what I know
we sold a few but mostly they were handed out among friends and family. Sometimes
Chris would make them part of the show and throw a few out. I guess who ever
caught one got something else with admission - pretty cool.)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222;">Bob: </b><span style="color: #222222;">Somehow they are almost all gone. A lot of them went to distros that never paid us...tons for review and lots given away. But the main thing is it got our name out there.</span></span></div>
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done for ourselves after the disappointment of not going full tilt with the
Diabolic offer. We could look at each other and say "Hey we have a
record". </span><span style="color: #222222;">Now today that little
record has a world of its own and has really helped keep the spirit of the
band alive. I'm really glad, as we all are, that we decided to put it out. It
showed we were serious and cared about our craft.</span></span></div>
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<b style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222;">Bob: </b><span style="color: #222222;">I just made new covers for the leftovers. Kind of a greasy thing to do but the collectors knew what it was and didn’t seem to mind.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="color: #222222;">Rod: </b><span style="color: #222222;">DUPP (Dead Upturned Puppy Productions) was our own label, started by Bob and the idea was to have a local label that featured various bands from St John's. Other releases outside Schizoid was Tough Justice "3 Seconds of Silence" and WAFUT but that demo never reached release status and was just passed out among friends. DUPP were also trying to promote bands outside Newfoundland to play here like DOA, SNFU, and The Resistance.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="color: #222222;">Bob: </b><span style="color: #222222;">DOA played and that was Public Enemy's first show and the first time anyone other than April Wine had ever played St John's/ It was a huge moment for the scene. Brought anybody who had ever heard punk rock out. And they stayed out and started coming to see Public Enemy. We brought SNFU a couple of years later. Figures that the two hardest working bands in Canadian punk would be the only ones to make it to the island....up until then anyway.</span></span></div>
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<b style="color: #222222;">Bob: </b><span style="font-family: inherit;">In Toronto we played one show. It was with opening for a shitty metal bar band from London Ontario. Was a good show with good response. Right after that I booked a show with Sacrifice and Sudden Impact. Would have been absolutely KILLER.<u> </u></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Then with the drama of us imploding I forgot to cancel the show or even tell the bands I booked it. Duh.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Never played anywhere else but we did cruise thru Halifax at that time and met up with a lot of people we had been corresponding with over the years. All pre-Sloan era Halifax but I am sure those guys were probably at the arcade with us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222;">Rod: </b><span style="color: #222222;">Honestly band
never did break up,we just parted ways for various reasons. </span><span style="color: #222222;">Bob moved away
and joined Rise from MTL for a while. Chris took over the pipes for Sudden Impact
for a tour. I ended up joining other bands, one with Johnny and Rod from Tough
Justice and with Don from Zoid. I also got involved in a thrash metal band called
Sacrament and Danny from that band formed Sheavy. And last but not least Phil
started a very well known band in the city called Bung. We stayed busy but with
different things going on.</span><span style="color: #222222;"> We did end up
doing a one off show for another Peace A Chord event in 1990. </span><span style="color: #222222;">This show was
only as a four piece because Bob couldn't make it as he had other commitments at
the time This show was the last time any of us played together live. After this
gig I moved to Toronto and have lived there ever since.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222;">Bob: </b><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222;"> Phil continues to play in lots of bands. Don is back in St. John's and plays in bands but spends most of his time running his recording studio. Don has probably played in every band in St. John's at one time or another! Chris owns a bike shop and spends his off-time building military models and mountain biking. I moved back to Toronto in 1989 to work for the railway. I dabbled in bands for a while and had a record label called Crack Records. The usual bullshit - had some great bands but they were all spoiled and lazy - no touring or self promo. So the label flopped after I ran out of money.</span></span></div>
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<i>Schizoid were supposed to play a reunion show in 2014 but didn't happen due to "logistical bullshit" but look for it to happen in 2015. Check out the Facebook page for more info on that: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Schizoid-Reunion-2014/607966419297569">https://www.facebook.com/pages/Schizoid-Reunion-2014/607966419297569</a></i><br />
