Punk and Disorderly
Released 1982
Posh Boy Records - PBCD 131-2

1. Vice Squad - Last Rockers
2. The Adicts - Straight Jacket
3. UK Decay - For My Country
4. Disorder - Complete Disorder
5. Peter & the Test Tube Babies - Banned From the Pubs
6. Disrupters - Young Offender
7. Red Alert - In Britain
8. Blitz - Someone’s Gonna Die
9. Dead Kennedys - Kill the Poor
10. The Partisans - Police Story
11. Demob - No Room for You
12. The Insane - Last Day
13. Abrasive Wheels - Army Song
14. Chaos UK - 4 Minute Warning
15. Outcasts – Mania
16. GBH - City Baby Attacked by Rats (live)

Back in High School there was a girl named Leslie, I’ve mentioned her before, and a friend of mine immortalized her in his comic strips. Leslie hated anyone who wasn’t as “Hardcore” as her. She started the school-year a die-hard Go’s-Go’s fan, and ended up being dyed, spiked and dating a Suicidal Tendencies gang member. You got to love evolution.

Anyway, Birmingham had a lot of “fringe” punk fans. When people weren’t around they would come up, and talk about different punk bands that they loved/liked and which bands they wish they could see live. Once Leslie became “punk” she felt the need to rid the school of these “fringe” people. This one particular girl that would talk to me often, Sofie, liked a lot of the British stuff, and one weekend she was shopping in Hollywood, and bought a Blitz sticker for her car. This pissed Leslie off to no end, she’d shout “poser” at Sofie if they passed each other in the hall. Well, it all came to a head one afternoon when we were in class; Leslie went to the parking lot with a razor and removed the sticker. As soon as Sofie found out she came and told me, I couldn’t figure out whether to be pissed or laugh hysterically.

Anyway, for the next year or so Leslie would threaten everybody, punk or not with the wrath of the Suicidal Tendencies gang. After a while it was like a dying fly in your ear, you’d swat at it when it got too close, but for the most part you’d ignore it. In a weird way it brought a lot of the punks and “fringe” punks closer. Everyone’s annoyance with Leslie created a new group of friends/allies.

Towards the end of that school year, I was down at Vinyl Fetish one afternoon, and I’m looking in their glass case, and see a sticker of the cover of Blitz’ Never Surrender single, . . . I paused for a second, and thought “not only would this make Sofie happy, but it’d piss Leslie off to no end.” I bought it and gave it to Sofie on the last day of school. Good stuff.

On to the review . . .

Back when this came out I was strictly a Los Angeles guy, I only listened to L.A. stuff, and then I got the Misfits Walk Among Us album (New York/New Jersey); then I picked up the Punk and Disorderly (I thought the girl on the cover looked like my Uncle’s girlfriend, at the time, Tracy), and that started my love affair with the second wave of British Punk (including Oi). Blitz, GBH and some Discharge. Some days you need this kind of adrenaline rush.

I found a clipping from an old fanzine that I must have sent the tape of my old band Cold War to. The tape had two songs, Ronnie the Clown, and Ritchie Dagger’s Eyes. Anyway, I found this folded/crumpled piece of paper, I unfolded it and it had at the top: “Cold War – Tape.” Then the review was: “Cold War sounds like The Insane, English Oi band.” That’s it. Maybe musically, but I never tried to do a faux Cockney accent. Actually, I liked the vocals of Dez Cadena, and Greg Graffin, but I never tried British. I don’t know what the fanzine was; I know it wasn’t Flipside because I would’ve framed it. I’m thinking somebody must have mailed me this clipping because I never cut my fanzines up. Anyway, if you listen to this album you’ll hear the Insane in all their glory.

Great collection of music, I never understood why the Dead Kennedys were on here though, maybe to help boost American sales? Anyway, great stuff. Stand out track: Blitz – Somebody’s Gonna Die!! And a chance to listen to the Adicts before they became a copyrighted logo sold at Wal-Mart.

