"WHITEBELLY" WAS THE DEBUT CD FROM SAN DIEGO PUNK TRIO THE MICE. IT WAS RELEASED IN 1999 ON HEADLESS RECORDS. AS STATED BEFORE, THE MICE USED TO BE A FOUR PIECE CALLED BILLYCLUB, BUT BECAME THE MICE WHEN THEIR VOCALIST LEFT THE BAND DUE TO PERSONAL ISSUES. THE REMAINING MEMBERS CONTINUED ON AND RELEASED SEVERAL CDS OVER THE YEARS, AND ARE STILL SOMEWHAT ACTIVE TODAY, TWO DECADES LATER.
ROB LOGIC AND TRAVIS POE SHARE LEAD AND BACKING VOCALS, WITH ROB PLAYING GUITAR AND TRAVIS PLAYING BASS, WHILE RAUL HANDLES THE DRUMMING DUTIES. AT ONE POINT THE BAND AS A WHOLE WERE ALSO IN THE SAN DIEGO DRUNK PUNK BAND THE HOMELESS SEXUALS.
ROB HAS ALSO PLAYED GUITAR FOR LIFE CRISIS AND DEATH CRISIS, AND HAS RECORDED COUNTLESS BANDS.
THIS ALBUM IS CLASSIC SAN DIEGO PUNK ROCK FROM THE LATE 1990'S, CAPTURING THE ESSENCE OF THE LOCAL SCENE AT THE TIME. TENOR SAXOPHONE WAS PERFORMED BY JOHN "HOOT" MCDONALD ON THE TRACKS "PORN" AND "PUDDIN' PIE." "WHITEBELLY" WAS ENGINEERED BY BEN MOORE AT GOLDENTRACKS STUDIOS. IT WAS MIXED AT BIG FISH, AND MASTERED BY BOB PANTAGES AT HIDEAWAY MASTERING. RIPPED AT 320 KBPS.
DODGEBALL WERE A FEMALE-FRONTED FOUR PIECE POP PUNK BAND FROM SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA. THEIR LINE UP WAS MONICA ON VOCALS, COLIN ON GUITAR, PORTER ON BASS, AND MIKE ON DRUMS. "FULLY LINED" WAS RECORDED AT 4D BY FRANK MELENDEZ, AND WAS RELEASED IN 1995 BY YELL-O RECORDS. THERE WERE TWO EDITIONS, ONE ON STANDARD BLACK VINILY AND ONE ON TRANSLUCENT RED VINYL. THE BAND LATER RELEASED THE EP "BEANS" ON 7 INCH VINYL ON GOLDENROD RECORDS IN 1996, FOLLOWED BY A SELF-RELEASED 1998 DEMO CASSETTE ALONG WITH ANOTHER DEMO CASSETTE (UNKNOWN RELEASE DATE), AND THE FULL LENGTH CD "HOORAY FOR EVERYTHING," ALSO RELEASED ON GOLDENROD RECORDS. DODGEBALL PLAYED A UNIQUE FLAVOR OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUNK WITH A POP FLAIR, AND A SLIGHT BIT OF GRIT ADDED INTO THE MIX.
MP3S RIPPED FROM VINYL AND NORMALIZED TO REMOVE DC OFFSET (THIS STEP WAS OVERLOOKED ON SOME OF THE MUSIC UP ON THE YOUTUBE PAGE, BUT EVERYTHING UPLOADED TO THIS BLOG THAT WAS PULLED FROM A VINYL SOURCE HAS HAD THE AUDIO NORMALIZED).
"THE DEVOURING" IS THE SECOND AND FINAL RELEASE FROM THE SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA HARDCORE CRUST PUNK TRIO THE AMERICANS. IT FOLLOWED UP THEIR 2006 SELF-TITLED CD, BOTH OF WHICH WERE INDEPENDENTLY PRODUCED AND RELEASED. FOLLOWING THE RELEASE OF "THE DEVOURING," THE AMERICANS SPLIT WHEN DRUMMER DAN MOVED TO SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, AND GUITARIST SEAN AND BASSIST BLAINE WENT ON TO FORM AGE OF COLLAPSE.