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- Beer Thief 7" 1987</div>
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- 2 live sets</div>
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So, Conformist Party started I think in 96 or 97. They were a four piece “new punk” band With Thomas Boudreau and Jon McLaughlin playing guitars, Matt McNeil on drums, and Ryan White on vocals. Influenced by bands like Propaghandi, Lagwagon, and NOFX. They played a couple shows without a bassist at the Café Ole. I saw them one night I was working concessions, and saw potential, so I offered my services. After a couple jams together, I was in. We played a few more shows at Café Ole before it closed, and at least once a month at The Pavilion. We recorded a demo on cassette “Tales of the Shallow and Stupid”. I think it was done on a four track in Thomas’s basement where we jammed.<br />
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It was around the Fall of 98’ when we decided to change the name. I always thought The Conformist Party was kind of lame, and I guess the rest of them didn't love it either. We decided on JokesOver. I guess we wanted something to show we were serious about what we were doing with the band. We recorded another demo Mugshots and Fingerprints with Paco Caba of Rudies Head/Thursday’s Toads. Eventually moved our jams to the jam spots on Cunard. We were pretty active for many years, playing some greats shows, with touring bands of the time, Diesel Boy, Gob, Choke, Ten Foot Pole. The show with Propaghandi at the George Dixon Rec Centre was definitely our biggest.<br />
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In November 2001 we made the decision to kick Ryan out of the band. It sucked. It was a mess, and that sparked the end of the band. We had our reasons; mostly it was because we felt Ryan wasn't contributing his share to the band, but also because we weren't all happy with his vocals. Thomas took over on vocals and honestly his were just as bad as Ryan's but in a different way. Eventually Jon decided to leave the band, and we briefly got Chris Barnes from Dry Leaf to come on board, but soon after that we dissolved.<br />
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We all look back at those years with fondness, and it’s great to hear these songs again. None of us had a copy of these demos.<br />
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Conformist Party - 3 song demo<br />
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JokesOver - Mugshots & Fingerprints<br />
<span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.mediafire.com/?yx14lghgbq40kik">JOKESOVER DISCOGRAPHY!!</a></span><br />
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Against all odds, their Eastlink website is still up:<br />
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<br />Ianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10767375217833858750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19116660.post-66051472847459730452014-10-26T14:00:00.001-03:002014-10-26T15:41:10.604-03:00FALSE SECURITY<div class="_3hi clearfix" style="background-color: white; zoom: 1;">
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<span class="null" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>False Security - A Halifax hardcore/punk best known for their song on on the <a href="http://atlanticpunk.blogspot.ca/2013/09/out-of-fog-halifax-underground-1986.html">Out Of The Fog</a> compilation LP, were one of the main draws of punk shows from their start in 1984 up to 1988. Their vocalist Alfred Woolley takes us back to that time with a little more info on the band!</i></span></div>
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<span class="null"><span style="color: #141823; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 17.9400005340576px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>About the band's humble beginnings: </b>We had been in other bands previously but in a small town like Truro it can be a bit difficult to really find like-minded people to play with. So we were all in a situation where we were in bands we didn't really like because the alternative was 'do nothing'. And when the weird small town phenomenon of in-congruent popularity began to take effect (i.e. becoming very popular locally because there are only like, 3 bands to choose from, it started to get a bit uncomfortable and/or embarrassing to be playing stuff we weren't interested in and thought was pretty lame in general. Anyway, before practices with the lame band began, three of us started playing stuff we actually liked just for fun. Then met Martin who said he was in a similar predicament so he joined as the singer and we formed NT shortly thereafter.</span></span></span></div>
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<li class="webMessengerMessageGroup clearfix" id="wm:mid.1413317456936:7bbd0039864ffa3125" style="border-width: 1px 0px 0px; padding: 8px 20px 7px; position: relative; zoom: 1;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #141823;"><span style="line-height: 17.9400005340576px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Scott's take on their muzak and demo tape:</b> Musically most of it was put together by myself and the drummer Josh, as we were both into similar stuff at the time, ie spazzy fast hardcore...like older stuff spanning from Void to euro or japanese stuff or whatever.
