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December 22, 2020
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Aggressive Threat, Billy Club Sandwich, Bulldoze, Homicidal, Icepick, Killing Time, Underdog
The flyer for this show says it was “the last matinee” at CBGB and I’m pretty sure it was the last time I went there. CBGB was a shithole and I hated every second I spent in it. Clean your damn bathroom! We got up to New York City pretty early for this one and ended up in a bar with a few friends making asses of themselves trying to hit on super uptight preppie women. I had a cell phone by then, so I went outside and texted with a friend who was supposed to meet up with us…
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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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September 26, 2016
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Antidote, Dynamo, Full Speed Ahead, The Icmen, Underdog
After a pretty iffy Antidote show in Red Bank a few weeks before, we headed up to Asbury Park to see them again. Full Speed Ahead were also playing, but another band really impressed us. Dynamo was Carl The Mosher’s, ex of The Icemen and Underdog, newest band. In fact, I think a few people from his lineup of The Icemen were in it? They were great NYHC kind of mixing up the 82 and 88 styles. People started going off and also Rat Bones was there getting down. We had gotten to know him a little bit and despite…
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August 15, 2016
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Underdog
This was a pretty generic Underdog show. They were quite good and I chilled up front for the whole set because a bunch of drunk BACK IN THE DAY dickheads were dancing like shitheads. I have no memory of who else played at all.
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June 20, 2016
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Murphy's Law, Underdog
I do not remember the venue this was at, but I think it was some kind of cafe in the newly redone Asbury Park. A band with Russ from Underdog in it also played. Murphy’s Law were GREAT at this show! They stuck to the hits, even opening with “Intro,” which got the dance floor really moving. The only problem was they played FOREVER and after about an hour I went outside. They played for another 30 minutes or so.
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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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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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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 13, 2014
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Fear Tomorrow, Follow Through, Underdog, Vision, Wide Awake
Wide Awake played without their singer. Craig from Follow Through/Fear Tomorrow/etc did vocals. I remember they had some new songs that were more of a later Dischord Records style sound. I think there is a demo too? I was never a big Wide Awake fan. Everything after the intro quickly has diminishing results. Underdog were fine at this show, but you could start to tell some people in the band might not be as into the reunion thing as others. I remember a lot of diving at this show to the point where people were sitting down to be launched…
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July 9, 2014
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Fahrenheit 451, Floorpunch, Mouthpiece, To Each His Own, Underdog
I remember very little about this show and had to ask a few people to remember much about it. I remember Rat Bones going off hard for Underdog. This was the show I think I first heard about the possibility of Mouthpiece playing some shows, which wouldn’t happen for another few years. Related: Someone in a big band at the time was chatting with a member of Mouthpiece at this show talking about how important Mouthpiece were and that they could really kick start what was starting to be a slowing down hardcore scene in New Jersey. That same person…
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