So this show ended up having some issues with the local cops and the security of the venue had scuffled with some punks. My only other big memory of this show was Full Speed Ahead joking that their next record was going to be called “Rain On The Parade” since both bands were now on Teamwork (briefly at least).
I absolutely could not pass up the chance to see legendary ragers Raw Power from Italy on their US tour in 1998. This is such a cool lineup too: What a great snapshot of the growing scene outside of the “88 in 96” one that was brewing in New Jersey at the time. Degenerics were becoming a really hot band in NJ in 1998 and had progressed so much from when I saw them a few years before. Dead Nation were also coming into their own. Raw Power were great and played all the hits. There was a huge pile…
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Demo FYA, Demo Tape, USA, 2000 Voices Forming Weapons, Demo, USA, 2000 Tear It Up, Demo Tape, USA, 2000 No Justice, Demo Tape, USA, 2000 Shorter Shark Attack, Blood In The Water 7″, USA, 2000 Amdi Petersens Arme, Self Titled 7″, Denmark, 2000 Dead Nation, Painless 7″, USA, 2000 Think I Care, Draw The Lines 7″, USA, 2000 Longer Out Cold, Two Broken Hearts Are Better Than One 12″, USA, 2000 Gordon Solie Mother Fuckers, Power Bomb Anthems 10″, USA, 2000 Degenerics, Generica LP, USA, 2000 Sportswear, Building Dwelling Think 12″, Norway, 2000 Tragedy, Self Titled 12″, USA, 2000
So this was a Halloween show, which became a bit of a tradition in NJ around this time, I don’t remember a ton from it, but I think this was the show where FSA covered 7 Seconds. Degenerics played this show too and opened their set with a cover of “South of Heaven.” I don’t remember much else about this one.
I don’t remember a ton about this show. I think I hung out outside for a lot of it. I ended up packed up front in the left corner for Full Speed Ahead, which kind of put me in the way of various band members for a couple of songs before I dove out and then took a step back into the crowd.
I got in a big argument with a professor earlier in the day before going to this show. He said something really sexist about my lab partner and I called him out on it. He got ANGRY and we had it out. My partner was pretty upset, but also kind of mad I made such a big deal out of it. After class I wandered around the mall for a few hours and then drove up to the show. I mostly sulked in the back at this show and pretty much regretted going when I was such a shitty mood.…
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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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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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My first show of 1997 was in Bordentown, NJ at the Fieldsboro VFW (which apparently doesn’t exist anymore?). When I began teaching at BCC in 2009, I noticed I drove near Bordentown every day on my commute and it always made me think of the shows I went to at this venue (Also, Vincenttown. Do the punks still slam there?). I missed the two other Floorpunch shows here (one with Rain On The Parade and Vision, and the other with Human Remains and Earth Crisis). I went to this show with a bunch of friends, two of which, John Piorkowski…
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Collapse-Failure (Don Fury Session) Rain On The Parade-Do Or Die (Full Speed Ahead) Bikini Kill-I Hate Danger (The Singles) Direct Control-Hardcore For Heroin (Self Titled) Green Beret-Neutralize Me (Demo) The Unseen-I Don’t Care (Protect & Serve) Spazz-Rat Pack (Split With Black Army Jacket) Paintbox-Can’t Bear Anymore (Singing Shouting Crying) Saccharine Trust-The Worm’s Quest (Worldbroken) Talk Is Poison-Talk Is Poison (Condensed Humanity) The Comes-Panic (No Side) Christian Club-Christian Club Will Die (Self Titled) Knife Fight-Who Are You? (Out Of Print 2002-2004) No Rock Stars-I Hate School (No Core) False Liberty-Unity (Silence Is Consent) Fratricide-Going Under (Pusmort Sampler) Dead Nation-Jerk Off (First…
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