The songs on the demo were our first batch of songs as a band and were put together quite quickly then the demo was recorded in like, less than 2 hours by J. Lapointe in his bedroom. It was actually recorded before we had a full time bass player so I had to do all that too, but then Richard joined despite having to play upside down as a lefty. The demo was really basic but I guess we were happy with it? the fact that it was mostly one-take helped the energy level I think. T</span></span><span style="color: #141823; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">he guitar tone was actually mostly a DOD GRUNGE pedal of all things, played through a hefty Yamaha bass amp with the mids scooped. And a set of hot pickups. T</span><span style="color: #141823; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">he pedal was surprisingly great tho.</span></span></li>
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<span style="color: #141823;">And if you are really adventurous, check out this archived Negative Trend Geocities page: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20021130195222/http://www.geocities.com/sunsetstrip/venue/5424/">http://web.archive.org/web/20021130195222/http://www.geocities.com/sunsetstrip/venue/5424/</a></span></div>
Ianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10767375217833858750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19116660.post-25347329215514003372014-04-08T22:25:00.001-03:002014-04-26T14:15:14.735-03:00THE INTOXICATORS<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">This Halifax band didn't play any shows and really only had 2 members - D-Rock and Mike Freeborn. DRock played bass and guitar, Mike sang, and a drum machine took care of the beats. They did record a demo in the early 1990's called Another Typical Day that gained some notoriety around the city. I got in touch with D-Rock and Mike to get their take on it!</span></i><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">On the band's formation:</span></b><br />
<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.309091567993164px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>D:</b> We started the band because mikes bother had really cool recording toys,i could barely play guitar but was good on bass this was in highschool at P.A. Darmouth was boring so this is what we did to pass time.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.309091567993164px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>M:</b> </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.309091567993164px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I just wanted to piss people off. It's my pastime...</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.309091567993164px; white-space: pre-wrap;">My brother had a 4 track, a cheap drum machine and a small rack unit,with some shit in it. A good little set up for 1987. Trying too record your band was impossible unless you had a lot of fuckin money. Many bands where never recorded, and therefore forgotten in the 80's in Halifax. The 4 track changed all that. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.309091567993164px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">On the band members:</span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.309091567993164px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>D: </b></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.309091567993164px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Me and Mike mostly. John Vine and Kenny at times.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.309091567993164px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>M:</b> </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.309091567993164px; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you came by my place with beer or wine and a riff, you could be in the Intoxicators!</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.309091567993164px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">On the demo:</span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.309091567993164px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>D:</b> W</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.309091567993164px; white-space: pre-wrap;">e recorded allot of stuff as the Dregs of Humanity the we changed into the Intoxicators. </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.309091567993164px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I have released the demo couple of times but just gave it away. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.309091567993164px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>D: </b>We jut drank a lot of Golden Glow, beers and wine and started to get fat. I blew up pretty badly. We even wrote song about getting fat. We were too fat to play live and too drunk plus it really wasn't a real band anyway. The Plundering Sons (Derek and Mike's later band) were going to do a whole Intoxicators set once. I think we played a song live. I cant remember.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.309091567993164px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>D:</b> T</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.309091567993164px; white-space: pre-wrap;">he song Bootfuck got popular on the Mass Turbulence comp later on. That's how MRR heard it, yet they heard our Dregs Of Humanity demo reviewed in a 1989 issue they said we sounded like The Neos and maybe old Circle Jerks.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.309091567993164px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>M:</b> Bootfuck was a big hit...at least bigger than we thought. But when it really comes down to it, Bootfuck is just a rip off of a Zero Boys song.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.309091567993164px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>M: </b></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.309091567993164px; white-space: pre-wrap;">People always steal your beer....no one can be trusted.You're thinking about it now......Bastard!</span></span><br />
