cave 9 - birmingham, AL DIY space documentary

part 1 of 2

part 2 of 2

one can never stress enough how important it is to support your local/independent DIY communities. especially these spaces that struggle to provide a safe place for people to come together on the common ground of art, music, and even just plain old togetherness. talk to someone new, start a band, start a zine, make a blog. do it yourself.

skate witches: a short film from 1986

i figured i might as well post this one too, while i was at it. old school nostalgia at it's finest!

pretty in punk: 1985 boise, idaho punk documentary

part one of three

part two of three

part three of three

it's been a while since i've posted some found video here, and this one fits the bill quite well. i find it odd there's no mention of septic death, or had they moved west by this point?

enjoy, and as always UP THE PUNX!

video: Wake Up! A Profile of Positive Force

view it on google video

from the google video description:
A documentary about Positive Force, a loosely organized group of young people working for social change. P.F. members volunteer in the Washington DC community and promote benefit rock concerts for a wide variety of groups. They also try to live according to a set of humane values.

Wake Up! was created in 1991 by David Weinstein. It features the punk activist group Positive Force. It also features bands, labels and activists such as Fugazi, Mark Anderson, Jenny Toomey, Tsunami, The Ex, and more.

i especially enjoyed the footage on early 90s DIY washington, DC record label, simple machines. very inspiring!!

video: health - triceratops

HEALTH "Triceratops"
by saullevitz

here's a video from a band i was lucky enough to see a few times during sxsw. the band is called HEALTH, and hail from los angeles, california. their performances are a sonic assault combining elements of guitar noise, stabs of feedback, desperate chanting, and wild, tribal drumbeats. this video was apparently shot using the built-in isight cams on thirteen different macbook pro laptops. pretty cool idea.

the raleigh scene - 1984

view it on google video

today, i discovered another very cool hardcore documentary, this one covering the scene in north carolina during 1984.

from the video description:
documentary on raleigh, north carolina hardcore punk scene produced by unknown high school student for a/v class circa 1984. featuring interviews with reed mullin [corrosion of conformity], simon bob sinister [ugly americans, corrosion of conformity], scott williams [bands too numerous to list (second coming, straight on 'zine, and most recently, double negative)], and many others. performances by battalion of saints and subculture.

see also:
Ugly Americans - Philadelphia Freedom (restless records) ‘86 via 7inchpunk
V/A - No Core Compilation Cassette via killed by death records

the (scottish) freeze

sure, the boston freeze rank up there with some of the best american hardcore, but lately i've been giving the scottish freeze repeated listens. the haunting ballad "psychodalek nightmare" lurches along oozing proto-punk, even with its well-suited use of violin. this is the song that sucked me in, and really brings to mind the mike rep and the quota's anthem "heavy metal has destroyed my mind."

the freeze - psychodalek nightmares

view it on youtube

the video is a little disappointing in the fact that it's just a slideshow of cover art and a promo shot, and that's it, aside from a little bit of lineup and record infos.

from the video's youtube page:
The Freeze were formed in 1976 by Gordon Sharp, David Clancy and Keith Grant, all pupils together at school in Linlithgow, West Lothian. By 1977 and after linking up with drummer Graeme Radin, the band started gigging around Scotland, often playing support to many of the main punk and new wave bands of the day.
On Feb 24th 1978 they participated in the Stiff/Chiswick challenge series -- designed to highlight the U.K.'s top, unsigned acts at Edinburgh's Clouds Disco. Among those performing were The Skids, The Subs, The Monos, The Cuban Heels, Groper, The Freeze, and The Scars.

Two 7inch's were released on the A1 label, 1979's In Colour EP followed by 1980's Celebration/Crossover single.

Best moments-1: The Astoria Ballroom with our friends from Dalkeith singing along to Psychodalek Nightmare

Best moments-2:After being stopped by police on the way home from a gig where they got very excited about a substance in Roys pocket to get it returned 4 weeks later with a note to say it was violin resin, a fact that we had told the police at the time of our arrest!

more of the freeze on youtube
Kilt By Death: The Sound Of Old Scotland - previously posted here, a compilation containing some classic freeze tracks.

