Thoughts on Split Lip/Chamberlain?

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Permalink Reply by Jake Petroff on February 23, 2009 at 7:51pm

1st date w/ my wife was to see Split Lip & Planet Earth @ The ICC. Too bad we went on Saturday and they played on Friday. Those guys were huge when I was in high school.

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Permalink Reply by Clay Snyder on March 3, 2009 at 2:49pm

The shows in Lousiville, Indy and Chicago will be the original line up. I see some old friends in this thread!
Hi there, boys!

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Permalink Reply by benjamintraub on March 25, 2009 at 7:51pm

split lip was my induction into local music that was closer to my age range, a band i heard grow through time, a band that was local but that didnt matter because everyone knew they were good enough to not just be labled an "Indiana" band.

because of them i got to see other bands i never wouldve found. like seeing the Zero Boys at the ICC... last band to play that night... i cant remember who was on drums, but one of the sticks was just, well, a stick, like from a tree. i got hit by a drunk punk at an all ages show, but all the straight edgers were gone by that time... so it made me feel cooler. the same goes for really liking Antennae playing REALLY loud.

there was a lot of worry about liking a band that so many people disliked for being "preachy"...but i dont remember anyone acting like the stage was a pulpit... the songs were dense teenage reflections on friendships, geography, growing up not knowing what to do but knowing whats right.... thats what i got from it.

i remember being excited hearing the "for the love of the wounded" tape, hearing the sound open up a little, stepping away from metal leanings and turning down the gain a little bit. it was proof that these guys were growing up.

then the cd on Doghouse Records came out... mine says split lip... a year later it said Chamberlain. then "emo" blew up and they were hot shit, but it didnt sound the same to me. the 'growing up' started to sound like they were giving up on rocking and just playing pop music. it got too quiet, too far away from the ringing in Brebuf's cafeteria, the ICC, the KoC.

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Permalink Reply by tbyrd on January 6, 2010 at 7:51pm

Some pics I shot in NYC in DEC..... for those interested.

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=131329&id=163886867262&am...

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