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No Offense was my first real band. I can't really remember when we first started, sometime in the early 90's and played until 1995. It all started when me (Ian) and my two friends Pat and Jon started jamming together. We all basically bought instruments right after high school in 1990 and starting playing in Pat's attic. I played guitar, Jon slapped the bass and Pat could already play drums so that was his instrument of choice. Our first attempt at recording was an instrumental cassette we made for the local college station under the name Street Lethal. It was not good. Then we recorded 6 songs, this time with vocals under the name <a href="https://soundcloud.com/youthcrew/total-confusion-fuck-off">Total Confusion</a>. It was slightly better. We never released anything or played a show. Jon decided he didn't really want to perform live so we got a guy named Jake Dambergs who we knew from shows to play bass. I'm thinking we played a few open mic nights with this lineup as well as recording a song for a local tape compilation called Mass Turbulence. It was then decided that we should get a an actual singer so Alfred Wooley from the 80's hardcore band False Security was recruited. Then he suggested getting Jimmy MacKenzie also of False Security for 2nd guitar. We agreed and that became the lineup!<br />
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bQjU8Qc4U30/UzL-oRs_J9I/AAAAAAAAAYE/vVPrv-33rYo/s1600/poster.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><br /></a>We started playing shows around Halifax, the first being at The Green Room at Dalhousie University. Having 2 older scene vets in the band helped us get some local popularity. We ended up playing quite a few shows around town at venues such as The Double Deuce & Pub Flamingo, but the all ages venue Cafe Ole became our regular spot! Then our friend Richard who had released the Mass Turbulance compilation asked us if we wanted to do a split 7" with local punks The Shitheads. We did. It was actually going to be released by EnGuard Records out of Montreal who were a fairly established label at the time. We recorded 3 songs for it and unfortunately I don't think the ended up sounding very good at all. It was my first time in any kind of real studio and we didn't really know what we were doing. And in retrospect, I don't think the song were particularly well written. We had better songs, but for some reason we didn't use those. I can't remember who recorded this but the un-matching dual vocals on the song <a href="https://soundcloud.com/youthcrew/no-offense-01-riot">Riot</a> should not have been allowed. I always cringe when I hear that song. Luckily, The Shitheads side of the record was much better and people ended up buying it. It got a decent review in Maximum Rock'n'Roll as well. 1000 copies were pressed. It is actually somewhat difficult to find these days but I'm sure if you really tried you could track one down.<br />
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So maybe our recordings weren't so hot, but there is one thing about this band that I look back at fondly and that is going on a small tour. This would have been my first time doing anything like this. It was in 1994 and we played in Saint John, Montreal, St Catherines, and ended it off at Spiderland Punkfest in Ontario which was a fairly big deal at the time. We played with bands like Blanks 77, Toxic Narcotic, Submachine, Mob Action and tons more. Pat couldn't do the tour so we got Gerard Waters from The Quayhogs to fill in for him. We rented a mini van and hit the road for a week. We played at Foufs in Montreal with the Local Rabbits and got paid $13. The Spiderland Punkfest was the highlight as we played near the end of the night with the bigger bands for some unknown reason. It was definitely a learning experience and first of many tours I would eventually embark on.<br />
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We played around a bit more after that, but eventually it just fizzled out. We played our last show at Punk Fest 95 at Cafe Ole. I had joined The Chitz before that, so that became more of a focus. Pat moved to Switzerland but now lives in Ottawa with his wife and 2 kids. Jake played in a few bands after such as Relic but his whereabouts are currently unknown. Alfred and Jimmy both still live in Halifax but I don't believe they are actively musically. There you have it! The first of many bands for me. Again I don't think the songs were that good, but it was a fun introduction to playing in a punk band.<br />
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So now here are some MP3's of our recordings! I would suggest only getting the split 7" and studio sessions, but I put the other one up just in case you wanted to hear some other songs for whatever reason.<br />
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<a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download/z3ywv95ca2gpew7/no_offense.rar"><span style="font-size: large;">No Offense - Split 7" and Studio Sessions</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download/883y0eb6gnocfwl/no_offense_-_practice_tape.rar"><span style="font-size: large;">No Offense - Practice Tape (not good quality at all)</span></a><br />
