local punkrock (fwd)
Timothy Ross
Ross's punkrock musings from yesterday, by the request of Todd. Skip if
you read from the listserv.
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Date: Thu, 3 Nov 1994 13:12:29 -0500
From:muci...@unity.ncsu.edu
To: Multiple recipients of list <ch-s...@gibbs.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: local punkrock
Okay, I'm sitting here staring a deadline in the face, which makes me
happy because I'm a sicko, but also makes me nervous, for obvious
reasons. If anybody has anything you want to add to my ruminations
(private, thus far--I've not spewed to the list about this, I mean) about
the local punk scene (the relatively recent one, that is--Resol,
Stewface, Fragrant Cloud, Insurgence, Rights Reserved, patriot (getting
into the skinhead/hardcore end of things . . ) etc.) then email me within
the next day or so.
I'm interested in how a band like Resol, who rock mightily but who don't
exactly have a huge club-based indie-rocker following, can sell
apparently upward of a thousand copies of their last single (which was,
admittedly, a split with blownapart bastards, who are a well-connected
punkrock band, but whatever . . ) without many of the indie-rocker types
who frequent this list even having seen them once.
Any of you lurkers, esp. out-of-town ones, know anything about our
"other" punkrock scene, as opposed to the old-fart postpunk scene?
anybody else have fond fond memories of Rights Reserved's "young turks"
cover?
anybody know more about the downstate Suburban Propain/Tonka axis?
I've got a lot of info--I'm just curious how much of it filters out to
the outside world.
ross
p.s. if I've been told correctly, my problem with elm has been fixed in
all of about 10 seconds by our comp. support types. We shall see if there
is any truth to this rumor. fingers xed
Todd Morman
worlds of other music around here was when I went into Internationalist
books when MRR's "Book your own fucking life" thing came out, flipped to
the NC section and saw nothing about XYC or XDU or the Cradle (someone
check me on that last one). And I'd never seen--anywhere--any of the
zines mentioned (of course, they were probably mostly one- or two-offs).
And I like Rights Reserved's first single a lot, but can't help
remembering that they were the band Dog-faced Hermans opened up for on
that cold winter night years ago after DFH got iced out the night before.
RR had been promised a headlining night, so the hermans cut their set
short, to the chagrin of everyone but the school chums of RR, and then RR
took almost an hour to set up, and then complained this year in MRR about
how hard it was to get on a good bill in Chapel Hill.
todd now there's a grudge worth holding morman :)