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Pen Cap Chew Issue #3
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Straight Edge?
The Next Big Thing or not?
Discharge
Plus more!!!!
Inside:
3 Straight edge? please don't get popular
4 Discharge
7Meat puppets reviews Straight Edge:
Never to return?
Around ten to fifteen years ago, punk was different. It wasn't ever on MTV, never on the radio, and was a ton more emotional. Not the emotions of greed which fuel Green Day's "rage" but a more bore nrier one. Angry at the government for the wars in Vietnam, Iran, and for the cold war. Bored becus tey lived in suburban town. Everyone lived in the same affordable tract housing, went to work, ad Mahattan and went to shop at the mall. These kids were usually outcasts in school, except in outhrn Cliforina, where metalheads were extinct.
The kids in school were punk. However the punk today is a lot more urban than the punk then. Punk wisten to is '77 punk, with a little more bite. But kids in the surbuban town didn't look up to theCah and the Jam as much as the punks in the Suburbs did. '77 punk was more artist, college people,no alot of musicians.
But the kids in the 'burbs were more into the Meat Puppets, Husker Du, and especially Black Flag. Tks to our wonderful friends at SST records. But there were hundreds, possibly thousands of bands, nte words of Mike Watt," There were no scenes then. Punk was different in every town." Many of thoe ans were called hardcore or straight edge bands.
I am making a point here. '77 punk only warmed things up and set the stage for hardcore bands. Sincvery fifth grader and his brother will bow down to Billie Joe, well... But anyway, there is a moveetgoing on. Listen to underground bands, like Candy Machiene and the Archers of Loaf. They sound qit lke Minor Threat.
Hopefully, hardcore and even noise will come back. But then in '77 everyone was suddenly a punk. Ine eighties(save this of southern Califorina) they were null and void. Hopefully all of the punk bad ow will suddenly disappear and it will go back to the way it was.
The audiences of the Archers of Loaf, etc. may get to put up with the unhealthy mixtures of poseur jocks, and people who don't get the songs. In the early eighties, many of the people in the Dead endys probably didn't know the song, "Kill the Poor' was very ironic. But, hardcore should repea isef and not get popular. But then again, it's surpassing enough to think that Punk Rock of all ting eaned itself mainstream acceptance. Meat Puppets Meat Puppets II
SST records cd019
1984- Mojave desert. Sonic Youth, Black Flag, Physcon, and the Meat Puppets are playing outdoors front of a couple hundred kids all on acid. It's a show that's going to go down in history as pun' irst Woodstock. In the words of Thurston Moore," The Meat Puppets were so weird. They played foks lttle songs, had long hair, sang in some Mickey Mouse voice, and sounded like the Dead."
November 18, 1993, New York. Kurt Cobain is sitting on his little computer chair during Nirvana's uugged show under the aqua lights and among the pansies, having a smoke. He lights a candle as twogy with black hair and flannel shirts ascend the stage and take up a stool. " These are the Meat Pppts" Kurt began, pushing his dirty blonde hair behind his ears," we're very big fans of theirs." wa shcked. You see, I saw the Unplugged show late, but heard the Meat Puppets on Now Hear This onWHFS Thee were the same guys I heard on the radio, in Washington D.C. For a second, I thought I ha a bad nobdy knew about. Something I could keep under wraps. But Kurdt ruined all that. Anyway, "Pateau, "Oh, e," and, "Lake of Fire," were played. The songs were off Meat Puppets II. I now own tat CD ad enjoyit thoroughly.
The average Nirvana or Green Day fan will hate this CD with a passion. If you skip over "Dumb," or olly" you won't like this CD. If you don't like " Radio Friendly Unit Shifter," or don't bother tolsen to " Endless Nameless," well, you won't enjoy this much either. If you enjoy the Grateful Dea, hi is a good buy. If you devote your cash to Primus, this CD won't leave you CD player. If Kurt' voce ove you in any of the songs, Curt Kirkwood will only make you annoyed.
The opening song is a little ditty called "Split Myself in two". It mixes that grunge that is Mudhy with a stomping Dead drum beat. It steals a melody line from "Mexacali Blues," and even is all aotdebt. It seems that every CD has a predominate theme or two to it. In Utero has disease and Nevemid as guns.
