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General Bob Was A Better Man Than You. I Do Not Believe You Have The Right to Breathe His Name Much Less Ridicule Him As You have...

I must say that I'm not the person to write of General Bob. I did not know him well enough. He was however a closer friend to Jeff Holiday a long time and current friend who I shared an Apartment with on Queen St. Many of you will recall the Rock that that house could not contain! The Apartment wasn't much Two tiny bedrooms a living room slash/kitchen and through the spacious : "Rock Room" was our sumptuous bathroom. I recall soaking my alcohol sodden liver there many an afternoon. Jeff was fr… Continue

Posted by Scott Applegate on July 4, 2008 at 4:12am — No Comments

Music Influences The Early Days Part II

Writing about my development should naturally include interactions with others. Unfortunately I don’t feel it’s my job to expose the weaknesses or the changes that others went through. I’ll try to speak anonymously when I can and not to concentrate on their negativities. After all they may want to speak of such on their own.. While in early middle school I spent much time in hospital trying to diagnose chronic nausea and abdominal pains etc. With this and ‘accidents’ I managed to spend every ma… Continue

Posted by Scott Applegate on July 4, 2008 at 2:06am — No Comments

A slice of Janie

If you want to get a better idea of who I am and where I live you can look at a smattering of images that I have on Picasa. I think that pretty much covers most of the elements I call home. Now this isn't mandatory kids so don't hurt yourselves fumbling for the link. http://picasaweb.google.com/MissAgentGirl Continue

Posted by Janie Danger on July 4, 2008 at 12:30am — 3 Comments

In case you were wondering about the Ads on the site

In an attempt to actually gather some funds and pay some bills we are trying out some advertising on MFT. I tried Ad Brite but wasn't happy with the ads or the results. We are now trying BlogAds on a good friend's recommendation and hope that this will bring quality ads and revenue to the site. Bottom line is that we need to start getting some kind of income from this project in order to fund the additional development we have planned. So I wanted to let everyone know that we will be experiment… Continue

Posted by jebbanner on July 3, 2008 at 11:58pm — 4 Comments

Stupidfest 1991 Videos

I'm not sure where else to post this link but I broke video into 6 segments and loaded them on a page. I didn't want to upload them on youtube...there may be some thinks on the vids people may not want everywhere. The Stupidfest Videos Continue

Posted by Janie Danger on July 3, 2008 at 7:24am — No Comments

A "General" Bob in the days of 'Reaction'

Reaction/Mod-X guitarist Ron Synovitz (or Syno as Linda B. would call him) sparked a memory in a recent letter. He mentioned a "hippy" friend of Mitch Straeffer named "Bob." I have select memories of a guy who was nicknamed "General" Bob... a warbly voiced guy with kinda long "Blues Magoos" hair and glasses that looked like they were cut from the bottom of Coca-Cola bottles they were so thick... Kinda gave him large "owl" eyes... Mitch hung out with "General" Bob and, from all accounts, the "Ge… Continue

Posted by suade99 on July 3, 2008 at 12:00am — No Comments

OPEN MiC NiGHT @ the Red Eye Cafe

excellent sound & stage. food & drink specials ($2 domestic). non-smoking. every Tuesday night. hosted by yours truly. Continue

Posted by Christian Taylor on July 2, 2008 at 9:00pm — No Comments

Robert Meitus' Entertainment Law Practice Featured in the IBJ

Our buddy Robert Meitus, a member of MFT and a long standing member of the Indiana music scene, was recently featured in the Indianapolis Business Journal. The article details his musical past and how he got into entertainment law. I have been in regular discussions with Robert concerning some different projects and I can vouch that he is a great guy with a sharp mind for the entertainment industry. Looks like he is looking to expand his practice...paging Mr. Strohm!… Continue

Posted by jebbanner on July 1, 2008 at 11:57am — 3 Comments

60s Hoosierbeat

Kurt/Yukki, fount of rock wisdom that he is, pointed out the amazing 60's indiana band szene blog for your historical edumafication over in the 3 billion singles thread.. Continue

Posted by mike whybark on July 1, 2008 at 11:30am — 8 Comments

3,000,000,000 12-inch singles!