THIS CD WAS RECORDED AND MIXED BY ROB LOGIC AT 25/44, AND MASTERED BY JEFF FORREST AT DOUBLE TIME STUDIOS. "THE DEVOURING" SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN A BIT MORE PUT-TOGETHER CONCEPTUALLY, AND IN RETROSPECT, THE DIRECTION TOWARDS A HEAVIER ANARCHO-CRUST SOUND, ALONG WITH THE MORE BLEAK AND NIHILISTIC THEMES OF AGE OF COLLAPSE, ARE NOTICEABLY APPARENT.
MILITIAS MISCHIEF WERE A THREE-PIECE PUNK BAND FROM ABERDEEN, WASHINGTON. THEY WERE ALENA MISCHIEF ON GUITAR AND VOCALS, BART HORRIBLE ON LEAD GUITAR, DEAN-O ON BASS, AND CRITTEN ON DRUMS. IT IS UNLIKELY THAT THE BAND RELEASED ANYTHING OTHER THAN THIS DEMO, WHICH CAME OUT ON CD-R IN 2009. ALENA WENT ON TO PLAY IN BREMERTON'S THE ASSASINATORS FOR A SHORT DURATION. THIS DEMO WAS ACCQUIRED FROM THE BAND AT THE 2010 LIBERTATIA FESTIVAL IN SOUTHERN OREGON, A THREE DAY CAMPING EVENT PUT ON BY THE VARIOUS CHAPTERS OF THE PYRATE PUNX FROM UP AND DOWN THE WEST COAST OF THE UNITED STATES.
PRIOR TO THE RELEASE OF THE FILTHY FUKS' DEBUT 7 INCH EP, THEY INDEPENDENTLY RELEASED A HANDFUL OF SELF-PRODUCED DEMOS, AND THIS STUDIO-RECORDED EP, "FUK YOU UP," WHICH WAS RECORDED AND MIXED BY ROB LOGIC, AND RELEASED IN 2008 ON CD-R. EVERYTHING THE BAND HAD RELEASED BEFORE THIS WERE TRACKS RECORDED BY THE BAND, SO THIS WAS THEIR FIRST SEMI-PROFESSIONALLY RECORDED EFFORT. EIGHT TRACKS OF CLASSIC FILTHY FUKS WITH RALDO ON VOCALS, JOEY IDOL ON GUITAR AND BACKING UP VOCALS, DANNY DYSENTERY ON BASS AND BACK UP VOCALS, AND KEVIN "SAMMY JAM" ON DRUMS.
FREEDOM FROM REALITY 2000 CD, INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH RECORDS IS03
THE SHITGIVEITS FORMED IN 1994 IN SAN DIEGO, FRONTED BY VINNIE FONO, PREVIOUSLY THE VOCALIST OF CLASSIC D-BEAT HARDCORE PUNK BAND DIATRIBE. THE SHITGIVEITS RELEASED SEVERAL DEMO CASSETTES, A SPLIT 7 INCH WITH SAN DIEGO PUNK BAND BEER GOGGLES, TWO MORE 7 INCH EPS, AND TWO FULL LENGTH CDS, INCLUDING THIS ONE. THE LINE UP ON THIS CD, "FREEDOM FROM REALITY," WAS FONO ON VOCALS, J PIST AND ROB NOXIOUS ON GUITARS, TOD AWFUL ON BASS, AND JERRY CRUM, A.K.A. JERIATRIX ON DRUMS.
"FREEDOM FROM REALITY" WAS RELEASED ON INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH RECORDS. DISCOGS.COM HAS IT LISTED AS BEING RELEASED IN 1999, BUT THE LINER NOTES ON THE INSERT STATES THAT IT WAS RECORDED "Y2K" AT GRANDMASTER STUDIOS AND EDITED AT BARON'S STUDIOS.
OTHER MEMBERS AT VARIOUS POINTS INCLUDED SHONGO AND TOD DAMMIT ON DRUMS. THE SHITGIVEITS SPLIT UP AROUND 2006 WHEN BASSIST ROB NOXIOUS PASSED AWAY. VOCALIST VINNIE FONO WENT ON TO REFORM A NEW INCARNATION OF HIS ORIGINAL BAND, DIATRIBE. THERE IS OTHER MATERIAL AVAILABLE ON THE SHITGIVEITS BANDCAMP PAGE. THE BLOOD STAINED REALITY/NUCLEAR TOMORROW SONG "DEATH IS REALITY" WAS WRITTEN AS A TRIBUTE TO ROB AFTER HIS DEATH.
