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 HANKS GHETTO
POEMS BY CHARLES BUKOWSKI
® Linda Lee Bukowski

462-0614 COCKROACH

I get many phonecalls now. the cockroach crouched

They are all alike. against the tile

£
“are you Charles Bukowski, while I was pissing and as
the writer?” I turned my head
“yes,” I tell them, he hauled butt
and they tell me into a crack.
that they understand my I got the can and sprayed
writing, and sprayed and sprayed
and some of them are writers and finally the roach came out
ALONE WITH EVERYBODY or want to be writers and gave me a very dirty look,
and they have dull and then he fell down into

the flesh covers the bone horrible jobs the bathtub and I watched

and they put a mind and they can’t face the room him dying

in there and the apartment with a subtle pleasure

sometimes a soul, the walls because I paid the rent

and the women break that night- and he didn't.

vases against the walls they want somebody to talk I picked him up with

and the men drink too to, some greenblue toilet

much and they can’t believe paper and flushed him

and nobody finds the that I can’t help them away, that’s all there
that I don’t know the words, was to that, except
one
but they keep they can’t believe around Hollywood and

looking that often now Western we have to

crawling in and out I double up in my room keep doing it.

of beds, grab my gut they say some day that

flesh covers and say tribe is going to
the bone and the “Jesus Jesus Jesus, not inherit the earth

flesh searches again!” but we’re going to

for more than they can’t believe make them wait a

flesh. that the loveless people few months.

the streets
there's no chance the loneliness
at all: the walls DOG
we are all trapped are mine too.
by a singular and when I hang up the phone a single dog
fate. they think I have held back my walking alone on a hot sidewalk of
secret. summer
nobody ever finds appears to have the power
the one. I don’t write out of of ten thousand gods.
knowledge.
Art by Elvis Segarich

the city dumps fill when the phone rings why is this?
the junkyards fill I too would like to hear words
the madhouses fill that might ease
the hospitals fill some of this.
the graveyards fill
that’s why my number’s
nothing else listed.
fills.

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 bother writing and recording songs, we
Year Future are a Los Angeles quintet should be promoting them by touring. It def¬
with a seemingly revolving door of initely gets harder financially when gas is
drummers. But, this is where their sim¬ what it is, and for the most part we are an
ilarity to Spinal Tap end. YF have more unknown band competing for the attention
in common with bands like Scratch of kids who are bombarded with MTV; there
Acid, PiL and Joy Division. isn't much glory or glitz to it. Stories?... I
Polyrhythmic percussion, driving, com¬ could write a book, and probably will one
plex bass progressions, moody, tex¬ day. The time we forgot Sam at a remote gas
tured guitar work and a desperate station in Spain is usually a crowd-pleaser!
plea for sanity in a world gone mad Or when I got arrested at the airport in
via Sonny Kay's urgent vocal stylings Amsterdam for climbing down the luggage
all come together to form solid slabs shute while trying to find our missing gui¬
of danceable yet caustic tapestries of
tars. Good times!
modern day punk rock. -Christian

1
Do you feel the U.S. government/cor¬
For those unfamiliar with Year Future, porate America is involved in a con¬
can we get a brief history of the spiratorial plot to establish an
band? Orwellian type of "New World Order"?

Sonny- The band started in early 2003 in Well, the short answer is Yes. I think "con¬
L.A. It was begun by Rockey and our origi¬ spiracy" suggests conscientious and willing
nal rhythm section of Sam (bass) and Jim involvement, and I don't think that it really
drums) who rehearsed a few times and applies to the vast majority of people who
hen called me. Pete took over bass at the are in one way or another tools of such a
nd of 2004, and Chris joined on drums thing. I think there is a "good ol' boys" cul¬
bout a month later. We did a tour to SXSW ture just below the surface of the vast
: 005 with Some Girls and 400 Blows in majority of business and government activi¬
i rhich Gabe from The Locust played drums ty in this country which is not necessarily
^ rith us. Chris went back to Moving Units coordinated or orgJfiized, it just is. It has
i ill time in early 2006 so we have been jug¬ been for so long thit it's part of the fabric of
gling drummers since then. life and basically adbepted by most
Americans as "the 4ay things are". Having
said that, I have noldoubts about SPECIFIC
Year Future seem to be on a pretty conspiratorial events which have taken
consistent touring schedule. Does the place, like 9/11 for example.
band enjoy the rigors of "life-on-the-
road?" Any stories you'd like to share? w
"The Eye of Providence" (a human eye
framed within a triangle, hovering
Well as luck would have it we just cancelled atop a pyramid) icon pops up a lot in
an upcoming tour of Europe we were hoping the band's artwork (and tattoos).
to do in September due to the drummer Would you mind commenting on the
"issues". But yeah, we've tried to be consis¬ significance of this symbol to the
tent with the touring, as much as possible. I band?
personally really enjoy touring and seeing
new places, but I don’t think I'd go so far as
to say we enjoy the rigors as there are Sure. First off, from a strictly aesthetic
many, and we certainly aren't staying in standpoint, the eye is good design. It’s mys¬
hotels every night or making much money terious and intriguing and concise. It's been
to speak of. We just feel like if we're gonna in use for one reason or another for over

SEPT-DEC 2006 f the rise and the fall i 09

1,000 years which in and of itself is remark¬ Well, like any other band we want to make
able. The fact that it is on U.S. currency records people enjoy. Beyond that, hopefully
while having the various associations it has leave a mark in the world of
in the past is truly bizarre,*not to mention independent/underground music and get to
something of a slap in the face to the aver¬ see some parts of the world we might not be
age wage-slave. It has come to represent able to otherwise. Having said that, we feel
"the Illuminati" which is an almost mean¬ that labeling ourselves a "punk" band car¬
ingless term, but that's what people recog¬ ries with it some obligations that the major¬
nize it as now. By appropriating it, I feel ity of our contemporaries who do the same
like we're undermining it, kind of like the have no problem with ignoring. I want very
way a woman might refer to herself as much for our music and lyrics to convey a
"bitch" or a black person to themself as "nig¬ sense of critical optimism and a challenge
ger". I feel that bands using it as art trivial¬ (albeit a small one) to the status quo and
izes it and therefore robs it of its intended society at large. When the dust settles on
"secret" significance. My tattoo, btw, is pur¬ this era in music, I would like to think we
posely upside-down for the same reasons. will have left behind something of substance
More than anything, though, we mean for it and comprehendable meaning. Too much
to be kind of tongue-in-cheek, especially "art" these days is an incoherent mess dis¬
when placed over the face of someone like guised as abstract expressionism, and that
George Washington or the Queen. applies to music as much as anything else.
We're not posing, we're not trying to launch
a clothing line or get sponsored by Kramer
or Hurley, we are simply trying to hold on to
the true spirit and purpose of punk music -
in our own, unique (we think) way.
We're in the process of securing a
new and hopefully permanent drum¬
mer. I'm hoping that we have anoth¬
er album written (if not actually
recorded) by the end of the year, and
then we'll start the touring again.
We'd like to develop our live presen¬
tation a little more, possibly include
projections and/or video of some
kind, but the music comes first.

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 alot of punks in San Pedro that I would hang with. I
I first met Money (bom Mark Ramos Nishita) first saw the Minutemen at Angels Gate Cultural
in the late 80's. My cousin Ray Oriel put Center.

together a band to play a "Bloody Thursday"

For those of us that don't know, tell us how you got
Longshoreman picnic at Peck Park here in
involved with the Beastie Boys.
Pedro and Mark played keyboards. I remember I was working as a carpenter in Hollywood and would
Mark was super cool and we talked about art also do session work playing guitar or keyboards. I met
and the band I was playing in at the time, which the Beasties when I got a call to fix a broken gate some¬
was No Comprende. Without even hearing us where in the hills. Ad-Rock rolled up and we became
he offered to produce our bands recording, what friends.

a trip. I would later run into Mark on many dif¬

I remember you gave me a copy of "Mark's Keyboard
ferent occasions and we would rap. Before I Repair" back in '95 or '96 at a Giant Robot Magazine
knew it I found out that Mark had played key¬ outdoor function that you played in Downtown L.A.
boards with the Beastie Boys on "Check Your that I turned on to a lot of friends. You also have
Head" and "III Communication ." He not only another record called "Push The Button"
played but collaborated & played a pivotal role (1998/MoWax) & "Change Is Coming" (2001/MoWax).
in defining the Beasties' revamped '90s aesthet¬ Do you have anything new coming out on the hori¬
zon?
ic. He was then known as the so-called "Fourth
I make records every year but I only make a few copies
Beastie Boy." Later, I would see him at a gig in and have limited releases. I like to be stealth about it. I
L.A. and he gave me a copy of his solo record do have a new record coming out in January singing
"Mark's Keyboard Repair," which I thought some simple songs I wrote over the last couple years.
was great. Mark has worked and performed
with many artists. The hired gun of alternative What other projects have you been a part of? Who else
rock. He has 'a knack for laidback grooves & has have you worked with?
Recently: Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Zack de la Rocha, Yoko
a wide array of influences. Enough spiel, read
Ono, Omar Rodriguez (The Mars Volta),
on...
Morningwood, Danger Mouse, Jack Johnson, Edie
-Interview by Big Thom 07/06 Brickell, Harper Simon, Ozomatli, Tommy Guerrerro,
Mike Watt, John Wicks, G. Love & Special Sauce, oth¬
ers... plus tons of people from the past.
Were you born & raised in Gardena, CA?
I was bom in Detroit, Michigan sometime in the sixties What other instruments do you play beside key¬
so I really got influenced by some great music... MC5, boards?
all of Motown, Parliament/Funkadelic... shit like that I'll play any instrument you put in front of me.
plus lots of jazz cause my mom was an amateur singer
and she also collected jazz records. You also play in a improvisational project called LOS
PUNKINHEDZ (with Mike Watt & John Wicks)
I read somewhere that you were a ball boy for the Los about once a month for Free at the local (San Pedro)
Angeles Lakers. What was that like? Coffeeshop (Sacred Grounds). How did that come
This story originally came out in Grand Royal about and are you guys planning on taking it any fur¬
Magazine. Basically I was really young and I wrote a ther as far as recording or playing other venues out¬
letter to the Lakers cause I was having hoop dreams side of Pedro?
and because I heard that someone else had done that I guess we'll play in Hollywood or somewhere else
and got to work on the court during games. To my sur¬ eventually but for now its kind of an exercise. I think
prise I did get picked to mop and sweep floors. we should try and record some shit soon. The perform¬
Actually, I didn't get paid so eventually I thought I was ances began on Halloween 2005 and we continued
getting ripped off and it wasn't that easy or glamorous. every month for a year.
I quit!!
Thanks for the interview, any last statements?
When did you first start playing music? Read a book!
When I was 12 I asked my dad to buy me a Fender
Rhodes Electric Piano cause everybody I liked had one www.moneymark.com
(Herbie Hancock, Stevie Wonder, Led Zeppelin, Pink www.myspace.com/moneymarkofficialfansite
Floyd, etc.). So he bought me an 88-key Rhodes. It was
huge and heavy. I took it apart to see how it worked
and then I put it back together. I bought an SM57
Microphone and a tape recorder and started playing.