I stopped by the DAV thrift store in the Irvington Plaza, just a wee bit East of Arlington on Washington, earlier today. About 10 years ago or so this was the best place to find LPs; I found stuff like 13th Floor Elevators and rare Jazz and odd German pressings of 70s prog records, all for .45 cents and would find great stuff at least twice a week. It has been dead for quite a while and I never stop anymore. Maybe a year ago I found a nice mono copy of the first Fugs LP and a month back I found… Continue

Posted by Stan Denski on July 1, 2008 at 1:20am — 16 Comments

Rockys-pool hALL FROM hell!!! hORROR sTORyS!!!

Rockys pool-hall, sneaking in Booze, shooting pool with hiustlers, fighting in the parking lot. Rob Mullet, Pete the psycho, Nate Gober, Monty Scales...all of us 1%'ers. In high school, teachers used to Villanize it. Where you score drugs, live in someojnes basement, and always always always got Fucked up! I graduated...so did my older brother Eric, before he clocked out. So TELL ME YOUR ROCKYS STORIES! ...and I'll tell you mine... Continue

Posted by Rev.Seth Maxwell Malice on June 30, 2008 at 8:45pm — 4 Comments

What about ReCycles Bikes??? Mike French, ED Zepplin

Masters of two wheel disasters, little 500 master peices, vision street wear and fat possum records? Continue

Posted by Rev.Seth Maxwell Malice on June 30, 2008 at 8:40pm — 2 Comments

In B'ton for the 4th...

FYI to anyone who cares... I'll be in Bloomington for the 4th of July weekend. Would love to see anyone around! Continue

Posted by a.h.s. boy on June 30, 2008 at 5:31pm — No Comments

Rockit’s Famous Pizza - My Famous Employees or (The Cogs that Made the Pizza Wheel go)

My years cooking at Leslie's taught me something; sometimes working in food service sucks. The work can be frantic as hell. The breaks are erratic, if you even get one. The pay is lousy. The hours are shit, and the customers are sometimes jerks. When you get the right co-workers however, it can be a lot of fun. If you were to ask me what the best part about owning a business is,… Continue

Posted by BURD on June 29, 2008 at 11:17pm — 15 Comments

Prelude 2: The College Years

I meant to talk about Dow Jones and the Industrials in this post, but in the process of trying to provide more context, the thing just got too damn long, so I'm chopping it into two. Next time I'm definitely getting to D J & I. Really. When you’re a sheltered kid with a healthy curiosity stuck in middle of Indiana, you always get the feeling that everything happens somewhere else. When you get to a midwestern college, you have plenty of coastal/big city compatriots who whine a… Continue

Posted by Bill Zink on June 29, 2008 at 5:31pm — 12 Comments

D.D. Huffman - a few belated words

This post will likely only be of interest to a handful of people on this forum. This is something I've wanted to write and post in a public forum for some time. It has little to do with music or the music scene, but it ties in with themes of other writings I've posted on this… Continue

Posted by John P. Strohm on June 29, 2008 at 1:30am — 29 Comments

The Gynecologists - Original Liner Notes

Gulcher Records is releasing the Gynecologists CD, and is using the liner notes I wrote. Or at least a version of them: here is the original in all of it's glory. Of all the sick and sordid sagas to come floating out of the punk rock scene in isolated Indiana, none are more twisted than the ravings of Tommy Afterbirth and the band he founded in the late 1970's, the legendary Gynecologists. This infamous band was the diseased brain child of their lead vocalist, a shambling hulk who had renamed hi… Continue

Posted by Jbarge on June 28, 2008 at 9:29am — 5 Comments

How Music Influenced Me. The Early days! Part One

Is the music that influenced us as we grew up really something to be embarrassed about? I think not. As long as we continue to grow and explore the variety that there is out there. I doubt that my story is much different than most others. I think at the age of five I began recognizing the effect of music. At church on Sunday mornings it put me right to sleep.(at best) Listening to the 1964-65 AM radio on the way to Kindergarten in my mother’s Pontiac Bonneville two songs remain outstanding; Luc… Continue

Posted by Scott Applegate on June 28, 2008 at 2:20am — 2 Comments

Gynecologists!

