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Saw many shows at the garage. Did you see offspring and penny wise play together there? Fungi night! The garage was a cool set up. Saw Rage there and that was a great show.

Trying to remember the place I saw Porno for Pyros (supposedly their debut gig).

Your right, the music scene there in the 90s was epic!

 

My favorite part of Big Mele was sitting on the mountain side overlooking a sick pit and the pacific in background...then taking off down the hill to renter the pit.

 

Pinks was where Porno did there debut, yeah man, I was there for that one. Didn't see the offspring or pennywise(would have loved to see them) but Bad Religion, Agent Orange, L7, DRI, shit too many to name. Damn JayD, if you wee in the pit at the first Mele, I'm sure I bumped into you (literally). That's awesome. Janes Addictions last shows on Oahu were epic as well, I remember hanging out with Mike Muir from ST afterwards, and Fugazi at the college was another one I'll never forget.

 

Bad Brains at the Rock Hotel in '85.
Ramones on the football field at Rutgers in '86.
Husker Du inside the gym the next year?
Mighty Mighty Bosstones at the old Tradewinds in Sea Bright.

These are a few of my favorite things...

 

Hell yea Manik...we definitely saw some shows "together". Yep, BR and DRI. I missed Fugazi for whatever reason...I remember missing it (work probably). That's badass you hung out with muir. (You can't bring me down!!!)

So, the Porno show, That was the show where Perry came out of the box/cake/whatever it was all creepy at the very beginning of the show?...that was a pretty small show (attendance). I was thinking it was somewhere else b/c it seemed smaller compared to the garage. Good times for sure man.

 

lol...I was 12 in 85. I think I dropped into my first halfpipe that year and was introduced to Bad Brains (maybe when I was 13).

 

Can’t get this song out of my head. Heard it on the radio yesterday.

 

I remember the Bad Brains played at The Edge on Singer Island, it was a little dive bar below a whorehouse. I had no idea who they were, I heard from a buddy who lived in DC that they were core, so word got out and many crews showed up. They took all the furniture out of the bar, and jammed 150 kids into it and the place was built like a bunker so the building is still standing, but the insides were gutted that night. Completely destroyed. That was one of the most epic punk rock shows I've been witness to.

 

Diggin' it, Scob... reminds me of this band, who I like..

 

Diggin' it, Scob... reminds me of this band, who I like..

 

Tom Waits - All The World Is Green

"Pretend that you owe me nothing"

 

My mom loves The Doors. Jim Morrison died almost 4 months after I was born. According to her, I used to shake my head as a baby, like just a few months old, to any record of theirs that she put on. That's pretty funny to think about.

 

NICE!

I saw all those bands, some of them back in the mid and late 80's. I saw The Offspring in the early 90's, way before they blew up. Bad Religion by like 88 or Suffer/No Control era. I just missed Minor Threat by like 6 months, maybe 9 months or so, I think I started going to shows around 1984 when I was 13 in New York City. I saw The Clash with a scab lineup, devoid of Mick Jones and Topper. I couldn't even tell you who the hell was in the band other than Joe Strummer and Paul Simonon by that point. I think I saw Suicidal in 85 or 86 for the first time.

I wish bands played in Hawaii more often. I had a roadie'ing job a while back with a band that friends were in, and it took me to places like Europe and South America, frickin Japan and Asia. Australia, too. Never Oahu/Hawaii, though. It wasn't the worst thing, because I had been to Oahu on vacation, but damn, I wanted to go there and show my buddies around! Any excuse to go there.

 

Yeah, STP are a clown show at this point. I was skeptical when they brought in the Linkin Park guy on vocals, as he's just not really STP. He just doesn't sound like Stone Temple Pilots. I've still never once heard one of their songs with him. I think they recorded an EP with him or something.

If they formed a band and called it the DeLeo's or something, I bet nobody would care other than the die hards, but when you have the brand name of Stone Temple Pilots, people are gonna come see it and buy the record. If I recall correctly, they did a band with the guy from Filter, not too long after this encounter that I had spoke of, and it went nowhere. It flopped completely.

 

somewhere in a lonely hotel room theres a guy starting to think that eternal fate has turned its back on him ... its 2 a.m.

 

I saw The Clash in '82... with the Who, Santana and the Hooters. Lol!

 

I remember the Porno show was not long after Janes did those two "final" shows at Aloha Towers (yeah right, saw them maybe 6 yrs ago). Porno hadn't put out their album, nobody had heard of them but my buddy who was a music freak says it was Perrys new band. I remember he had a shaved head and had this crazy militant thing going where a few months before with Janes it was long hair. Don't remember the cake.. was that skinny puppy?? LOL, the shows start to blend..

Hey eatswell, guess who was advertised on the radio yesterday doing a show in town soon? STP, ha ha , no thanks.
I have my sister visiting this weekend or I would be checking out Mastadon and Primus at Point Park in Providence, that sounds fun.
All of you guys that have seen Bad Brains and The Clash, I am very jealous. Not a lot out there nowadays to measure up to ANY of these bands we have mentioned, especially those two ( even the stripped down version of the Clash you saw eatswell I would have gladly checked out, I use to love that band)

 

I saw same tour but No Hooters. David Johansen of "NY Dolls" and "Buster Poindexter" fame instead. General Admission Show. 80,000 people at Rich Stadium in Buffalo. I was a college sophomore and road a party bus to the show and was one of the first thousand through the gate. I was so wasted I ended up underneath the stage at one point. Saw "The Clash" again with the stripped down line up 3 years later.

 

What a weird lineup. Was this a festival or something?

The stripped down version was still pretty suite. I love the first few Clash albums, but they started to lose me on Sandinista. The couple releases after that were okay, a little better, but not better than the first 3 LP's. Cut The Crap was an abomination, though. I even saw Bad Brains quite when I was younger. First time was either 84 or 85.

I used to play in some bands. I was actually asked to join a fairly prominent underground hardcore band (I can't say who, for confidentiality of the band and the current members) as the drummer in 2009, after I had a bit of a falling out with the band I was in and they had their old drummer come back. I wasn't that good at the drums, anyway. Then I was asked by the same band if I wanted to play guitar for them in 2014 and once again had to decline, because I had the job I have now, which is something I really enjoy doing and it's guaranteed salary for a year. 2009 I was trying to start my own business and I did it for a few years, until I took this job and couldn't do both. They play about 30-50 shows a year, sometimes as many as 80-85 shows a year, so I may have made $50k-$75k and had a lot of downtime, but there's also years where they might play 10-20 shows and I couldn't live off of that. I would need at least $55k-$60k per year before taxes. And I have a lot of downtime with the job I have now, so I don't regret it much. They had another guy join on guitar, who is the same age as me and had a normal job before he joined their band.

 

Damn, dude! That was actually a real tour? I don't even remember The Clash and The Who doing a tour together. I figured LBC was talking about a music fest he attended. Not that I would remember, as I didn't start listening to The Clash until about 1983, outside of hearing the Combat Rock singles on the radio in 82.