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Anyone who knows me knows I've never been one to revel in the past. I'm the last one to cast a misty-eyed glance back at the "good old days". In my experience the people who take this angle are usually the ones who weren't there. Whatever mistakes, false starts and missed opportunities I've had the pleasure of having, I was wherever I was for better or worse.

This blog is not meant to romanticize any choices I made or any particular era. It's simply a place where I share stories and take stock of where I've been as a way to figure out where I might want to go next. I'll celebrate some people along the way, some of them you'll know or know of, others will be new to you. I'm glad to have known every one of them.

The posts are in no thematic or chronological order. The date at the end of the post's title refers to how the content of the post relates to me personally. I make no claim about the accuracy of my recollections I only promise that I'll be as honest and accurate as I can be. If you were there and you remember things differently than I do, or you find evidence that contradicts my memory (I wouldn't be surprised or upset) feel free to let me know.

Rather than editing the posts for historical accuracy, I'll put ( * ) next to any parts that have been challenged or updated for that reason.


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November 27, 2012
FUGAZI DUBNARCOTICSOUNDSYSTEM WARMERS QUASI  STAGE TIMES PORTLAND 1995 Here’s a neat little scrap of Portland Rock history I’ve held onto these many years. I don’t have any big story about this show except I remember it being a very good time. All the bands were great. Line-ups such as this were like family fun time for all my friends from Portland, D.C. and Olympia. I’m glad to have been a part of such a community in that era. It turns out a live recording of Fugazi’s set from this night is available from Dischord as a download.  (LaLuna stage times sheet from my personal archives)

FUGAZI DUBNARCOTICSOUNDSYSTEM WARMERS QUASI  STAGE TIMES PORTLAND 1995

Here’s a neat little scrap of Portland Rock history I’ve held onto these many years.

I don’t have any big story about this show except I remember it being a very good time. All the bands were great. Line-ups such as this were like family fun time for all my friends from Portland, D.C. and Olympia. I’m glad to have been a part of such a community in that era.

It turns out a live recording of Fugazi’s set from this night is available from Dischord as a download. 

(LaLuna stage times sheet from my personal archives)


10:01am  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/Zl8DhvY9yptq
(Notes: 6)
  
Filed under: 1990's dub narcotic sound system fugazi laluna portland quasi warmers ian mackaye alec mackaye calvin johnson k records dischord 
March 25, 2012
DUB NARCOTIC SVS MIRANDA JULY JASON TRAEGER DUMBA WAREHOUSE BROOKLYN 1997 Weird, I remember Le Tigre, or Julie Ruin playing this show. Have I stumbled on one of memory lane’s loose cobblestones? Maybe so.*  This show was awesome. The DUMBA warehouse was awesome. Located under the Manhattan Bridge in Brooklyn, it was a big sturdy old building full of cool activist-artist types who couldn’t have been nicer. We played and performed in the middle of the warehouse floor with no stage and everyone gathered all around which gave a wonderfully intimate feeling to the spacious setting. The show brought out tons of people and I remember seeing a bunch of old friends at this one. It’s always great when you’re on a punk/indy tour and you get to a cool, intentional scene like this in a city like New York. It makes all the trials and challenges of the road worth any of the trouble. After the show we partied and had a good time and went to sleep at the venue. In the morning one member of our entourage, who shall remain nameless, was sleeping as the rest of us got up, ate breakfast, and began packing to leave for the next stop on the tour. We decided to wake up said person so he’d have time to eat and pack. We called his name…but he was in a deep sleep. So we gave him a nudge…Snore, Snore… Then we upped our efforts to a push and a LOUD VOICE…Nothing. Then we tried prolonged shaking, YELLING, prodding and JABBING and SHOUTING until he could finally  be roused all bleary-eyed and very well rested.  He said, “Man…I was really out of it…I took some sleeping pills and drank a bunch of whiskey…I guess I took too many and drank too much!” Yeah. I’m really glad our next stop was a show in New Jersey and not the Brooklyn morgue!!! Oh man. I’ll write about that New Jersey experience one of these days. What a crazy scene that was. (* I wasn’t losing it. Le Tigre played their first ever show at Dumba and I was there. That’s why I was confused. I still got it.) Flyer from my personal archives.

DUB NARCOTIC SVS MIRANDA JULY JASON TRAEGER DUMBA WAREHOUSE BROOKLYN 1997

Weird, I remember Le Tigre, or Julie Ruin playing this show. Have I stumbled on one of memory lane’s loose cobblestones? Maybe so.* 

This show was awesome. The DUMBA warehouse was awesome. Located under the Manhattan Bridge in Brooklyn, it was a big sturdy old building full of cool activist-artist types who couldn’t have been nicer. We played and performed in the middle of the warehouse floor with no stage and everyone gathered all around which gave a wonderfully intimate feeling to the spacious setting.

The show brought out tons of people and I remember seeing a bunch of old friends at this one. It’s always great when you’re on a punk/indy tour and you get to a cool, intentional scene like this in a city like New York. It makes all the trials and challenges of the road worth any of the trouble.

After the show we partied and had a good time and went to sleep at the venue. In the morning one member of our entourage, who shall remain nameless, was sleeping as the rest of us got up, ate breakfast, and began packing to leave for the next stop on the tour.

We decided to wake up said person so he’d have time to eat and pack. We called his name…but he was in a deep sleep. So we gave him a nudge…Snore, Snore… Then we upped our efforts to a push and a LOUD VOICE…Nothing. Then we tried prolonged shaking, YELLING, prodding and JABBING and SHOUTING until he could finally  be roused all bleary-eyed and very well rested. 

He said, “Man…I was really out of it…I took some sleeping pills and drank a bunch of whiskey…I guess I took too many and drank too much!”

Yeah. I’m really glad our next stop was a show in New Jersey and not the Brooklyn morgue!!!

Oh man. I’ll write about that New Jersey experience one of these days. What a crazy scene that was.

(* I wasn’t losing it. Le Tigre played their first ever show at Dumba and I was there. That’s why I was confused. I still got it.)

Flyer from my personal archives.

5:03pm  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/Zl8DhvIZd6c9
(Notes: 6)
  
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