Mel’s Rockpile from Marina’s show on WKDU March, 17, 1995.
00 – Intro
01 – Unknown
02 – Unknown
03 – Providence
04 – Unknown
05 – Sick
06 – Unknown
07 – Unknown
08 – Trestle
09 – Unknown
10 – Unknown
11 – Unknown
12 – Don’t Lie
13 – Outro
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Stolen from their Facebook page
Formed in 2006 by ex-members of Philadelphia-area bands Cranked Up! and The War’s End, Mean Streets delivers an aggressive, yet catchy and accessible
punk and pop sound that draws upon a broad range of influences from the beat groups and bubblegum acts of the 1960s to the british punk aggression of the mid 70’s to the power-pop movement of the late 1970s and ’80s. Mean Streets currently consists of Bill Coburn (Lead Vocals, Bass), Mick Coburn (Drums, Backing Vocals), and Andy Mehos (Guitar, Backing Vocals).
In 2008 Mean Streets released two 7″ singles: “About You” b/w “Tied Down” on the Slab-O-Wax label and “That Day”/”Nineteen” on Longshot Records. In 2011 the band self-released a six-song EP entitled “Rewired” and recorded a split 7″ ep with Phoenix, Arizona’s Glass Heros on the Black Hole label. In addition to these releases, Mean Streets has appeared on numerous Philadelphia-area compilation CDs.
Little Gentlemen a Philly band from the early to mid 80’s that was on the first philly comp: Get Off My Back LP. Besides that comp they released One 7′ and two LPs which I have collected below along with some photos by Phil Commander (Thanks!) and some flyers.
The band was made up of Paul Evalds – Vocals, Rob DiJoseph (currently in Anthrophobia) – Bass Guitar, Rob Iannelli – Guitar, Wayne Paupst – Drums (first 45, compilation LP 1983), Dave Bass (Negative FX) – Drums – (First LP 1984)
Go see their facebook page
Suicide Note 7″
A1 – General Hospital
A2 – Rant Rant Rant
B – I Am The Gun
Another Wasted Day LP
A1 – No Justice No Law, No Crime No Flaw
A2 – Silent Song
A3 – Reflections
A4 – General HospitaL
A5 – New Rose
A6 – I Am The Gun
B1. – Willing Mob
B2. – You Can Run But You Cant Hide
B3. – To The Unremembered, And The Unforgotten
B4. – Another Wasted Day
B5. – Last Of The Street Fighting Kids
Broken Toys LP
A1 – 1985
A2 – The Pearl
A3 – One Five One Four
A4 – Red Skies
A5 – Broken Toys
A6 – BonusTrack
B1 – Red Blood-White Feathers
B2 – Zero Hour
B3 – Come Visit Us Before We Visit You
B4 – The Wild The Beautiful And The Damned
B5 – Far Away
B6 – Tarnished Slippers
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Another fun mid 90s Philly band. They played all the Philly venues of the time Frienz Tavern, old Boot & saddle, Clark Park, Khyber, etc. I don’t have as many flyers for 90s bands as I do for 80s put as I find any I will add them to the post. Mel’s RockPile was Matt Pond (Matt Pond PA) – Vocals& Guitar, Paul Hazlet (Blue, Scab Cadillac)- Drums, Tracy Stanton (ex 700 club owner) – Bass and J.D. Frochlich – Guitar. They released 2 & 7 inches that are included in this post. The picture is by Toni Farina (stolen from her FB I hope you don’t mind Toni)
Added 2 more demo tapes (that I don’t know the real names of) – Thanks Jackie
01 – Worn
02 – Sick
03 – Flame On
04 – Bfp
05 – Horsey
01 – Skin
02 – Dont Lie
03 – Good
04 – Miss Librarian
I know that I’ve seen Doctor at Tree many times in the late 80’s early 90s, but I don’t have a lot of info on the band (updated see below Thanks Cheshire) – I do know that some of the members of the band where in 5 Story Fall before this band and that Cheshire from Stinking Lizaveta was also in the band. They played a lot with Scram and listening to the tapes I can see why. Note: I’ve added a Live on WKDU tape to this post from Jackie’s show on 10/25/88.