I found this link the other day. I have never been able to define punk, but the lovely contributors at Wikipedia have tried: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punk_ideologies.

If you get the chance give this one a listen, it’s a good album, hell, go out and buy it. It’s a great snap-shot of a great time in music.

Rating: **** * four out of five stars.

Currently:
Reading: My Friend Leonard by James Frey
Listening: Johnny Cash - Man in Black -The Very Best of Johnny Cash
Watching: Another State of Mind directed by Peter Stuart, and Adam Small

RIP Rick White, and Alan “Nidge” Miller

This post was the latest submission from Mike E. When he’s not writing articles from his punk past , compiling top 10 lists or seeking out folks to interview, he manages an online comic book store. Visit him at Web Comics and give the man some cash, he deserves it.

It’s an all UK show this week, and a little longer than usual as well. Apologies to the American-only die-hards, back to normal next time.

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Time: 78:47
File Size: 96.9MB

Tracks played:
01. Sham 69 - Borstal Breakout (Tell Us the Truth)
02. Angelic Upstarts - Young Ones (Teenage Warning)
03. Abrasive Wheels - So Slow (The Riot City Years)
04. Cockney Rejects - Headbanger (Greatest Hits Volume 1)
05. The Panik - Urban Damnation (single)
06. Buzzcocks - Boredom (Complete Singles Anthology)
07. Users - Kicks In Style (single)
08. Adicts - Straight Jacket (Ultimate Adiction)
09. X-S Discharge - Across The Border (Life’s a Wank)
10. Peter and the Test Tube Babies - Maniac (Test Tube Trash)
11. Fast Cars - The Kids Just Wanna Dance (single)
12. Alternative TV - Action Time Vision (The Image Has Cracked)
13. Rezillos - Top Of The Pops (single)
14. Satan’s Rats - You Make Me Sick (Whatta Bunch Of Rodents)
15. Adverts - New Day Dawning (Crossing the Red Sea)
16. UK Subs - Self Destruct (Before You Were Punk)
17. Self Abuse - (I Didn’t Want To Be A) Soldier (Grand Theft Audio compilation)
18. Anti Nowhere League - I Hate People (Complete Singles Collection)
19. Chron Gen - Lies (Chronic Generation)
20. Blitz - Someone’s Gonna Die (Voice of a Generation: The No Future Years)
21. Conflict - The Positive Junk (Employing All Means Necessary)
22. Chaos UK - Army (The Riot City Years)
23. Anthrax - All Things Bright and Beautiful (Capitalism is Cannibalism)
24. Red Alert - In Britain (No Future: The Singles Collection)
25. Citizen Fish - Money (Deadline, split with Leftover Crack)
26. G.B.H. - Do What You Do (Concrete Mix) (City Baby’s Revenge)
27. Killing Joke - Complications (Killing Joke, 1st album)
28. Demon Preacher - Little Miss Perfect (single)
29. Chumbawamba - Unilever (This Is the A.L.F. compilation)
30. Stratford Mercenaries - Won’t Get Me (No Sighing Strains of Violins)

The top 10 punk artists as picked by Mike E.

(all pictures are linked to larger versions, just click ‘em)

Number 10
Fred Tomaselli

Fred Tomaselli’s was all right. Very abstract, but the stories were either very weird or pretty funny.

Rating: *** ** three out of five stars.

Number 9
John Crawford

John Crawford had a very distinct jaggy style. He did some pretty funny anecdotes about the “stars” of punk back in the ‘80’s. He did a funny one of Mike Ness drinking with Al and Hud of Flipside.

Rating: **** * four out of five stars.

Number 8
Gary Panter

Gary Panter was one of the first recognizable “punk” artists, thanks to Slash magazine. He did this great Screamers logo, and the design work for Pee Wee’s Playhouse.

Rating: **** * four out of five stars.

