This is a fun compilation from that time period featuring Social D, TSOL, Christian Death, etc. It’s out of print, but you can find torrents of it.
This is a fun compilation from that time period featuring Social D, TSOL, Christian Death, etc. It’s out of print, but you can find torrents of it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_Comes_to_Your_House
HAHAHAHA!!! I was actually looking for that comp last weekend. Super rad.
Yeah, they even have a yearly music festival down there too: Hootenany.
And Social D, or Mike Ness solo, play almost every year.
Got duped into going once, pretty funny.
Yeah, I’ve never gone. Is it still going?
The two biggest names of that “scene” have got to be Social D with perhaps Reverend Horton Heat as runner up.
There’s a lot of crossover into the “psychobilly” scene too, though.
Everyone there gets big boners for Pomade, Poodle skirts, stand up basses, and . . . crap, I don’t know . . . uhhh, tattoos of Betty page riding a monkey wrench or something.
After I posted, I decided to look it up. I guess it didn’t happen last summer, but will be back next summer.
And yeah, it was all pin up girls with parasols, greaser dudes with cuffed dark jeans, hot rods, etc. There were a number of different types of bands playing, but I can’t keep all the genres straight. It was all rockabilly and punkish. There was a band called Necromantix, that looked like The Misfits, but sounded like the horror movie version of Buddy Holly. Lots of stand up bass. Lots of suede.
Not really my scene, but a friend won tickets, so I went with him.
Funny: I seem to recall they really only served Rolling Rock at all the beer booths. I wonder what the significance of that is?
I’d have thought they’d be serving Pabst but I guess there’s the whole anti-hipster too-cool-to-drink-Pabst-now-because-hipsters-drink-it thing going on too.
Oh, and for the record . . .
If you don’t drink PBR because hipsters drink it . . .
Guess what . . .
You’re a hipster.
I don’t drink PBR 'cause it sucks.
I like PBR for two reasons. It’s beer and it’s cheap.
To me it tastes no better or worse than any crappy American lager (Budweiser, Coors, Miller . . . ).
In college I drank more PBR than water. At one point I found a deal where there was a $2.50 rebate for 12 packs . . . . Well, I was buying 12 packs for like $2.99. They were only supposed to honor 2 rebates per household, so I had checks being sent to the dorms, apartments, and houses of everyone I knew, haha!!!
Anyway, some people call themselves beer snobs. I’m not. I’m a beer DRINKER. I really do appreciate all the fine and fancy craft beers and can discuss the hops, the malts, and all that jazz. But if I’m at a party or concert and they are serving PBR or Natural Light or something . . . well, that’s what I’m drinking.
I don’t drink PBR 'cause it sucks.
Truer words were never spoken. Though if you compare it with the other beers Gunnar mentioned, there is a dime’s worth of difference and PBR gets unfairly singled out as the king of crap beers.
At the end of the day, I feel beer’s a discretionary purchase rather than a necessity. So I figure that if I’m going to spend any money on alcohol at all, instead of putting more money into Tomasz Jr.'s college fund, I may as well shell out for some fancy brews like Gulden Draak or Delerium Tremens.
I may as well shell out for some fancy brews like Gulden Draak or Delerium Tremens.
Some real beauties there.
Tremens the beer initially got me obsessed with “real” beer. My boss bought me a bottle as a gift about 6 years ago and it pretty much changed my life, haha!
There was a band called Necromantix, that looked like The Misfits, but sounded like the horror movie version of Buddy Holly. Lots of stand up bass. Lots of suede.
Nekromantix are awesome. You forgot about Kim’s stand up bass that is in the form of a coffin. Classic. And their old drummer was stunning.
Psychobilly is huge up here. (At least in Montreal). I love the stuff. It’s great to drink to and just watch the band really get into it. Two great bands from Montreal are
The Gutter Demons:
http://youtu.be/ZK1AWvR1vnA?t=3m10s
The Brains:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yr3wKkebrN8
I was actually at both those shows. ^
Oh… and the coffin bass:
Yeah, I can dig the Psychobilly stuff for the reasons you mentioned. The bands look weird and go nuts and so do the fans. I don’t follow the music closely or anything, but I’m sure the gigs must be a lot of fun.
The Cramps rule - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVWp8HEMXIc
“You better tell my ma-ma how to make a mon-stahhh!”
Last show of theirs I saw was at a time when I wasn’t even listening to anything resembling ‘rock n roll,’ and it was still one of the most impressive shows I’d seen that year. One of those lean and mean performances where there’s not a single gesture or sound that is out of place.
Yeah, not seeing a live Cramps show is one of my regrets in life. Lux was just an incredibly dynamic and chaotic force of a frontman.
Yeah, not seeing a live Cramps show is one of my regrets in life. Lux was just an incredibly dynamic and chaotic force of a frontman.
Since we were talking about Another State of Mind the other day -
remember that scene where the one concert-goin’ fellow is violently exasperated about how the Cramps refuse to play all-ages shows?
One of the highlights of the movie for me…the guy just can’t calm down for a second, his reaction is so intense you would think that Lux and Ivy had personally snuck into his house and killed his dog while he was sleeping.
[reply]Yeah, not seeing a live Cramps show is one of my regrets in life. Lux was just an incredibly dynamic and chaotic force of a frontman.
Since we were talking about Another State of Mind the other day -
remember that scene where the one concert-goin’ fellow is violently exasperated about how the Cramps refuse to play all-ages shows?
One of the highlights of the movie for me…the guy just can’t calm down for a second, his reaction is so intense you would think that Lux and Ivy had personally snuck into his house and killed his dog while he was sleeping.[/reply]
It’s not one of the scenes that come readily to my mind but I do recall it now that you mention it. I need to watch the film. It’s been a while (I own the DVD and have it somewhere).
In college I was all about the cheap stuff. Olympia was my “go to” beer because Food Lion had it for the everyday low price of $2.89/12 pack. I once bought a 6 pack of Blatz and it was under a dollar for the 6 pack.
In college, our crappy duplex rental that I shared with 2 other roommates had a shelf-like ledge that ran along top of all the kitchen cabinets, and, like pretty much every other college household, there was a long display of unique bottles that were drunk by us. My roommates had a bunch of micro-beers and imports and such . . . . and then there would be sections where I obviously made my own contributions to the exhibit . . . . mostly 40’s and cans . . . Shaeffer, Schlitz, Colt45, Pabst, King Cobra, Olde English, Rainier, Olympia (It’s The Water!), Meister Brau . . . . . if it was the cheapest beer in the store, that’s what I was drinking.
huge social distortion fan .
if you like these guys . snag Mainliner ( wreckage from the past ) . mommy’s little monster .somewhere between heaven and hell. and one of there great bootlegs Girls,Cars and loud guitars. enough to keep you happy with them.
huge social distortion fan .
if you like these guys . snag Mainliner ( wreckage from the past ) . mommy’s little monster .somewhere between heaven and hell. and one of there great bootlegs Girls,Cars and loud guitars. enough to keep you happy with them.
Yeah, that’s a proper set, for sure.
I don’t think I’ve ever come across that bootleg, but I don’t actively seek out the SD stuff. Mommy’s Little Monster is essential, though.
Prison bound is different you have to like S.D. to get into that disc
i should of said to start yourself as a new fan of there’s.
start with live at the Roxy then work your way down.
Mike Ness 's solo disc under the influences and cheating at
solitaire another ballgame there. i dig 'em…some might
not.