Thanks for the tapes Jackie & Diego
The cassette cover is an example of the late great Rob Boyes’ artistic talent. He would spend hours in the basement of our West Philly group house at 4525 Larchwood, perfecting screen prints for t-shirts and covers to arrive at a finished product he deemed, “festive”. He also played a mean fretless electric bass, wrote all our lyrics and sang.
I played traps in this band and sang some back vocs for the record. A kid named Josh sat in on timbale and god knows who was playing cowbell. Might have been joined by Craig Heim, drummer for SCRAM!, on conga. Tabla….hm..yep. on I Know Where Your House Is, played by Dan Malamed, I think. David Thrower was our KILLIN’ guitar player. He is the father of two and works in the hospital system in Philadelphia. His kid Allison, came up through School of Rock Philly and also shreds. I remember all the shows displayed in the posters. These are the shows I’m thinking of whenever I try to illustrate the eclectic…modern jargon alert!!:: inclusive vibe in the Philly punk scene of that time. Bills were rarely drawn on strict stylistic lines or limited by the dogma of group identities cemented through musical taste. Metal played with punk played with reggae played with thrash played with afro-pop…prog…..speed metal…grind core….blablablabla…. funk….singer..toasters…poets…painters… freaks and weirdos and nobody thought anything of it.
Rob Boyes died of AIDS in August, 1992, age 30.
– Cheshire Agusta
00 – Intro
01 – Unknown
02 – Bonga Binga Longa Ding
03 – Nude Song
04 – Unknown
05 – The Past
06 – Unknown
07 – Unknown
08 – Unknown
09 – Outro
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01 – The Past Catches Up
02 – The Comfy Chair
03 – I Know Where Your House Is
This post was originally on Noise Addiction blog – I have re-posted it (with a few changes) – Check out more Noise Addiction posts at Noise Addiction 2
Kremlin Korps were around for about 1 years – 1983-1984 – and released one 7″ ep in that time. When they split 3 members formed Homo Picnic. The More Fiends were a very unique sounding band that started in 1985. They released two albums, are the only Philly band to record a John Peel Session and one of the few Philly bands to tour Europe. This early live show is with the original line up – guitar/slide guitar/drums/sax – and they have a more No Wave sound which is much different than the more Punky sound they are known for. This line up never released anything but apparently they did record some demos. Ruin need no intro. They were the best band to ever come out of Philly. On this show they played for almost 90 straight minutes. Seeds Of Terror existed from 1982 to 1984 and only had two songs on the Get Off My Back Philly Hardcore comp. though they did record a full albums worth of stuff. All I have is this one song which is about the Philly DJ Lee Paris.
Sadistic Exploits post here
Kremlin Korps – C.E. Center, Philadelphia 3-31-84 [from cassette tape]
01. Whiplash
02. Culture Shock
03. Warsaw
04. Let Me Die
05. Moscow’s Revenge
06. Mental Block
07. Friday’s Song
08. -tune-up time-
09. Hollow Head, Hollow Eyes
10. Burning Bridges
11. Abyss
12. title unknown
13. Knife in Your Back
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Kremlin Korps – Longmarch 5/17/84 (Crunch Productions video)
More Fiends – St Marys, Philadelphia 12-27-85 [from cassette tape]
01. title unknown
02. title unknown
03. title unknown
04. title unknown
05. Lust
06. title unknown
07. title unknown
08. title unknown
09. title unknown
10. title unknown
11. Relative Morality
12. Big Tea Party
13. title unknown
14. You’re Stupid
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Ruin – The Loft, Reading PA 4-27-85 part 1 [from cassette tape]
01. Ruin
02. Dionysian
03. title unknown
04. Great Divide
05. By The By
06. Taster
07. Make Believe
08. Where Fortune
09. Altar
10. Famous Blue Raincoat
11. Master Song
12. Laudium-He Ho
13. China
14. Freedom Has No Bounds