You seem to have a San Pedro connection. Were you a

Minutemen fan? How did you & Mike Watt first
meet?
I met the Minutemen way back in the day when I used
to go to shows and I was politically active and knew
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PEDRO ART DAMA
Featured Artist
INFLUENCES
Virgil Finlay, Jack Davis, Derek Riggs & Pushead.
TRAINING
Public School.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Gorgomoth.
FUTURE PROJECTS / AMBITIONS
To escape from the five sense prison.
FAVORITE THEMES
I like to draw monsters and ugly things.
REASON FOR INTEREST IN “PUNK”
The Return Of The Living Dead.
FAVORITE FOOD
Came asada tacos from First Street.

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 NAME

m 3671
Ray is my mom's older sister's (my dear aunt)
kid, which makes him my cousin. I always looked
up to Ray as a kid. Everyone that knew him as a
teen knew him as "Crazy Ray." Not looney bin
was winning all the amateur contests so they decided I
crazy but someone who wasn't scared to take a
should turn pro.
chance. Someone who was not afraid of much
and didn't let anything or anyone get in his way. Were you the first pro skateboarder from San Pedro?
He was the epitome of that "Go For It!" mentali¬
ty that sprung up in the 7Q's. Whether it was No, there was an older kid, Doug Schneider from South
fighting his older sisters boyfriends or taking a Shores.
swing at one of his teachers, Ray was always
ticking. Ray had lots of determination and met Who were some of your sponsors?

everything head on. Whether it was fighting,

Kanoa Surf, X-ealiber, Kryptonics, Seven-Up and Apex.
surfing, skateboarding, playing football, boxing
or acting, Ray did it all with a passion and inten¬
What was it tike back in those days as far as compet¬
sity that was very inspirational. I say all the ing in skateboard contests as a pro?
above with a past tense but Ray is the same way
to this day. I don't mean to toot his horn or I was a kid getting paid to play. I was getting all this free
inflate his ego but Ray is still that same edgy stuff. Skateboards, clothes, safety equipment, etc. It was a
dude. He's like a time bomb, waiting to go off... dream come true.

-BIG THORN
Who were some of your favorite skateboarders back
then and who were some of the people you skated
When did you get into skateboarding?
with?

Around 1974 when I was 12 years old. My neighbors, the

All the South Shore boys from Pedro: Doug Schneider, Billy
Carapinos and I sent away for a Hobie Super Surfer skate¬
and Bobby Smith, Chuck Rios. I used to love to watch and
board. We had to collect three Popsicle box tops each. The
skate with those guys at 1st Street Pool on 1st and Gaffey.
wheels were made out of clay rock but when the Cadillac
Also all the Dogtown and Z-Boys, Tony Alva, Jay Adams,
urethane wheel came out, it really kicked in.
Stacy Peralta, Shogo Kubo, I wanted to be just like them,
they were like rock stars to me.
What Year did you turn pro?

I believe it was 1977 when I was in the 10th grade. I was

skating amateur for Kanoa Surf Shop in Palos Verdes and

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 You played a homeboy in the 1988 movie "Colors," I
heard that you got into a altercation with Sean Penn.
Can you tell us about that?

It's really too long of a story to get into, but basically the
director, Dennis Hopper instigated a situation between Sean
and I to get a reaction out of him for a scene in the movie.
We threw a few blows and needless to say most of my part
was cut out of the movie at Mr. Penn’s request. I must say
though, I have nothing but respect and admiration for him,
he's one of my favorite actors.

What do you think of skateboarding these days? You also played '‘Spider'' in the movie "Blood in Blood
Out. ” I’ve told many of my friends that you played the
Unfucking - believable! The things those guys do at the X rival gang leader in this movie and they always go,
Games just blows my mind! Right on for Tony Hawk and the "Who? Spider!" Did you ever get noticed on the streets
rest of those guys that elevated skateboarding to the prof¬ as being Spider?
itable sport it is today.
All the time, I think it's my claim to fame. It’s a great con¬

f remember when you played high school football; did¬ versation piece at bars and at work on the docks with all the

n’t you break some sort of record as a running back at longshoremen.

Mary Star?
What have you been up to lately?
No, that was Dino Andre. My senior year I only played in 4
out of 9 games and still ended up the teams leading rusher. Living life to the fullest, working on the docks as a crane

I was a knucklehead back then, I got into it with the coach¬ operator, writing and producing and raising my beautiful son

es and quit the team. I let my team and myself down. Luca.

You also played football for Harbor College?

Yeah, I had a really good year there but I took a theater class
for English credit and got hooked on acting and I left football
forever. The girls in class were far more attractive than the
guys on the football field.

You got into boxing for a short stint, what was that all
about?

Short and simple, when I was a kid I loved to fight. I believe

I could have been an Oscar de la Hoya with the proper guid¬
ance and a support team behind me.

/ remember you were in a band with (Money) Mark

Nishita and you guys played one of the mBloody
Thursdaym Longshoreman picnics at Peck Park in the
eighties. How did you meet Mark?

First of all I just want to say Mark Nishita is the most tal¬
ented artist I've ever met in my life. He’s influenced me big
time. I met him in the theater department at Harbor College.

You are also an actor. What were some of your favorite

movies that you were a part of?

None. The roles I've played were very limited; they didn't
showcase my talent. I've done far better work in theater.

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The Chuck Dukowski SEXTET
I’ve known “The Duke” for quite a while now
and he’s always been a straight up positive
guy who will take the time to talk to just about
anyone who comes up to him. Chuck is one of
the smartest and most knowledgeable dudes
you will ever meet & has interesting opinions
on just about anything. We should all be famil¬
iar with his work as the bass player for Black
Flag on some of their more potent early pieces
of work such as the classic “Damaged” LP.
Chuck was also co-owner of SST Records and
also took part in other bands such as Wurm
(pre-Black Flag band), SWA & Fishcamp.
Chuck has never really stopped playing and
recently started his own record label with wife
Lora Norton and they’ve recently released
their own CD6 record called “Eat My Life.”
With all his know how that he has from past
experiences running a label and playing in
bands things are only looking up for this
charismatic DIY (do it yourself) pioneer.

Interview by Big Thorn.

18 I the rise and the fall I SEPT DEC 2006

Since this is a San Pedro based magazine, tell us a lit¬ aisles, I knew the Mermaid (Star) Theater would be a great-
tle history about vour time living in the town. gig venue. We were booked to play there but the Mermaid’s
owner chickened out and we ended up playing at the teen
I lived in the 90732 from when I was 5 years old until I went post around the corner. The audience wrecked the place
away to college. I went to Crestwood Elementary, Dodson which was really lame. But promoting that show was how I
Junior High and San Pedro High. My friends and I used to met D. Boon and Mike Watt. I was so stoked to meet anoth¬
play pool and go swimming at the Y on Beacon Street; we er band from Pedro! We ended up adding The
liked to roam Ground that area. It was a crazy area before Reactionaries to the lineup. After The Reactionaries
the redevelopment. It was actually pretty cool; it had lots of became the Minutemen we signed them to SST and began
waterfront character. We’d watch the winos catch and eat what would be a long and musically prosperous relation¬
pigeons and look at all the crazy waterfront bars and their ship.
patrons. After college I came back to Pedro. I moved into a
storefront on 7th St. with my band Wurm. That lasted two My Friend Linda Bukowski (widow of Charles
months. The winos and crazy people would dance outside Bukowski) called me when she found out that the CD6
while we practiced; soon there were crowds of them. The were playing in town. She told me that she met you at
landlord heard about it and gave us the boot. We lived in a Black Flag show at Alpine Village in Torrance (1981).
the old Mermaid (Star) movie Theater on Pacific Ave. and We both wondered if your name had any connection
Santa Cruz in the RSP. It had formerly been a live porn with the late writer Charles Bukowski.
venue. That was a sweet set up, we used to skateboard
down the aisles! The neighbors were tough though. We had I got the name Chuck Dukowski from a lighter I found which
to bolt the doors into the floors because people would try to was engraved with the words “Chuck the Duke”. I found the
break them down so often. One of my most vivid memories lighter at the Wurm Hole which is what we called our place
of San Pedro was driving home from a gig in Hollywood and in Hermosa in late 77.1 was looking for money in the couch
seeing the LPG ship explode from the Harbor Freeway in the morning after a night of partying and there it was. This
South Torrance. We thought it was the beginning of WW3. was a time when a lot of people were taking “punk” names,
I left Pedro by early 77. Well, actually, I lived in Pedro again John Doe, Pat Smear, Etc. So I became Chuck the Duke. I
for about a month in 1980 but that was it. I’ve done so many later added the kowski because I thought it gave it a regu¬
great gigs in San Pedro though. A memorable one was the lar guy type of feeling. I wish I could say I did it in honor of
now famous early Black Flag gig with the Alley Cats, The the great writer Charles Bukowski. At least it made me
Plugz and The Reactionaries (who later became the become aware of him and begin to read his stuff.
Minutemen). Because I’d lived there and skateboarded its

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 Ptfif

The original concept of the CD6 was to replace the gui¬ When and why have vou decided to start playing the
tar with horns and keep it somewhat improvisational. i five-string electric bass?
noticed that you added a guitar player at your recent
aia at Harold’s Place in San Pedro. Is this a permanent I started with the 5 string because it was interesting to me
fixture in the CD6? to add a bit more dimension to my musical language. I had
a longing to make a move with my playing and felt that it
I’m not really rigid in terms of adhering to concepts. We still was a good time since I had no group and could start a new
do a good deal of improvisational material though it’s not one around the sound I’d develop with the five string. I saw
the 100% free form of our early days. Our new guitarist Milo this cool red one at Guitar Center and mentioned to Lora
is also the oldest of our four children. He played on one how if I were going to get a new Bass that that’d be the one.
track of Eat My Life and worked out so well we added him She bought it for me for my birthday in 1999.
to the band as a full time member. Milo allows us to main¬
tain the same basic chemistry we’d developed yet gives us The new record Eat Mv Life was recorded at Flea’s (The
a new arsenal of sounds to work with. We’re already work¬ Red Hot Chili Peppers) personal studio and he also
ing on material for our next album. plays on a track on the record. How did that come
about?
Is this the first band that vour wife Lora Norton has
been involved with? How did that come about? Flea is awesome. He is a true music lover and he’s really
helped us out. He liked our EP The Hammer Will Fall and
Lora’s had other bands but just for fun. I’d say it is her first wanted to see us play. Finally he and his wife Frankie
serious group. I’d heard her perform in another band she Rayder finally made it to one of our shows at the Knitting
had where she sang and played guitar and I was Factory. After the show he asked us if we’d like to use his
impressed. She has an incredible voice and a lot of stage studio to record. We sure did. It was such a lucky thing for
presence. We are a great songwriting team. Check out the us. We’d been planning to record and were seriously con¬
lyrics to “Xipe Totec”, they’re all about an Aztec god who sidering doing it in our living room. Which would have been
was worshipped by flaying people and wearing their skins! OK, maybe, but was crap next to using all of Flea’s sweet
Or “Freedom?”, Lora wrote a beautiful melody for that and equipment. We got to use some of the coolest vintage
the lyrics are so powerful. audio gear ever made. I have never, in all of the recording
I’ve done, been more pleased with the sounds coming into
the board. Flea hung out in the studio a bit during the

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recording. He added the tambourine and mellotron on of our songs the clarinets are layered and sound like a
“Venus In Furs”. A mellotron is a crazy machine they used woodwind chamber piece. We should have made a song
a lot in the sixties. It’s basically an analog sampler. It has a where we got rid of all the other instruments! Lora’s vocals
bank of tape loops where each tape is played by a key on are powerful and soulful; she sounds like Janis Joplin or
a keyboard. The mellotron comes with a giant box of differ¬ Patti Smith.
ent tape loops of all sorts of instruments like violins and
flutes. Flea hooked it all up and was demonstrating it when Any plans on touring?
it hit us that it might be a cool and helpful addition to our
version of “Venus In Furs”. So we asked if he’d play it and Not right now. But maybe sometime soon we’ll bust that
he did. “Venus In Furs” is one of our most popular songs. move. It’d be fun.
Flea helps out a lot of people. He’s the founder of the
Silverlake Conservatory (Of Music) where people can get Last Statements.
low cost music training. He and his family are super nice
people. We hold these truths to be self-evident: That nice is good
and mean is bad. We’re all part of making the change we
The new record has somewhat of a political feel to it. want to see in the world. Camus said, “In these times of vic¬
I’ve read somewhere that the CD6 are unafraid to stand tims and executioners it is the job of thinking people not to
against our countries tyranny. be on the side of the executioner.” Hello Human.