THE LUGERS PLAYED HARDCORE THRASH PUNK AND CAME FROM IMPERIAL BEACH, CALIFORNIA. THEY INDEPENDENTLY RELEASED TWO CD-RS DURING THEIR TIME AS A BAND, 2006'S "ONE SHOT, ONE KILL," AND 2007'S "ONWARD TO BATTLE." LATER, THEY RELEASED A DISCOGRAPHY CD-R CONSISTING OF ALL THE TRACKS FROM BOTH RELEASES. "ONE SHOT, ONE KILL" WAS RECORDED ON OCTOBER 28, 2006. "ONWARD TO BATTLE" WAS RECORDED JUNE 2, 2007, AND WAS DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF GARY LOFTIN.
THE LUGERS WERE MATCH ON VOCALS, RADER ON GUITAR, LOU ON BASS AND WOOD ON DRUMS. THE BAND SADLY CAME TO AN ABRUPT END WHEN RADER PASSED AWAY IN A MOTORCYCLE ACCIDENT. MATCH HAS SINCE GONE ON TO JOIN SYSTEMATIC ABUSE ON VOCALS. THIS DOWNLOAD CONTAINS BOTH RELEASES IN ONE ZIP FILE. RIPPED AT 320 KBPS.
THIS SPLIT 12 INCH LP BETWEEN PHOBIA AND RESIST AND EXIST WAS RELEASED IN 2002 ON PROFANE EXISTENCE RECORDS, WITH FOUR THOUSAND COPIES PRESSED ON STANDARD BLACK VINYL AND FIVE HUNDRED COPIES ON CLEAR COKE BOTTLE VINYL. A CD EDITION WAS ALSO RELEASED BY OHEV RECORDS. PHOBIA HAILS FROM MISSION VIEJO, CALIFORNIA, AND PLAYS GRINDCORE CRUST WITH DEATH-METAL STYLE VOCALS. ON THIS RECORDING THEY WERE COMPRISED OF SHANE MCLACHLAN ON VOCALS, STEVE BURDA ON GUITAR, BRUCE REEVES ON BASS, AND RAMON BANDA ON DRUMS. THESE TRACKS WERE RECORDED AND MIXED BY SERGIO CHAVEZ AT FOR THE RECORD IN ORANGE, CALIFORNIA IN AUGUST OF 2002.
RESIST AND EXIST FORMED IN FULLERTON, CALIFORNIA IN 1990 AND PLAY HARDCORE ANARCHOPUNK. THIER LINE UP ON THIS RECORD WAS JANG ON VOCALS, JIMMY ON GUITAR AND KEYBOARDS, JEN ON BASS AND VOCALS, AND JEFF ON DRUMS. THE MP3 FILES WERE RIPPED FROM THE VINYL (THE CLEAR VERSION), AND THERE IS A LITTLE BIT OF STATIC NOISE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE FIRST PHOBIA TRACK THAT PERSISTS FOR A FEW SECONDS, BUT THEN STOPS. THIS IS AN ARTIFACT OF THE RECORD ITSELF AND COULD NOT BE REMOVED, APOLOGIES FOR THE BLEMISH.
"BEFORE YOU CAN GET OFF YOUR KNEES, YOU GOTTA GET OFF YOUR ASS!"
