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December 22, 2020
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A Thin Line Fading, By My Side, Down In Flames, Embrace Today, No Justice, Rain On The Parade
I remember spending a lot of this show sitting in the back reading a book for one of my classes. I was taking a 20th century fiction course and was really taken by a few of the stories we were reading in the class. The professor for that class kind of had a punk background and checked out my fanzine of that era. I probably watched Down In Flames. However, the draw at this show was the first local appearance of No Justice, who had already gained quite the reputation for themselves without any recorded material. The hype was huge…
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February 20, 2017
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Degenerics, Ensign, Purpose, Rain On The Parade, Reach The Sky, Tears Of Frustration, Worthless
This was yet another one of those shows where I worked all day and then raced to the show…I got there an hour late and it still had not even started! Tears Of Frustration got added to this show and opened it. I remember they covered a YDL song and the crowd was pretty awkward about it. The Degenerics, after a few seven inches, were starting to get really hot around this time. People were into them and they would always bust out a couple Bad Brains covers. No specific memories of Purpose, Worthless (another band that played a lot…
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February 6, 2017
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Ensign, Fastbreak, Fit For Abuse, Purpose, Rain On The Parade, Skewbald
This show was mostly an average 1998 NJHC show except for the opener…who absolutely blew our minds… After a long day at work some friends met up with me at my house. I took a quick shower and we got on the road to Manville, which was like 80 minutes away or so. The night before I had a conversation with a friend who said to make we got to the show on time because the opener was incredible. Fit For Abuse absolutely blew our minds. Not too many bands were more influenced by the 82 style, yet, at the…
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January 30, 2017
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Boiling Point Fanzine, Down In Flames, Half Off, Hardware Fanzine, Mouthpiece, Rain On The Parade, Striking Distance, Teamwork Records, Time Flies
This was a long day! In the fall of 2000 I had three classes in the early afternoon up in Toms River: Gender Studies at 1200, Statistics at 1300, and then Biology at 1400. We had lab on Friday so my partner and I hurried through our lab stuff and I drove back down to Manahawkin to pick everyone up for the show. We then drove ALL the way up to Wayne, which is at least a two hour drive. I remember it was freezing cold and occasionally snowing as we drove up to the show. In the rush to…
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August 8, 2016
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Ignite, No Contest, Purpose, Rain On The Parade, Shutdown
My first show of 1998 took me to Yardley again, which had been the site of an infamous show a few weeks before. I don’t remember much about Purpose. No Contest opened with the intro from Age Of Quarrel (the song), which was pretty cool. Ignite were really late to this show. Shutdown played a long set where they busted out a ton of covers. Rain On The Parade hopped on and played a quick set too. I used to love it when this happened. Finally Ignite got there and pretty much got up on stage and began playing. They…
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June 7, 2016
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Automatic, Breakdown, By The Grace Of God, Ensign, Finish Line Fanzine, Game Plan Fanzine, Mincing Words Fanzine, Mouthpiece, Rain On The Parade, Speak 714, Ten Yard Fight
I was going to make it a three day weekened after the Breakdown show the day before with a Ten Yard Fight show in Philadelphia on Sunday, but I busted up my hand real bad at this show. Automatic was a new band with members of Mouthpiece and By The Grace Of God. They played melodic hardcore (ugh). I interviewed them but never printed it because it came out really badly. Rain On The Parade were, uh, Rain On The Parade. Princeton Arts Council had a nice stage, so I remember getting off a bunch of good dives and even…
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May 11, 2016
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Bane, Black Flag, Fast Times, Fired Up, Negative FX, Rain On The Parade, Underdog
Maybe Fast Times played this show too???? Bane got super big like six months after this show, but at this one they played to very few people. I remember their drummer blasting out some beats from a Negative FX song before they played. I yelled out “play that instead!” to some tumbleweeds. Wah wah. He seemed to appreciate it though. Rain On The Parade broke up at this show. For the first time. It is a long story, but there was some beef and they ended up breaking up. Not many people were into them besides the car of people…
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October 19, 2014
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Atari, By The Grace Of God, Rain On The Parade, Rancor, Youngblood
The first thing to mention about this show is that there were a bunch of rumors the day of the show that By The Grace Of God was going to get added. They were recording their album somewhere close by and I guess a bunch of people tried to convince them to come down to the show and play a quick set. The band passed and the show went on. I think someone with us skipped their junior prom or something like that to go to this show. Cool. Youngblood opened, but I don’t think they ever even did a…
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September 21, 2014
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Bladecrasher, Bold, Ensign, In My Eyes, Rain On The Parade, Redemption 87, Ten Yard Fight, Token Entry, Underdog, Unit Pride, Uprise
This might have been the first show I ever drove to, but I am not sure. Redemption 87 was one of the first of the “bringing it back” bands that emerged in the middle of the nineties. Their record suddenly popped up in the local record store, advertised as ex members of Token Entry and Unit Pride. Oh, really? Well the record was pretty good, although has not held up that well, and the hype around them was pretty massive. New Providence is at least an hour and a half from Manahawkin, probably more, and I think we took two…
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September 14, 2014
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Dag Nasty, Ensign, Fastbreak, Floorpunch, Follow Through, Kill Your Idols, Rain On The Parade, Saves The Day
This was the record release for Ensign’s first album. There was a major snow storm and some sleet in the area for this show. Of course, Justin and I forged ahead, almost got in an accident, and still managed to basically get to the show first besides a few random people. A few of these random people approached us while we sat on the back of my car. They looked kind of redneckish and said they loved Ensign, but also a bunch of tough guy bands. The one then called someone a fag and said that the bands they liked…
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