Yea! Everything everyone does makes a difference for the

future. We want to make the most positive and effective dif¬
ference we can. We live in a pig state of unrivaled propor¬
tion that spreads pain and suffering in our names at home
and the world over to further the economic interests of a
very few, very wealthy individuals. The most important thing
we try to get across to people is that how you live your life
does make a difference. Think about what you buy, how
you treat people; the world is made of all those little things.
Violence begets violence but good begets good. Our lead¬
ers try to pit us against each other, middle class against
lower class, race against race; we’re all just trying to have
a decent happy life free from fear of poverty, of loneliness.
How free do you feel to lose your legs in Iraq? If you lose
your child? If you lose your life? Dying for George W. is the
exact opposite of freedom to me.

You and Lora started vour own label called Nice and
Friendly Records with the CD6 record being the first
release. What plans do you have for the label and how
far do you plan on taking it?
THE CHUCK DUKQWSKi SEXTET is:
We founded Nice and Friendly Records to put out the debut
Lora Norton - Vocals
CD6 record Eat My Life and any other cool music that
Chuck Dukowski - Bass
comes our way. I know and enjoy the record business and
Lynn Johnston - Horns
Lora, as a partner, brings skills that make us much more
Milo Gonzalez • Guitar
effective. We plan to patiently take Nice and Friendly as far
as we can. We hope to fulfill a dream I had long ago of hav¬
All Photos by Taso Papadakis.
ing my kids grow up in the midst of running a label and
eventually leaving it to them.
www.thechuckdukowskisextet.com
www.myspace.com/thechuckdukowskisextet
For someone who hasn’t heard the CD6 give us a short www.niceandfriendlyrecords.com
description. www.loranorton.com

I call it Acid Punk, which suggests our freeform roots and

our willingness to take off into a group improvisation while
we maintain an aggressive edge. Our sound is rooted in
rock but Lynn Johnston’s horns suggest free jazz. In some

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FER YOUz THE BRIAN TUCKER INTERVIEW

By Tony Malone and Iris Berry 7/23/06
Brian Tucker is a Los Angeles born artist who took photographs of the LA punk scene from 1980
to 1986. Brian & his wife Nikki created FIR YOUZ, an 11" x 17" (sometimes bigger) xeroxed photo
collage (free) handout of the previous weeks punk shows and the people who attended them.
Making a total of 16 FER YOUZ and photographing a part of history that very few have captured.
Documenting the LA scene, the bands, artists, fans, fashions and social settings. Brian still lives in
Los Angeles and is currently painting and working on a book of all his priceless punk rock photos
that have never been published. Approximately 10,000 photos that the world has yet to see.
Do you reinember the first punk show that you attended? fect camera; I didn't have to figure out too much. I would take
We went to Madame Wongs and it was too expensive... the these pictures, get them back, see the image and see it as
Hong Kong Cafe was right across the way and it was cheaper another medium for me. The first photos were kind of average.
so we went over there instead. Fear was playing and I was Then I started to understand the bands and what they were
hooked. Everything looked really alien, the way people looked. doing. The photos just got better and better. Then all of a sud¬
The club was dark and it felt dangerous. The stage was at audi¬ den I got good, I got lucky.
ence level and some guy was talking shit to the band so Lee Looking at your photos it seems that the people that went
Ving jumps off the stage with his guitar on and just starts to the gigs turned out to be just as important as the
pounding the guy. It felt like the fall of Saigon... is the only way bands. What made you decide to start photographing all
I can really remember it. It felt like the city was disintegrating. aspects of the scene?
It just felt right. It was just my first impression and it would At that time my wife Nikki was going to UCLA and she was
make sense later. studying African art history under a guy named Arnold Ruben
What was the art scene like back then and how did that who was one of the first proponents who felt that tattoo art
relate to the punk scene. was and is an equal art. He had early piercings and he was used
Well there wasn't a lot of people doing representational art. It to different sub cultures. So she was learning that the whole
was very abstract, a lot of conceptual art. There wasn't a lot culture was important. It's not just about who the king is or
going on. So for me, since I was a representational artist, I was whatever but what people do, how they look, how they dance,
paying more attention to Lucian Freud. Hockney was doing real¬ what they wear, all that. So Nikki's learning about African art
istic stuff and that was basically it. There wasn't a lot of it history really influenced us. So suddenly we're thinking, we like
going on and I felt really separate in the first place. So I just what we see. We didn't know what was important yet, so let's
started drawing the scene in these weird pen and ink drawings shoot everything. We'd shoot people's shoes, jewelry and hair
that I did for quite a while prior to getting a camera. color. Close-ups of everything. Once we figured out that it was
Why did you switch to photography? all important, then we started doing our posters, the FER YOUZ.
Once the camera showed up, this Canon AE-1. It was the per¬ Nobody had any money, but we had jobs so we had enough

SEPT-DEC 2006 I the rise and the fall I 25

 Suddenly there was kind of a mix in the scene. The Huntington
Beach crowd started coming up to Hollywood. Bands like Fear
and X started doing records and they were getting bigger.
Those bands were moving on and making way for newer bands
like Black Flag. The hardcore scene started taking over and
then it started getting violent. That alienated the early punk
scene even more. We wanted to make sure we got photos of
that first scene before it was gone.
How was the hardcore scene different than the early LA
Punk scene?
I enjoyed the speed of Black Flag. It was a different kind of
anger. X would do songs like We're Desperate. That was more
of a passive anger like, we're angry and we're trapped. Where
as Black Flag was angry and was gonna do something about it.
It was more of an aggressive anger. Early Black Flag, TSOL &
Circle Jerks were great to watch.
Didn't you see Black Flag perform at Cal Arts in a small
classroom?
Yeah, Rodney was an artist that was doing a lot of the Fear fly¬
ers and he was having a show at Cal Arts in conjunction with
that show. Black Flag was playing up there in a classroom.
That was when Henry first started singing for the band.
Do you have a lot of early pictures of Henry?
The first photo we have of Henry is at the Whisky and all he had
was his Black Flag bars on one arm. He hadn't played a show
yet. I heard he was the new singer so I took a photo of him.
Later on we went to SST where people were getting tattoos.
Dez, Earl from Saccharine Trust and Henry. It was when Henry
got his spider tattoo. We got photos of that. Yeah he didn't
money to shoot photos. When we started shooting everything have too many tattoos back then.
we realized the bands aren't all that important. Sometimes peo¬ Tell me a little bit about No Mag, it being the predecessor
ple didn't even watch the bands. The band was almost like a to low Brow and what was going on there.
backdrop. So we started organizing the posters in the same What was good about No Mag was people like Raymond
way. One third of the shots were the bands and the rest was Pettibon and Fred Tomaselli were in it. It was a place where
everybody and everything else. that crude drawing style that is now everywhere was first
Do you remember the first response to FER YOUZ? shown. I was an artist at the same time but it was hard for me
We usually handed them out to people who couldn't afford stuff to be a part of. I don't mingle well. I would always watch from
because these people had no access and nobody was photo¬ afar. I would have a hard time connecting. No Mag helped and
graphing anything. So the best thing we could do was go to Oki it was Low Brow but it just seemed smarter. Maybe it was just
Dogs after the show. At two in the morning when the Whisky earlier.
show was over we'd go to Oki Dogs and we'd pass them out. Some of the bands got it. What exactly was "it"?
Nikki would pass them out; she would just stand there. People The territory hadn't been explored so you didn't know what "it"
were realizing, "Oh my god, here's the show I was at last week was supposed to look like. Once it starts getting explored, peo¬
and there's me, and here's so and so." We didn't charge. They ple start imitating what it's supposed to look like. For me, when
were always free. Thanks to this old dead head guy who I first saw a Raymond Pettibon flyer... it was so crudely done
worked at this one particular xerox place. He thought the scene and it was so right. The words and the way he captured it. I
was cool so he'd run extra copies and wouldn't charge us. The knew there was something so correct about it but it was not
fact that these posters even existed is because this guy was based on anything that I've ever seen. Tomaselli, same thing...
willing to promote a scene that wasn't even his. crude. The joking and provoking style in which it was done, this
How many different FER YOUZ posters are there? kind of, "fuck you, I don't care" just made it feel real. And then
There were a total of 16. later art seemed to imitate it, but it just didn't feel as real. For
At any point were people dying to get them? me, it either has the voodoo about it or it doesn't and that's
Oh yeah, they would disappear so fast. All of a sudden there sometimes hard to explain.
was a cluster around and they'd be gone. Sometimes we'd drop What makes your pictures different from some of the
them off at SST and Vinyl Fetish when it was still on La Brea other photographers that are coming out in galleries?
but mostly at Oki Dogs. I don't know. Since I took them with the idea that everything is
The Masque had just closed and it was the dawn of hardcore. important, there was no selection going on. For us it wasn't just
How did hardcore change the early punk scene at that time? about the bands. The bands weren't necessarily the best thing.

26 I the rise and the fall I SEPT-DEC 2006

 the mic up to his dick and he starts shaking it at the microphone
like it was singing when the lyrics were supposed to happen. It
was the most hilarious thing I have ever seen. It was so fuck¬
ing correct, I don't know what to say. I swear to god, the look
on his face. I think he actually believed his dick was singing
those lyrics. It was brilliant. But that's one of many.
20 years down the road & someone looks at your book,
what would you like him or her to get out of it?
A whole presentation of the scene, not just about the bands.
Graffiti and jewelry and things that happened. So you get a
whole picture. People behind the scene. Like Spot, he produced
and engineered Black Flag and nobody even knows what he
looks like. So there's a photo of him in there. Just because he's
a behind the scenes guy that was creating this thing when
nobody even knew it was of any value. I just want a bigger pic¬
ture than if I just put out a book of Social Distortion pictures.
I'm not interested in that. I want people to get a sense of the
whole scene.

ALL PHOTOS: FER YOUZ

• Brian Tucker in front of his Punk Rock paintings.

