Rev...

Recently I was discussing the merits of all the fantastic mid 90s punk bands. Said friend recommended the Ten Foot Pole record called "Rev". I finally tracked it down today. Man, I'm kicking myself for not discovering this one sooner. I loved this style so I'm lost as to why I overlooked this one. I know I have even seen this band a few times. Great melodic and fast punk band featuring Scott Radinszky of some major league baseball team. Also singer of great 80s hardcore band Scared Straight. Anyways, every song on this is great, completely creative and packed with memorable hooks. A+++
There are some shows coming up, each one filled with all the same bands that play every show around here for the last couple of years. So much for anything new, right?
I saw a kid skate into the road this morning and he was nearly leveled by a bus. He had an Adolescents shirt on and I thought that was pretty cool.
Breakfast today was good.

Exploding Head...

I meet people who have been into hardcore for years, like 5 or 6 years, and they have never hear bands like the Circle Jerks or Blitz or NOTA or Agent Orange or Adolescents or Government Issue. Shit! I remember buying every punk and hardcore related item that I could find, trying to hear as much of everything that I could. Now it seems like not a whole lot of people care about that stuff. Just download the shitty Bridge 9 back catalogue and you are set. You are a hardcore all star now! Idiot. Next topic...
At that endless summer jam show aka show with at least 7 or 8 too many bands, I heard someone make fun of some young guy because he wasn't dressed to fit the current lame hxc dress code. Perhaps its time to check out when the sheep are more concerned about what people are wearing at shows instead of wondering why the music isn't that good. Oddly enough, when I got into this whole mess, it was about doing your own things and getting away from the highschool douchebags. Now its about being the highschool douchebags. Imagine this... You are in school. You are pretty much a loser, no friends, etc. But you find punk and its filled with cool people just like yourself. You think, "hey I like it here, people are just like me here". So you stay. You get some friends. You see some bands. You travel around a bit. Hell, you might even meet a girl. Then you get an ego. You start thinking you are much cooler than you actually are. You start to judge people and look down on people who you don't think are cool enough for your hxc hipster crowd. Imagine that... the guy who got into punk and hxc to get away from that type of people because honestly you were never cool enough to hang with them but now you act exactly like them. The joke's on YOU!!!