New Jersey, USA. Anyone wanna start a CRAZY BAND

NORTH JOIZEY.

if anyone in Northern NJ is interested then please let me know.

-Mike

I hope that it isn't. This whole state is filled with (bad) Metal cover bands or (horrible)Emo shits.

I'm just looking for Cool Ill Na Na's. You know what I mean?

P.S. Hehehehe, Ned Raggett posted on my post. It's an Honer, Sir.

Now, you can't spell "honor" to save your life, so you must be like a real crazy rock and roller (40 years after the fact). Rock on!

http://www.sonymusic.com.tw/intl/crazytown/crazytown-b.jpg

c'mon, you're really one of the Feelies trying to reform the band to cash in on the punk/post-punk revival right?

I was in such a typcial NJ band. We were called Mosaic. The guys in the band were super into Faith No More, Rage Against the Machine, Grunge etc. I joined later and played sampler. We covered Karmadrome by Pop Will Eat Itself. We opened up for Animal Bag (the band playing in the opening credits of My So Called Life!) at Club Benè in Sayreville. We also played at Obsessions, a teen night-club.

I met Dave from Native Nod(now w/ Ted Leo) around then but we weren't one of those cool NJ punk bands, just a bunch of ex-metalheads and their sampling buddy Dan. Maybe if we played our cards right (and got half the band to cut their hair) we'd be on DFA, but it wasn't in the cards. Actually, we were really terrible, but it was fun. After seeing Meat Beat Manifesto in concert, I started wearing a mag-light flashlight on a shoe-lace around my neck so I could load samples in between songs and see what I was doing.

Oh good lord, them. Somehow I ended up with promo copies of their two albums, which I immediately pulverized.

Now, someone will mention the Court Tavern - just watch.

That was about as south jersey as I'd get, and we almost didn't make it as our guitar player, leading a 5 car caravan, got into a fender bender as we were getting on the highway.

I did go to City Gardens once. Excuse me...Shitty Gardens. I saw Meat Beat Manifesto and 808 State!

hamilton st. cafe! which i don't like very much but my band played there several times!

hamilton st.
birch hill
garfield vfw
augh, probably two or three others i don't remember

i have never ever been to the cove. nor to any shows in anyone's house. (i should write here that i really fucking can't stand the njhxc scene shit)

Shitty Gardens --- saw an excellent Killing Joke show there once. And MBV/Dinosaur Jr. loud as f*ck.

Ha! Club Bene with the live Uncle Floyd Experience. Didn't Howard Stern also do some shows there?

Mmmoooothers !(Wayne, NJ)

stop me now.

I did see a friend perform at Something Else, the diner/youth performance space in Montclair, and many a battle of the bands at the local JCC(ex-YM-YHWA)

Chilltown, P-Town, Brick City. You know.

I'm just having fun, you know. Hudson, Union, Morris and parts of Somerset county as well.

of all the east coast-centric threads on ilx, this is the one that really makes me wish i lived out there.

Geoff, what are you smoking? NJ is getting on a 4 lane highway to drive 1/4 mile to get milk, huge malls, traffic traffic traffic, obnoxious boring people with weird accents, miles of subdivisions, and office parks stranded on highways. The redeeming features are pretty much good diners and proximity to NYC. That's it.

lyra, you are crazy. see:

defend the indefensible: new jersey

for all the NJ defendin' you need.

Since I've derailed this thread from NJ night clubs, I think that the first concert I went to sans-parents was something at the Common Grounds coffee house in Summit. My friend DJ's band played at Obsessions a few times.. I think I even still have one of their t-shirts. I'm blanking on the name of the place we used to go out near Chester, though.

Joe's may well be reopening at a different location in JC in the near future...

also, WAYNE FIREHOUSE! i saw the slackers there for free (despite it not being a free show)

and of course, in the great TS: north vs. south debate: NORTH BY FIVE ZILLION LIGHT YEARS

-- joseph (unkleco...) (webmail), May 23rd, 2005 1:15 AM. (joseph) (later) (link)

Dude did you sleep through emo?

just to repeat...I was teasing when I implied anything that wasn't Essex county was South Jersey, or NY state.

-green parrot (neptune)
-patrix (new brunswick)
-scott hall (new brunswick/rutgers)
-yeah, the court tavern (new brunswick)
-the basement of some horrible route 35 club (central jerseyans like maria will understand the implication) where my friends' band played on my 21st birthday
-the beat 'n path (hoboken - now the whiskey bar?)

yadda yadda yadda

My band didn't get to play any of these places. We just played Battles of the Bands at St. Vincent's church in Madison. Rush, Sabbath, Zep, VH, etc.

