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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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May 19, 2016
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Dan Hornacker, Ensign, Fastbreak, Geoff TDT, Good Riddance, Hands Tied, In My Eyes, Joe Oz, John Coltrane, Judge, Kurbjaw, Matt Smith, Nate Gluck, Sean McGrath, Shutdown, Sisters Of Mercy, Spice Girls, The Purpose, Turning Point, Weapon X, What Was Said Fanzine
This show was one of the big end of summer shows (along with Back To School Jam and the show that Gordo did) as the summer of 1997 began to wind down. We packed a crew into my car (and literally packed lunch) and headed up to the show. Weapon X would play their only show. WX had members of Ensign, Purpose, Kurbjaw, and some others and played pretty generic 1988 hardcore. They covered Turning Point and Judge. I interviewed Nate after the show. Their 7” was released in a limited edition of 200. I ended up with a handful…
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August 4, 2014
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200 North, Atari, Broken Glass Records, Carry On, Chain Of Strength, Champion, Cro-Mags, Crown Of Thornz, Crucial Response, Dead Kennedys, Down In Flames, DYS, Earth Crisisi, Esteem, Eulogy Records, Far From Breaking, Fastbreak, Forever & A Day, Grade, Havoc Records, Ignite, Kind Of Like Splitting, Last Rights, Late Night Revenge, Leeway, Let It Burn Records, Misfits, Murphy's Law, OHEV Records, One Word, Papa Roach, Parade Brigade Fanzine, Rain On The Parade, Raybeez, Reach The Sky, Redwood Records, Revelation Records, Right Brigade, Rites Of Spring, Saves The Day, Shark Attack, Shutdown, Skarhead, Soulside, Strife, Tear It Up, The Gatecrashers, The Get Up Kids, The Promise Ring, The Purpose, Thursday, Trial, True Blue, Turning Point, Twelve Tribes, Underestimated Records, Victory Records, War Zone
Issue three would be the end of Parade Brigade Fanzine and, as promised in issue two, we mostly only reviewed records that were sent to us. Boy were some of these records awful! John and I handle most of the reviews with only the Carry On and Esteem records getting both of us. Issue four would have had a Carry On interview that I think John actually did…? Our friend Ryan, who did a lot of grunt work with me getting this issue thrown together as quickly as it was, jumped in to do a few reviews as well. 200…
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June 23, 2014
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108, Agnostic Front, Arms Reach, Automatic, Avail, Bad Religion, Battery, Beyond, Big Wheel Recreation Records, Black Flag, Blackout Records, Boiling Point Fanzine, Bold, Breakdown, By The Grace Of God, C.R., Cargo Records, Christina Dong, CI Records, Cornerstone, Count Me Out, Dag Nasty, Dan Skebra, Deadguy, Degenerics, Double Decker Fanzine, Down Low, Dropkick Murphys, Earth Crisis, Ensign, Equal Vision Records, Exit Records, Fast Times, Fastbreak, Floorpunch, Found My Direction. Spazz, Full Speed Ahead, Get High, Gorilla Biscuits, Hansen Devola, Hatebreed, Ignite, Impact Fanzine, In My Eyes, In Reach, In The Blink Of An Eye Fanzine, It's Alive Fanzine, Kill Your Idols, Killing Time, Korn, Lifetime, Madball, Milhouse, Mincing Words Fanzine, Model American, Monster X, Morning Again, Mouthpiece, My War Records, Negative Approach, No For An Answer, No Holds Barred, None Of The Above Records, OS 101, Parade Brigade Fanzine, Parting Shot, Project X, Quicksand, Rain On The Parade, Raybeez, Ressurection, Revelation Records, Scared Straight, Screaming At A Wall Records, Second To None, Seein Red, Sepultura, Shades Apart, Shutdown, Sick Of It All, Silent Majority, Some Records, Something Beyond Fanzine, Speak 714, Stand Your Ground, Standard Issue, Straight Ahead, Strength 691, System Of A Down, Teamwork Records, Ten Yard Fight, The Abused, The Business, The Judas Factor, Third Party Records, Time Flies, Time Will Tell Fanzine, Turning Point, Underestimated Records, Uniform Choice, Unit Pride, Verbal Assault, Victory Records, Vinyl Rights Fanzine, War Zone, Wide Awake, Wreckage Records, Youth Of Today