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Ianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10767375217833858750noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19116660.post-18583666675509670902014-01-31T17:46:00.000-04:002014-01-31T18:25:40.315-04:00SNOT PARTY<div>
<i>This mid to late 90's Halifax band was more known for their live show then recordings. They mixed sloppy hardcore and powerviolence with goofy lyrics about pie and wrestling. They released 2 demos and played a few shows around the Maritimes. The band comprised of Morgan Carpenter on vocals, Gerry Hubley on bass, Lance Purcell on drums & Steve Manette on guitar. Morgan and Gerry filled us on the inner workings of this often duplicated, but never imitated band (minus the often duplicated part which no one ever bothered to do.)</i></div>
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Morgan - The band started in mid to late '96 if I remember correctly. Steve and I were coming out of playing in Ritlan, which was more of a pop punk thing. Steve wanted to move to playing guitar, I wanted to just sing, and we wanted to do something more straight forward and goofy. Lance was a friend of ours from school and we had met Gerry from shows. We maintained the same lineup from start to finish. </div>
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Morgan - When we started the band we knew we wanted it to just be completely juvenile and funny. We started doing costumes for shows right from the get-go and it eventually became part of (read: all of) the allure. Snot Party was really sloppy and kind of hard to listen to, so the shows were our only redeeming quality. I think the majority of our following were just there to witness what might happen each time. We'd dress up and plan pranks, get antagonistic and playfully violent with the crowd, and generally things would usually pleasantly fall apart at the end. We never got to play outside of Maritime Canada, but had a lot of memorable shows. Ones that top it for me was playing the final Cafe Ole show and the last Chitz show. There were plenty of great ones at Cafe Ole, the Arts Guild in PEI and random ones in Bridgewater. There were plenty of stinkers too, like when we were chased out of Fredericton by rednecks after Gerry got naked on stage and worked on his GG steez, or when we played a wedding in the rural eastern shore. That was awkward. The costume to top all costumes was at our last show when Gerry wore Rollins style shorts and covered his whole body in Vaseline. That was going out on a high note. </div>
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Morgan - We did two official demos, "Please Hammer Don't Hurt Us" and "627 Days". The first was recorded by Brendan Stabenow in several houses and apartments. In lieu of a lyric sheet we put in an obnoxiously long thanks lists. That one was the "cleaner" sounding of the two. The second was recorded by Ian Dares kind of quick and dirty at the Cornwallis Street practice spaces. It sounds like shit, but at the same time, sounds raw and accurate. I still love the bass sound on that one. Ian had apparently taken a bunch to Toronto once and left them at Who's Emma - the fact that the cover just had the 80's SPEED METAL logo on it I guess made it sell well. I assume those people were met with disappointment though. </div>
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We did a couple live recordings in addition to the demos. One of which was our set in Woodlawn at a birthday party show with The Bombscares, and another at a show in Charlottetown PEI. The Charlottetown show was recorded with a small interview style tape recorder that Gerry was toting around at the time doing interviews and such for Incoherent Crap Zine. The Woodlawn show I don't remember if it was recorded the same way or with Derrick Hiltz' 4-track (it was around this time that he was recording a lot of bands for the Incoherent Comp). A few of the Woodlawn tracks became our two contributions to the Incoherent Comp. The PEI one became nothing, but I actually still have the tape, but am afraid to listen to it. Snot Party fucking sucked.</div>
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<b>I want to know what 21 pies is about. Tell me. Also, why is the 2nd demo called 627 Days?</b></div>
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Morgan - The 21 Pies thing, I don't know. Gerry wrote that one. I think it would be funniest if it was completely fictional. 627 Days was the exact amount of time we were together from start to finish. We already had our last show planned before we released the second demo. </div>
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Gerry - 21 Pies is about a fat kid from my high school. This guy "Matty" used to always pick on him because he was fat and would say "That boy. Look at that boy. That boy eat 21 pies." So I wrote a song about it. That fat kid was bullied and that is serious.<br />
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Morgan - We broke up in mid '98 I think. I'd like to say it was because our maturity grew out of that of 8 year olds, but to be honest I think it was because Steve and I didn't get along anymore. Gerry and I were wanting to start something heavier, and started doing Useless Solution shortly before SP was officially done. After that, Steve went on to play bass for By Any Means for a short while and I'm not sure if he did anything musically after that. Lance did Falling Out - the worlds worst straight edge band - with Steve and I also, but I believe that ended before SP did. He joined Led By Regret and saw that to the end, and of course started The Plan the following year and achieved more success with that than the rest of us combined. Gerry did Useless Solution with me, as well as CEO'd Incoherent Crap Zine, and eventually went on to extensively roadie for The Plan, North Of America, etc. I immediately did Useless Solution and started Envision with Ian, Shrine Of American Martyr, joined Existench and others.<br />