Later on, I would go to Maxwells before it got lame, and then while it was lame, and after it returned from lameness.

i too consider the driscoll bridge to be the mason-dixon line of NJ.

did anyone see shows at the elks or masonic lodge in metuchen?

(both New Brunswick)

They had great house dj's at The Roxy. Sorority girls on fire to "Work It To The Bone".

who remembers Planet X records? I went once.

Remember when Vintage Vinyl was REALLY good? I bought Sun City Girls records and an xpressway video there.

Crazy Rhythms was good enough to name a DJ team after...

but it was Cafe Soundz that changed my life...

The big dog in the "scene" back then, though, was Ricky Saporta and all his shows. At the Drive-In at Manville and huge Wayne Firehouse shows (it was Big Fucking Deal when Jimmy Eat World played).

Man, this thread takes it back. I haven't thought of these years (or these bands) in forever. Seems I was on more of the pop punk/screamo-y side than many of you folks, though. Lanemeyer, Humble Beginnings, Bigwig, Shady View Terrace -- I ate that shit up. Yikes.

please raise a glass now to big nurse, nudeswirl, monster magnet, they might be vaginas, daisy cutter, gigantic, freak theater, godspeed and, especially, jacko the doorman/booker/promoter/everythingelse.

Where was Cafe Soundz? Montclair? Was that next to the goth store?

While at RU, I used to buy much stuff at Planet X and also the little downstairs record store a few doors away (forget the name.) Spike, who owned Planet X, was a nice guy. Turned me on to Underground Resistance.

Yes it did turn crappy after a while but when I was there (late 80s/early 90s) it was great.

haha, sorry dan, you know as well as i how passionate us jersey folx get about our geography ;)

the only time i've been to the stone pony was to see a comedy act. isn't it threatening to be shut down soon, or did i dream that rumor? and did birch hill ever make good on its promise to close?

vintage vinyl didn't seem THAT bad when i was last there, but the cd selection is definitely better than the vinyl section (and i buy more of the former); princeton record exchange is far, far better on both fronts. never been to crazy rhythms or most of the other record stores mentioned here (a drawback to not having a car in this state).

I used to call the WRSU DJs constantly. Luckily for today's DJs, email and podcasting have cut down on pesterers like me.

I knew the Captain Video owner. Though he and I were not always friends, I was very sad to hear the news all the same.

i'm still too afraid to do this

Oh, no offense to your father's establishment, or anyplace else along 35 that isn't a sleazy bar or club.

That night was so strange. Downstairs: indie-rock band from Rutgers and three of their friends. Upstairs: a scene right out of The Sopranos.

Yes! Right on Bloomfield Avenue. Very cool store, I used to go here between 96 and 98 for underground/experimental rock cds, but the owner lost interest in that and delved almost completely into electronica at some point. I begged him for a job once but I just didn't know enough about music at the time.

And I heard the same thing about Uncle Joe's; the one brother still has the liquor and cabaret license and is trying to find someplace nearby to open up, but rents around there are completely out of control. They got a shitload of money for the property and that's why the other brother wanted to sell, I'm told. He should look in JC Heights. I'm really going to miss their patio this summer.

Also, Let It Rock in Montclair is a pretty good store, too.

Let It Rock was opened by somebody who I think used to work at Venus when it was on 8th st near 6th and was the coolest record store in the city. The guy from Rockit Scientist worked there as well. I will never forget the feeling of awe and wonder I had when I walked into Venus. Record stores like that simply don't exist, killed by the internet. Before everything worth more then a buck was put online, you'd go into these places, I remember I was still in my classic rock phase and Venus would have like, 12 copies of Piper at the Gates of Dawn. EMI pressing...Capitol Pressing, with See Emily Play, without See Emily Play and they all cost so much money!

But yeah, Sound Exchange in Wayne was amazing, though I could never afford anything. It was ALL imports and everything was like 28 dollars. I'd go and stare at the Can, Throbbing Gristle and Durutti Column CDs. And the Pop Will Eat Itself 12"s!

While my sister was cool enough to lie to my parents and come into nyc for hardcore shows, all I could do was get a ride to Montclair for the afternoon. Cafe Soundz, Crazy Rhythms, Middle Earth, the Montclair Book Center. That was my entire adolescence.

Yeah, it was Two Tone.