• Dez Cadena & Earl Liberty with new tattoos, 01/12/82.
•FER YOUZ. Vol. 1 #10 -1982
• Spot in front of the Whisky A Go Go, 11/04/81.
• CENTERFOLD:
Fear (Derf Scratch & Lee Ving)
at the Cathay de Grande, 07/05/81.
Black Flag (Henry Rollins & Chuck Dukowski)
at the Cuckoo's Nest, 08/21/81.
It became about recording history. History will prove what's • COVER:
important in the end and since I don't know what that is, I'm Minor Threat (Ian MacKaye)
not going to be making selections. So I'm going to shoot stuff I at Stone Fox Studio (the Valley), 07/82.
don't eveji care about because I don't know what's important.
I just took the photo. In the end I think my personal taste was
correct. But the scene isn't just that cool jacket. You've got 5
others that are less cool but they are still part of the scene. So
it would be a bad representation to not shoot it. There was all
kinds of shit going on. You can't just shoot at what's cool. It's
not about what's cool it's about what was happening.
Why color?
I was going to paint from these photos so I needed them to be
in color. The second reason for color, because historically in the
end we knew punk rock was going to take over the world,
which it did. So in the end the original image needed to be color.
You could always go from color to black and white.
Thousands of slides and not one of them published, why
is that?
I have control issues. I need to have control of these images. I
haven't needed to sell them. I wasn't in it for the money. I'm
not against money, it helps me to create. I didn't need to live
off of it. I just thought when I could get it in the right context
then the time would be right.
Off the top of your head tell me about one of the more
memorable gigs that you attended?
I was at Al's Bar. Fear was playing and they asked El Duce to
get up and sing. He gets up there and he pulls his pants down
and when it's time to sing, he's pulls his dick out and he holds
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All ABOARD! Damn! What's that smell? Sweaty, salty hot buttered rock and roll. A little bit spicy, a little bit raunchy and
always served with a smile. As ferocious as it is fun. That's what L.A's The Bronx are dishing up. The Bronx are Jobie Ford on
guitar, James Tweedy on Bass, Jorma Vik on drums and Matt Caugthran on vocals. / caught up with them in San Francisco to try
and conduct an interview... Words & Photos by Christian.
It was virtually impossible for a number of reasons; the main one being alcohol. Everyone, including the interviewer, were too wast¬
ed after the show to be able to form coherent sentences. What follows is a few choice quotes and an ass-load of pictures instead.
Get some! The new self titled record is in stores now. Get it, it's amazing. If you ever get the chance to catch a live show, go!
It's even more amazing than their records. Also check out some Bronx side projects; The Drips and Bullet Treatment.

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The landmark by which you use to tell all out-of-towners how to find their way down to the coast. The most oriental
looking thing in Pedro besides the menu at Louie's #2. The gifted silent bell that sits overlooking the ocean, watch¬
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The Korean Bell has been hanging out there in the park for quite some time now, and to most of the people out there
my age it probably carries no meaning besides the fact that it's a damn good looking landmark. I guess it’s time to
start caring because the Bell has come full circle and probably will begin meaning more to us now than it did before.

The Korean Bell was a gift to the people of Los Angeles from the people of the Republic of Korea in 1976. It was a
gift to honor the U.S. veterans that participated in the Korean War, to celebrate America’s bi centennial, and to show
the long-standing friendship between the U.S. and South Korea. The Korean War was a pretty gnarly one, in which
the U.S. went in to Korea to try and help the South Koreans overcome the attack of the North Koreans who were aided
by Communist Russia and armed to the teeth. Even though the war only lasted 3 years and ended with a cease-fire
the casualties were many, but the South was able to remain independent after the conflict ended.

Fast-forward some 53 years and look at the state of affairs today... North Korea is now trying to beef up their arms,
and while still under the guise of Communism are looking pretty damn crazy. With all their nuclear missile testing
and totalitarian regime, they're a scary bunch. Well, so is most of the Middle East, but what can you do, right?

The bell stands not only as a reminder that the U.S. was at the South Korean’s side in helping them fight back against
their attackers, but also stands as a sign of peace and friendship between America and the Republic of Korea, i
mean, you have to be pretty close to give someone such a damn fine looking gift. By the looks of it, we'll be over
there again trying to help our friends out sometime in the near future if those nuts in the North don’t mellow out
Man, I hate bad neighbors.

-Pedro Bob

mil

Check out some fun facts:

The bell is patterned after the Bronze Bell of King Songdok, which was created in 1771.

The bell itself weighs 17 tons and is 12 feet tall with a diameter of 7-1/2 feet

The bell itself was cast in Korea and cost $500,000, whereas the structure around the bell was built on site by
30 Korean craftsmen over the span of 10 months at the cost of $569,680.

The bell is rung from the outside with a wooden log and is only rung on four occasions: The 4th of July, Korean
Independence Day (Aug. 15), New Year's Eve and a day in September during Constitution Week.

The twelve pillars around the bell represent the 12 designs of the Oriental Zodiac.
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THERE’S A NEW BAND IN TOWN

BY COCO CHAPPELLE

THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD TO CANDYLAND

Four dudes: one near tragedy.
This band is amazing; if not for their music
they have a beginning of courage and
earnestness. They all met by chance on a
flight to Venezuela. All seated in the same
row, Todd in his gregarious nature decided
to spice up his business flight by buying his
photo by shanty cheryl.

row mates whiskey and ginger ale also

known as "horsefeathers." They drank fear¬
lessly as they traveled for hours through the
vast blue. By breakfast time they had dis¬
covered that they all played musical instru¬
ments and were traveling for philanthropic
reasons. Jack Doyle - to teach English to children, Dimmy - to teach bongos to babies,
Todd - to bring rock and roll to the people, and Jack Spralja - to bring candy to the
masses [expanding his candy eating empire]. When all of a sudden, wouldn't you
know it, an engine blew out. The dudes were scared shirtless. They swore to each
other as they held hands and clenched their eyes shut that if they come out of this
alive they would start a band. Dust then, the engine started up again and they were
a band and Todd ordered more drinks. So it's Todd and Dimmy from Toys that Kill,
Dack from Full Blast and Dack from Nebraska. Their first release will be a 7" on Rock
Star from Germany, www.myspace.com/theundergroundrailroadtocandylond
_

THE ALPHABETTES
"Welcome to the Dollhouse" should be this
bands first album title. Not only are they the
newest ladies to rock in San Pedro, they're
also the cutest, and they live together!
Banana and Angela both play guitar in the
band and they both grew up in Anaheim.
Gabby is from the South Bay and just drums
photo by coco chapelle.

her little heart out. After the downfall of

Fourth Street, they all moved to a lovely old
Victorian home in Pedro to take over the role
of the party house. Angela is the homemak¬
er, making lots of fancy meals, Gabby is the
breadwinner bringing home the bacon,
Banana is the lover and the fighter, and their roommate Koby does the dishes. They
were recently interviewed for Fuel TV for a half hour special featuring Mike Watt, Ray
Barbee, Chuck Treece and "The Pedro Scene." Fuel TV even filmed performances by
Watt and The Bettes at the ladies' house. Look for it in the coming months.
www. myspace, com/thealphabettes

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 April 21, 2006
FOURTH ROTOR (Chicago, IL) / DEFECT DEFECT (Portland,
OR) / THE ALPHABETTES / THE LEAH QUINELLE ALL
STARS FEATURING HAPPY (New Orleans, LA).
Harold's Place.

April 28, 2006

THE BANANAS (Sacramento, CA) / LITTLE CHAMPION /
THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD TO CANDYLAND.
Harold's Place.

May 12, 2006

LOS PUNKINHEDZ (Mike Watt / Money Mark / John Wicks).
(The New) Sacred Grounds Coffee Shop.

May 12, 2006

THE LEECHES / THE MEDIKS (Portland, OR) /
LOS PUNKINHEDZ / THE MEGAHURTS /
THE CHUCK DUKOWSKI SEXTET.
Harold's Place. ( The Rise And The Fall Issue 7 Release Party / Generator Show )

May 19, 2006

TOYS THAT KILL / SWING DING AMIGOS /
MIKE WATT + THE SECONDMEN.
jv
Harold's Place. (Toys That Kill "Shanked!" Release Party / Generator Show )
■ birthday suits
May 27, 2006
THE LEECHES.
San Pedro Brewing Company.

June 2, 2006
TOYS THAT KILL / THE MARKED MEN (TX) /
KETMAN (Boston, MA). Blue Mule.
June 10, 2006
SHARK PANTS (Tucson, AZ) / KILL THE HIPPIES <0H)/
LITTLE CHAMPION. 13th Street House Party.
June 16, 2006
,, %r£wm LOS PUNKINHEDZ.
(The New) Sacred Grounds Coffee Shop.

June 16, 2006

PINE HILL HAINTS (AL) / THE LEECHES /
THE CAN KICKERS (AL). Blue Mule.
June 22, 2006
RAY BARBEE, MIKE WATT & CHUCK TREECE /
AUTISTIC YOUTH (Portland, OR)/THE ALPHABETTES.
13th Street House Party. ( Filmed For FUEL TV )
June 24, 2006
TOYS THAT KILL (Didn't Get To Play) / KILLER DREAMER /
DRINKERS PURGATORY / ALMIGHTY DO ME FAVOR
/ J CHURCH (Austin, TX) / MODERN MACHINES (Milwaukee,
Wl) / CHINESE TELEPHONES (Milwaukee) / SLEEPOVER.
1026 W. 7th Street. ( The Cops Broke It Up )
July 10, 2006
DRINKERS PURGATORY / BIRTHDAY SUITS
(Minneapolis, MN) / THE ALPHABETTES /
PUBLIC DISTRESS. Blue Mule.

July 22, 2006

THE ALPHABETTES / DAVID COPPERUCK (SF) /
PTERODACTYL (Brooklyn, NY)/KILLER DREAMER.
13th Street House Party. ( Lightning Storm )
July 28, 2006
FLESHIES (Oakland, CA) / BIKE FIGHT (Oakland, CA) / SHAKEY
BONES /ABI YOYOS (San Francisco, CA) / THE RUBBER-
NECKERS (Blue Lake, CA). Blue Mule.
all photos by shanty cheryl. except hr by jason webb. modern machines &
birthday suits by big thorn, ray barbee by el beardo.
 Eatingbut Trio de Burger at the SMM)
S.P. BREWING
With Tito! COMPANY at Brewing Company
photo by shanty cheryl.
BEFORE I KNEW IT, THE DUE DATE FOR THE SECOND INSTALLMENT OF EATING OUT WITH TITO NOT ONLY CREPT
UP ON ME BUT FLEW RIGHT PAST ME. Our fearless leader and faithful editor finally tracked me down in Vancouver,
BC Canada to let me know that heads were gonna roll if I didn’t get something across his desk within 36 hours. Luckily
I had everything covered. I took notes during a visit to the San Pedro Brewing Company a few days before embark¬
ing on my most recent adventure. Good thing too. It appears that John Ransom of Long Beach wants to take my posi¬
tion as food critic. I never thought that being vegan would ever offend someone.

DISCLAIMER: As stated immediately above, I subscribe to a vegan diet. Therefore I always take guest reviewers out to dinner with me to give a more rounded
perspective of the establishment under review. I think it's a good system and I'm not going to change it any time soon.