Documentary On Punk 1987 - hollywood

in this video, we learn about the "depunking center," see "satanic" graffiti featuring drawings of such band logos as corrosion of conformity, and learn how anarchy symbols are "warning signs" for concerned parents.

totally recommended for a good laugh!!


watch it on youtube

"he's punk ...probably hardcore." - concerned parent

squatter days - a film by james c. fattu

here's a documentary on philadelphia squatters i've stumbled across on youtube, originally posted in four parts. i've combined the parts into a playlist for easier viewing. thanx to the creators, the subjects, and to whollyghost, one of the subjects of this film who originally uploaded it.

cichlids - be true to your school LP

a little trip to the bookstore today yielded this dusty piece southern florida new wave punk rock history.  only fitting i should mention that, just yesterday, the fabulous killed by death records blog posted probably the best record to come out of south florida during the period, the eat's - communist radio/catholic love 7" 45.  a perfect companion to the record i'm covering here.

as the story goes, the cichlids made their debut in 1979 and became an overnight local sensation.  trying to cash in on the current trend in punk rock, disco label TK records signed the cichlids, but sadly enough, internal conflicts caused the band to break up shortly after the album was released.  the recent filming of a documentary of the 70s florida punk scene [trailer] prompted a reunion and sparked plans for another album.

the cichlids - be true to your school LP [vinyl rip]
http://sharebee.com/d5e25b8f
mp3 320kbps VBR  [57.98 MB]

01 missionary man
02 with my girl
03 bubble gum
04 jewish girls
05 lifeguard dan
06 ups and downs
07 let's go menial
08 14 or fight
09 follow the trend
10 these boots were made for walkin'
11 did you ever
12 planned obsolescence
13 ubangi stomp

the record is non-stop energy from the moment the needle drops into the groove on side A, until it picks up from the end of side B.  comparisons may range from early blondie to the rezillos to x-ray spex to the runaways with a sneaky touch of beach boys added in there somewhere as well.  fans of female-fronted punk will not be disappointed!

the cichlids covering iggy and the stooges "search and destroy"


the cichlids - ubangi stomp/let's go menial


the cichlids on myspace

more south florida punk:
The Reactions - Love You E.P. 7″
The Eat - Communist Radio/Catholic Love 7″

stupids/hard-ons - no cheese 10" - food-core as a genre??

01 no reason (minor threat)
02 this is the norm? (stupids)
03 fun (trad.)
04 let's go (ramones)
05 walk all over you (ACDC)
06 C.I.D. (uk subs)
07 nuf (trad.)
08 all set to go (hard-ons)

mp3 320 VBR
http://lix.in/-34c973 [re-up 11.20.08]

File Size: 35.69 MB

australia's hard-ons team up with english skaterock goof-balls, the stupids for an 8 song /10 inch slab of banana yellow food-core vinyl. this record is often mistaken for a split, which is not the case on this particular platter. the idea was to make a record souvenir for their "high-way to hell" tour, with both bands collaborating in the studio. sort of creating the proverbial voltron of goof-ball hardcore punk, if you will. the result was four cover versions (minor threat, ramones, ACDC, and UK subs), one of each of the bands' originals, and two pisstake joke "songs" in the tradition of napalm death/sore throat etc.

both of these bands are among my favourites, simply due to the sheer amount of fun that comes through in the style and recordings. they're kinda hard NOT to like. check out this video, too:

hard-ons - something about you

more stupids STUPIDS- Violent Nun 7"EP (COR, UK, 1985) via good bad music for bad, bad times! the stupids - peruvian vacation LP via zxunami @ taringa the stupids - van stupid LP via mattsfinn @ multiply the STUPIDS: Jesus Meets the Stupids (1987 - LP) via hangover heart attack

more hard-ons HARD-ONS - Love is a Battlefield Of Wounded Hearts via hangover heart attack Hard Ons - Yummy (1990) via ausrock Hard-ons - Very Exciting 1993 via I Am a Rabbit Hard-Ons - Singles (1994) via building a drain to house the insane Hard-Ons - This terrible place via subers

the nils - freedom

while we're on the subject of melodic canadian punk, those three words cannot be said within the same breath without mentioning the nils. the nils perfectly filled the gap between the replacements and husker du, and their guitarist alex soria was often referred to as "the canadian paul westerberg."

the nils on myspace
http://www.myspace.com/thenilsmtl

the nils - self titled
via willfully obscure

the sad, tragic story of alex soria

via model citizen...zero discipline

some columbus video luv

though neither interest me in the slightest, i'll take dumpster fires over buckeye football anyday.
lazy post. let's go you tubing...

