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Dave Repellent Jr. and The Repellents
First of all, thanks to everyone who has wrote back, I will be getting back to everyone, I'm just in very poor health due to a spinal cord injury and I am undergoing my 7th operation in 8 years on December 2nd. Keep me in your thoughts!
About Dave Repellent Jr., I just had to laugh when I read that Dave said he had some trouble remembering the lyrics to our songs before the reunion show. I can give you my personal "theory" for that. Dave Jr. NEVER sang the same lyrics twice! And that made it fun for me, cause I never knew what was coming, but I knew it was going to be funny.
My all time favorite Dave Jr. lyric change came with the song I wrote called "Freakshow", which I don't think the Repellents played after I left, cause it's got something like nearly 35+ different bass notes. Anyway before anyone get's mad, I have to tell you that I'm a straight shooter, got a photographic memory and I tell it like it is and was. For all of the time I played with the Repellents, the Zero Boys saw us as Rivals, that started after the first show they saw us play. I can't say it was the entire band, because I know Tufty didn't feel that way.
Of course, we never saw them as Rivals because we didn't even play the same kind of music. The Zero Boys were "New Wave" which is why the "Zero Girls" were able to get on the dance floor and actually DANCE to their music. We just wanted to be a "Punk Rock" band and like Dave has said, we were big fans of the Ramones. I didn't even know anything about 'Hardcore" or what it even meant at that time until we played a show with Husker Du and when we were hanging with them they said, "Wow, you guys are really Hard Core, we didn't expect to fine that in Indiana." Of course this isn't a direct quote, but it's basically what they said.
But because some members of the Zero Boys saw us as Rivals, we always had to open for them.
One night we start "Freak Show" and Dave Jr. starts it off with "Way out here in Hoosier Land, the Zero Boys think they got it all in their hands, but the Repellents are rockin on a Saturday night, do you wannna dance or do you wannna to fight."
That was my #1 favorite, following very close behind for the #2 spot was when we opened for the "Red Hot Chili Peppers" (who hadn't even been togethor even a year) at a Gay Bar in Cincinnati. Seeing as nobody really knew who the "Red Hot Chili Peppers" were, we had about a 75% Gay male audience and 25% Punks. Poor Yukki had to be looked up and down everywhere we walked by dozens of "fans" and I don't mean of our music.
We hit the stage and the first thing Dave does, is grabs the microphone and says, "It takes a man to appreciate a man" and then "1234" and we start jamming. I had just enough alcohol and marijuana in me to nearly pee my pants and had to play like that for the next 30 minutes!
#3 - Dave made us 4 hours late for a show in Chicago, so they were only maybe 30 people left (I have this tape off the soundboard). And the reason he showed up late was why he usually showed up late - Fishing! So we jump in the van and like many times before, Dave is wearing Fishing boots to the show. We take the stage and the first thing he says is, "Man these f#ckers feel like Boat Anchors!" We put on a great show for the 30 people there and you can hear them cheering and screaming after every song.
Were we mad at Dave Jr? Not really, we just didn't take ourselves that seriously, we were just perturbed that we had the Van loaded at the trailer Yukki and I shared and we kept thinking he was going to show up any minute. If we would have had cell phones back then, Dave couldn't have just called or we call him and we could have just went back in the trailer and smoked our selves silly!
Uh, I have to make this disclaimer, I haven't drank or smoked pot in over 23 years and I don't want make it sound like I condone it or glamorize it.
That's all for now! I hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving. I'm too sick to make it, but my daughter, her fiance Carl, Baby Liam and my Husband are going to my Aunt's as is our custom.
Jakki
About Dave Repellent Jr., I just had to laugh when I read that Dave said he had some trouble remembering the lyrics to our songs before the reunion show. I can give you my personal "theory" for that. Dave Jr. NEVER sang the same lyrics twice! And that made it fun for me, cause I never knew what was coming, but I knew it was going to be funny.
My all time favorite Dave Jr. lyric change came with the song I wrote called "Freakshow", which I don't think the Repellents played after I left, cause it's got something like nearly 35+ different bass notes. Anyway before anyone get's mad, I have to tell you that I'm a straight shooter, got a photographic memory and I tell it like it is and was. For all of the time I played with the Repellents, the Zero Boys saw us as Rivals, that started after the first show they saw us play. I can't say it was the entire band, because I know Tufty didn't feel that way.
Of course, we never saw them as Rivals because we didn't even play the same kind of music. The Zero Boys were "New Wave" which is why the "Zero Girls" were able to get on the dance floor and actually DANCE to their music. We just wanted to be a "Punk Rock" band and like Dave has said, we were big fans of the Ramones. I didn't even know anything about 'Hardcore" or what it even meant at that time until we played a show with Husker Du and when we were hanging with them they said, "Wow, you guys are really Hard Core, we didn't expect to fine that in Indiana." Of course this isn't a direct quote, but it's basically what they said.
But because some members of the Zero Boys saw us as Rivals, we always had to open for them.
One night we start "Freak Show" and Dave Jr. starts it off with "Way out here in Hoosier Land, the Zero Boys think they got it all in their hands, but the Repellents are rockin on a Saturday night, do you wannna dance or do you wannna to fight."