THE SAN PEDRO BREWING COMPANY (SP BrewCo) is lunchtime waitress (er, server) Amy. She told me that the Lager
located at 331 W. 6th St. in what is commonly known as is definitely brewed in house and couldn’t be Budweiser
“Downtown San Pedro.” I guess that’s a fitting description for because the owner doesn’t get along with his Anheisuer Busch
the area between 5th and 7th and Pacific and Harbor consid¬ sales rep, therefore there are no AB products at the BrewCo.
ering it is geographically down the hill. But, using that logic, Convincing enough. Next up was the Blonde. This is a great
Ports o’ Call would be the true downtown. Then again, I guess beer if I’ve ever had one. There’s a nice hint of a roasted fla¬
there is a so-called business district in this area (I have no idea vor in there. Not a burnt flavor like you get from some “micro
what goes on in those office buildings, though). brews” and Starbucks coffee, but a nice full roast flavoring. I
Atmospherically the BrewCo is like the bar section of a middle would (and have) drink many more of these. The BrewCo’s
scale chain restaurant (i.e. TGI Friday’s, Applebee’s, etc.). I Heffeweisen is definitely the weak link in their chain of beers.
mean no offense when I say this; it’s just the impression I get. I know that hefs (or wheat beers) are naturally light but the
The entire bar and dining area is wooden which gives it the BrewCo’s is just too light for me. In fact, it has such a light fla¬
feel of an old ship. The walls are decorated with original paint¬ vor that it borders on flat. Susy loves this stuff and I can’t fig¬
ings and photographs of Pedro-area landmarks (new and old). ure out why. I’m not the biggest fan of Pale Ales. Most of
(The art on the walls is for sale, too, so support your local friends rave about Sierra Nevada but I never cared for it. That
artists!) There’s a covered patio area in front for those that being said, the Point Fermin Pale Ale is fantastic. Nice and
enjoy the outside air or a puff of smoke. Since it is a full func¬ hoppy the way a pale should be but without the thin flavor that
tioning restaurant as well as a fully licensed bar you get both turns me off most of the time (I guess that’s why it’s called
the dining families and the bar drinkers. The bar patrons range “pale” ale). Sean Cole loves pale ales like nobody’s business
from salty old fucks to newly 21 year old pseudo jocks that and considers this the BrewCo’s top brew. For me it runs a not-
aren’t quite ready to hang in the “real” bars of the area so-close second to the Blonde! Certainly on the top of my list
(Tommy’s, Godmother’s, The Porthole - which I hear is a cop of Pale Ales offered in this world. Like Pale Ales, I’ve never
bar). Joining me on the trip were my roommates Sean Cole been a big fan of red beers. The BrewCo’s Shanghai Red Ale
and Susy Soviette. We decided to each order a different style doesn’t change my mind. It’s just too sweet for my liking. If I’m
of burger on the menu as well as sample the fine beers that going to drink a sweet beer I’d rather have a nice heavy stout.
are brewed right there in the facility. I mean, it’s not called the On that note... What I think is the newest addition to the
San Pedro Brewing Company for nothing. My first idea was to BrewCo’s family of beers is their Stout. I’m not sure I know of
drink a pint of all 6 beers during my meal. Luckily for me any stout brewed outside of Ireland and the UK. This American
Bartender Brendan served up a sampler of their beers in small stout can certainly hold it’s own against Murphy’s and
(1/4 pint maybe) glasses. If this option wasn’t available, this Guinness any day. Thick, black as night and with that cloudy
review never would’ve had a chance at seeing daylight. The head that is trademark to stouts. The BrewCo’s Stout has a
first beer in the carousel of glasses was the Longshoreman nice, strong roasted flavor with the malty, chocolate aftertaste
Lager. I don’t know about you but I would say that I’ve proba¬ that Guinness has. Not such a good choice to have with a
bly drank upwards of 5000 cans, bottles, pint glasses and meal but a great brew none the less. So the verdict is this: Tito
buckets of Crisp, Clean, Beachwood-Aged Budweiser. I know chooses the Blonde as his brew of choice, Susy the
that it’s the only beer that I prefer to drink from a can. I know Heffeweisen and Sean the Pale Ale. In the course of the after¬
that from a bottle it has a slight, odd, liquor flavor to it. I know noon-turned-evening we each consumed at least an addition¬
that Budweiser brewed and purchased in St. Louis taste better al six pints of our newly chosen favorite. In fact, my notes on
than Budweiser brewed anywhere else. I know that the name our burger meals are so limited that this looks like it’s only
Budweiser was ripped off from a Czech beer of the same going to be a beer review. I know that I got a veggie burger
name (known to the locals as “Budvar”) That being said, I bet with a side salad. Susy had the standard cheeseburger.
you dollars to donuts that the BrewCo’s Longshoreman Lager Knowing Sean he probably ordered a turkey burger thinking he
is nothing more than a keg of the King of Beers tapped under was being health conscious only to add cheese and bacon
the bar with all patrons (but myself) none the wiser. I was making it a moot point. The only actual note on the burgers is
proven wrong when I brought this up to the BrewCo’s stalwart a quote form Susy stating, “Burgers here are top notch. I’m
from the Midwest, I know burgers." Enough said. •
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Ahoy there mateys, wenches and scallywaggers! I be Coco, the
drunkest, meanest quartermaster in these here waters. With
that said, i can now tell ye about thee 17th annual "BUCCANEER
DAYS" at CATALINA ISLAND'S TWO HARBORS on October 7th.
Don yer best pirate attire and compete in the treasure hunt for ye
olde pirate booty! And if you like your mead, on Sept. 23rd there's a
MICROBREW FEST at the same place. Sounds like a nice place to
pillage. Be forewarned, there's a rival ship in thee harbor! A three
masted vessel be docked off 22nd st. for the upcoming PIRATES OF
THE CARIBBEAN 3. Gosh, how am I supposed to transition that
over to the mainland? Well, ever since HAROLD'S PLACE has closed
down BLUE MULE rehearsal studio on Gaffey has been having
shows there and quite successfully. Free gigs, (donations for touring
bands requested) and the fact that it's B.Y.O.B. doesn't hurt either.
RECESS RECORDS 1OOTH RELEASE (F.Y.P "Five Year Plan") party
was at THE ECHO (in Echo Park) and there was a write up in the
June issue of SAN PEDRO MAGAZINE about this milestone. Toys
That Kill (minus Chachi) plus Susy (The Soviettes) played THE
UPRIGHT CITIZENS BRIGADE THEATER a little while back for the
comedians to sing over their musical stylings. MIKE WATT &
GEORGE HURLEY were on JONESY'S JUKEBOX (Indie 103.1 FM)
in June to help promote the new WE JAM ECONO DVD that just
CUSTOM came out on PLEXIFILM. THE CHANNEL STREET SKATEPARK
benefit at the WARNER GRAND THEATRE went over well, making
SCREENPRINTING the S.P.S.A. about four grand including a generous donation from
LINDA BUKOWSKI. Thanks Linda! With all the money, El Beardo
says they are working on "beautification" of the park as well as a
SHIRTS • STICKERS • GRAPHICS possible extension into the sunlight towards Channel St. SPITFIRE
just released a Channel Street Skate Wheel (cool Vincent Thomas
310 320-8662 Bridge graphics) in which all proceeds will go to the park. Check out
www.dlxsf.com to get your wheels. The park makes an appearance
[email protected] in "THIRTEEN," Thrasher's yearly photo issue. EL BEARDO has a
few pages of haberdashery in it and I'm sure more will follow
because he's getting married in October! ADAM GAXIOLA just got
married in Puerto Rico and our old friend BOOGIE is getting married
in October as well! Congrats to all! Boogie's cousin HAL BA DAL

SYLVIA’S just moved back to Pedro and says he's, "Back with a Kayak." Hal,
a.k.a. M.C. SAPPHIRE just informed me that his all gay rap revue

BAIL BONDS THE PINK M.C.'S is going to be re-recording for BUDDYHEAD

RECORDS. Can't wait for that one guys. ALMIGHTY DO ME A
FAVOR has a new CD out on KAPOW [self-titled]. The Lipstick
Pickups have been making some big changes, namely their name.
Now called LITTLE CHAMPION, they've added SUSY (The
Soviettes) on bass and are awaiting the release of their album and
tour in November. THE LEECHES just played LACMA this spring at
a graffiti art show called "POWER VIOLENCE." MARIO YBARRA
from SLANGUAGE put that on and as I understand they've moved
from Wilmington to Downtown LA (Chinatown). You go! RAWL from
The Leeches is now playing drums in DRINKER'S PURGATORY and
are releasing a record in the US on SMALL POOL RECORDS and in
Japan (No People's label) on UNDERGROUND GOVERNMENT.
They are also going to tour Japan in February with SHARK PANTS
if you can believe that shit. Wow! THE FIRST ANNUAL "RUIN!"
BASEBALL TOURNAMENT which featured teams from SAN
DIEGO (BLACK SHIRTS), ANAHEIM (RAD BONES) & two teams
from Pedro which were the SAN PEDRO GROWN ASS MEN & the
SAN PEDRO GUERRERO'S was a blast! The tourney took place at
Miraleste High School in Palos Verdes and was won by the GROWN
ASS MEN who are still undefeated and welcoming challenges. Now
“We Get You Through The Storm” for some lame news, not only do the coastal inhabitants of San
Pedro hate loud pipes on bikes but they also hate the clinking of
San Pedro’s Oldest Bail Bonds horseshoes on a dinky metal post? MARK RIVERA started a fresh

310.547*2000 (DIY) horseshoe pit right atop SUNKEN CITY, which has recently
been "demolished" due to complaints by neighbors. WTF? If you
from L.B. 562.432.7910 can't throw a ring on a stick in this town what can you do? I guess
implant your stick somewhere else. Good luck finding the second
981 N. Pacific Avenue. most perfect spot. Peace. Please send comments and additions to:
In San Pedro coco@theriseandthefall. com
www.sylviasbailbonds.com -COCO CHAPPELLE
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received will be equally considered...