Just got this e-mail from Gulcher today: The Gynecologists 1981-1994 HOOSIER PSYCHOPATHS: THE OFFICIAL RECORDINGS (Gulcher 432) Of all the sick and sordid sagas to come floating out of the punk rock scene in isolated Indiana, none are more twisted than the ravings of Tommy Afterbirth and the band he founded in the late 1970s, the legendary Gynecologists. Tommy learned to love the seedy underbelly of pop culture at his father's drive-in movie theater, in the small redneck town south of Indianap… Continue

Posted by Bill Zink on June 27, 2008 at 11:16pm — 16 Comments

Classifieds Added to the Site!

We created a forum where MFTers can post stuff they want to buy or sell, jobs they are seeking or employment opportunities. Also, feel free to post services that your company has to offer (I just did!). We can't police or guarantee transactions so everyone needs to do their own due diligence. Here's the Classified's Forum! Continue

Posted by jebbanner on June 27, 2008 at 9:00pm — 2 Comments

Dianogah in Louisville this Saturday

Just wanted to drop a quick blog to let people know that we'll be opening for Dianogah tomorrow night (6/28) at the Pour haus here in Louisville (1481 South Shelby Street Louisville, Kentucky 40217). I believe that this is as close as Dianogah is going to make it to Indy on this tour and I thought some people might want to catch them. They'll also be doing an in-store at Ear X-tacy early that afternoon at 5 pm. Continue

Posted by The Fervor on June 27, 2008 at 2:09pm — No Comments

Volunteer Mercenaries for "BOB"

I'm asking again, does anyone have a copy of VMFB? The tape that was made live at WQAX, and then distributed by Steve Millen in a fit of dextrometh hysterics? I want o upload it here...it features all of you celebs...the Spaz Kids (Mike shiner/bill foster), yawn berg, trendy skaters, Andrea (lets go andrea), indianapolis (indianoplace), apathy, trendy skaters, "and they're all a bunch of little faggots", strom, zirk boner, jeff sherman, capt. colby, Pat Boone, Oppenheimer/chris crewell? SOMEONE… Continue

Posted by Rev.Seth Maxwell Malice on June 25, 2008 at 10:18am — 8 Comments

Silver Jews Tour : MOKB presents Indianapolis Date

Silver Jews are finally touring again, and they're coming to Indianapolis! My Old Kentucky Blog presents Silver Jews (+TBD support) on 10/11 at Birdy's for $12. Ticket presale info will be released soon. You can stream the new Silver Jews album, Lookout Mountain, Lookout Se… Continue

Posted by Dodge on June 25, 2008 at 9:40am — No Comments

Part 25: Career in Rock? (1993)

Freda returned from her macrobiotic retreat shortly before Hideout's release. She’d adopted a macrobiotic diet, and she taught Jake how to follow the principles of the diet as well – including not eating any dairy whatsoever. They drank so much carrot juice that they turned a weird orange color. Freda felt excited to return to the band, which was a little unfortunate because Pat was fully integrated into Antenna. There was nothing wrong with Pat’s drumming or personality, and I felt lousy and a… Continue

Posted by John P. Strohm on June 24, 2008 at 2:00pm — 40 Comments

Prelude: Before I Went Local

I want to write about some of the bands I've been close to over the years, the vast majority of them from either Muncie or Bloomington. There are a lot of people on this site who did stuff that is essential to my life. But, before I dive in, a prelude . . . I have always been a radio nut. I used to listen to a little transistor model constantly when I was a kid, oblivious to the music that was played. I wasn’t looking for musical satisfaction, I was looking for a window to somewhere e… Continue

Posted by Bill Zink on June 24, 2008 at 12:30am — 22 Comments

Free Tickets to the Forecastle Festival in Louisville July 25-27th!

