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June 7, 2019
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7 Seconds, Better Than A Thousand, DBX, Earth Crisis, Enkindels, Fahrenheit 451, Fury Of V, Indecision, Madball, Misfits, Murphy's Law, Sick Of It All, Skarhead, Underdog
These “Alive & Well” shows were a huge deal at the time. I did a three show weekend starting with the Ink & Dagger/Bluetip show the night before in Philadelphia. I was really running my car all around the tri-state area. I cannot believe it lasted almost all the way into 2004! Day two was better than day one for sure, but more on that in a minute… So two big rumors that summer: Judge was rumored to be playing this, but the story went that Mike eventually said no. That actually seems reasonable. The other big rumor was Rest…
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July 10, 2017
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Candiria, Clubber Lang, Ensign, IDK, Indecision, Sick Of It All
I got in a brief scuffle during Sick Of It All’s set at this show. It was stupid and really bummed out afterwards because a few “friends” kind of distanced themselves from me. Whatever. In the summer of 99, I was so miserable and really falling apart. I don’t want to go into it too deeply on here, but right around this time was one of the lowest points in my life. I forget why, but during Ensign’s set a lot of people wore Strength 691 shirts. I guess because of Nate? I didn’t watch any of the other bands…
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May 15, 2017
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Agnostic Front, Clubber Lang, Degenerics, Ensign, For The Love Of, Indecision, Kid Dynamite, Kill Your Idols, Low End Theory, Nora, Reach The Sky, Sick Of It All, Sky Came Falling, Step Ahead, Stormshadow, Strength 691, Stretch Armstrong, The Purpose, Vision, Where Fear & Weapons Meet
The first ever benefit for Matt Leveton was in January 1999. Matt used to book shows at Manville and got seriously hurt in a car crash. These shows were a really big deal at the time and a nice showing of what can happen when the hardcore scene comes together for something good. The first day was highlighted by a reunion show for Strength 691. I remember seeing a lot of people who I had not seen in a few years, which is an odd feeling when you are 19, and hung around catching up with a lot of people.…
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August 26, 2014
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7 Seconds, Abombanation, Absolution, Adolescents, Adrenalin OD, Agent Orange, Agnostic Front, Akutt Innleggelse, Altercation, Anthrax, Anti Cimex, Articles Of Faith, Artificial Peace, Bad Brains, Bad Trip, Barely Human, Battalion Of Saints, Beyond, BGK, Bl'ast!, Black Flag, Blitz, Bold, Born Without A Face, Boskops, Breakdown, Butthole Surfers, Cause For Alarm, Cheetah Chrome Mother Fuckers, Chumbawamba, Circle Jerks, Civil Dissident, Cock Sparrer, Cockney Rejects, Colcor, Collapse, Condemned To Death, Conflict, Contrazione, Corrosion of Conformity, Crass, Cro-Mags, Crucifix, Crude SS, Crumbsuckers, Dead Kennedys, Deadline, Deadlock, Death Side, Decadence, Deep Wound, Die Kreuzen, Direct, Direct Approach, Dirty Rotten Imbeciles, Discharge, Discipline, DOA, Enola Gay, Enuf, Exploited, Extrem, False Prophets, Final Conflict, Fit Of Anger, Flux Of Pink Indians, G.B.H., Gang Green, Genocide Express, Gism, Gorilla Biscuits, Government Issue, Holy Dolls, Ignition, Impact, Inferno, Infest, Instigators, Iron Cross, Jerry's Kids, Judge, Kalashnikov, Kangrena, Krakdown, Last Rights, Leeway, Life's Blood, Lip Cream, Local Disturbance, Los Violadores, Millions Of Dead Cops, Minor Threat, Mob 47, Napalm Death, Nausea, Negative Approach, Negative FX, Negazione, Neon Christ, Neos, No Labels, No Rock Stars, ODFX, Our Gang, Outburst, Overkill, Pandemonium, Part 1, Peggio Punx, Poison Idea, Porcelain Forehead, Porno Patrol, PPG, Pressure Release, RAF Punk, Rattus, Raw Deal, Raw Power, Reagan Youth, Red C, Rest In Pieces, Rudimentary Peni, Saccharine Trust, Sacrilege, Scream, SCUM, Septic Death, Shit SA, Shitlickers, Show Of Force, Sick Of It All, Side By Side, Siege, Slaughterhouse 4, Slipknot, Society System DeControl, Sons Of Ishmael, Stains, Stand Proud, State, State of Alert, Straight Ahead, Subhumans, Suicidal Tendencies, Supertouch, Swiz, Teen Idles, Terveet Kadet, The Abused, The Afflicted, The Comes, The Dicks, The Execute, The Faith, The Fix, The Freeze, The FU's, The Groinoids, The Iconoclast, The Mob, The Offenders, The Partisans, The Proletariat, The White Lie, Token Entry, Trash, Treason, Trip 6, True Colors, Under Pressure, Underdog, Untouchables, Unwarrented Trust, Uppercut, Upright Citizens, Vicious Circle, Violators, Void, War Zone, Wargasm, Wretched, YDI, YDL, Youth Brigade, Youth Of Today, Zenzile, Zyklome A