FOURTH ROTOR
PLAIN
‘MKetenyuMtiei “RecontU
J saw these guys one night down at
Harold's Place, man they were pretty
good. They're a solid and heavy hitting
three piece out of Chicago. The singer R€DUC€AS SF
/ guitar player was totally rockin' the
Rick and busting some pretty killer slide. The bass player dominat¬
RAISE YOUR HACKLES
7X0 XeoytcU
ed the four string and the drummer totally rips to make a solid
dJ\ as. A sound that makes sense in this
pocket. The music is really groove oriented in a slanky and sharp
fucked up world we live in. No, I don't
vibe simultaneously. I dug them live and I was kinda drunk, but
want to fuck a million bitches. No I
then I listen to the record and I remember being drunk at Harold’s
don't want to be rich and have bling.
and it really makes me happy. You should listen to them if you've
No, I don't want to beat people up and
ever been to Harold's or been drunk because I promise you that
cry about my ex-lovers all day. I just want to listen to the Reducers
you'll be happy too. (www.fourthrotor.com) -Pedro Bob
SF. There's nothing like beer music. Yanno, music you can just lis¬
ten to while drinking a cool refreshing bottle of brain distorting
G.G. AlUN AND
beer. No strict message. No fancy image. You don’t have to be
ANTIS€€N angry, sad or pathetic to listen. Just listen because you are.
MURDER JUNKIES (www.reducerssf.com) -Tracipoo
7X0 Second*t
ai^iat a beautiful record... Hate, mur¬ Fl€SHI€S
der, violence, rape. All so eloquently SCRAPE THE WALLS
put by mister Allin himself. With this Aite^Uiue 7eHt&c£e&
record he flows seamlessly and beauti¬ rf^iese dudes are pretty intense. They
fully through all the darkness that life has to offer. It's a patchwork, have this one track that sounds just like
no, a mosaic of beauty. There's so much truth to the man and his one of those Reagan Youth jam songs.
honesty is so great that if you were to bottle it you would be a mil¬ Man, I love those things. They make me
lionaire. You know his work and you either like it or not but you feel all bubbly. They also have some
better like it. It's real, (www.tkorecords.com) -Pedro Bob fast paced stuff that pretty much rips. Like rips fully. The picture of
them inside of the CD is the band all dressed up as elves. I think
PCAISH that warrants enough for them to officially tear the shit up. Yes.
OUR-SIN (www.fleshies.net) -Pedro Bob
A*6<y Xeoxrdi
Sometimes I can tell when I'm not DIGITAL L€ATH€fi
going to like an album just by looking MONOLOGUE
at the artwork. Oh, and don’t give me XeayicU KS
that don't judge a book nonsense wf Japanther went Goth and acquired an
because this isn't literature, it's music... unhealthy New Order obsession... etc.
well, in Perish's case, crap. The artwork is all in shades of grey's etc. etc. This guy's only chance (I
and blues. Like I'm supposed to be sad. The song titles are listed believe it's a solo project) is to make
with Roman numerals and the artwork around the lyrics looks like sure that his live show includes Huge
the menu out of a bad Greek restaurant. Don't get me started on the bass bins cranked to the max, ton's o' dry ice and maybe a Viking
band photo. It looks like Glenn Danzig fertilized a bunch of hippy costume... perhaps a suit of armor?
art moms and this was the result. Oh, and they all stole their (www.myspace.com/digitalleather) -Tonan
mom's eyeliner. The music is what the kids like these days, but I
really have a disdain for it. So if you like shitty harmonies with
GBH
growls and screams performed by some dudes with makeup and PUNK JUNKIES
death locks then this is up your alley, and possibly your ass. SOS Xetvuh
(www.myspace.com/perishrock) -Pedro Bob ^irty and fast punk that you've known
and loved by these dudes. If you like
SNITCH€S G€T STITCHCS them, then you'll like this album. I
EVEN A BUTCHERED haven't much to say, so here's a story:
Johnny loved to eat apples and that's all
CARCASS CAN SHINE he would ever eat. His mom wanted him to try something different;
&*Kpfy Xecaxdx 7lS
bacon, enchiladas, carrots, but no, he only liked apples. So one
^/uch better than the played out
night Johnny's mom went into the fridge and cut out the middles of
"street" punk that the name implied to
all the apples and stuffed them with all kinds of different ingredi¬
me. These foolios are heavy in an early
sirrctewStfithes ents in order to trick him into eating them. Johnny knew his mom's
90's Midwest hardcore sorta way with
trickery ran deep, so he shit in the fridge the next day. 'Mom, I hate
a bit of a prog rock twist. Good unpredictable hooks kept this
your shitty food.' (www.punkjunkies.com) -Pedro Bob
interesting for me. (www.snitchesgetstitches.com) -Tonan

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 PANSY DIVISION TIM€ AGAIN
THE ESSENTIAL PANSY THE STORIES ARE TRUE
hellcat TReeatde
DIVISION /ime Again sounds like they want to be
Alternative lentaetei
^iese dudes are the gayest act in punk Rancid. I find that boring. Even their

music. Really, and they're proud. They name is boring... Time Again. It's like

also rip and have a great sense of time and time again. All these punk

humor, which all shows through in bands sound like something I've heard
before and I want something new but Time Again doesn’t provide
their tunes. I could try and be really witty and make some silly
that. If Time Again were toilet paper I'd be a very pissed off con¬
jokes, but I'll just give you a few song titles and I think they'll
speak for themselves as a testament to how cool these guys are: sumer because that stuff would be some used two-ply and the only
catchiness it would have is it's cling to my ass after a bout of the
I'm Gonna be a Slut, Dick of Death, Cocksucker Club, Homo
squirts. Stinky, (www.timeagainband.com) -Pedro Bob
Christmas, He Whipped My Ass in Tennis (Then I Fucked His Ass
in Bed). That being said, this is a two disc set, one audio and one
video. Go straight to the store and get it on.
I OBJECT
(www.pansydivision.com) -Pedro Bob TEACHING REVENGE
Alternative HeKtaclet
MIRANDA SOUND ^Object's recording sounds really loose.
They stick to the D.I.Y. belief so I can
WESTERN RESERVE
SuH&e* IreaAUfie “RecowU see why their production value is the
^ndie darlings! Indie rock! Indie bor¬ way it is. The songs themselves are
ing! The third full-length release from kinda catchy. They really don't do too
this Columbus, Ohio foursome. Way much for me. They also have a female vocalist and I'm a musical
over-produced adult drama that sexist when it comes to female vocalists. I just don't like too many
angered me for forcing myself to female punk vocalists. Don't get me wrong, women can sing but I
endure this piece of shit in its entirety just so I can write a shitty can't get into the female punk vocals. I haven't too much insight to
review like this one. The various singers in Miranda Sound (with hand out on these guys. If you're curious go find 'em yourself and
no balls) will annoy you to no end. Quit it! make your own stupid opinion, (www.i-object.com) -Pedro Bob
(www.mirandasound.com) -Spider
TH€ HOLV MOUNTAIN
CUT 45 ENEMIES
Idea
2, 4, 6, 8...WE'RE THE
crushing tracks from this headbang¬
KIDS YOU LOVE TO HATE ing Tampa, Florida hardcore unit. This
S'lf.O ^ecwtxU
record will brutally beat you down from
liftandard punk stuff. It bores me. It’s
start to finish and leave you face down
like eating a unseasoned steak, or
in a puddle of your own blood. Good
chicken without marinate. There’s a big
lyrics, guitar solos & aggressive throaty vocals. Fast paced, tight,
meaty mass of unsavory blah to chew
angry and heavy as fuck! What more do you want?
on. I’m bored just listening to this. There's no excitement to their
(www.theholymm.com) -Spider
tunes. It's just some quick tempo with boring bar chords and sing-
a-long vocals that are so predictable. It reminds me of this one Chi¬ TH€ KNIGHTS OF TH€
nese place we order lunch from sometimes. The food comes with a N6UU CRUSAD6
little package of flavoring. These dudes forgot the flavoring and
it's a boring tasteless meal that's probably gonna give me the runs.
A CHALLEGE TO THE COW¬
(www.byorecords.com) -Pedro Bob ARDS OF CHRISTENDOM
Alternative Hentaetei
SCHULZ Controversial Christian punk rock on
Alternative Tentacles? That’s right!
WHAT APOLOGY This Bay Area garage punk band will
Sudde*c “DeatA, “^ecfyuU
assault you from beginning to end with the word of the Lord.
rt/ semi new project by Guenter Schulz
Extreme in your face Christianity that has the Christian scene
(ex-KMFDM) and Jeff Borden (House
debating the Knights’ all out spiritual tactics. The Knights will help
Of Commons). This record is OK.
give you that shove you’ve always needed in becoming that spiri¬
Some of the slower stuff is pretty unlis-
tual warrior you’ve always wanted to be. I’m serious.
tenable though. A definite dark “indus¬
(www.altemativetentacles.com) -Spider
trial” feel to it. They even cover Joy Division’s “Love Will Tear Us
Apart” which is OK. Some of this is reminiscent of Motorhead, TH€ ROBOCOP KRAUS
Ministry and of course KMFDM. It isn’t good, it isn’t bad, it’s just
OK. (www.schulzmusic.com) -Spider
THEY THINK THEY ARE
THE ROBOCOP KRAUS
THROBBING URG€S SfutafAJd aye T>'<yi
di/odem day new wave... what an oxy.
SELF-TITLED
‘Dead Seat Heavily keyboard and dance driven,
& dudes from the sticks of Midland, but in a corny way. Meaning that by
MI kick out some stellar jams. 13 themselves, keyboards and dancing are
by no means corny, but when these guys get in the mix, total cob.
tracks of raw hellbent rock! The CD
It kinda sounds like the singer is on the verge of crying, maybe it's
says most songs were recorded in vari¬
the piercing techno hi hat sound. If I ever met these guys I’d hafta
ous living rooms (it’s obvious). These
ask ‘em why they chose Epitaph, instead of putting it out on their
guys are tight tho’! (www.myspace.com/throbbingurges) -Spider
own label Swing Deluxe, (www.therobocopkraus.de) -Rawl

SEPT-DEC 2006 I the rise and the fall I 49

 GCNGHIS TRON TH€ JOHNS
DEAD MOUNTAIN MOUTH IN TUNE 7"
&iucial SCadt Ah6o- ^ecwcU
Undeniably ferocious. Three dudes d^otal Huntington Beach bar rock,
from Poughkeepsie who create total bleeeeehhh!!!!! These guys boast of I
musical mayhem. I have a bad habit of havin' members of a ton of other "punk”
biting my nails and this record did not bands and pat themselves on the back
help. The first few songs made me saying that they're one of the most
down right nervous and had me lookin' over my shoulder for some refreshingly new sounds to come out of Southern California in
maniacal vision swinging a straight razor. A million notes a minute years. My guess is that any punker I know would feel like the odd
at breakneck speed. Electronic breaks that have that Italian horror man out at one of their gigs. These dudes must not get out much
movie feel to ’em. Melt banana and Goblins come to mind. At cer¬ anymore or at least not too far past the beach bar scene. Does any¬
tain points in the record they completely change style and direc¬ one care that they played with The Stitches? Haven’t we all... a
tion. From arty grindcore to electronic heaviness to sludgy metal. glass of sand seems more refreshing. Sound wise: O.C. punk from
They even got a dream like pop sound at times. Sounds pretty the days of yore but it just doesn't have the same desperation as
schizo right? It is. (www.genghistron.com) -Rawl kids of the black hole, (www.ankorecords.com) -Rawl

MISS VIOLCTTR TOVS THAT KILL tj-kj

B€RUR€GRRD€ SHANKED!
ODI PROFANUM VULGUS IRecedd IReayuU
i?X K release their third full-length
ET ARCEO record and probably their best work to
Hemfi&ui'Uf “^edideHce &d.
date. Trippy packaging that includes a
if6 raging fits of electro-punk grind-
fat 17 pg booklet (with CD). 17 Catchy *
hop. The chaos & screaming from this
as fuck tracks and no lemons! Melodic,
girl from Italy (solo project) never
energetic, aggressive punk that will stay in your head & player for
stops. Cool song titles too. Abstract electronic art damage with
weeks on end. Although I don’t pretend to understand any of the
thick beats that will batter the senses for a short stint (20 min.). I
lyrics, they are sung with passion and make you wanna sing along.
did a little digging and found out that this girl is one of those
You can catch these dudes playing for free at least twice a month
Suicide Girls and goes by the name Aiki. Take it or leave it...
(when their not on tour) at some local Pedro backyard party, really
(www.violettasucks.com) -Spider
tho'. (www.toysthatkill.com) -Spider
UV€ FAST Dl€
DC SNIPCRS
BANDANA THRASH RECORD
Z>ead Seat ^eavuU MISSILE SUNSET
^iis is my favorite of the four CDs I “Dead Seat “RecwcU
had to review. As I've come to learn f liked the other Dead Beat release I
got better than this but I'm not saying
they sound somewhat like the Rip-Offs.
these guys aren't good. Far From it.
Maybe they are in that vein but the
Maybe it's the keyboard but something
main reason I think you should buy a
about them reminds me of the Murder
100 copies of this and sell them to your friends is because the
City Devils. However, there is more that says to me that the D.C.
music made me want to play music to bust jam box speakers with
Snipers are better and I shouldn't be comparing the two. Maybe I
and more people should be into fun stuff like that. Right?
should compare them to a bizarre brain-movie type dream I had
(www.livefastdie.net) -Puddin' Foot
the other night where missiles were flying and clouds of smoke