These were the reviews from In The Blink Of An Eye Fanzine #2 (#1 was a brief one pager that a few of these reviews appeared in originally). After a few issues of What Was Said, I switched names and tried pretty unsuccessfully to reboot the fanzine. A lot of the same problems that plagued WWS were all over this one too. This came out in the summer of 1998. I am thinking late in the month of August perhaps? I did not do another fanzine for about eight months before the first issue of Parade Brigade Fanzine came together.…
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November 11, 2013
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Hogan's Heroes, OS 101, Rain On The Parade, Shutdown
I don’t remember a ton about this show, but I remember it was during my first semester in college on a Friday night because I had class until late in the afternoon and I drove down to Manahawkin, picked up our crew, then drove back up past Toms River again to Island Heights to meet up with OS 101. I don’t remember a lot about Rain On The Parade at this show, but I feel like the show was pretty empty because there might have been another show going on that night? Shutdown did their usual 90 NYHC covers, which…
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June 7, 2012
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Agnostic Front, Cro-Mags, Ensign, Inhuman, Leeway, Madball, Shutdown, The Last Stand
After hearing that Agnostic Front was doing a “theme” set for their thirtieth anniversary of the “Live At CB’s” set, I figured I should check it out. Now, obviously, I am not exactly the biggest fan of their newer work. Actually, I don’t like any AF records post Victim In Pain. Nevertheless, the live record is pretty ill and in a live setting songs like Toxic Shock and Strength sound great. I can definitely get into that. I made the trek up to Asbury Park after a quiet day of errands and just hanging out. I caught the last few…
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June 4, 2012
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Adolescents, Agnostic Front, Arctic Flowers, Bad Religion, Black Flag, Catherine Wheel, Chaos UK, Cold Sweat, Deathreat, Destino Final, Discharge, Distort Reality Records, Floorpunch, h2o, Hands Tied, HG Fact Records, Inhuman, Invasion, Iron Lung, Lush, Mind Eraser, Mob 47, Nerveskade, Nuclear Family, Outlast, Perdition, Rattus, Raw Power, Running For Cover, Shitlickers, Shutdown, Siamese Twins, Signal Lost, Sisters Of Mercy, Solutions, The Cure, The Exploited, Tragedy, Vacuum, White Wards
Siamese Twins Demo More Nu-Shoegazer stuff from this band. I seem to be checking out a lot of these bands lately. This six song demo is pretty good, but not something that is really drawing my attention that much. I’m not a big fan of Catherine Wheel and that, along with a bit of Lush, is what this demo reminds me of. There are some elements of The Cure or Sisters of Mercy immersed in their sound as well, which is a little different but nevertheless not really my thing. Big shoegazer fans will want to check this out. Outlast New Jersey…
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October 12, 2005
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25 Ta Life, A Death In The Family, Billingsgate, Black Turns Green, Count Me Out, Earth Crisis, Ensign, Fastbreak, Floorpunch, Good Riddance, Hands Tied, Hogan's Heroes, Ignite, In My Eyes, In The Blink Of An Eye Fanzine, Judge, Kurbjaw, Rain On The Parade, Redemption 87, Shutdown, Strength 691, Strife, The Purpose, The Straight Edge, Time Flies, Token Entry, Turning Point, Underdog, Vision, Weapon X
Weapon X was a band who only played one show at the Manville Elks Lodge on August 9th 1997. Members of Weapon X have also been in Ensign, Vision, The Purpose, Black Turns Green, Kurbjaw, A Death In The Family, and some others. I remember the week before Floorpunch, Vision, and 25 Ta Life played the same venue. In fact, Manville would be a consistent venue for a few years after this. Sometimes I really miss the place. It was easy to get to (go around the circle, go up six lights, make a left!), the people who ran it seemed to be really cool, and I always knew no matter what show I…
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