MILLIONS OF DEAD COPS / CITIZEN FISH / EMBRACE THE KILL / MOUTH SEWN SHUT
SOLID EP - 4 WAY SPLIT 7 INCH EP CRASH ASSAILANT RECORDS CAR 002 RODENT POPSICLE RECORDS RPR 108
IN 2007, THE SOLID EP WAS RELEASED, A FOUR WAY SPLIT 7 INCH EP WITH MILLIONS OF DEAD COPS, EMBRACE THE KILL, CITIZEN FISH, AND MOUTH SEWN SHUT. EACH BAND CONTRIBUTED ONE TRACK TO THE EP. MILLIONS OF DEAD COPS (M.D.C.), ORIGINALLY FROM TEXAS, HAD MOVED TO SAN FRANCISCO IN THE LATE 1980'S OR EARLY 1990'S, THEN AGAIN TO PORTLAND, OREGON, WHERE THEY ARE STILL ACTIVE. INITIALLY THEY WERE VOCALLY OPPOSED TO THE APATHETIC STONER/HIPPIE PEACENIK PERSONALITY TYPE, WITH A TRACK ON 1992'S "SHADES OF BROWN" ALBUM TITLED "SLOW, STUPID, AND HUNGRY" COMEDICALLY EXPRESSING THEIR DISDAIN FOR POT SMOKERS. IN MORE RECENT YEARS, VOCALIST DAVE HAS SINCE CHANGED HIS STANCE ON THE USE OF MARIJUANA, ACKNOWLEDGING ITS MEDICINAL VALUE AND THE LOWER HEALTH RISKS IN CONTRAST WITH ALCOHOL AND OTHER SUBSTANCES, AND THE BAND PROVIDED THE SONG "MARY JANE FOR PRESIDENT" TO THE EP. SINCE THE WRITING OF THIS TRACK, IT HAS BEEN COMMON FOR M.D.C. TO PLAY THE TRACKS BACK TO BACK AT LIVE SHOWS. M.D.C.'S LINE UP AT THE TIME OF THIS RECORDING WAS DAVE DICTOR ON VOCALS, MAD MIKE ON BASS, RUSS ON GUITAR, AND ALAN SCHULTZ (A.K.A. AL SCVITZ) ON DRUMS.
MILLIONS OF DEAD COPS
CITIZEN FISH WAS FORMED BY MEMBERS OF SUBHUMANS AND CULTURE SHOCK IN 1990 IN BATH, SOMERSET, U.K. THEY PLAY A BLEND OF SKA AND PUNK WITH POLITICAL OVERTONES. SINCE THEIR FORMATION IN 1990, THEY HAVE ISSUED NEARLY THIRTY FULL LENGTH ALBUMS, EPS, AND SPLIT RELEASES. AT THE TIME OF THIS RECORDING, CITIZEN FISH CONSISTED OF DICK LUCAS ON VOCALS, PHIL ON GUITAR, JASPER ON BASS AND VOCALS, SILAS ON DRUMS, AND MIGUEL ON TROMBONE.
CITIZEN FISH
EMBRACE THE KILL FROM PORTLAND, OREGON PLAYED A MIX OF REGGAE SKA, THRASH AND HARDCORE PUNK. THEIR VOCALIST AND BASSIST JAY CRASH RAN THE LABEL CRASH ASSAILANT RECORDS, WHICH IS ONE OF THE TWO LABELS THAT RELEASED THIS COMPILATION. THEIR TRACK FEATURES GUEST VOCALS FROM DICK LUCAS OF CITIZEN FISH, WITH JAY CRASH ON BASS, BRANDON ON GUITAR, AND JESSE ON DRUMS.
EMBRACE THE KILL
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTES REGGAE-HARDCORE CRUST BANDMOUTH SEWN SHUT FORMED AFTER TOXIC NARCOTIC'S DRUMMER SAM JODREY THREW OUT HIS BACK WHILE ON TOUR IN 2008, FORCING THE BAND TO SPLIT. VOCALIST BILL DAMON AND GUITARIST WILL SULLIVAN RECRUITED RICH ON DRUMS AND NICK ON BASS. BILL RUNS RODENT POPSICLE RECORDS, WHICH WAS THE OTHER LABEL RESPONSIBLE FOR CO-RELEASING THIS EP WITH CRASH ASSAILANT RECORDS.
THIS RECORD WAS ISSUED ON TRANSLUCENT GREEN VINYL.
M.D.C. AND EMBRACE THE KILL'S TRACKS WERE RECORDED BY CHRIS FINSTER AT GOEMANA STUDIOS IN PORTLAND, OREGON. CITIZEN FISH'S TRACK WAS RECORDED BY STEVE ROCHE AT PERMANENT HEARING DAMAGE IN PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA ON NOVEMBER 22, 2007, AND MIXED BY TOM DALGETY AT RIVERSIDE, BATH, U.K. MOUTH SEWN SHUT'S TRACK WAS RECORDED, MIXED AND MASTERED BY RICHARD MARR AT GALAXY PARK STUDIOS IN ALLISTON, MASSACHUSETTES.