BLANK ITS were rising across the land. The world was about to end. Bicycle
tires were going flat. It was some sort of red dawn. A dream of
HAPPY ACCIDENTS paranoia, which is coincidental considering the name of this album
“ReaneU TiS
is Missile Sunset. But wait... we all remember the D.C. snipers
^rive Like Jehu! For a couple of sec¬
themselves, right? John Allen Muhammad and John Lee Malvo. It
onds. This is a good CD to clean stuff
was one of the heights of post 9-11 urban paranoia and uncertainty.
too. Your room, hallway or wash
These guys are all over that with their rock and roll and keyboards.
clothes or crimes. Heavy and driving
They might be ambassadors of paranoia. They even have a song
with good breaks. There are times
called Soviet Union. They don't really sound anything at all like
where it seems to flow from song to song with ease and a brutal
that aforementioned band. There's something more angular about
grace. The vocal effects are a little strange but it doesn't take away them and definitely more chilling.
a thing, (www.blankits.com) -Puddin' Foot (www.myspace.com/thedcsnipers) -Puddin' Foot

TH€ SAINT€ CATH€RIN€S €SCAP€ GRAC€

DANCING FOR DECADENCE II
'Jot li/recd (2/uneU Andenai ‘RecvuU
fm not supposed to be biased against d^iis album only has 4 tracks, which is
the French Canadians, huh? ...Damn... sort of a relief cuz I only have to sit
Other than that minor downside, The through this for only 20 mins tops. And
Sainte Catherines are in it for the sheer yes I did listen thru the whole 20 mins
pleasure and awe of punk rock. They cuz I’m looking for SOMETHING
all have the desire to make things better. And by all, I mean all extraordinary and yet... nope. It sounds like these kids were big fans
SIX of'em!!! They find it necessary to have THREE guitarists, of aggressive hardcore music so much so that they wanted to add
which in my opinion makes things a little more frustrating when themselves to the play list. I've heard them before I think... oh wait.
the time comes to split the profits. As far as the sound goes... they Nope. They just sound similar. I'll give them this: they have skills
deserve a listen, (www.thesaintecatherines.org) -Tracipoo but no new ideas.(www.myspace.com/escapegrace) -Tracipoo

50 I the rise and the fall I SEPT-DEC 2006

 DEFIANCE, OHIO. THE RGGROLITES
THE GREAT DEPRESSION SELF-TITLED
'ZfeMcctf ^ectncU
^ike if any P.C. punk band dropped 4/tiAT A SOUND!!! The Aggrolites
old cliches and picked up some have no ordinary reggae sound. No sir!
acoustic instruments then played the Imagine a reggae band that is inspired
same stuff with an occasional hokey not only by Caribbean rhythms but also
nod to traditional stylings of old-time by The Clash, WAR, James Brown,
or folk music. But hey, thousands of people like this so why listen Tower Of Power, Wilson Pickett and The Meters. The Aggrolites
to me. (www.defianceohio.terrorware.com) -Puddin' Foot revive the sweet classic sound of the late 1960's Jamaican music
while giving you the aggressive mix of their inspirations. Not to
FXPWT F.V.P mention that they've got their hands on Scott Abels of Hepcat! If
FIVE YEAR PLAN you want to expand your reggae ears. The Aggrolites would be a

q
fceceM “ReccrcU great place to start! (www.aggroreggae.com) -Tracipoo

(QrtllV ^was stoked I got to review this

record. I've always enjoyed F.Y.P and
kinda missed them after they went
LEFT ALONE
DEAD AMERICAN RADIO
■r »►(.«.* ; away. Kinda like when your cat runs 'ZeMcat TZeayicU
away because you used to put duct tape 44/ore songs about girls & booze from
on the bottoms of its paws, but then the cat would scratch you this threesome from Wilmas. Some ska,
while you slept. I don't know what that has to do with this band or pop, cowpunk & even old school punk.
record, but that's how I feel. This is a bunch of demos from 1999 There’s even a duet with Patricia Day
and they still sound just fine and there's no doubt that you'll still (Horrorpops) called “La Pregunta” sung
want to run around your room naked while listening to this in Spanish. Elvis Cortez’s hero Tim Armstrong co-wrote and helps
record... or is that just me? I like it raw. My personal fave is proba¬ out with vocals on “City To City.” Elvis gripes about how he hates
bly “18 & Tweaked” because it reminds me of a few people I grew Emo bands because, “They all look the same, play the same and
up with, but they never grew up. (www.recessrecords.com) talk the same.” To me Left Alone aren’t too original themselves and
-Pedro Bob have no room to talk. I’m not defending the Emo thing but come on
guys, have you looked in the mirror lately? You’re not from
DISASTER STRIKES England, you’re from Wilmington. The music is pretty good but the
LIBERTY TOAST lyrics are getting old. (www.leftalone.net) -Spider
Alternative ‘lentacCeA
^nion made, plenty tough. Hardcore SCOUTS HONOR
punk from Boston, Mass. Great politi¬ I AM THE DUST
cally fueled lyrics that are sang with 7U Jdea
passion & a deliberate urgency. Just 4/\iis three piece from Peoria, Illinois
what I’ve been looking for. Lot’s of will help take you on a rocking beer
songs about exploitative labor practices and other unfortunate binge journey to the trailer park. 11
mishaps. These guys will let you know where they stand on lots of blasts of heavy rock, country, blues and
issues and they do it with a fervor that’s been missing in the punk some acoustic stuff thrown into the mix
scene these days. They even give shit to hipster poser punks on to boot. This record flip-flops between heavy powerful blasts of
“Nothing To Say.” This is a great record that you must check out! aggression to country inspired tunes that are quite pleasant to the
Cover by Winston Smith, (www.disasterstrikes.net) -Spider ears. This 40 minute CD is quite worth the coin. Don’t toy with
Illinois! (www.scouts-honor.net) -Spider
THE STITCHES
8X12" CHANNELS
'VitUfl T>oy WAITING FOR THE NEXT
^iis record was originally released in
END OF THE WORLD
1995 and thanks to Vinyl Dog it’s “DUcAtvid ^ecoxcU
available again on CD. This 8 song CD Channels have been around since 2003
is pretty good. I thought they were and are influenced & often motivated by
from Long Beach but the one sheet Siouxie And The Banshees, The Jesus
says Orange County. Not that it matters, or does it? Straight for¬ Lizard & early XTC. Enough cheating
ward boozed up punk rock that will get your head shaking. For from the one sheet. Sometimes mellow shared boy/girl vocals with
fans of bands like U.S. Bombs, etc. etc. etc... cool guitar riffage & kick ass drumming that drives this band in the
(www.thestitches.com) -Spider direction of Mutually Assured Rocking Destruction. This is a good
record to hang with good friends and wait for the apocalypse.
46 SHORT (www.channelstheband.com) -Spider
TRUTH DENIED
TKO ^ecareU THE APPLICATORS
4/6 Short comes off aggressive right
MY WEAPON
from the first track. Gruff vocals, lyrics 'Kiny ^eccncU
that tell it like it is, and the rest of the 4/\\e 2nd record from this all girl band
package that makes a decent punk from Texas. This band has been touring
band. It's got all the sing-a-longy parts the U.S. & Europe and was once select¬
and the chants that most anthemy punk bands like to do. They ed as “Unsigned Band Of The Month”
sound good, but they're just a bit predictable. Ho Hum. by Alternative Press Mag. They’re now
(www.46short.com) -Pedro Bob signed and deliver a pretty decent new batch of pop punk jams. 12
of ‘em to be exact, (www.myspace.com/theapplicators) -Spider

SEPT-DEC 2006 I the rise and the fall I 51

 RRISCD FIST TH€ RRK€S
SOUND OF THE REPUBLIC RETREAT
SptfapA “RecvieUlSunMCHy 'Zteaxt T>uk Wtcdk “Rec&itU
■Jrver wish for a true hardcore band g^flien these guys lose the electro
that doesn't look at themselves twice in clash/Strokes fixation and play
the mirror to make sure their make-up together as a band (ala' tracks 4 and 5)
isn't runny? Raised Fist has the right we'll all be the better for it. The good
attitude and sound that will leave you stuff is kinda' off-kilter, almost goofy,
thinking, "Hmm... I really DO want to kick my landlord's ass!" angular punk. The Rakes, at their worst, play with a cooler-than-you
They'll give you their own sound whether you like it or not, not detached vibe that's mos' def wanker city. Fucka disco beat! These
giving a fuck if you do. These guys are rare, and I say this not only guy's have a 50/50 chance. Stay grounded, lads.
because they sound unique but also because when it comes to (www.therakes.co.uk) -Tonan
hardcore rock, they’re the only ones that fit the description.
(www.raisedfist.com) -Tracipoo
MODERN MRCHINCS
TAKE IT, SOMEBODY
TH€ CHUCK DUKOUJSKI
secrcr
*Doti Ttafi TReanefo
first I thought this was a Modem iAIftl&iu
EAT MY LIFE Lovers record. But that may be just
Tfice- A*tcC ‘R.ec&’ult because 'modem' is in their name. I
tfuper trippy record from the artwork kinda wish it was the Modem Lovers.
to the music. It's like punk rock and Jonathan Richman was so cool. Whoa, tM Jki
psychodelica copulating in the back of these dudes said Pedro in one of their lyrics. Trip out. Maybe I'll try
a Volvo... it's out there riding hard and to like them now. Actually they are pretty good. Not too good, but
heavy yet still holding strong. If that means anything. Dueling gui¬ just pretty good. I don't know if I'm about all the oooh's and aaah's
tar tracks, lurching and bouncing drums, running bass lines, horns and all that jive. I think I'll shine listening to the rest of this record
screaming and some great vocals. I approve massively. I've seen because it's boring. Bye Bye. (www.modemmachines.org)
them a few times live and that's a good experience for all of you -Pedro Bob

