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January 9, 2017
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Full Circle, Heavy Chains, Krust, Leeway, Vengeance
I really got around during this day and got to experience some personal history again. I started on my own campus to drop off something and then headed down to Stockton for lunch with one of my former professors. THEN I headed down the shore to see my parents for a few hours and THEN headed up to Brick for the show. This EMS hall was where I saw my first shows in 1994. I don’t remember a ton about them, but we went there two or three times. One time a friend’s car overheated, which meant we had to…
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January 2, 2017
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7 Seconds
I do not remember who else played this show. Maybe h2o or Kill Your Idols???? My big memory of this show was how hot it was inside the venue. By the end of it I had to sit down in a corner and try to cool down. I felt absolutely awful. Apologies to Kevin Seconds for accidentally kicking him in the head while trying to dive during 99 Red Ballons.
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January 1, 2017
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A Tribe Called Quest, Alienation, Arms Race, Betty Davis, Breakdown, Framtid, Infest, Inumerable Forms, Leeway, Omegas, Think I Care, True Vision, Wound Man, Youth Of Today
I realized as I began reading the lists that other people put together I have heard very little new music this year. What I did check out was mostly exceptional. Here is a general top ten since it would be silly to break this up… A Tribe Called Quest-We Got It From Here Thank You 4 Your Service Alienation-Self Titled Arms Race-New Wave Of British Hardcore Betty Davis-The Columbia Years 1968-1969 Framtid-The Horrific Visions Innumerable Forms-Petrified Omegas-Power To Exist Think I Care-Singles Collection True Vision-Against The Grain Wound Man-Perimeter Gigs: Infest, Youth Of Today, Leeway, Breakdown
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November 28, 2016
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2000 Maniacs, 86 Mentality, 9 Shocks Terror, ABC Weapons, Abusive Action, Amdi Petersens Arme, Annihilation Time, Avskum, Bloodkrow Butcher, Born In Hell, Breathing Fire, Burn, Call The Police, Calvary, Career Suicide, Christian Club, Cold Sweat, Cops & Robbers, Cross Laws, Crow, Darvocets, Dead Nation, Dead Stop, Deathreat, Degenerics, Demon System 13, Destino Final, Direct Control, Disclose, Double Negative, Dry Rot, Far From Breaking, Forward, Framtid, Free Spirit, From Ashes Rise, Full Speed Ahead, FYA, Get Real, Give, Gordon Solie Mother Fuckers, Gorilla Angreb, Government Warning, Harum Scarum, Haymaker, In The Red, Infest, Inmates, Invasion, Iron Age, Iron Boots, Jesus Eater, John Brown's Army, Knife Fight, Knock Down, Last In Line, Lebenden Toten, Lion Of Judah, Look Back & Laugh, Mental, Midnight, Mind Eraser, New Lows, Nightmare, No Hope For The Kids, No Justice, No Tolerance, Nuclear Family, Obliteration, Out Cold, Pisschrist, Righteous Jams, Running For Cover, Scapegoat, Shark Attack, Signal Lost, Snake Apartment, Soul Swallower, Splitting Headache, Step Forward, Stop & Think, Systematic Death, Tear It Up, The Good Book, The Promise, The Snobs, Think I Care, Thirty Two Frames, Totalitar, Tragedy, True Blue, Voices Forming Weapons, Waste Management, Wasted Time, World Burns To Death
9 Shocks Terror, Zen & The Art Of Beating Your Ass LP, USA, 2002 86 Mentality, Self Titled 7″, USA, 2004 2000 Maniacs, State College Hardcore 7″, USA, 2005 ABC Weapons, The Process Of Decay LP, Australia, 2005 Abusive Action, Unbreakable Demo, Netherlands, 2004 Amdi Petersens Arme, Self Titled 7″, Denmark, 2000 Annihilation Time, Self Titled LP, USA, 2003 Avskum, Punkista LP, USA, 2002 Bloodkrow Butcher, Demo, USA, 2009 Born In Hell, Demo Tape, USA, 2004 Breathing Fire, Demo, USA, 2004 Burn, The Last Great Sea 7″, USA, 2002 Call The Police, 1984 In 2004 LP, USA, 2004 Calvary, Outnumbered…
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November 23, 2016
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Brotherhood, Crucial Intentions, Madball
This show was at someone’s house I think, in a shed. I sang a Madball cover for them while I was really sick. I ended up going home and getting sick to my stomach and sleeping for like an entire day. They also covered a Brotherhood song. Did they record anything? I want to say there was a tape. That younger group of straight edge kids, already two generations removed from my crew, by then was not really hanging around with me, but they did with my brother. He might know better than I would.
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November 21, 2016
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Cro-Mags, SOV, Violent Society
I remember we got to this show right as SOV were busting out a Cro-Mags cover. I think I went to go eat and then never went back into this show…
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November 14, 2016
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25 Ta Life, Assimilation Or Oblivion Fanzine, Commin Correct, E-Town Concrete, Fastbreak, h2o, Hardware Fanzine, Mouthpiece, Tied Down
This was a big end of summer show in Red Bank. I remember Tied Down playing, but they may have switched their name to Prospect by then? I think Rich might have organized this show even? There was a flyer for sure, but I do not seem to have it. Commin Correct definitely played this show. I had interviewed Rick earlier in the summer and this show served as the debut for my first fanzine Assimilation Or Oblivion. I began wanting to interview Mouthpiece, Hardware Fanzine, and Fastbreak, and ended up with h2o (that a friend did) and 25 Ta…
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November 7, 2016
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Purpose
I am pretty sure four or five bands played this show, but I have no memories of them. This may have been the first show Purpose had their Alpha and Omega record available for, I think, because I remember getting a red one from them. One of the members of the band added a hand written note to my insert, which was nice. That is all I have for this one.
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October 31, 2016
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Stiff Little Fingers, Vision
So I could go to class all day and then see Vision at night? Awesome! On Fridays that semester, I only had one class (a seminar on Homer), so after it finished (2pm?) I left campus for a bit, probably to the Barnes and Noble down the road by the mall, and then came back to campus to have dinner with a friend and then head to the gig. It was weird walking across campus and recognizing the cars of some friends parked on campus. A few bands played before Vision, but I hung out with friends and then met…
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October 24, 2016
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Bankshot 18, Dead Nation, Degenerics, Endeavor, The Illbilly Boys, Worthless
So this show was fine and all, but my big memory of it is the night before someone IM’d me claiming to be Matt Molnar and said they would get me on their guest list. I knew Matt pretty well, so I thought this was cool and headed up to the show. He had no idea what I was talking about and it turned out I had been pranked. I could have laughed it off, but I was actually pretty pissed. So three or four years go by and I finally figured out who it was that did it. This…
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