Yesterday I posted the mighty VITAMIN X set from Burnt Ramen Studios, and now here’s the DEADFALL set as well!!!!
DEADFALL is a punk/hardcore band from San Francisco, been around for 6 years now. I’ve always been a bit lazy about keeping up with their records, but there is no denying that a Deadfall show is going to be a fun time!
For those that think hardcore died in ‘86, here’s Vitamin X from Amsterdam, Holland to prove it’s alive and well! I caught the tour at Burnt Ramen Studios, in lovely Richmond, CA. Burnt Ramen is by the way my favorite venue in the bay area, I’m glad that it’s back up and running.
I missed the first three songs because shit just got too crazy, I had to move over to the side side of the stage and shoot from there. I also missed the last song of their encore, I ran out of tape. Bummer.
It was great to move out to the bay area and find that Creation is Crucifixion had done the same a year prior! Another killer band to look forward to seeing a bunch! I’d seen them a couple times already on the east coast, and I made sure to see them as often as I could out here.
A buddy of mine named Elliot worked at Howling Bull, and put out the Kalibas 7″. When I moved out the bay area Elliot and I jammed with a kid he knew, who was friends with CiC, and we used their practice space to jam. Elliot gave the kid the 7″, who turned it onto the CiC guys, who then contacted Kalibas and set up a few tours together! This was from the 2nd of those tours. Recorded at 924 Gilman St in Berkeley, CA by Ryan Horwath.
So fucking god damned fucking awesome, all I can do is say fuck over and over again. Wish I’d been able to see Neurosis back when they played almost every month and sometimes more at Gilman. And since they will never play these songs again, this is about as close as most of us will get to seeing it live.
Scott Kelly said that this was the show that he first met Steve Von Till at!
NEUROSIS
June 11th 1988
Berkeley, CA @ 924 Gilman St
taper: (dammit I forgot his name but thanks SOOOOO much for the DVD!)
set:
instrumental
Obsequious Obsolesence
Grey
Self Doubt
Pollution
Dominoes Fall
Black
United Sheep (cut)
I’M ALSO DOWN FOR DVD TRADES, I’LL MAKE A POST ABOUT IT LATER. DVD, VHS, ALL FORMATS. I’ll trade for most anything I like, which is a lot, but mainly: I NEED ANY VIDEOS SHOT AT 924 GILMAN!!!!!!!!!!
OK, I’m pretty late in getting into these guys, this was my first time seeing them despite the fact they played the bay area a whole bunch of times. Well, better late than never! Check out their myspace and go get their albums, see em live and shit like that, these guys have some killer tunes and even their “gimmick” is so kick ass you can’t hate on it. Metal tunes about sci fi authors, that’s the fucking shit. So let out your inner sci-fi nerd and rage out to some of your favorite writers and books!!!!
Here’s one I love, Kalibas at the KZSU Studios at Stanford University on their first pass through the west coast in November 2001. They played 5 shows in the bay area, counting this one. There aren’t any vocals really, because this was recorded right in the room with them as they played. And since it’s just a cheap camera, it ain’t gonna sound beautiful either. But it’s the classic lineup of Kalibas prior to the release of their full length on Willowtip, playing songs from the 7″, and new songs that would wind up on that CD.
Pat Murphy, the vocalist, asks me to use his camera to tape them, and then makes fun of me for videotaping them once on the air, and again at the end of the video. He even says “it’s a shame they can’t do it themselves” when my band had played that radio station two years prior. Oh, Patty cakes….
Hehehe, I’ll have more sweet Kalibas videos up soon. You can see Pat as a teen in his old band Shodokan HERE, and I’ll have more Shodokan to upload as well. I even have some Trifelife….. Hmmmmm….
The 90’s were killer, and Eyehategod was one of the reasons why. They were a very important band to me, a crucial cornerstone in the world of pissed off, dirty, ugly music. The albums sounded like shit, which made it even better, even rawer, and they killed live. The beats, the riffs, Mike Williams falling over the stage and sometimes screaming…
So of course I have a bunch of Eyehategod videos, and I’ll be uploading them all over time. This first one I’m posting is a wicked one to start with. Eyehategod in North Carolina in 1993, playing songs from the first two albums.
EYEHATEGOD ON THE MYSPACE
EYEHATEGOD
October 8th 1993
North Carolina
taper: unknown
I don’t really know much about this band other than they are from New Mexico, and had some split 7″s out as well as some comp tracks, and a couple of the guys are also in Noisear. I bought this video at a show and now up it goes. Also on this show were Fukrot and Tragedy, those sets will be uploaded as well.
I don’t know why I liked these guys so much when I first heard them. It was a dub of the 1st 7″ onto a tape given to me by a friend, and of everything on that tape, something just stuck out. The recording was shit, the guitars fuzzy, the vocals gruff and weird, but somehow that mess worked. A year or so later I came across the “Still Fighting” bootleg CD and picked that up, thrilled that I finally had “everything”! Of course, it’s not, but that CD was very important considering I can’t afford expensive vinyl, and had no other way to hear the music (remember life before downloading?).
Everybody that is checking this page out and has any interest in fast hardcore at all, especially “powerviolence” or west coast hardcore, should already know about Infest. But if you are just getting into them, read about them on the INFEST WIKIPEDIA PAGE.
Like me, most Infest fans have never seen them live, having gotten into them well after they were done (fuck you people that saw them 30+ times, assholes!) so tracking down video was always a goal. I know a few are out there, but they are all rough quality.
I actually have 3 different copies of this video, and A/B’d them to see which looked and sounded the best. This one was the highest quality, and was even 4 minutes longer than the others, weird. I had to lighten it up, so it’s granier than the actual VHS, plus youtube will compress the fuck out of it, but still, it’s very watchable, very awesome, very INFEST.
Love ‘em, hate ‘em, don’t care about ‘em, who??? The Locust started in San Diego around what, 1994 or something? They put out a killer fucking split 10″ with Man Is The Bastard, and later a slit 5″ picture disc with Jenny Piccolo and their own 7″ EP. After the CD/12″ came out, I stopped paying attention, but I dig everything right up to and including that first 12″. Super noisy, fast, short songs. What was not to love? The keyboards were an odd novelty, but it wasn;t done to death yet, so it was pretty cool. I can’t really think of any other grindy / powerviolence bands that used keyboards before them. So at the time I thought it was all cool and new and fun. The later albums, and the costumes, and the ever growing prominence of those keyboards turned me off from the band, but the stuff from the 90’s was pretty killer.
I have a whole bunch of Locust live vids from tape trading, so I’ll upload a bunch over time. This one is a 2 camera pro shot show from Belgium in 1996, with the band playing songs from those first three releases. The video is rough, but still quite watchable, especially if you dig the band. Watch it and make fun of Justin Pearson’s stage banter. It’s always been lame and nerdy, but this show he really shines.
DEADFALL - Live at Burnt Ramen 9/27/08