Number 7
Raymond Pettibon

Raymond Pettibon was not one of my favorite artists, but his current work is really good, he has evolved to a whole other level. Next to Gary Panter his work is probably the most recognizable, thanks to the SST stuff. I think what used to bug me about his stuff was the constant penis drawings, I’m not a homophobe, but at 14 and 15 I just didn’t get it.

Rating: ***** Five out of five stars.

Number 6
Dennis Worden

Dennis Worden’s stuff was always fun. The storylines were always some punks getting into some knuckleheaded situations. A great relief in Flipside, after reading 20 pages of people whining about the “scene.”

Rating: ***** five out of five stars.

Number 5
Bob Ray

Bob Ray’s was always fun, and the stories were always light-hearted. This Cuckoo’s Nest one is great.

Rating: ***** five out of five stars.

Number 4
Lee Ellingson

Lee Ellingson had a very heavy comic book style that I dug, his strips in the ‘80’s always seemed to be real, real violent, people’s faces being torn off, serial killers rising from the dead. Great art, twisted story-lines.

Rating: ***** five out of five stars.

Number 3
Marc Rude

I first noticed Marc’s work with the Battalion of Saints EP. With the amount of dots his uses I always thought each piece must take a day or two to do. Besides the Saints, he did the Earth AD cover for the Misfits.

Rating: ***** five out of five stars.

Number 2
Pushead

Unlike most people that dug Pushead’s art, I wasn’t into him for the gore, I initially dug him because his style was so reminiscent of old ‘70’s horror comic artist Bernie Wrightson. I loved the old Swamp Thing comics so much that when Pushead came out with the zombies and skulls they were just like Wrightson’s work, I dug him. His work has definitely evolved, good stuff.

Rating: ***** five out of five stars.

Number 1
Shawn Kerri

Was most famous for creating the “skank kid” for the Circle Jerks (who subsequently ripped her off, not paying her for future use of the images), and doing the drawings in the “mainstream” magazine CARtoons, I dug everything she did, here’s a real great article, with lots of images, and they quote me: http://rockindownthehighway.blogspot.com/2007/10/rockin-homage-to-shawn-kerri-automotive.html

Rating: ***** five out of five stars.

Honorable mentions: Brian Walsby, Winston Smith, and Jamie Reid. These are my choices, I’m sticking to them.

Currently:
Reading: Million Little Pieces by James Frey
Listening: Lords of The New Church - Killer Lords
Watching: Punk’s Not Dead directed by Susan Dynner

RIP Shawn Kerri, and Marc Rude

This post was the latest submission from Mike E. When he’s not writing articles on punk past or compiling top 10 lists he manages an online comic book store. Visit him at Web Comics and give the man a bit of cash.

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Over by about 7 minutes this week. Stil, I had to squeeze the Serial Killers and The Panics in there right?

Time: 67:24
File Size: 92.5MB

Tracks played:
01. Das Klown - Rattle (The Day the Clown Cried)
02. Plaid Retina - No Pain, No Gain (Boxcar EP)
03. Zombie Squad - I Wouldn’t (Surfing With the Contras)
04. FU’s - Poor, Poor, Pitiful You (My America)
05. Patriots - The Guilty Walk Free (Land of the Free EP)
06. Everything Falls Apart - Different Danger (Tension EP)
07. Identity Crysis - Memories (Tied to the Tracks EP)
08. A.N.S. - Skate It Dry (The Process of Stoking Out)
09. We Are the Rats - Not Afraid To Die (We Are the Rats EP)
10. Poison Idea - We Got The Beat (SubPop single)
11. Ground Zero - Controversy (Living In Tandem)
12. The Panics - Drugs Are For Thugs (Please Panic!!)
13. Youth Gone Mad - Ode To Darby (Yesterdays Innocence)
14. Public Nuisance - Cheap Sex and Booze (single)
15. Killroy - Gas Mask (99 Bottles EP)
16. Beaver - Video Disease (Beaver EP)
17. Negative FX - Wasted Time (Negative FX/Last Rights material compilation)
18. Wasted Time - Enemies of Common Sense (No Bullshit Vol. 2 compilation)
19. Showcase Showdown - Sermon On the Fountain (Chickens EP)
20. Dogshit Sandwich - I Hate Religion (Murdering Bastards)
21. Kremlin Korps - Holier Than Thou (Moscow’s Revenge)
22. Goon Squad - Stupid Idiot (In Your Living Room Volume 1)
23. DDT - Foreign Legion (Broken Toy)
24. Pigs - Psychopath (Pigs EP)
25. Next - Monotony (KBD Volume 6)
26. Serial Killers - Gary Heidnek’s House of Horrors (single)
27. Silly Killers - Not That Time Again (Knife Manual)
28. Refugees - Conforming (Screaming For a Better Future Vol. 2)
29. Capital Scum - Asphalt Jungle (Tsjerno Kills)
30. Willful Neglect - Banned (Willful Neglect)