INSERT ARTWORK FROM THE SOLID EP
TRACKLIST:
1. M.D.C.: MARY JANE FOR PRESIDENT
2. EMBRACE THE KILL FEATURING DICK LUCAS: POLIZIA CONTROLLA
SYSTEMATIC ABUSE FORMED SOMETIME AROUND 2007 OR 2008 IN THE SOUTHWEST SAN DIEGO COMMUNITY OF IMPERIAL BEACH, CALIFORNIA, WHICH IS QUITE LITERALLY WITHIN WALKING DISTANCE OF THE U.S.-MEXICO BORDER. FOLLOWING THE BREAK UP OF THE HARDCORE PUNK BAND THE RESENTMENTS, GUITARIST ERIK DOGUL TEAMED UP WITH BASSIST GRIM, WITH WHOM HE HAD PREVIOUSLY PLAYED IN THE BAND SOCIETIES VICTIM, ALONG WITH DRUMMER EL DINGO AND VOCALIST HAMMER, TO START THIS NEW SHREDDING D-BEAT-INFUSED HARDCORE PROJECT, WHO, DESPITE SEVERAL LINE UP ALTERATIONS OVER THE YEARS, ARE STILL CURRENTLY ACTIVE AND HAVE A NEW SEVEN INCH EP DUE OUT THIS OCTOBER (2020). SYSTEMATIC ABUSE MADE APPEARANCES ON BOTH PLASTIC FACT EATERS VOLUME 1 ("FLAG COVERED COFFINS" AND "DEATH COMES FAST," BOTH FROM THIS RELEASE) AND PLASTIC FACT EATERS VOLUME 2COMPILATION CDS. THEIR MOST RECENT RELEASE WAS A SPLIT 12 INCH LP WITH TIM RALDO AND THE FILTHY FUKS ON RED MARBLE VINYL, RELEASED BY DEATH PUNX DISTRO.
THIS IS THE BAND'S DEBUT CD, WHICH WAS INDEPENDENTLY PRODUCED AND RELEASED, FEATURING THEIR ORIGINAL LINE UP OF HAMMER ON VOCALS, ERIK DOGUL (SENIOR) ON GUITAR, GRIM ON BASS AND EL DINGO ON DRUMS.
CIRIL / KÄRNVAPEN ATTACK / I OBJECT! / ACTIVE MINDS 4-WAY SPLIT 12 INCH LP 2007 PUNKS BEFORE PROFITS PBP30
RETRO IS POISON WAS RELEASED BY PUNKS BEFORE PROFITS ON 12 INCH VINYL IN 2007. IT FEATURES THREE TRACKS BY LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA SCHIZO-PUNKS CIRIL, NINE TRACKS BY HARDCORE PUNKS KÄRNVAPEN ATTACK FROM ZARAGOZA, SPAIN, FOUR TRACKS FROM ROCHESTER, NEW YORK'S FEMALE-FRONTED, STRAIGHT EDGE HARDCORE OUTFIT I OBJECT!, AND FOUR TRACKS FROM SCARBOROUGH, U.K. ANARCHO TWO-PIECE ACTIVE MINDS. THERE WERE A LIMITED AMOUNT PRESSED ON PINK VINYL. THE LP CAME WITH A STANDARD LETTER SIZED ZINE-STYLE BOOKLET INSERT WITH LYRICS AND INFORMATION FROM EACH BAND. KÄRNVAPEN ATTACK'S LYRICS ARE IN SPANISH BUT ARE ACCOMPANIED BY ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS.
"RETRO IS POISON" INSERT BOOKLET COVER
PUNKS BEFORE PROFITS WAS RUN BY RYAN CAPPALLETTI, THE VOCALIST OF POSITIVE NOISE, OUT OF GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. IT BEGAN AS A ZINE IN 1999 AND EVENTUALLY BEGAN RELEASING AND DISTRIBUTING MUSIC. ACCORDING TO DISCOGS.COM, PUNKS BEFORE PROFITS HAVE RELEASED ABOUT FIFTY-FOUR EPS, FULL LENGTHS AND COMPILATIONS, PRIMARILY ON VINYL, BUT SOME ON CD AND CASSETTE, INCLUDING BANDS LIKE POSITIVE NOISE, I OBJECT!, BUNNY SKULLS, MAGRUDERGRIND, 17TH CLASS, ABDUCTEE S.D., SKATE KORPSE AND MANY MORE.