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<b>Final thoughts? I promise to never mention Snot Party again after this.</b></div>
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Morgan - Thinking back, the thought of a bunch of teenagers dressing up in shittty costumes and rolling around is one thing, but doing it in our 20's probably looked ridiculous and lame. The thought of another reunion now with us well into our 30's is just flat out cringe worthy. Snot Party had a time and place, and that was pretty much at Cafe Ole. The Neptune Theatre killed Snot Party.</div>
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Gerry - The only thing I think I need to say about snot party is that it is the only time I really, really had fun in a band. I know for my part I had no idea what the fuck I was doing so the concept of having a three hour practice where we wrote 11 songs wasn't foreign to me. It was just stupid and fun and pretty much every band I've started or tried to start in the last ten years was a failing attempt to recapture that. But it shouldn't matter to anyone but us. I think if snot party were together for 1 more year we would have put out something amazing. Unfortunately, we didn't, and everything we put out was 80% shit.</div>
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Check out a couple songs (1980/Theme from the 627 Days demo) first here:<br />
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Ianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10767375217833858750noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19116660.post-90588104729696534572014-01-23T08:29:00.003-04:002020-08-29T16:59:50.163-03:00LED BY REGRET<i>In the late 90's the Halifax scene took a bit of turn towards hardcore, venturing off from the long standing punk scene. One of the bands behind that was Led By Regret who started of in January of 1998. The released a demo tape and a CD EP on Sub-Profit Records. There was also a 4-song EP that was recorded but never released. I got in touch with their vocalist Tim Goodaire to get some details, peel back the layers, and finally get to know the real Led By Regret.</i><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>Update: Sad news to report...vocalist Tim Goodaire passed away in July 2018 after battling cancer. A tragic loss.<br /></i>
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<b>When and how did the band start?</b><br />
Originally it was me, Nick Oxner, Spencer Cantley, and Keith Porter jamming at Nick's place some time in 1998. We were just messing around playing Bold and Youth of Today covers. This wasn't anything too serious and I don't think we even had a name. Then somehow Mackenzie Ogilvie joined - I don't remember if we asked him or he asked us or whatever. He took over bass from Keith, Keith moved to guitar, and Nick was out. This is the lineup that we had for our demo cassette that we recorded with Phil Clark.<br />
The songs that we wrote after we'd released the demo were becoming more complex, which led to us bringing in Lance to play drums. This was the lineup that we had for the rest of our existence.<br />
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<b>Tell me about shows you played out of town.</b><br />
We played a few shows around the Maritimes but didn't venture out any further than that. We played in PEI, NB, and Cape Breton. On our way to our Fredericton, NB show, we had to stop for Keith to pee for the 10th time and found that Lance's car wouldn't start. We had to get the guys who were putting on the show to pick us up and drive us to the show. At the show, people were offering us money to cover Ramones and Misfits songs. Mac cut his finger on his bass and he was bleeding all over the place.<br />
We had another really fun show at Mark Black's place. We played the show and then went swimming with all of our Cape Breton friends. Then Mark's Mom made us delicious pancakes for breakfast.<br />
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<b>Why don't you tell the good folks about the recordings that you did?</b><br />
<u>The demo</u> - Our first demo was recorded by Phil Clark in Keith's basement. I don't remember too much about it. We had enough songs to record a demo so we did it. Mac came up with the design for the cover. It was a picture that he found in an old book that he liked, so he messed around with it a bit and tada. We were more of a straight forward hardcore band back then, but you can still hear elements of our later sound.<br />
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<u>S/T CD</u> - It was Mac that spoke with Richard about recording a CD. I think Richard approached Mac and wanted to put out a CD, but I don't really know how that went down. We recorded with Jon Hutt. He was great to work with and it was a pretty stress free experience. I think we got the whole thing done in two sessions, but my memory is fading due to my advanced age. Oh. Jon had me record the vocals in his closet,<br />
which was kind of strange. I was too tall to stand upright so I was kind of hunched over trying to scream into a mic in the dark. It was mixed by J. Lapointe. We got him to listen to the Anomie self-titled record to get an idea of the kind of sound that we wanted. We were all really happy with how it turned out.<br />