We have some free tickets to give away to the Forecastle Fest in Louisville. Several MFT bands are playing including Margot, Mudkids, Otis Gibbs, Seedy Seeds and others! Here is the line up for the show. How do you win tickets? Please send an email to musicalfam@gmail.com with your information. We have tickets to all three days. Please only claim a max of 2 tickets for each day. We can mail them to you or you can pick them up at our Broad R… Continue

Posted by jebbanner on June 23, 2008 at 8:58am — No Comments

S.P.F.C.C.M.T., dig?

I gotta say it. George Carlin? Bigger loss than Tim Russert. Better-spoken motherfucker, too. But, as George pointed out, mayflies live ony one day. Sometimes it rains. This old MetaFilter post might help with the appreciation of my perspective, o… Continue

Posted by mike whybark on June 23, 2008 at 2:00am — 8 Comments

Rupert Paints

Rupert Kosmos Ellrich executed his first painting on canvas today. His subject; Sunflowers. Continue

Posted by Richard Upton on June 22, 2008 at 7:33pm — 1 Comment

What a Wonderful Experience This Community Is!

Just a day or so on it and I can't stay off! I've hardly slept but that's due to a chronic pain condition. Touching base with old feinds and seeing the reticence of once close friends is an exercise in extremes! I hae a MySpace but I don't do much with it as I hate the damned thing. It has however helped me contact old friends and make new ones. Then there's my Live Journal. That's where I open up and bleed to a select few who I've built some trust with over the years(7?, 8?). Crazy world out… Continue

Posted by Scott Applegate on June 22, 2008 at 5:21am — 6 Comments

Everthus the Deadbeats | A Dazzling New Band Delivers a Diamond

There is a great article/review of Everthus the Deadbeats new album, John Kill and the Microscopic Lullaby by Kevin Renick on the Playback website: This is an excellently written review of an amazingly creative album by one of Indy's best bands. Here is the text of that article: Everthus the Deadbeats | A Dazzling New Band Delivers a Musical Diamond Here are some things that don't happen very often: A lunar eclipse. Bi-pa… Continue

Posted by Mike Menke on June 21, 2008 at 2:30am — 4 Comments

Broad Ripple Gazette, vol 5 no. 13

Steve Poltz Indianapolis Indians day game Wednesday, June 3, 2008 My flight back from Washington D.C. circled around the city and I had a birds-eye view of Victory Field, including the lit scoreboard. I took that as a sign that I should attend the day game instead of unpack or heaven forbid, go to work. I had a feeling that I’d find my dad and his buddies there and I did. As Dad and his group yelled “Nora,” I heard my name being shouted from another direction. Typically when I hear the n… Continue

Posted by nora on June 20, 2008 at 10:00pm — No Comments

The Cheeses From France - A Dark History With a Semi Soft Creamy Center. Pt 2

The first live show we performed has become a part of Hoosier lore. Most of what you've heard is true. Most of what you've heard is false. We were booked to play at Third Base with The Retarded Gods, Dow Jones And The Industrials and several other bands not important enough to be remembered. We decided to play our "hit" and our "Hit" only. We would play it until we were physically stopped. We would start a aural revolution with repercussions that are felt to this day. If this is what you h… Continue

Posted by Tony Philputt on June 20, 2008 at 7:00pm — 5 Comments

Report: LonPaul Concerts in Fountain Square 6/15

LonPaul Concerts Photos (Nora) LonPaul Concert Photos (Jeb) I meant to post this sooner but life got busy. The LonPaul Ellrich Memorial and Benefit Concerts were held Sunday June 15th in Fountain Square at Second Story (no, not THE 2nd Story but a new venue in the Murphy Building) and Radio Radio (yes THE Radio Radio). T… Continue

