The DC punk guided texting tour

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"Put that in your Frappuccino and sip it."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 16 November 2006 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah "12 Seconds," fffffft. Right.

― Guy In Accounting Who Just E-mails Around YouTube Links (Mr.Que), Thursday, 16 November 2006 19:25 (nineteen years ago)

As a native, I couldn't help but sniffle with nostalgia (some of it manufactured, as I was born the year the first Minor Threat record came out).

― ersatz (ersatz), Thursday, 16 November 2006 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

CELL PHONES R NOT 4 PUNX!?!

― paid in cigarettes (paid in cigarettes), Thursday, 16 November 2006 23:30 (nineteen years ago)

No Tomas = no credibility.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Friday, 17 November 2006 10:00 (nineteen years ago)

does it include henry garfield's baskin robbins?

― am0n (am0n), Friday, 17 November 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

It sure does. It's a pizza parlor now. Also, don't know if this is obvious or not, but on that yellow arrow website, you can watch all the videos, it's pretty sweet.

― Dude That Spends A Confusing Amount Of Time Focusing On A Band He Hates (Mr.Que), Friday, 17 November 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

haagen daazs, rather..

― am0n (am0n), Friday, 17 November 2006 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

"In the dozen or so text messages, you'll learn that until 1991, the Starbucks site was an all-ages art and music venue called d.c. space."

I've never even been to Washington D.C., and have little connection to the hardcore movement and this makes me sad.

― Period period period (Period period period), Friday, 17 November 2006 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

My own youthful DC punk guided texting tour would include such a strange, non-legendary, transitional era of D.C./Dischord lore.

~ The Starbucks in Dupont Circle where I served coffee to Ian Svenonious a few times!

~ The weird bar where I saw Branch Manager during a blizzard and the only people in the audience were me and Joe Lally!

~ The community center show where I bought that split Ashes/I Spy 7" from the guy who is now the singer from that OK GO band!

~ St. Albans, where the guys from the pre-Jonathan Fire*Eater band The Ignobles went!

(Sorry, feeling nostalgic this afternoon)

― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Friday, 17 November 2006 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

dc space as Starbucks is better than tearing it down, which was the original idea.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Friday, 17 November 2006 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

Not much better though. I'll just treasure my memories of shows there--the Bad Brains upstairs in '79 I think with the floor moving(I think they stopped doing upstairs shows after that), various bands downstairs--an early Fugazi gig, slumberland twee pop...

― curmudgeon (DC Steve), Sunday, 19 November 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

The Howard Theatre in DC, site of countless jazz and r'n'b shows, during the years of segregation sits closed-up, neither knocked down nor turned into a drugstore ala the Ontario Theatre in Adams Morgan where I saw the Teen Idles play with the Cramps I think.

― curmudgeon (DC Steve), Sunday, 19 November 2006 20:21 (nineteen years ago)

Shangrila Records in Memphis publishes a "Low-life Guide to Memphis" that lists the locations of lots of musically important sites down there. I don't think they've updated in a more high-tech manner though.

― curmudgeon (DC Steve), Monday, 20 November 2006 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

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