Mayor of the Sunset Strip
Studio: First Look Pictures
Released: 2003
Director: George Hickenlooper
Run Time: 94 minutes

Tori Amos
Green Day
Beck
David Bowie
Clem Burke
Belinda Carlisle
Dramarama
Exene Cervenka
Cher
Alice Cooper
Elvis Costello
The Runaways
Michael Des Barres
Pamela Des Barres
Henry Diltz
John Doe
Corey Feldman
Kim Fowley
Oasis
Jed the Fish
Debbie Harry
George Hickenlooper
Mick Jagger
Davy Jones
Kato Kaelin
Lance Loud
Courtney Love
Annabella Lwin
Ray Manzarek
Johnny Marr
Chris Martin
Paul McCartney
Mackenzie Phillips
Poe
Monique Powell
Keanu Reeves
Paul Reubens
Brooke Shields
Nancy Sinatra
Phil Spector
Gwen Stefani
Danny Sugerman
Pete Townshend
George Wendt
Louise Wener
Brian Wilson
Carnie Wilson
Neil Young
Rob Zombie

I watched this flick on one of the movie channels about a year back (or was it one of the independent channels?).I was somewhat jazzed about seeing this. I had good memories of listening to his show in the early ‘80’s. That and keeping up with his top 20 in every issue of Flip Side.

Now, I’m aware of a directors ability to manipulate emotions through different editing techniques, and soundtrack changes, so when I watch these flicks I try not to be influenced by these things, and try to concentrate on the subject, but in this case, I don’t if it’s the directors doing or if it’s just Rodney Bingenheimer’s life – this was a sad and depressing film when it didn’t need to be. The man led a life most people would be envious of. His “girlfriend” only saw him as a friend, his family seems horribly uncomfortable around him, and his “assistant” appears to “betray” him. Sad stuff.

Anyway, is the synopsis if you haven’t seen it . . .

Mayor of the Sunset Strip is the life Bingenheimer, beloved figure (with everyone, but the Angry Samoans) on the Los Angeles music scene since the early 1960s, and a friend, and lifelong admirer of countless luminaries from all walks of public life. As a teenager Rodney left his home in Northern California for Los Angeles, where he immediately became a presence on the live-music scene. An evolving fixture as scenester, journalist, promoter and club owner. After a stint as Davy Jones’ stand-in on The Monkees, and a successful run as owner of Rodney Bingenheimer’s English Disco, he began spinning records on KROQ, and soon became one of the nation’s most influential DJs. Since then, Rodney has helped define the sounds that have dominated over three decades of music by giving dozens of major artists their first airplay. The film features interviews with David Bowie, Mick Jagger, Cher, Brooke Shields, Brian Wilson, Debbie Harry, Gwen Stefani, Courtney Love, Nancy Sinatra, Coldplay’s Chris Martin, and many others. Mayor of the Sunset Strip is an interesting look at a life defined by a fascination (and a sort of longing) with the most famous names in music, movies, and television.