Posted by jebbanner on June 20, 2008 at 11:00am — 15 Comments

Catching up with Stasia Demos

Stasia Demos once was known as a member of popular Americana band Middletown and as the star of a 1999 magazine ad campaign for Martin guitars. Middletown called it quits a few years ago, and the ad campaign was a happy accident triggered by a satisfied-customer letter Demos sent to Martin headquarters. Recently, the 33-year-old singer-guitarist-accordion player has focused on family life with her husband, Matt Mills, and 3-year-old son Silas, not to mention her career as an attorney. When De… Continue

Posted by Dave Lindquist on June 19, 2008 at 8:30pm — 1 Comment

Part 24: Hideout (Winter - Summer 1992)

When I returned to Bloomington after spending New Years in San Francisco (among other things, finally seeing Nirvana), my dad promptly kicked me out of the house… Continue

Posted by John P. Strohm on June 19, 2008 at 8:00pm — 34 Comments

Cannon Fodder For The Class by the Walking Ruins

Hello everyone: The Walking Ruins will be playing Friday, June 20th 2008 at Uncle Festers. We will also be releasing a CD made many years ago and never released. It has 19 tracks and is called "Cannon Fodder For The Class War". Copies will be available at the show. I have uploaded 3 mp3s for the masses to consume. See you there! And here are the liner notes from the disc: It was the summer of 1990, & unknown to us the invasion of Kuwait by Iraq was just weeks away. We had been frantically sp… Continue

Posted by Jbarge on June 19, 2008 at 1:44pm — 2 Comments

Illustrating the MFT tree house

Wanted to post this before it went out in the mail to the MFT crew... more or less a tribute to the community and to LonPaul.

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Posted by indyfitz on June 17, 2008 at 5:30pm — 12 Comments

LonPaul concert photos

Photo album from the LonPaul concert. Sunday, June 15 at Radio Radio Continue

Posted by nora on June 17, 2008 at 10:55am — No Comments

Lots of new Margot music on the way

Call it a draw in the battle between Margot & the Nuclear So and So's and the band's major-label bosses at Epic Records. In October, each party will see the release of an album they prefer. It's "Animal!" for the band, and it's "Not Animal" for the label. While we wait, a live mini-album titled the "Daytrotter EP" will be released in July. Read more about all three projects here. Continue

Posted by Dave Lindquist on June 16, 2008 at 11:06pm — 8 Comments

My friends... please vote for me (James Combs) as a Yahoo "User's Choice" artist...

Mes Amis! I have an amazing opportunity! But I need your help! My supporters at Yahoo Music have asked me to be one of their "User's Choice" artists this month, which means one of my songs and videos will be featured on their "Who's Next" page for the next few weeks (along with those of three other artists.) User's vote for the artist they like best - and the winner will perform live on "Who's Next"? Needless to say, being featured in a major music program like Yahoo's User's Choice is… Continue

Posted by James Combs on June 16, 2008 at 2:31pm — 3 Comments

The Cheeses From France - A Dark History With a Semi Soft Creamy Center. Pt 1

The Cheeses From France are one of those Indy bands that are known by some heard by few and frankly liked by virtually no one. We played infrequently ( by request) were physically attacked on stage during our first show and never recorded or released a proper album. Controversy followed us like rabid paparazzi after a teenage skank Yet our actions left a nuclear blast sized footprint that was trodden upon by all who followed us. Where to begin? It was the best of times, It was the worst of… Continue

Posted by Tony Philputt on June 15, 2008 at 11:00pm — 16 Comments

Tales from the Bar Side #1: Puke.

Some of my best-defined memories of events early in my tenure as resident drink slinger at Bullwinkle's and Second Story involve puke. Rightly so, I suppose: in my years on the floor and behind the bar, I saw such quantities of alcohol go down the respective hatches of you people, I'm frankly surprised there are so many of you alive today. Although the career I have ultimately chosen for myself will carry me blissfully to the end of this life, I have to say that getting you people drunk was prob… Continue

Posted by Holly on June 15, 2008 at 1:30pm — 21 Comments

"hook" addiction...

