Signifying Nothing Fanzine #3 Out Now
Signifying Nothing Fanzine #3 is out now! This is a photo issue featuring bands from the 90s-2010s with record and show reviews for each band and a Full Speed Ahead interview. #2 is also on sale. Buy it here.
Tag Archive: Full Speed Ahead
Full Speed Ahead-Dead Nation-GI Schmoe-Blind Society @ Bayville NJ Fall 1998
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).
Best Of 2004
Demo Breathing Fire, Demo, USA, 2004 Iron Boots, Demo Tape, USA, 2004 Abusive Action, Unbreakable Demo, Netherlands, 2004 Born In Hell, Demo Tape, USA, 2004 Scapegoat, Demo Tape, USA, 2004 Shorter Knife Fight, Burning Bridges 7″, USA, 2004 Running For Cover, Human Ruins 7″, USA, 2004 Disclose, Apocalypse Continues 7″, Japan, 2004 Christian Club, Self Titled 7″, USA, 2004 Gorilla Angreb, Self Titled 7″, Denmark, 2004 Longer Full Speed Ahead, Born To Lose 12″, USA, 2004 Forward, Burn Down The Corrupt Justice 12″, Japan, 2004 Call The Police, 1984 In 2003 12″, USA, 2004 Get Real, Shore Style 12″, USA,…
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Alive & Well 8-30-98
Mercifully, this show got moved to Casino Skate Park. The openers were Full Speed Ahead, OS101, and Kid Dynamite, who were still fairly new and I had not yet heard before this show. I was not impressed. The bottomline is every band got their normal excellent reactions, but especially Vision and Floorpunch. Burn were really good. There were a couple of scuffles during their set because people were going off hard. I remember being told to avoid someone because “you don’t want to fuck with him.” Whatever.
Worthless-Full Speed Ahead-Diversity-Dead Nation-To Each His Own-Degenerics @ Asbury Park NJ 10-30-99
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.
Blind Justice-Full Speed Ahead-The Long Defeats-The Wilds-Rule Them All @ Asbury Park NJ 9-22-18
My only show of 2018 took me back to Asbury Park to see Full Speed Ahead. It’s about an hour from where I am living now back to the shore, but my GPS brought me in a different way that had me a little confused. The venue, which is actually a brewery, had a small lot for cars, so I had to drive around town a little bit before noticing the city office center had paid parking on the week. Huh. So I paid my $7 or whatever it was, checked with a cop walking by to make sure it…
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Full Speed Ahead-Fast Times-Dead Nation-Cut The Shit-Forward To Death @ Asbury Park NJ 9-4-04
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.
Kill Your Idols-Full Speed Ahead-Life’s Halt-No Reply @ New Brunswick NJ 7-12-00
A few different narrative lines going on at this show. The first one is the Life’s Halt/No Reply tour coming to New Jersey. These bands were red hot during that summer and a lot of people wanted to see them. I wasn’t a HUGE fan of either band, but I remember them being good at this show. This was Full Speed Ahead’s final show. They got a really wild reaction for their brief set. I wish there was a video of it because they got a nice send off. Their set was short because, apparently, Kill Your Idols would not…
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97a-Full Speed Ahead-SOV-To Each His Own-Lost Cause-Forthright @ Asbury Park NJ 9-25-98
This was the record release show for 97a’s “It’s In Our Power” record. Rain On The Parade are on some flyers for this show, but they canceled. I don’t remember a lot about the openers and honestly Full Speed Ahead either. One of my big memories from this show is a few of my friends from college coming out and wrecking people during FSA and 97a. I interviewed 97a at this show along with my friend Carson. I had been wanting to sit down with them for a few years and it was cool to finally do so. I had…
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Floorpunch-In My Eyes-Fastbreak-Reach The Sky-Fast Times-Full Speed Ahead @ Casino Skate Park Asbury Park NJ 11-28-98
Rain On The Parade did not play this show. They had played their “final” show, before getting back together the next summer, a few weeks before. This was the record release show for the Floorpunch LP. The record had come out maybe a month before and we had been listening to it non-stop. I went on a date the night before (with someone who ended up being best friends with the sister of a friend of ours) and could not sit still during the date because I was so excited for the gig. I worked all morning and when I…
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