If you get the chance give this one a viewing, it’s a good documentary, but not worth owning. It’s a great snap-shot of a great time in music.

Rating: ** *** two out of five stars.

This post was the latest submission from Mike E. When he’s not writing articles on punk past or watching DVD’s he manages an online comic book store. Visit him at Web Comics and give the man a bit of cash.

Scott’s note: Wikipedia has a good write up on Rodney, and the official movie site is still online. I liked the film quite a bit… check out the trailers on the official site to take a peek.

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Time: 64:50
File Size: 89.0MB

Tracks played:
01. Cloak/Dagger - New Years Resolution (We Are)
02. Inflatable Children - T.V. Tunes (Get Naked With…)
03. Twats - Ya Ya (Hell In My Pants)
04. CIA - Commie Control (God, Guts, Guns)
05. Prevaricators - Hanky Panky (No Kidding EP)
06. Benedict Arnold and the Traitors - Kill the Hostages (single)
07. Bobby Soxx - Learn To Hate In The ’80s (single)
08. Ed Gein’s Car - Go Down on My Dog (Making Dick Dance)
09. Social Spit - Reagan Gun Club (Psycho Ward EP)
10. Fits - Breaking Point (Tears of a Nation)
11. Absentees - Tryin’ To Mess With Me (Illegal Listening Device 1979-2000)
12. Condemned To Death - Dismember Me (Condemned To Death EP)
13. Depraved - Win a Million (Come On Down)
14. No Alternative - Johnny Got His Gun (SF Underground VOlume 1 compilation)
15. Wayward Youth - El Mundo (Is a Weirdo) (single)
16. Human Hands - New Look (Bouncing To Disc)
17. The Blades - Don’t Wanna Dance With You (Someone Got Their Head Kicked In compilation)
18. Zero Boys - Hightime (Vicious Circle)
19. The Urge - Teds Only Have Quiffs ‘cos Their Hair Won’t Spike (single)
20. (impatient) Youth - (impatient) Youth (Live 1978 split with Mutants)
21. Charge - No One Knows (Destroy the Youth EP)
22. Murphy’s Law - I Got A Right (Murphy’s Law)
23. The Authorities - Letter In The Mail (Puppy Love)
24. Blatant Dissent - Overreaction (Hold the Fat)
25. NoMeansNo - Dad (Sex Mad)
26. F-Minus - Brave New Warriors (F-Minus)
27. Dwarves - Let’s Get Pregnant (Free Cocaine 1986-1988)
28. Electric Eels - You’re Full Of Shit (God Says Fuck You)
29. Bizarros - A New Order (Laser Boys EP)
30. Shattered Faith - Victims of Society (Life Is Beautiful So Why Not Eat Health Foods compilation)

Human Hands
Trains Vs Planes
January 1981 – Faulty Products
Producer: Human Hands

David Wiley Vocals
Juan Gomez Guitars
Rick Potts Bass & Sax
Bill Noland Keyboards
Dennis Duck Drums

1. Trains Vs Planes - 4:00
2. Blue Eel - 2:50

Some time in January 1981, I was at Moby Disc in Sherman Oaks for my weekly trip with my Mother and Brother. When we walked in I b-lined it to the magazines up front, looking for the latest fanzines, and I ended up reading through an old issue of Action Now magazine.

As I’ve flipped through a bit more than half of the magazine I come across the Live Show Review section, and I’m reading about a band that Tony Alva played bass for, in the late ‘70’s there weren’t many people cooler than Alva, and next to his review is a critique for a band called Human Hands with a picture of their singer David Wiley. Just as I finish reading the article I look up, and Wiley is walking in the door of the shop. I am, momentarily, star-struck, here’s the same guy who has a color picture in a magazine next to Tony Alva, damn. I run to the front of the store, next to the cash register, where they keep their 45’s, and grab the Human Hands single Trains Vs Planes, then run up to Wiley, and ask for an autograph. He turns bright red and says “No.” He explains he isn’t a rock star, he asks my name, shakes my hand, we talk about music, and as he leaves he tells me to come and check them out at the Country Club in Reseda in a few weeks, opening for Romeo Void. I said I would. I ended buying the single, and got my Dad to agree to take to the Country Club for their show (I was only 14, and transportation was scarce), more on the show another time.