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<u>Final Recording</u> - The last recording that we did was with Mike Catano in his basement. I remember that we recorded on an analog 8 track. Two of these songs ended up on the "The Street Enters the House" compilation by "Fans of Bad Productions". We were really happy to be on that, along with bands like Countdown to Oblivion who we had played with and were just a great band and all-around cool guys. (Hi Bubby) You can download the whole thing here: <a href="http://abridgedpause.com/various-artists-compilations">http://abridgedpause.com/various-artists-compilations</a>.<br />
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When we broke up, there was another recording in the works. We were supposed to be doing a split 7" with Useless Solution. Neither of us recorded though, which is kind of essential to doing a record...<br />
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<b>Why did it end?</b></div>
Basically, I think we just kind of burned out on the band. Mac and Lance were playing with The Plan and a lot of their creative energy was going there. The song writing was taking longer and longer, which was frustrating all of us. One day we all went to jam and we just weren't feeling it. Instead we had an impromptu band meeting and decided to take a break. After being on a break for a little while, Keith had decided that he didn't want to do the band anymore so we just stopped. I was pretty bummed out at the time. I felt that we had a lot more songs to write and a lot more shows to play. Looking back now though, I have nothing but fond memories. For a little while there, we were having tons of fun rocking out and playing with our friends. Every show was fun and we never had any kind of arguments or drama. It was just an awesome experience.<br />
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- Playing a show for "Food Not Bombs Hat Girl"'s birthday. This was strange because we didn't really know her. I think she wanted a punk show for her birthday so her parents let her have one. </div>
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- Playing Ian Hart's basement. This was pretty early on. I think this was the show where we covered "Positive Dental Outlook" by Crucial Youth. One of only two covers that we ever played.</div>
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- Keith handing out oranges with motivational quotes on them at one of our shows. He was always doing positive stuff like that.</div>
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- The show at the Khyber where an underage Nathan and Morgan snuck in and hid behind our amps so they could see the show. That show was awesome and tons of people were there. We played a second show there later and less than five people showed up. We treated it like a band practice and asked people what they wanted us to play. </div>
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- Covering "Number of the Beast", even though we had it cut short. Bad Luck 13 were on next and we were out of time.</div>
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Bonus LBR interview from 1999 <a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ns/halifaxpunx/lbrinterview.html">HERE!</a> Courtesy of Timmy X<br />
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And for the first time...video of LBR's last show at The Pavilion:<br />
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</div>Ianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10767375217833858750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19116660.post-41437171507952128212014-01-12T01:10:00.003-04:002018-02-15T17:19:15.158-04:00ABSOLUTELY NOTHING<i>Absolutely Nothing were a side project of a well known indie rock band called <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plumtree_(band)">Plumtree</a>. When not recording, releasing records and doing extensive touring with Plumtree, sisters Carla and Lynette Gillis started up AN with their friend Lisa Verge in the mid 1990's. They released 2 demo tapes and played a handful of shows, almost all of which were at Cafe Ole - Halifax's all ages club. Closer to the end of the band Lisa quit and Derrick (of The Chitz, Bombscares, etc) joined up. I recently got in touch with Carla Gillis (<b>CG</b>) and Lynette Gillis (<b>LG</b>), who now live in Toronto and have a newer band called <a href="http://sister.bandcamp.com/">Sister</a> on the go. Let's see what they had to say about Absolutely Nothing!!</i><br />
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<b>Why did you decide to do Absolutely Nothing when you already had a full time band on the go?</b><br />
<b>LG:</b> At the time Carla and I were really into punk and needed an outlet to make music different than what we were doing in Plumtree. Also, part of the motivation definitely came from wanting to play music solely for fun, be carefree and silly, not worry about things like touring, videos, etc., which we were immersed in with Plumtree at the time.<br />
<b>CG:</b> I remember also talking about wanting to be a little bit more "obnoxious" than we usually were. We were super-reserved and shy and polite, always on the sidelines at shows (unless we were onstage). Absolutely Nothing was kind of like our freedom band. Songwriting-wise, too. We had a rule that any song we wrote had to be started and finished in one practice.<br />
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<b>When did the band start?</b><br />
<b>LG:</b> I'm going to say 1995 but don't know ABSOLUTELY.<br />
