― mts (theoreticalgirl), Thursday, 9 March 2006 23:31 (eighteen years ago) link
skankin to the hit-hardbody in the pulse beatquivered in the been toldi'm a broke lump o' meatno this aint no mismatchi ain't got no death wishone thing bout this white trashwhat i gots a thrash wish
Okay, can I finally throw this flyer out now and why have I kept it for so long (aside from the fact that I had a couple classes with the guy in the band who probably wrote those lines)?
― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Friday, 5 May 2006 22:52 (eighteen years ago) link
http://uptownbones.com/
― mts (theoreticalgirl), Saturday, 6 May 2006 03:04 (eighteen years ago) link
no one here mentioned Schooley D - tch tch.
Jesus, glad film school got their van back. looks like im not the only to get gear raped this year.
― Uncle Tom (Uncle Tom), Saturday, 6 May 2006 03:46 (eighteen years ago) link
Schooly D! The Strapping Fieldhands! Mandrake Memorial!
-- scott seward (skotro...), April 22nd, 2004.
― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 6 May 2006 03:50 (eighteen years ago) link
(i always forget that extra L)
― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 6 May 2006 03:51 (eighteen years ago) link
?
― Unlimited Toothpicker (eman), Saturday, 6 May 2006 03:58 (eighteen years ago) link
film school arab straprosie thomasambulette
― mts (theoreticalgirl), Saturday, 6 May 2006 12:56 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/user/AllroyPA#play/uploads/10/hIuRLiljFQc
― _Rockist__Scientist_, Saturday, 12 September 2009 20:11 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2b7utZwzhw
― _Rudipherous_, Thursday, 26 November 2009 01:49 (fourteen years ago) link
A bit better, I'd say:
http://www.youtube.com/user/dazeystarr#p/a/u/0/-EXorsrqyTk
― _Rudipherous_, Thursday, 26 November 2009 02:04 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EXorsrqyTk
― _Rudipherous_, Thursday, 26 November 2009 02:05 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/music/The-Wawa-Jingle-Guy.html
― _Rudipherous_, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 12:19 (fourteen years ago) link
FINALLY, Scram's anthemic "Here Tonite" is up. Love this song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mRF3Kh_yko
My favorite local Philly band during the 80s, with Ruin as a close second.
And, also huge, "Stand Up":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvbgN_yjL6g
It's sad about Scram. They reinvented their sound as they went on, digging more deeply into African music, adding percussion, and drafting saxophonist Elliot Levin, but they didn't get much support.
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 25 June 2011 18:56 (twelve years ago) link
And you can complain about the protest lyrics (though I find them pretty palatable here) but you cannot deny the "Here Tonite" hook.
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 25 June 2011 19:10 (twelve years ago) link
Never saw this band live (probably would've been too scared?), but I liked some of their songs on the radio. the Sadistic Exploits:
http://freedomhasnobounds.com/?cat=30
(Actually I think they were from New Jersey, but close enough.)
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 25 June 2011 19:29 (twelve years ago) link
Oh and he's got live footage of RUIN from the 80s:
http://freedomhasnobounds.com/?cat=6
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRvYu_DUrpQhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiAJssHF6Bw
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 25 June 2011 19:49 (twelve years ago) link
Thank you youtube, I'm not getting any laundry done.
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 25 June 2011 19:53 (twelve years ago) link
This Baby Doll might be the best of the live videos I've checked out so far:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xah7WYiqJHU
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 25 June 2011 20:07 (twelve years ago) link
Anyone heard of Alex G?https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_G
― calstars, Thursday, 27 August 2015 03:15 (eight years ago) link
Yeah! I saw him play at OK Fest this year, he is p amazing
― Y Kant Max Read (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 27 August 2015 03:23 (eight years ago) link
There is so much amazing music in Philly right now (Pinkwash, Sheer Mag, Girlpool, Hop Along, Swearin', Waxahatchee, Cayetana, Amanda X, Chondria, +HIRS+, etc)
― Y Kant Max Read (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 27 August 2015 03:24 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pr2um9KXkgQhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHh5FWxxSy4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDprSv9DjxYhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mx3FcZmGyn8
― Y Kant Max Read (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 27 August 2015 03:31 (eight years ago) link
The Goats were Philadelphia weren't they? & were actually a band when they played live at least.I love Tricks of The Shade but not No Goats No Glory so much. They lost a central member between the 2 releases though I think. Have hoped that some live material by the band might appear somewhere but think I've only got one track possibly.
I know the Arkestra did spend some time in Philadelphia but can't think what era they were based there in. What Sun Ra lps does that relate to?
― Stevolende, Thursday, 27 August 2015 09:31 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GLqs-fwDM4
― _Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 4 October 2016 14:02 (seven years ago) link
Started a thread about this band, but I'm going to post it here too. These are reacreations, years later, by band member Todd Shuster, but I think the songs still come through. Late 70s Philadelphia punk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y88VGIIkTOAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bozfE4v5-MQhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tT5DQJiq35s
― _Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 4 October 2016 14:32 (seven years ago) link
Sink Manhattan (mentioned upthread):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFdJeupPLlQ
― _Rudipherous_, Sunday, 19 February 2017 02:06 (seven years ago) link
Ghostwriters (who I mistakenly called Ghost Riders upthread):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zh1t1he4IEY
― _Rudipherous_, Sunday, 19 February 2017 02:09 (seven years ago) link
no mention thus far of the great PURLING HISS? tsk tsk...