PUNKS BEFORE PROFITS
THIS LP WAS RECIEVED AS PART OF A TRADE WITH PUNKS BEFORE PROFITS ABOUT TWELVE YEARS AGO, AND IS A FAVORITE IN THE PLASTIC FACT COLLECTION.
CIRIL FROM LONG BEACH WAS DARRIN HALL, ODD ADAM, AND GITANE ON VOCALS, KYLE CHEW ON GUITAR, TARA BELLE ON BASS, AND NATHAN ON DRUMS. THEIR TRACKS WERE RECORDED BY MIKE MCHUGH AT THE DISTILLERY ON SEPTEMBER 9, 2006, AND MASTERED BY DAVE SORBO AT LBC RADIO.
KÄRNVAPEN ATTACK'S LINE UP WAS ARTUR ON VOCALS, PABLO ON GUITAR, MANUEL ON BASS, AND DANI ON DRUMS.
I OBJECT! WAS BARB ON VOCALS, RYAN ON BASS, BIFF ON GUITAR, AND STEVE ON DRUMS. THEIR FOUR TRACKS WERE RECORDED AT 115 EAST FOREST STREET IN OLEAN, NEW YORK, BY NICK MILLER.
ACTIVE MINDS FROM SCARBOROUGH, U.K. WERE BOBS AND SET.
THE INSERT BOOKLET HAS BEEN SCANNED AND CONVERTED INTO A PDF AND INCLUDED WITH THE DOWNLOAD.
LIVIN' LIFE ON THE RUN 2012 TIM RALDO PRODUCTIONS TRP-005
IN THE LATE 2000'S IN EAST SAN DIEGO COUNTY, THERE WAS A SMALL POCKET OF MUSICIANS THAT PLAYED IN A HANDFUL OF PUNK AND HARDCORE BANDS, WHO BEGAN TEAMING UP WITH OTHER MUSICIANS AND FORMED A LITTLE SCENE OF OUTLAW COUNTRY PUNK AND FOLK DERIVED ACTS. THESE INCLUDED WHISKEY WISETALES AND THE RAMBLIN' OUTLAWS. SAN DIEGO ALREADY HAD A SUBSTANTIAL PRESENCE OF COUNTRY, FOLK, ROOTS AND AMERICANA MUSIC FOR YEARS, AND EVEN HAD CROSSOVERS BETWEEN THESE GENRES AND PUNK, ALTERNATIVE, AND ROCK AND ROLL, NAMELY THE BEAT FARMERS/BUDDY BLUE, THE RUGBURNS AND OTHERS WHO WERE ACTIVE FROM THE 1980'S THROUGH THE MID 90'S.
RAMBLIN' OUTLAWS
THE RAMBLIN' OUTLAWS CAME OUT OF THE CORNER OF PUNK IN SAN DIEGO WHO HAD AN AFFINITY FOR SHIT-KICKIN' OUTLAW COUNTRY. THEY BEGAN PLAYING SHOWS WITH THE PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED WHISKEY WISETALES (WHO HAVE SINCE TRANSPLANTED TO AUSTIN, TEXAS), AT DIVE BARS LIKE EL CAJON'S NOW-DEFUNCT LAWLESS PUB ON MAIN STREET, THE RADIO ROOM IN NORTH PARK, AND OTHER SPOTS. THE PROJECT LASTED A FEW YEARS, AND RELEASED TWO COLLECTIONS, "DEVIL'S RAILROAD," RELEASED ON CD-R IN 2009, AND THIS ALBUM, ALSO RELEASED ON CD-R IN A LIMITED RUN OF 100 ON THE TIM RALDO PRODUCTIONS IMPRINT. THIS INCARNATION FEATURED TIM RALDO ON VOCALS AND GUITAR, KRIS ALIS ON GUITAR, MR. BLUNTZ ON BASS, ZACH ERIA ON DRUMS, AND BRENT ON BANJO. IT WAS RECORDED AND MIXED BY MR. BLUNTZ. IN AN ARTICLE PUBLISHED BY THE SAN DIEGO WEEKLY READER, TIM RALDO WAS QUOTED AS SAYING THAT THE BAND WAS TRYING TO "BRIDGE THE GAP BETWEEN HANK WILLIAMS AND G.G. ALLIN."