<b>CG:</b> Yeah, maybe 95. Possibly 94.<br />
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<b>Tell me, if you will, about recording the 2 demo tapes.</b><br />
<b>LG: </b>They were recorded on two 4-track recorders in the basement of our parents' suburban home in Fairview. We were figuring out how to record ourselves, with Carla acting as "producer/engineer." We recorded drums first on one 4-track machine, Carla in the room air-guitaring and singing because I didn't have headphones or ghost tracks to follow along with. Carla took the four tracks and compiled them onto one track, using the other 3 remaining tracks for everything else. High-tech! And to make it even more so, we duplicated dozens off copies onto the cheapest cassette tapes we could buy. I remember making many trips to Halifax Shopping Centre to colour copy our album cover, cutting and pasting the thing together in my bedroom. We sold them for $2.<br />
<b>CG:</b> I remember hooking up the two four-tracks together through the headphone jack. Years later, I mentioned that in an article in The Coast, and some guy wrote a letter to the paper scolding me about how you should never, ever do that or you'll break the machines! I also remember a thousand trips to the Sony Store in Halifax Shopping Centre because they sold the 30-minute blank tapes that we used for dubbing.<br />
Can I talk about making the album artwork for the first tape? Lisa, Lynette and I wrapped ourselves in garbage bags and put banana peels on our heads and sat at the curb in front of Lisa's house while her mom snapped some photos. But they didn't turn out so we ended up using the photo of us throwing devil horns while standing in the flatbed of our dad's Dodge Ram. Then we used burgundy nail polish to paint "Absolutely Nothing" onto a piece of Saran Wrap, which we carefully placed on top of the photo and then colour-photocopied. I think we sold the tapes for $3. There was always this subtle competition between Cafe Ole bands about who could/would sell their tape the cheapest. Definitely cost us more than that to make.<br />
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<b>When did Lisa quit and Derrick join?</b><br />
<b>LG:</b> I'd say something like 1996 was when Lisa quit and Derrick Generic (sp?) joined. He was so excited, it was great.<br />
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<b>You mostly played at Cafe Ole....but I seem to recall you played in eastern passage. Did you play anywhere else around town? Or outside of Halifax??</b><br />
<b>LG:</b> I don't think so. We were practically Cafe Ole-exclusive. That was our scene.<br />
<b>CG:</b> We took a road trip to Fredericton once. Derrick did most of the driving, and I think it was autumn because the drive was really scenic. I remember listening to The Dickies on repeat. The show itself was disappointing – freezing cold venue and a hostile crowd.<br />
We also played the Marquee for a Pop Explosion and a couple of Cafe Ole jerks basically accused us of selling out, which is and was hilarious. We often got the feeling that some people also felt that way about Abs No because Lynette and I played in Plumtree. There was a massive divide in Halifax back then between the "alternative" scene and the punk scene. Lynette and I didn't keep Plumtree a secret, but we didn't say much about it around our punk friends. We definitely felt like no one in that scene thought Plumtree was cool. (Except Louie Roberts, who sometimes called Lynette and Lisa's radio show to request Dog Gone Crazy.)<br />
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<b>Why did the band come to an end?</b><br />
<b>LG:</b> I have no idea.<br />
<b>CG:</b> I remember feeling very clearly that it was time to end the band. That it had served its purpose. I was proud of the songs we'd made and didn't want to add any stinkers to the discography. Plus Derrick was leaving for Saskatoon to study cancer cells. I think I also felt like I was getting too old for it all.<br />
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<b>Looking back...do you have any fond memories of the band??</b><br />
<b>LG: </b>Oh yes... dressing up in garbage bags in our practice room and on Rosedale Avenue, Derrick's guitar absolutely blaring all the way down our street, playing an entire set of Ramones covers dressed in drag (as the Ramones), yelling "I'm a liberated woman" through our house (and street), hanging garbage bags off of Lisa's guitar in practice while laughing hysterically, having what were probably some of our first drinks one night before a show - 99 cent draft at a dive bar up the street from Cafe Ole, playing a show in high heels (as a drummer)...<br />
<b>CG:</b> Punk prom! We found the ugliest dresses in Halifax, and made our hair and makeup really gross. Lynette's dress was shiny and brown. I also remember getting hit in the face with a pinata during one of our Cafe Ole sets. Lisa, Lynette and I had filled it with flour and pickles beforehand, and then during the first song I dangled it over the crowd, who immediately lunged for it and it swung back and almost knocked out my teeth. Very embarrassing! I remember spending hours in Kinkos photocopying fanzines with Lynette and Lisa, and hanging out with them at CKDU till all hours of Saturday night/morning. Mostly I remember that spinning disco ball throwing cat eyes on the walls, and the black-and-white tiled floor, and the sweetness of Condon MacLeod. Cafe Ole forever.<br />
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<i>Big thanks to Lynette and Carla for this! And here is a never before seen video from them:</i><br />
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