On to the review . . .

Human Hands formed in 1978, they were associated with what is loosely known as the Pasadena scene, bands with more of an art influence than the average L.A. punk band of the time. The original members were Dennis Duck, Juan Gomez, Bill Noland, Rick Potts and David Wiley.

After making a few recordings (the single Trains vs. Planes, the 12 inch Jubilee with DJ Bonebrake from X on added percussion), some notable opening slots and headlining clubs like Perkins Palace, the band broke up at the end of 1981.

Although Human Hands were starting to get noticed by both the critics, and the public, by late 1981 it wasn’t enough for the band to continue. It was a fateful year for Human Hands. Bill Noland joined Wall of Voodoo, and Dennis Duck joined Dream Syndicate. Vocalist David Wiley died of AIDS in the late 80s. The original line up (with others filling in for Wiley) has reunited for benefit shows as recently as 1999.

If you get the chance give this single a listen, worth owning. It’s a great snap-shot of a great time in the early Los Angeles scene.

Rating: *** ** three out of five stars.

This post was the latest submission from Mike E. When he’s not writing articles on punk past he manages an online comic book store. Visit him at Web Comics and give the man a bit of cash.

UPDATE from Monday, April 14th: I’m not sure what happened to my copy of “Dump on the Chump”, but it’s refusing to play properly. I’ve substituted “Hate Your Friends” by The Lemonheads. Sorry about that.

If you’re not sure what a podcast is or what to do with this thing, let me help. This audio file can be downloaded like a regular old mp3 and played on your computer, dragged to your iPod, whatever. You can also use iTunes or other programs that let you “subscribe” to podcasts to set yourself up for weekly downloads automatically. If you need a hand, drop me a line.

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Time: 60:05
File Size: 90.3MB

Tracks played:
01. Manifest Destiny - Screamatorium (We Love Our Country, It’s the Government We Can’t Stand)
02. Dissent - Push-Button Society (Boy Eats Own Head EP)
03. Love Canal - This is America (It’s a Dogs Life, So Blow It Out Yer Ass)
04. No Fraud - It’s All Economic (The EP)
05. Sluglords - Life Without Justice (Trail of Slime)
06. Behind Enemy Lines - American Made Death Squad (Know Your Enemy)
07. Disorder - Suicide Children (The Complete Disorder)
08. Harpoon Guns - Hey Man (Harpoon Guns EP)
09. Rejectors - Mercy Killers (Thoughts of War EP)
10. Slapshot - Back On the Map (Back On the Map)
11. Dementia - Don’t Hesitate (Await Disaster EP)
12. Screw 32 - Speed Freak (Unresolved Childhood Issues)
13. Elektrolux - Hamburger Boys (http://www.myspace.com/elektrolux)
14. The Aggravation - What Are You Doing Now? (The Aggravation)
15. Personality Crisis - People In Glass (1979 - 1984)
16. The Freeze - Guilty Face (Guilty Face EP)
17. Proletariots - After The Rise (Voodoo Economics)
18. So Much Hate - One Step Close (Apathy… Never! compilation)
19. Scream - Human Behavior (Still Screaming)
20. Lust - I’m Annoyed (Dread In New York)
21. Hatepinks - Tupperware Love (Plastic Bag Ambitions)
22. Not For Sale - So What (Not For Sale)
23. Outerwear - I Crawl On the Floor (New Hope compilation)
24. Raped - Escalator Hater (The Complete Raped Collection)
25. Art Attacks - I Am A Dalek (single)
26. Helen Keller - Dump On The Chump (single) Lemonheads - Hate Your Friends (Hate Your Friends)
27. Rowdies - A.C.A.B. (single)
28. The Not - We Are the Ones (Kids Survive EP)
29. The Ex - Keep on Hoppin’ (Singles. Period.)
30. Seminal Rats - Ain’t Dead Yet (Essential 1984 - 1991)