― alpine static, Sunday, 19 February 2017 10:10 (seven years ago) link
Lots of grist for my false nostalgia:
http://freedomhasnobounds.com/
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 11 March 2017 17:51 (seven years ago) link
Rudipherous, when were you in Philly?
― Fluffy Saint-Bernard (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 12 March 2017 14:35 (seven years ago) link
As a child, something like 1973-1978. As an adult: 1989-2008
But also went to Temple 1983-1987, and worked and played there most of 1987-1989.
― _Rudipherous_, Sunday, 12 March 2017 16:24 (seven years ago) link
Rightly or wrongly, my paying attention to local rock (and related fringe things) was largely limited to the 80s.
― _Rudipherous_, Sunday, 12 March 2017 17:02 (seven years ago) link
lol i wonder if you're friends with any of my friends who were doing the whole lancaster ave punk squat thing in the 90s
― Fluffy Saint-Bernard (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 12 March 2017 22:18 (seven years ago) link
I wasn't doing anything that interesting back then, although it's certainly possible that I might at least know someone who knows them. I smoked a joint at the Fake House once. That's about the closest I got to that scene.
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 13 March 2017 01:02 (seven years ago) link
I saw RUIN and Scram! much more often than any other local bands (not counting the Sun Ra Arkestra). Also, a lot of my experience of the bands from that era was via WXPN and WKDU (especially 78-83 before I started college).
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 13 March 2017 01:28 (seven years ago) link
(Or Relache, not that they were even a band of any sort.)
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 13 March 2017 01:31 (seven years ago) link
Relache! man, talk about nostalgia. ever go to a show at the funk dungeon? or hang out at the crass house at temple?
― scott seward, Monday, 13 March 2017 02:12 (seven years ago) link
i think i moved there in 1988. just in time to see karen finley at the painted bride.
― scott seward, Monday, 13 March 2017 02:13 (seven years ago) link
Nope to both of those. Was that a house occupied by Crass fans or something?
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 13 March 2017 02:39 (seven years ago) link
I know there were a lot of houses for different organizations (though that sounds unofficial!). I was in the honors program at Temple (not really what it sounds like) and when I first started there, they still had their own house. I think my college years (and beyond) would have been a lot more interesting if they had kept that house.
Like most Temple students (at that time--probably still?) I commuted. Had crushes on some of the Yardley girls who headed home every day in more or less the opposite direction.
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 13 March 2017 02:44 (seven years ago) link
yeah, it was just a big punk party house at temple. they would have shows.
― scott seward, Monday, 13 March 2017 02:52 (seven years ago) link
funk dungeon was a huge cavernous warehouse space in north philly where they would have massive parties and shows in the 80's. i did acid there once and had to walk home to center city in a snowstorm. that was frightening and memorable. and it took forever. it was miles from center city. but temple people would go there.
― scott seward, Monday, 13 March 2017 02:56 (seven years ago) link
You were probably at least safer thanks to the snow, but it doesn't sound like a great idea overall. Was Funk Dungeon north or south of Temple?
I was kind of a wuss in terms of what venues I would venture to, or what crowds I wanted to be around (although generally keeping a distance from skinhead punks was not such a bad idea).
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 13 March 2017 03:03 (seven years ago) link
i want to say it was on cecil b. moore so not that far north actually. it probably just felt like a million miles that night. nowhere i would have gone sober. i used to walk everywhere in philly when i was young. mostly during the day, but i would start walking north or west or south and just keep going. looking for records usually. i never took buses. just walked. but i never really "hung out" much outside of center city. that was my base except for a brief time in west philly.
― scott seward, Monday, 13 March 2017 03:11 (seven years ago) link
at night sometimes i would walk to a show at the khyber from my place and then take a cab to my door when it was done. i was all about getting in and out in a hurry.
― scott seward, Monday, 13 March 2017 03:13 (seven years ago) link
it was all so long ago. i don't think about it much anymore. it wasn't exactly cool to be in philly in the 90's. though it was a perfectly okay place to live. when we moved rufus was 2 months old and now he's 14! already many moons ago.
― scott seward, Monday, 13 March 2017 03:15 (seven years ago) link
scott, where in west philly were you?
― Fluffy Saint-Bernard (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 13 March 2017 03:16 (seven years ago) link
False nostalgia, incidentally, because (a) a lot of these bands were mediocre at best, to be honest and (b) I wasn't really having such exciting times nor was I that immersed in these scenes.
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 13 March 2017 03:23 (seven years ago) link
scott, oh yeah, I used to walk all over the place all the time (though took occasional public transportation and cabs). I miss that. I remember walking back from the Chestnut Cabaret to Spring Garden/Art Museum Area. Even when I was doing salsa dancing, I used to walk home to center city from Delaware Avenue at 2AMish and never really had problems.
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 13 March 2017 03:27 (seven years ago) link