EXCHANGE SPLIT 10 INCH EP, 1999 SUB CITY RECORDS SC007-1
"EXHANGE" WAS A SPLIT 10 INCH EP RELEASED ON SUB CITY RECORDS IN 1999 WITH MIAMI, FLORIDA SKA-PUNK BAND AGAINST ALL AUTHORITY AND THE EAST BAY'S PUNK ROCKERS THE CRIMINALS. A PORTION OF THE PROCEEDS FROM THE SALES OF THE SPLIT WERE DONATED TO THE BERKELEY FREE CLINIC, AN ORGANIZATION WHICH PROVIDED S.T.D. SCREENING AND TREATMENT, PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE, DENTAL CARE, H.I.V TESTING, COUNSELING AND REFERRALS TO MORE INTENSIVE OUTSIDE RESOURCES. ALONG WITH THOSE SERVICES, THE CLINIC ALSO PROVIDED A CLEAN NEEDLE EXCHANGE FOR I.V. DRUG USERS, IN ORDER PROMOTE HARM-REDUCTION AND LOWER THE RISK OF CONTRACTION AND SPREAD OF S.T.D.S AND OTHER BLOOD-BORNE INFECTIONS RELATED TO I.V. DRUG USE, SUCH AS H.I.V. AND HEPATITIS. SOME PEOPLE MAY CONSIDER SUCH A PROGRAM AN ENDORSEMENT OR PROMOTION OF I.V. DRUG USE, BUT THE IDEA BEHIND IT IS UNDERSTANDING THE INHERENT DIFFICULTY FOR ADDICTS TO QUIT, AND INSTEAD ENABLE SAFER, MORE HEALTH-CONSCIOUS PRACTICES, THUS REDUCING THE OVERALL RISK OF INFECTION TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC AS A WHOLE.
IN THE SPIRIT OF THE TITLE, ("EXCHANGE" REFERRING TO THE NEEDLE EXCHANGE PROGRAM), THE BANDS COVERED ONE OF EACH OTHER'S SONGS IN A "SONG EXCHANGE." THE A SIDE OF THE RECORD FEATURES THREE ORIGINALS FROM AGAINST ALL AUTHORITY, PLUS A COVER OF THE CRIMINALS' "I WANT TO STAB YOU WITH SOMETHING RUSTY." THE TRACKS WERE RECORDED AT THE DUNGEON BY JEREMY DUBOIS, WITH DANNY ON BASS AND VOCALS, JOE ON GUITAR AND VOCALS, TIM ON SAXOPHONE, JEREMY ON TRUMPET AND SPIKEY ON DRUMS. THE B SIDE CONSISTS OF TWO ORIGINALS FROM THE CRIMINALS AND A COVER OF AGAINST ALL AUTHORITY'S "ALL FALL DOWN." IT WAS RECORDED IN THE SPRING OF 1999 AT CAT BOX STUDIOS BY CHRIS AND BILLIE JOE OF GREEN DAY. THE CRIMINALS' LINE UP AT THE TIME OF RELEASE WAS JESSE LUSCIOUS ON VOCALS, ZACH ATTACK ON GUITAR, MIKE SEXXX ON BASS, AND JULIE THORN ON DRUMS. THE RECORDING, HOWEVER, WAS PERFORMED BY JESSE LUSCIOUS, BRADY, AND JULIE. THIS SPLIT WAS PURCHASED AT RASPUTIN'S IN CONCORD, CALIFORNIA ABOUT 10 YEARS AGO FOR $4 USD. KIDS: DON'T DO DRUGS!
YOU ARE ENCOURAGED TO PRACTICE SAFE USE BY PROPERLY DISPOSING USED RIGS AND FINDING A NEEDLE EXCHANGE IN YOUR AREA, IT'S FREE. TAKE CARE OF YOURSELVES! FOR YOUR HEALTH!