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Flipside
Issue: 120
Released: September/October 1999

Featured bands:
Hot Water Music
At The Drive In
Blood Axis
Groovie Ghoulies
The Hookers
Inger Lorre
Leatherface
Mongoloid
Trial of the Molly Maguires
Queens of the Stone Age
Six Inch Killaz
Suburban Voice
The Von Zippers

On March 13th I turned 42, and what seems to happen when you get to this point in your life . . . you get overly nostalgic. Over the course of the last three years or so I have replaced my entire comic book collection that I once owned from the early 1970’s to the mid 1970’s. And I have, just about, all the punk albums, and fanzines that I owned in the early 1980’s. I don’t know my reasoning for “needing” these things again, whatever the reason is, I needed to go back to a different place. A place where this music had meaning, a place where we were creating this. Whereas today’s “punk” has had so much time to sit back and analyze the last 25 to 30 years worth of music and perfect it. See what worked, what didn’t and expand on that concept. And what has happened is it has left the original guys feeling a bit bitter. Just the same way Chuck Berry and Little Richard were pissed when Elvis or Pat Boone would make a mint covering their songs. The original guys behind the first and second waves of punk were happy if they got enough cash to eat; now bands like Green Day have the ability to drop $500,000 to $1,000,000 on a video, and have enough cash to hire stylists to fix them up backstage. I don’t mean to single out or bash Green Day, but they seem to be the band that is the most in your face of this new crop of bands.

Let’s talk about the book . . .

On March 21st I saw an ad on Craig’s List announcing a moving sale, and a bunch of vintage punk buttons, stickers, fanzines, and music. So, I printed the ad I drove over to the place with my three-year-old son (he’s not a fan, yet). I got there just in time, they were about to pack everything up and call it a day. All the music was gone, and I have no use for stickers. So, I picked up this issue of Flipside, and a few buttons, a book, and a DVD.

The Flipside blew me away; I haven’t picked up an issue since the early to mid ‘80’s. The cover is in color and has a UPC code on it. I’m really showing my age. Anyway, there is an interview with a band called Mongoloid, which is a Devo tribute band, back in the ‘80’s you would catch so much crap if you admitted to liking them (which I did), and tables turned, they’re accepted, maybe even cool. The other stand out interview was a group called Blood Axis the interview was done to determine if they were a fascist band. With all the hemming, and hawing and double talk I couldn’t figure out if they were or not, not that it matters I had never heard of the group anyway. This is what I found online about them (for those of you that are interested):

“Michael Moynihan formed Blood Axis in 1989 after touring Japan at the request of experimental music pioneer, Boyd Rice. Moynihan had previously founded Coup de Grace, a multimedia project that produced live performances, and cassettes, and also released booklets of images and texts, the last of which was Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Antichrist.

The first output from the new appellation were two songs, “Lord of Ages” (employing lyrics from Rudyard Kipling’s poem on Mithras) and “Electricity”, which appeared on a German music sampler. These tracks were well received in Europe and were followed by two more songs that appeared on the seminal compilation, Im Blutfeuer. In 1995, Moynihan released the first full length studio LP, The Gospel of Inhumanity.

The album wedded the music of Johann Sebastian Bach and Sergei Prokofiev with modern electronics. Moynihan implemented a recording of Ezra Pound reading from his The Cantos. He also included lyrics from Nietzsche and Longfellow as well as his own to the work. The album begins with a sample from the decisive final sequence of the film The Wicker Man.

In 1997, Blood Axis played a concert for the tenth anniversary of Cold Meat Industry, a Swedish record label. The performance was later recorded, remastered, and released as BLOT: Sacrifice in Sweden.”