Speaking of which, that leads us into "Lost." The opening line is, "Lost on the freeway again/lookifor a means to end," can only make me think of the Meat puppets in a crappy van touring little bar n Mexico. A couple verses later, another touring reference, "I'll know there'll come a time when obdyowes me nothing any more."
Next up is a little song called "Plateau". I almost thought is was a Violent Femmes cover. It had t bass over guitar sound and the high pitched voice. There isn't anything spectacular about this sog ut the charming melody of " I'm a mindless idiot" (obviously my theme song) pulls you out of themod he previous song puts you in.
A few songs later is "Lake of Fire". If you thought Kurt has a tortured howl for a voice, listen tort Kirkwood's. He screeches the whole song in a childish voice. Luckily the guitars are over it. Aohr song worth mentioning is "New Gods". Another crammed in a van song. This time, they're in Mexio,nofood, no water, just a few bottles of Pepsi. The opening line is even about debt. These are soe o th funniest songs I've heard in my meager 13 years here. Twelve melodies to hum while crookedy moing he lawn.
The Mosh Pit:
Discharge/No Jump Kangaroos other people
AS always, I was there from the start. The No Jump Kangaroos were running through their half of "Go Get Away", Steve Johnson, Dave Grosclose and the drummer Steve I- can't-spell- his last name are ataside by Mr.Stump. "This sucks," were the first words Steve said to me, "We haven't gotten to ru trogh 'territorial pissings' once and they go through 'Got' three times!"
The band go outside to run through the song and to tune, but they can't even step hear outside. Dese the sour mood, however, the No Jump Kangaroos can't wait to play their covers of commercial crapo he Offspring, Green Day, and a cover of that song. I've seen them run through Hole covers a few ims.From what I hear, Discharge rarely plays them.
Right around now, the audience is coming in and I take my seat near the bands. Mr. Stump tells Discge they won't be playing this period. A scowl of disgust adorns Steve's face. The first to play i ie Greenstreet. I really don't like the Forrest Gump theme and I don't have anything to say aboutMie except that he rules at the piano, if there is such a thing.
Next up are Marci LePore and Krystal Greene doing a Supremes song. I hate all motown songs, think l songs are too cliched` and hate their voices. Why do they have to do such a terrible song? Is somtig different too much to ask? I guess so.
The No Jump Kangaroos ascend the stage to make trendies, conformists, Green Day fans, pousers, and ry dork in the school to a standing ovation. They run through the songs, I don't cheer, neither dosSeve. I don't feel so alone anymore. The Kangaroos' set runs flawlessly, nothing goes wrong. Everon ecept for a couple cheer. Then Dr. Scarbrough hands out some gift certificates, and so forth.
The first to go down to the stage the second show was Discharge. Steve plugs into Brian's amp and nound comes out. So he switches pedals and the reclutant guitar sounds. Then he bellows "Come on pepenow smile on your brother/everybody get together/try to love one another right now" Then the sonc ssult begins.
It all falls apart when Steve makes a jerk of himself. In the middle of "territorial pissings" , St goes to the amp, trying to make some noise, feedback anything to cover up his purposefully shodd utar playing. Somehow, the lead disconnects from his distortion pedal, and the drummer stops withnoprblems from the guitarists. The band makes a stab at "about a girl", This time it isn't as incoeret a before. It almost goes well. the audience is silent, except for a few people, who are thriled o her anything different from the dismal pop songs the Kangaroos play.
I spoke briefly after the show with Steve who is in an awful mood. "If Stumpy gave us ten minutes tractice, if had a longer cable, if we had a soundcheck, we would have done thirty times as better, ee the first words I heard. "Did anyone, anybody react to anything?" He asked.
In the beginning, yes, after the first song yes, second song was dead silence," I replied
"I'm not playing the eighth, Steve says," Sorry."
Dave Groseclose comes in and sits down. " I hate this. We're treated like a nuisance around here. Isick and tired of it, '" He begins," and knowing how moody a person Steve is..."
"I'm sick of doing things like this. Let's set up our own gigs, play what we want, when we want, hoe want to, " Steve moans.
" Let's play originals next time," Dave says.
"We aren't playing this time, " Steve corrects.
At the end, Steve does go down, pogoes, and plays a little catch with his stuffed monkey, Chim-Chimischarge can't play as well as the No Jump Kangaroos, but given Steve's moods, the frequency of tig going wrong, and the general dissonance of their shows, anything is possible.
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