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January 23, 2014
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Circle Jerks, Hope Delusion, Parade Brigade Fanzine, Paul Hanily, Rorschach, State Secedes, Stormshadow, The Judas Iscariot, Unanswered, You & I
This was obviously a weird show, but I went to this show to talk to The Judas Iscariot about an interview. I really liked them and hoped they would be into it. I worked all day and then drove up to Metuchen, which is about an hour and maybe ten or fifteen from Manahawkin. School work? Nah. Driving on a few hours sleep? Of course! I got some odd reactions from some people who were surprised I was at this show. I remember I hung out with Paul Hanily for awhile. Hope Delusion used to be called Unanswered, who did…
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January 20, 2014
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Black Flag, Henry Rollins, Rollins Band, West Memphis Three
I would have gone to any benefit gig Rollins did for the West Memphis Three, but the added incentive of The Rollins Band busting out a set of Black Flag songs was great. Jim Lundy and I headed out to this show. I remember being pretty amped up for this one. A lot of friends went and there were many old timers there too. A friend kept pointing out members of old New Jersey and Philadelphia bands, which was cool. I have no idea who opened up. We got into the gig right as the band that was opening wrapped…
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January 9, 2014
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Bold, Down In Flames, Ensign, Running Like Thieves, Supertouch, The First Step, To Each His Own
I definitely went to this show, but I don’t remember a lot about it. This may have been the first time I saw both The First Step and Running Like Thieves. I remember Running Like Thieves doing their usual Bold/Supertouch/etc covers. Speaking of covers, I swear Down In Flames busted out a Full Speed Ahead cover at this show. Anyone remember? Ensign were about to do a new record, as the flyer says, and they had a bunch of new songs. I don’t think I had seen them in awhile and I remember not liking their new songs. That is…
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January 8, 2014
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Get Real, Lion Of Judah, Rampage
I took pictures of Rampage at this show, but do not really remember them much. I was excited to check out Lion of Judah and they were really good. I think this was the show where JR from Get Real did the solo in Life of My Own from the floor.
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January 7, 2014
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Splitting Headache, The First Step, The Little Rascals
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January 6, 2014
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Breakdown, Ensign, Inside Out, Saves The Day, Special Forces Records, The Purpose, Vision
This show was at Aaron Leonovich’s parents house. Aaron was a nice kid a few years older than me who did Special Forces Records (who put out records by Saves The Day, Breakdown, Purpose, etc) and was around the scene for a lot of years. He did one of the early website I remember from a hardcore kid. I used to check out Talk Is Cheap every morning. This show was in a really nice neighborhood I remember hardcore kids kind of just hanging out all over the place. The basement was huge and there was plenty of room for…
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January 3, 2014
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25 Ta Life, 625 Records, 7 Seconds, 97a, A Chorus of Disapproval, Absolution, Agnostic Front, Alternative Tentacles Records, Ambassador Records, Amendment 18, Anti Heroes, Arms Reach, Atari, Automatic, Avail, Awkward Thought, Bad Brains, Bane, Beyond, Black Flag, Black Train Jack, Blackout Records, Blood For Blood, Bold, Botch, Breakdown, Breakout Records, Bridge 9 Records, Built To Last, Burn, Carry On, Chain Of Strength, Circle Jerks, Committed, Converge, Cornerstone, Coronation, Count Me Out, Creed Fanzine, Crippled Youth, Cro-Mags, Crucial Response Records, Degenerics, Distant Reach Fanzine, Doing It For The Kids Records, East Coast Empire Records, Edge Of Quarrel Fanzine, Ensign, Equal Vision Records, Excursion Records, Fastbreak, Finish Line Fanzine, First Failure Fanzine, Floorpunch, Forward Defense, Full Speed Ahead, Genuine, Good Clean Fun, Gorilla Biscuits, GPO Records, H-Street, h2o, Hands Tied, Harkonen, High Score, In Control Fanzine, In My Eyes, Indecision Records, Infest, Insted, Iron Cross, Jello Biafra, Jitsu Records, Kill Your Idols, Mad At The World Fanzine, Mainstrike, Mincing Words Fanzine, Mindsnare, Minor Threat, Minute Minder, Model American, Moondog, Mosh Of Ass Fanzine, Mouthpiece, Mugshot, Nerve Agents, Next Step, Nine Lives, No Deal Records, One Sided War, Outspoken, Path Of Resistance, Phyte Records, Price Of Silence, Project X, Punk Uprisings Records, Rancor, Reach The Sky, Redemption 87, Reflections Fanzine, Reflections Records, Reinforce, Resurrection AD Records, Revelation Records, Saves The Day, Second Choice Fanzine, Self Born, Side By Side, Siton Records, Skarhead, Slapshot, Society System DeControl, Spazz, Speak 714, Spirit Fanzine, Sportswear, Standard Issue, Step Ahead, Stormshadow, Straight Ahead, Straight Force Fanzine, Stray Bullets, Strength Approach, Strife, Strung Out, Supertouch, Talk Is Cheap Fanzine, Teamwork Records, Ten Yard Fight, Tenfold, The Faith, The Get Up Kids, The Pact, The Parting Shot, The Purpose, The Templars, The Trust, Time Flies, Toe To Toe, Token Entry, Uniform Choice, Unit Pride, Up Front, Victory Recvords, Wide Awake, Youngblood Records, Youth Brigade, Youth Of Today
We put out Parade Brigade Fanzine #1 in the spring of 1999. I have no idea what show we released it for, but I think it was at Manville Elks Lodge. Maybe. Amendment 18 Demo This band has members of a number of bands (Insted, Chorus Of Disapproval, Outspoken, etc) I had different expectations for this demo expecting more moshy stuff, but I got straight forward hardcore with interesting breakdowns. Lyrically, this isn’t as “militant,” as xChorusx was, but good all around especially “Eulogy.” I look forward to more. BW Bane Holding This Moment Equal Vision Records Bane sort of…
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January 2, 2014
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Black Flag, Blink 182, Descendents, Fury Of V, h2o, Limp Bizkit, Pennywise, Second To None, Sick Of It All, Social Distortion, Straight Ahead
It’s so funny to me that my students still go to this thing and are super psyched on it. Back in the nineties, this seemed so corporate and annoying. I cannot even imagine what it is like now, but I guess FESTS are this massively normal thing now, so whatever. No one seems to blink an eye either at the expense of these shows either. I only went to this because I got onto some kind of promotional guest list. The local record store got some passes so they gave me one and a few friends of mine got them…
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December 7, 2013
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We will be taking the rest of the year off. Daily posting will resume at the beginning of the year until the spring semester begins.
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December 5, 2013
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Fists Of Fury, Hogan's Heroes, Maximum Penalty, OS 101, Vision
Because of the last minute nature of us finding out about this show, we had to scramble to get together rides and all of that. We ended up going with Joe from Fists Of Fury’s aunt, who was an ex punk, I think? I remember she was pretty preppie and loved ska. Also she was cute, so everyone in the car acted like idiots all night around her. Ugh. OS 101 (formerly Hogan’s Heroes, sort of) had just recorded this first EP. Being the “hometown” band, I guess, we were, for better or worse, very supportive. I had been given…
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