Times New Viking - "We Got Rocket" Homemade Video


Times New Viking - "Little Amps"


Gaunt video by Gaunt

gaunt @ something i learned today
gaunt @ born in the basement

The New Bomb Turks - Girl Can Help It

new bomb turks @ born in the basement

killed in action record release

glen e. friedman - photographer, vegan, activist, hero

FUCK YOU ALL the interview with GLEN E. FRIEDMAN before the museum exhibition opening in ROME 1998

glen's coverage on skateboarding and hardcore punk bands in the 80s is unsurpassed, providing many of the striking, iconic photographs that reached all types of media, still embeded in the back of my mind to this day. just found this interview and thought i'd share.

here's a sample of his work. just random, but you'll recognize it, i'm sure:


if anyone has an extra copy of MY RULES photozine, which glen himself published and distributed in 1982, please get in touch. perhaps we can strike up a deal!!

more info here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_E._Friedman

doggy style - 80s so-cal hardcore funpunks

doggy style - donut shop rock

a pretty good dialogue involving the original doggy style guitarist ed caudill had played out in the comments on the punk vault blog on another post regarding the band. here's most of what transpired:

# Ed Caudill Says:
August 25th, 2006 at 1:35 pm

Cool, I’ll check it out.
Here’s a little history on Donut Shop Rock. I wrote that song along with Ladies From Neptune, Nymphomaniac, and skate party etc… when I was in a little Esperanza high school punk band called AWOL and brought these songs with me to DS. Donut Shop Rock was written about an episode involving a donut shop ran by non english speaking foreigners. We used to go in the shop and ask for donuts by pointing to a donuts while saying, “I’ll take the motherfucking piss licking shit fuck donut right there….and they would just smile and get the donut…lol (What can you say….we were little kids and were amused easily…lol) Anyways, one day a group of us including my brother, were in the donut shop. My brother was about the break the high score on space invaders when one of the owners unplugged the machine so he could sweep around it. This guy never bothered to ask or explain what he was doing….As you can imagine, we were pissed and decided to trash the place. We brought in my brothers little scooter and began to burn out and do figure eights inside the place, then we pushed the space invaders machine into the pathway that allows workers to enter the dining area trapping them behind the counter. We threw anything we could get our hands on while the owner watched helplessly. The whole things was over in an instant, but it was from this experience that I wrote Donut Shop Rock…lol
Ed Caudill
# Ed Caudill Says:
August 25th, 2006 at 2:39 pm

Hey, I’m on a roll…lol Bart http://myspace.com/ladiesfromneptune asked about the spanish lyrics in “Be Strong.
I wrote “Be strong” right before we went in to do the 7″. We were really starting to take the whole unity thing pretty serious and were really concerned about the punk scene in southern california and how fragmented it had become. I had heard someone mention the phrase, “use your head” and I kept thinking about how true that was, and I wrote Be Strong with that in mind. Brad then took the lyrics I wrote and added a little to them. Now for the spanish part. I wanted this song to reach out to punks of all nationalities including hispanics. (including two members of DS, Ray Jimez and Lou Guyez…lol) So with the help of my father who is a language professor i wrote the phrases in spanish to be like sound bites when we sang them:

Use Your Head

Down with the fools

give us your support

and your belief.

However, the misspellings on the record insert were all mine…lol

Ed Caudill
# Shermdog Says:
August 25th, 2006 at 9:41 pm

Ed: Do you stil talk to any of the old DS guys? Why did you guys break up and what are you doing now?

Also, thanks for the kick ass music. I dont think I could have made it through my young punk skater years without you guys. I still rock out to my old DS shit on a regular basis. Doggy Style II is still one of my all time favorites.

Thanks for the story behind Donut Shop Rock!
# Ed Caudill Says:
August 26th, 2006 at 5:00 pm

Hi Shermdog,
I haven’t seen Ray since the Doggy Style II days. He marrried with kids etc… Last I saw Lou, Him and Brad were promoting the Orange County Roxbury. And I last saw Brad at a friend’s funeral a couple years ago.

You know it really makes me happy to see that some people still like the music.

Here’s the story behind the break up of Doggy Style. We just finished our last show in Reno Nevada and we were all talking and somehow splitting up became the subject. It appeared that Brad and Lou had already made up their minds to leave. We had just come off a long tour and were a bit burned out. In addition, I sensed that Brad was ready ditch the whole Straight Edge Punk thing for Rap. In fact, later during Double Freak (We used to call them Double Mint) we used to tease Brad X and call him Vanilla Ice because looked and acted exactly like him on stage…lol I have never met a more ambitious person than Brad X. When Brad decided he wanted something…He burned for it until he got it. DS had the Good fortunate of having a front man like Brad X fronting the band. Nonetheless, in retrospect, one can see that he was ready to launch his career as a Rap artist. Who could blame him, DS had been a nonstop crazy party for nearly three years.. So, this really was the time to either take a break or move on. And I was not in a creative mode, so Brad made a decision to start a rap project. However, it was his deceptive tactics that led to the Doggy Style II record..lol