out there. Go see them, buy the record. They even do a version of
'My War’ so if you miss hearing the Flag do it; at least you have
KILL TH€ HIPPIES
the OG bass man to listen to re-interpret it. Dig it. ERECTOSPECTIVE
(www.thechuckdukowskisextet.com) -Pedro Bob ‘Punpl&vut
J^eeahhh, Killer! This shit is HYPHY!
F€RV€NT HUB Two discs (47 songs, whuut?) that cover
THE STORY I SHOULD HAVE the gamut of power-pop, spazz-rock,
garage-punk and beyond. This shit's
TOLD YOU IN THE FIRST PLACE chill like cherries, yo. We win again! I
StovuH 'D’uuk ^ecwuU
missed them play right offa Pacific at a house party just a few
^ve been seeing flyers from this band
weeks ago. Poser, me! (www.www.killthehippies.org) -Tonan
around town for sometime now. I guess
maybe some of ‘em are from San
VCRSUS TH€ MIRROR
Pedro? I think this record was self-
released. The P.O. Box on their record label “Storm Drain
HOME
'l/Uio* “RetontU
Records” says it’s in Pedro. Anyway, this band has NO guitar. 3
^rom Tucson, Arizona comes the very
bass players and a drummer. There are some good quirky hard
mediocre V.T.M. The one sheet yam¬
driving songs on this 14-track disc. I’m not so sure about the
mers about how they chose to record
singer... kinda too plain sounding. This is OK.
their record the old school way (analog
(www.ferventhub.com) -Spider
to 2” tape) and not go with Pro-Tools
NON€ AAOR€ BLRCK because they didn’t want their record to sound polished to perfec¬
tion. Why do I bother reading this crap? I agree to some extent but
THIS IS SATIRE why do they feel the need to let everyone know this? This record
Ti/xccii sounds pretty polished and boring anyway. The only real heaviness
Usually I only talk shit on bands when
on this record is the singer’s constant screaming that gets real
they have bad cover art, but these guys
annoying by the third track. Why do these one sheets also feel the
have some really interesting cover art.
need to let me know what bands they have played with? Does any¬
Monsters and whatnot with the circus
one really care? (www.versusthemirror.net) -Spider
feel and all. I guess it’s all that really
caught any of my senses, besides the smell of the CD booklet. The FISH KRRMR
audio portion really left me with something to forget. Even as I lis¬
THE THEORY OF
ten to it and try to write this review, I'm bored with it. They
play well, there's nothing wrong with what they're doing, I guess
INTELLIGENT DESIGN
Mten*etfive 7e*tt4deA
they just don’t have that edge that I like. These dudes jam melodic,
Arizona comedian/songwriter Terry
airy and poppy punk tunes which come off as easily accessible and
Owen delivers a batch of sarcasm for
not requiring much thought, (www.nmbmusic.net) -Pedro Bob
the masses. 14 tracks that range from
silly punk, to silly rock to some silly
Maybe liar Tony can fit one Dylan-like jams to god knows what. Jello Biafra’s incredibly
strange music pick for the new millennium. I most likely won’t
of his reviews in this ever listen to this again. It’s almost like a comedy record that you
tiny space. Any day now... only want to here once. Winston Smith did the art. Nice try but not
my thing, (www.altemativetentacles.com) -Spider

52 I the rise and the fall I SEPT-DEC 2006

 MIKA MIKO DIOS (MALOS)
C.Y.S.L.A.B.F. SELF-TITLED
*KM State ‘Vay ia*ct(Sta itune <]«teiHatia*al
Underground youth/punk band from liTouth Bay & proud! Actually they’re
L.A. A lot of hype for this all grrrl 5 from Hawthorne, CA. 12 easy listening
piece. Amazing punk spirit & attitude. tracks reminiscent of Radiohead & the
13 sloppy songs that will definitely get Beach Boys. I know a lot of people that
you excited about seeing them live. are into this band but this is the first
After hearing this you will want to be a part of all the fnn that exu¬ I’ve heard from them. This record is pretty mellow. A hazy psyche¬
berates out of this righteous record. A little new wave, a little pop, delic trip that dabbles in country & rock. I bet they’re a lot better
a little punk, a lot of FUN! (www.thesmell.org/ppm) -Spider live. I heard Ronnie James Dio took legal action so they had to
change their name from Dios to Dios (Malos), what a dick!
(www.diosmalos.com) -Spider

IrUAMIhiJ!) No reviews are guaranteed, but all materials received will be equally considered...

KILL 99 DEFECT DEFECT

DEMO DEMO
J have no clue what the band name ^ool band from Portland that gets in
means but that’s not important. I got your face and forces you to deal with
this demo from Vince G. (a Pedro their nerdiness. I recently caught this
friend) who plays bass in the band and 4-piece at Harold’s Place here in town.
does some singing. He’s been bugging After just about grabbing everyone in
me to check out his band but I haven’t the bar and screaming the words to their
had the time. I’m not sure where the rest of the band is from, prob¬ songs in the audience’s faces it was all over. The energetic singer
ably South Bay-er’s. Good solid recording (Media Kitchen). They then cooled down and handed me this 6 song demo CD.
have a definite old school hardcore sound. I like this (5 song) Straightforward hardcore punk with good heavy guitar parts & great
demo. Cool simple punk riffs & good strong vocals. Some cussing, vocals that sometimes remind me of a young Henry Garfield. Good
some anger, this CD should get ‘em some gigs. witty lyrics to boot. Check these Oregonians out if you get a
(www.myspace.com/kill99) -Spider chance, they mean well, (www.myspace.com/defectdefect) -Spider

SHOPLIFTERS R€AGAN SS
DEMO DEMO
J got this from Mr. Ruben Medina. ^got this 4 song CD in the mail. I
Shoplifters are from Wilmington. This guess these guys hail from the big city
one definitely surprised me. This of Los Angeles cuz that’s what their
record is kind of hard to describe. Sped P.O. Box says. Unreadable CD info just
up twangy country licks with a bit of in case you were curious about the song
Hispanic flavor and a punk edge? Call titles, oh well. Simple hardcore thrash
it what you will but this shit is really good. I was bummed that the that is full of hate. Are these guys stuck in the 80’s with real hate
7 song CD that I received was somewhat defected. Only 3 of the 7 for Reagan or are they Reagan groupies? Who knows? They sent no
songs worked on my player. What I heard was very cool. info about the band whatsoever so I’m kinda in the dark. After all,
Heartache lyrics sang with a great style and great grooves that you the music is what matters, right? Well these 4 songs are short
could dance to. This demo definitely had me wanting more. thrashers that are all a minute or under in length. Your typical
(www.myspace.com/theshoplifters3) -Spider Quincy punk, ([email protected]) -Spider

GOING UNDERGROUND AMERICAN PUNK 1979-1992

fyta “Pnete / AutAwi: tyeaxye '%unc£aMa
^iis is a fat oversized (8 !4” x 11”/ 300 pages) book that covers the various hardcore punk scenes that popped
up in the early 80’s all across America. From the more popular scenes like LA, NY & DC to some of the small¬
er scenes like Iowa, Lawrence, Cincinnati, Austin & Florida. This book takes you from scene to scene as if you
were in a van touring the states for the first time. George Hurchalla delivers the goods with passion & respect
for those who made it happen. A history of the good & bad aspects of the diy movement. Lot’s of great-unpub¬
lished photos & flyers. The cover has a great photo of the late Randy “Biscuit” Turner (Big Boys) giving the
photographer the finger. Tons of factual anecdotes from various musicians, club promoters, zine publishers and
scenesters. This book has been recently compared to the “American Hardcore” book written by Steven Blush,
claiming that Blush’s book is filled with too much inaccurate info and so fourth. I think with any history type
book there are gonna be inaccuracies. Greg Ginn says the same thing about “Get In The Van” by Henry Rollins.
Nicole Panter says the same thing about “Lexicon Devil” by Brendan Mullen (Don Bolles & Adam Parfrey). I’m
sure there will be people whining about this book also. All in all, this is a good read if you were into the early
80’s hardcore movement, (www.zuopress.com) -Spider

SEPT-DEC 2006 I the rise and the fall I 53

 POWERED BY
NRRDWURR TH€ HUMAN S€RVI€TT€ DOOT, DOOLA, DOOT, D00...
Aiteutcrfive lentaeiec
rf/ardwuar is this dude from Canada that does the greatest interviews. He researches the hell out
of the person who he's working on and asks some outrageous questions. He's really nerdy look¬
ing and that's why I think he can get away with some of the stuff he does. This DVD has some
of his best stuff. From Gene Simmons to Michael Moore, to Jello. He's got a lot of great enter¬
tainment on this DVD. My favorite though out of all his interviews has to definitely be those
with Snoop Dogg. Nardwuar conducts those interviews with tons of great props and each inter¬
view is funny on it’s own. I'd buy the damn thing just for the Snoop interviews. I really can't let
you into the world of Nardwuar, but I suggest you go and buy this timeless piece of entertain¬
ment and find out for yourself, (www.nardwuar.com) -Pedro Bob

SMUT P€DDl€RS ■ THAT'S AMORE: LIVE AT DiPIAZZA'S

1X0 “RecvuU
✓ve enjoyed the Smut Peddlers ever since I heard their song, “Fuck You... That's Why” on an
old Big Brother Video years ago. Because of that one song, they left a mark on me. I immedi¬
ately headed out to find their record “Failure.” Still one of my favorites. I've seen them play quite
a few times and they've even played a few times at Sacred Grounds (old location). Always fun.
You have to see them live; they're full of energy and their sound just plays well live. I guess that's
why they decided to make this DVD/CD set. The sound & picture quality of this set is tits and
you can see how tight these dudes (and chick) are live. Buy the set and do yourself a favor by
leaving the DVD in your player and the CD in your car because there's always time for some
Smut. If you think that's a lie, then your life sucks, (www.smutpeddlers.net) -Pedro Bob

BUKOWSKI - BORN INTO THIS

TKcu^totiei / "Detected DuMaqAaH
/m going to try and be pretty objective on this review because I am a fan of Bukowski and his
writing and I don't want to give a fanboy review because that would mean nothing to the rest of
you who don't even have a clue of who Bukowski was or what he did. So Here goes. Bom Into
This' is a film which looks into the life of the late writer Charles Bukowski. The story of his life
is told through old footage of Bukowski through the years as well as supplemented with inter¬
views from people who either knew the writer or were impacted by him in one way or another.
Bukowski was known for being a 'dirty old man' and a lot of that came out in his writing. The
film sets out to show how people's interpretation of him is both true and fictionalized in many
_ cases. Ths film covers Bukowski's life from beginning to end and does a great job of illustrat¬
ing where he was coming from and what influenced him as a writer and a person. Bukowski comes across in the footage
as very witty and full of character, as well as full of some pretty classic stories. This film is definitely worth the view
if you're a fan of Bukowski, and probably even more worth the view for those who have never heard of him because
the documentary itself is well put together. Trust Me. -Pedro Bob

BAD R€UGION - LIVE AT THE PALLADIUM

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^ool heavy-duty packaging that comes with a 13 pg booklet of past & present photos with hand¬
written scrawls plastered on top for that abstract punk look. This booklet also has a list of all the
equipment each member used during the concert, which just proves that they ve made it Big.
Multiple camera angles as you might expect with big arena rock Bad Religion banners as a back¬
drop that spreads across the entire stage. The DVD segues in and out of live concert footage and
short interviews with all the members looking back on various aspects of the bands history. Plus
some anecdotes from their adoring fans splashed here & there. The extra stuff includes 6 music
videos, a photo gallery & great old footage when they were on New Wave Theatre in ‘81 & ‘83.
Cool DVD if you were ever into this band, (www.badreligion.com) -Spider

W€ JAM 6CONO - THE STORY OF THE MINUTEMEN

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✓ went to the premiere of this film at the Warner Grand Theater here in Pedro but the frequent
trips to the “toilet” from all the alcohol made it a little difficult to see or remember. I was stoked
to get this 2-Disc DVD. This film gets into different aspects of the bands history and segues
between driving around in Watt’s van, him spieling and driving by different landmarks, live
footage and numerous interviews from different friends & accomplices. I’m glad this film was
done, but I think a lot was left out and a lot of the interviews started to sound the same. The extra
footage includes: 3 live gigs, 3 music videos, 19 deleted scenes & interviews and more. The
packaging looks cool (David Rees?) and the live footage is amazing. As a fan, how can you say
“No” to 3 live Minutemen gigs and a film to boot? (www.theminutemen.com) -Spider

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