That was my #1 favorite, following very close behind for the #2 spot was when we opened for the "Red Hot Chili Peppers" (who hadn't even been togethor even a year) at a Gay Bar in Cincinnati. Seeing as nobody really knew who the "Red Hot Chili Peppers" were, we had about a 75% Gay male audience and 25% Punks. Poor Yukki had to be looked up and down everywhere we walked by dozens of "fans" and I don't mean of our music.
We hit the stage and the first thing Dave does, is grabs the microphone and says, "It takes a man to appreciate a man" and then "1234" and we start jamming. I had just enough alcohol and marijuana in me to nearly pee my pants and had to play like that for the next 30 minutes!
#3 - Dave made us 4 hours late for a show in Chicago, so they were only maybe 30 people left (I have this tape off the soundboard). And the reason he showed up late was why he usually showed up late - Fishing! So we jump in the van and like many times before, Dave is wearing Fishing boots to the show. We take the stage and the first thing he says is, "Man these f#ckers feel like Boat Anchors!" We put on a great show for the 30 people there and you can hear them cheering and screaming after every song.
Were we mad at Dave Jr? Not really, we just didn't take ourselves that seriously, we were just perturbed that we had the Van loaded at the trailer Yukki and I shared and we kept thinking he was going to show up any minute. If we would have had cell phones back then, Dave couldn't have just called or we call him and we could have just went back in the trailer and smoked our selves silly!
Uh, I have to make this disclaimer, I haven't drank or smoked pot in over 23 years and I don't want make it sound like I condone it or glamorize it.
That's all for now! I hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving. I'm too sick to make it, but my daughter, her fiance Carl, Baby Liam and my Husband are going to my Aunt's as is our custom.
Jakki
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Permalink Reply by Marvin P. Goldstein on -
Yea, I don't recall any rivalry either. I thought we were all pretty good friends. I don't think Paul would have recorded you guys and put you on the Master Tape if there was. The scene was too small for there to be any animosity!
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Permalink Reply by Kurt/Yukki on -
I always loved the Zero Boys, and have no shame in admitting so. The Repellents were our own animal, for sure, because, at least technically, we weren't that good as musicians. But whatever we lacked in technical ability, we more than made up for in enthusiasm, audacity and sheer personality. We had that stuff in spades. I think Dave Jr. put it best when he said something to the effect of the Zero Boys being like a highly tuned, fast as fuck sports car and Repellents were like a Punk Rock GTO that was tweaked by some kid in his high school vocational school!
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Permalink Reply by Jeff Weiss on -
The boys in Modern Vending were always scared of Dave jr. They thought he was a big scary redneck who was going to beat them up. I have to laugh.
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Permalink Reply by LUMPY REPELLENT on -
Great memories Jakki - you had me in tears!
I never thought we were as good of a bunch of musicians as the Zero Boys
myself, but we could still be entertaining our own way, much in the same way as the Slammies.
Remember me getting my hand cut up at the gig at Shipley's on a broken glass? I thought I was gonna bleed to death before I got it stopped. hahaaaaaa
We used to eat at 'Sylvia's Mexican Restaurant' before showtime in Newport - is it still there? The Jockey Club had those huge Foster's Ale cans for $2 --- a great deal.
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Permalink Reply by LUMPY REPELLENT on
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Everyone loved the Repellents, as far as I know, thats what I've always been told anyway.
And I'm pretty sure we loved everybody too.
It was like some kind of groovy punk rock love fest in its purest form.
Those Modern Vending guys all knew Dave Jr was a friendly-enough galoot with a sackful of stories and a big powerful thirst.
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Permalink Reply by LUMPY REPELLENT on
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Hey Jakki -
do you want some of those Repellents LPs?
send me your email!
geb353@yahoo.com
Lumpy
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Permalink Reply by steve schmidt on -
I can't say we were scared of Dave, Jr. but we were all well aware that he and all the rest of his band were waay more punk than we were.
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Permalink Reply by Chris Cruzan on -
I can't say we were scared of Dave Jr. either, but I know we were scared of Anderson in general. Those Andersonians were a robust group of partying folks. If you think you know how to get a good buzz on, think again! Quickly, one day I wondered into this house on Martin street in Muncie and I see "Bonehead"s ass sticking up in the air. What up? I ask.
'Snortin some chemo meds,want some?' I knew then and there I would never be as cool as the Andersonians.
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Permalink Reply by Mark Urschel on -
Right, Anderson punks were the real deal. Not so much concerned about the fashion as they were the music and like Chris said they really knew how to party.
P.S. Dave, thanks for not beating me up.
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Permalink Reply by Jbarge on -
While I was never scared of Dave Jr. I probably should have been and I too want to say thanks for not beating me up.
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Permalink Reply by LUMPY REPELLENT on
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Getting beat-up by Dave Jr wasn't all that bad - we were so loaded it was hard to tell if we was beat-up or had just fell down the stairs in jail. Sometimes, you just regain consciousness and - damn it! - you realize that you're all beat up....... plus, you've been alone, like, all night. Being a Repellent was often vague and amorphous, even on the deepest most metaphysical level.
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