Abombanation, Demo Tape, USA, 1988 The Abused, Loud & Clear 7″, USA, 1983 Adolescents, Self Titled LP, USA, 1981 Adrenalin OD, The Wacky Hi-Jinks of Adrenalin OD, USA, 1984 Agent Orange, Your Mother Sucks Cock In Hell 7″, Holland, 1983 Agnostic Front, Victim In Pain LP, USA, 1984 Altercation, Demo Tape, USA, 1988 Anthrax, Capitalism Is Cannibalism 7″, England, 1983 Anti-Cimex, Victims Of A Bomb Raid 7″, Sweden, 1983 Bad Brains, Rock For Light LP, USA, 1983 Battalion Of Saints, Fighting Boys 12″, USA, 1982 Beyond, No Longer At Ease LP, USA, 1988 Black Flag, My War LP, USA, 1983…
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August 11, 2014
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Breakdown, Grey Area, Hopewell, Implode, Rain On The Parade, Sick Of It All, Tears Of Frustration, Token Entry, Voice Of Reason
This show did not get a big turnout, but Breakdown was playing so you knew we were going to be there! Rain On The Parade cancelled this show, but Tears Of Frustration got added. We got to the show as they began playing, but I do not remember much about their set. Grey Area were a band with members of Token Entry that played really melodic stuff. They had a record on Victory around this time. Breakdown was, of course, the big attraction at this show. They played their usual great set as they did a lot around this time.…
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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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June 16, 2014
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Blood For Blood, Cro-Mags, Sick Of It All
This was a show that began pretty bumpy, but ended up being okay in the end. John and I got a late start heading up to north Jersey. When we got onto the Turnpike to head towards Hoboken we missed our exit somehow and ended up having to go into the city via Jersey City instead. After wandering through New York City we eventually reached the venue. Thankfully we had tickets already because they were turning people away at the door. Some of my friends used to get really annoyed at my insistence on buying tickets when possible, but it…
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January 2, 2014
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Black Flag, Blink 182, Descendents, Fury Of V, h2o, Limp Bizkit, Pennywise, Second To None, Sick Of It All, Social Distortion, Straight Ahead
It’s so funny to me that my students still go to this thing and are super psyched on it. Back in the nineties, this seemed so corporate and annoying. I cannot even imagine what it is like now, but I guess FESTS are this massively normal thing now, so whatever. No one seems to blink an eye either at the expense of these shows either. I only went to this because I got onto some kind of promotional guest list. The local record store got some passes so they gave me one and a few friends of mine got them…
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August 22, 2013
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Cockney Rejects, Fire & Ice, Parade Brigade Fanzine, Rest In Pieces, Sick Of It All, The Ducky Boys
First off, this venue is fantastic. Nice mid-sized place with a big stage and a secondary level and bar. The sound is good and the bouncers kept off to the side and didn’t brutalize anyone. This is a great place for hardcore shows and I hope to go back soon. I had not thought about The Ducky Boys in many years and and was surprised to see that they were still around and putting out records. They are definitely not my thing, but that is cool they have stuck around. After they played I wandered outside and ran into a…
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June 6, 2011
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Adolescents, Anti Sect, Antidote, Bad Brains, Cockney Rejects, Discharge, Disorder, DYS, Gism, Jerry's Kids, Minor Threat, Necros, Podcast, Pushead, Rudimentary Peni, Sick Of It All, Society System DeControl, State of Alert, Subhumans, The Faith, The FU's, True Sounds of Liberty
Here’s the idea: Instead of doing regular Signifying Nothing podcasts this summer, I thought a cool idea would be to do podcasts chronicling the famous Top 100 Records of the Eighties that Pushead did many years ago. If people like this, I’d love to try it with various specific record labels too. Twenty songs for each. I think this will be cool. Discharge-War’s No Fairy Tale Society System DeControl-Get It Away Subhumans-Parasites Minor Threat-Bottled Violence Bad Brains-The Regulator True Sounds of Liberty-Abolish Government/Silent Majority Disorder-Violent Crime Rudimentary Peni-Black President Jerry’s Kids-Raise The Curtain Anti Sect-Channel Zero Reality Gism-Death, Agonies, &…
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