Ruin – The Loft, Reading PA 4-27-85 part 2 [from cassette tape]
01. title unknown
02. Proof
03. Play With Fire
04. White Rabbit
05. Rule Worshiper
06. Alarm
07. Life After Life
08. Love Dog
09. Phenomenal Expression
10. Twilight
11. Baby Doll
12. title unknown
13. title unknown
14. title unknown
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Seeds Of Terror – Demo (1983) [from cassette tape]
01. We Hate Lee Paris
Photos from Brett (Noise Addiction II)
This post combines an old post about Sadistic Exploits from Noise Addiction and the Hellfire Sessions that I converted from Crunch Productions tape. Plus a bunch of other links to Sadistic Exploits stuff
First here is the updated Noise Addiction post:
Sadistic Exploits were Philadelphia’s favorite Punk citizens and were the ones who really got things rolling in that city by organizing several Punk festivals and other gigs starting in 1981. In that year they also released their only single, now a classic of the time. Unfortunately due to members coming and going they were never able to realize their full potential as the best band from Philly. In 1985 they were able to get one last song released on an impossible to find compilation LP. Collected here are the three songs they released plus a demo, rehearsal and an interview. More into here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadistic_Exploits
Demo + WXPN interview 1981 [from cassette tape]
01. What’s This (demo)
02. interview
03. interview
04. False Character (demo)
05. interview
06. Rejection (demo)
07. DJ Lee Paris speaks
Single (1981)
01. Freedom
02. Apathy
Rehearsal 1982 [from cassette tape]
01. Bigot + Apathy
02. Power And Greed
03. title unknown
04. Freedom
05. title unknown
S.C.R.E.A.M. comp LP (1985)
01. Beginnin
Hellfire Sessions
Instrumental
Beginnings
Not Just Thinking
My Love (sung by Pedrick)
Witch Hunt (Mob cover)
Lonely End
New one
Made of Sand
HATE HATE
Link to download all of the Sadistic Exploits audio files on this page:
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Thanks to both Noise Addiction 2 and Crunch Productions for the tapes and/or files
Die Kreuzen Live videos from Philadelphia and 1 from CBGBs.
Some videos that I have had up on YouTube but not up on this blog so I’m adding them to this post. Die Kreuzen were one of my favorite live bands and they always put on a great show. The JC Dobbs video was one I had owned on VHS but I loaned it out and never got back so I was so happy Lenny (RIP) had it and let me put it up.
Thanks Crunch Productions for the tapes
Other already posted videos Elk’s Lodge AC 7/26/1985 & 2/8/92 Khyber
MDC’s first Philly show from Love Hall 5-13-83 (Plus One Dicks Song from the same show)
Thanks Crunch Productions for the tape
1 – Greedy And Pathetic
2 – Corporate Deathburger
3 – Dick For Brains
4 – Kill The Light
5 – Church And State
6 – Business On Parade
7 – Dead Cops-Americas So Straight
8 – Multi Death Corporation
9 – I Remember
10 – Radioactive Chocolate
11 – No Place To Piss
12 – Pay To Come Along
13 – I Hate Work
14 – American Achievements
15 – John Wayne Was A Nazi
16 – Born To Die
17 – My Family Is A Little Weird
18 – Selfish Shit
19 – Kleptomaniac
20 – (R)Evolution In Rock
Dicks – We’ll Fight You
I have been trying to track down when this show happened – It’s not the same show as this 81 video which was the Bad Brains first time in Philly –
Then from According to Informed Sources… it looks like the next time Bad Brains played was at Elks Center in January 82. So, that might be the show – Bad Brains second show in Philly??
If anyone has any more info, flyer or photos Please send them to me – for now here ‘s the audio.
Thanks Crunch Productions for the tape
01 – Attitude
02 – ?
03 – F.V.K. (Fearless Vampire Killers)
04 – Big Takeover
05 – Banned In DC
06 – Joshua’s Song
07 – Rally Round Jah Throne
08 – Right Brigade
09 – Destroy Babylon
10 – The Meek Shall Inherit The Earth
11 – Pay To Cum
12 – Riot Squad
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