Here’s how the battle over the name started. There were some exciting things happening for DS during this period. Slash Records was courting us and MTV wanted to air “Donut Shop Rock.” However, MTV wanted us to change our name. Our attitude was, it didn’t matter, whatever….we already decided to break up, but I suggested we use Doggy Smile for the Video. Interestingly, Brad and Lou insisted we use the name “Doggy Rock,” so I went along. Immediately, after the Video aired Brad began announcing his new band to anyone that would listen, “Doggy Rock”…lol Now I knew for sure, why they wanted to break up the band. I was bummed that they were not honest and up front about what their intentions were. If they had asked to use my song to help promote their new band I would have had no problem with it. We were all quite puzzled and could not understand why they went to all that work to be so deceptive when all they had to do was ask. I called Brad and asked him explain why, I don’t remember what his exact words were, but I remember a lot of back peddling and BS…lol. That’s when I made up my mind to stick it out with Doggy Style for one more recording, justifying it on the basis that if Brad and Lou could shamelessly steal my material to promote their next project. I could proceed with a dream of mine, and that was to write, record and produce a Second Full LP Doggy Style record. Only this one would feature Ed Caudill and Ray Jimenez …lol It was never intended to be a new band. Ray immediately came on board and Flipside records soon after. When Brad heard what I was doing, he began calling me up and threatening litigation, claiming to own the Copy Right to the name DS name…”We’ve got the Chicks, We own Copy right” (Dub This Dude, DS II), then they decide to scrap the name Doggy Rock for Doggy Style. Now you had two Doggy Styles! Who’s more legitimate?…lol Most importantly whose record is gonna be out first?. The Doggy Style II record was written and recorded in about six weeks. In fact, I heard a rumor that Brad and Lou were actually gonna finish ahead of us, so I immediately went in and finished mixing the whole DS II record in one nonstop 36 hour session. After the mixing was done….I never wanted to step foot in a recording studio again…lol The DS II record ended up being released a couple of months before “the last laugh”. My goal was to slam DS II with a shit load of songs to make appealing, The whole conceptual theme of the record was based on the subject of the homeless that exists in America. Brad and Lou’s idea to make their record appealing was give away free condemns in theirs records…lol I believe it worked because I remember they were interviewed on the news…lol However, I was only interested in one studio record. Doggy Style II was never supposed to be a band, but only a record…and that’s exactly How I kept it, in fact, I only played two shows supporting the DS II record. To this day, I’m really proud of the DS II record. It’s a great recording. I’m especially proud of the Song, “Schaefer’s Revenge,” written about DS’s original and only Rhythm guitar player, Michael Schaefer who played with me on the “Work as One” 7 inch and who seems to have been completely forgotten. After he left, I never replaced him. Later, Flipside wanted another release, which I turned down, so they turned to Ray. Now DS consisted only of Ray. I pleaded with Ray not to do it, but Flipside talked him into doing it. The subsequent record is called “Don’t Hit Me Up”. Which I personally can’t stand!…lol Later, I guess Flipside must have sold the rights to DS to Triple X cause I’ve seen the Doggy Style II and Don’t Hit Me Up CD on XXX. I think this is a really unfortunate. “Don’t Hit Me Up” was never supposed to have happened and really has little in common with “Doggy Style. The whole record plays out like a bad D.I. record. Moreover, it had strayed too far from the original and even Ray recognized it and soon called it quits. I don’t blame Ray for doing it; it’s not easy giving up a fun gig. Interestingly, The picture they used for “don’t hit me up had been a picture we had taken for DS II in an old abandoned house where we threw paint all over the walls. Anyways, XXX must have cut me out of the picture and deleted my name when they decided to release DS II and “Don’t Hit Me Up” together on one CD cause you won’t find my name anywhere on it.

Any other questions about Doggy Style….Better Ask them now while I’m on a role…lol
Ed Caudill

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doggy style - side by side


download it here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?a1bwzzlmynm
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dressed for the h bomb posted the first 7" doggy style - work as one on mystic records. the comments on that post are pretty informative, if not amusing as well.

doggy style myspace | doggy style fan myspace

locofox!? russian badass!!

http://www.myspace.com/feartheripper

insane in the membrane!!

legion of doom youtubed - a few more videos

Japanther - I wanna be part of something


Japanther at the Legion of Doom


guiltmaker


damezumari - altruism


damezumari - second chance


damezumari - the Mark on the Wall


damezumari - coffee spoons and knives