Buying this issue of Flipside was a nostalgic purchase, I saw the logo, and had to grab it, but I was so out of the loop that the magazine may as well been written in another language. But for those people that kept up on the issues, and bands from the 1970’s to the present will dig this.

If anyone is interested in buying my copy shoot me an email: webcomicbooks@aim.com.

If you get the chance give this a read through, it’s interesting, but not worth owning. It’s a great snap-shot of a great time in punk rock, unfortunately not a time period I was familiar with.

Rating: ** *** two out of five stars.

I am also including a scan of the flyer for Cold War’s first “gig,” my old group. After I found out that a new band is gigging using this name I went and dug out my old pile of drawings and flyers, and found this one. If memory serves, Flesh Eaters didn’t play, but Chris D. was there hanging out. Something happened and the rest of the band couldn’t make it. Chris Wahl played in Cold War as well as Flesh Eaters. We didn’t headline this show; I just put the flyer out with us on top. The Cold War lettering I fashioned after the Pink Floyd logo from The Wall album, I thought it would be funny. The rest of the lettering copied from the lettering I saw on the cover of Flipside number 30. I think it may have been done by Matt Groening, I knew his strip from L.A. Reader “Love Is Hell,” but when I pulled this flyer out I thought this looks like Simpson lettering. Back then it was just quirky, now it’s Simpsons. Also, you may wonder what’s the deal with the symbol next to the name, I believe it’s the symbol Phi, I saw it somewhere started using it as a sort representation of the world being divided, basically I thought it was cool. Enjoy.

This post was the latest submission from Mike E. When he’s not writing articles on punk past or trying to enjoy Flipside magazines he manages an online comic book store. Visit him at Web Comics and give the man a bit of cash.

A regular show this week, 30 songs from the 70’s to now. Send any song requests or band information to scottATstrangereactionDOTcom.

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Time: 54:29
File Size: 74.7MB

Tracks played:
01. Blag Dahlia - The Crucifixion Is Now (Venus With Arms)
02. The Forgotten - American Dreams (The Forgotten)
03. Sick Fits - I Am T.V. (single)
04. Ice 9 - Out Out Out (Killed By Death #7 compilation)
05. Double Negative - Think! (Backwards Masking Tape)
06. Raw Power - Police, Police (You Are the Victim)
07. Dr. Know - The Intruder (Plug-In Jesus)
08. Wrecking Crew - Confusion (1987-1991)
09. Clusterfuck - Flagfucker (split with Rat Byte)
10. Direct Control - Fake (No Bullshit Volume 1 compilation)
11. Insane - War & Violence (single)
12. The Wipers - Return of the Rat (Is This Real?)
13. The Target Cells - Elements of Hate (Hardcore From the Early Days compilation)
14. Subculture - I Thought You Knew (I Heard a Scream)
15. Human Sufferage - Results Are Still the Same (S/T EP)
16. Murder-Suicide-Pact - Stronger Than Dirt (Murder-Suicide-Pact)
17. No Kids - No Kids For An Answer (No Kids Attack)
18. Spazm 151 - Keep in Touch (Power Songs For the Kids)
19. Impact Unit - Dead Meat (My Friend the Pit)
20. State - Attention (Nixed Life)
21. Sin 34 - Sacrifice (Die Listening)
22. Nitwitz - Oppression (The Worst Of)
23. No Talents - Scream (Hello World!)
24. Facialz - Sex Grease, Booze, And Strangling Old People (Facial Humiliation)
25. Reatards - She Don’t Know (single)
26. The Vindictives - This Is My Face (The Many Moods of The Vindictives)
27. Rock Bottom And The Spys - Rich Girl (S/T EP)
28. Forgotten Rebels - Angry (Tomorrow Belongs To Us)
29. Youth Brigade - Fight To Unite (Out of Print)
30. 7 Seconds - Here’s Your Warning (The Better Youth Years)