I just posted a discussion topic on the group "why aren't you listening to top 40?" and I wanted to post something here to see what comes up... I am not so much a fan anymore of the latest top 40, but during my childhood and teen years my ear totally became trained to song formula, and what made a good hook. In other words there were just certain songs that I just wanted to play over and over. I mentioned in the discussion, that there's something about the groove, the harmony etc. of a "good" s… Continue

Posted by Angela Boudreau-Berzins on June 14, 2008 at 2:49pm — 38 Comments

I worked with the Geico Caveman yesterday.

Since these blogs seem to be kinda popular I'll try to add to them from time to time. Yesterday I worked on a Geico commercial with the caveman and tennis legend Billie Jean King. Look closely in the crowd behind the umpire and you may spot my sunburned visage. The caveman wears a hair shirt under his clothes and they darken the hair on his legs with charcoal powder. And all this time I just thought he was Armenian!! It was a very laid back affair,The caveman seems to be more popular than I… Continue

Posted by Tony Philputt on June 14, 2008 at 2:30pm — 5 Comments

Great MX-80 Sound Blog Post

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Posted by Tony Philputt on June 14, 2008 at 1:42am — 14 Comments

NBC’s Tim Russert Dies at 58

I know this has nothing to do with music but I have always been a big fan of Tim Russert. Being a political news junkie I have watched him almost every Sunday morning for the last few years. I won't ever forget staying up late in 2000 watching Tim with whiteboards showing how the numbers added up for Bush and Gore. I always had the feeling he was one of the few totally legit guys out there, I really respected him, can't say that about a lot of people in the news business. Bummer.… Continue

Posted by jebbanner on June 13, 2008 at 4:09pm — 6 Comments

Fitz is going on tour out west

what's up ya'll I'm going on tour with a band here in Portland, playing drums. Check out those dates... first time playing on the west coast! Just started on monday the 9th, and we have our first show on this saturday the 14th. Then it's tour time. So far my work seems cool with the idea. We'll see.. peace and galosh's www.myspace.com/jaredmees Jun 14 2008 8:00P Backspace w/ Nick Caceres and Ah Holly Fam’ly Portland, Oregon… Continue

Posted by indyfitz on June 13, 2008 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Analog to Digital...movin on up....help?

Before we had children I used to do this thing called Recording... I have all these songs that are trapped on cassette. Jan's been so kind to have lavished me over the past 10 years with all this great equipment, but it's like puzzle pieces to me. I can't seem to put them all together to make music with them. Can I get some advice from you fine MFT folks? What I can/would like to do: I record layers of voices, maybe a few instruments, not via MIDI, but via mic, such as autoharp, drum, etc. I w… Continue

Posted by Angela Boudreau-Berzins on June 13, 2008 at 10:22am — 12 Comments

The My Old Kentucky Blog Summer Concert Series presents...July 2008

The sweet sounds of Tift Merritt will fill Radio Radio on July 11th. Tift will be joined by Cameron McGill & What Army in support. Advance tickets are $14 and available at Brown Paper Tickets.com… Continue

Posted by Dodge on June 12, 2008 at 5:00pm — No Comments

A Presumptuous Proposition

my blog Art is where would-be philosophers hide (from questions, lack of proof, logic, truths, etc.). ”Art” allows scientific minds to express their views without the nuisance of proving their veracity (its where objective thinkers hide behind the guise of subjectivism). Maybe Artists are just philosophers who cheat: They propose truth without offering a why or how, beyond a vague…feeling, of sorts. Art’s pedestal is built upon the presump… Continue

Posted by Benjamin on June 12, 2008 at 3:45pm — No Comments

Short Review: My Morning Jacket Album "Evil Urges"

I've been listening to the new MMJ album "Evil Urges" non-stop for the last couple days. It's a strange beast, no doubt, but it is quickly burrowing in with it's weird wandering down the lanes of yacht rock, prog and 80s funk. Oh yeah, there are at least 4 other "genres" there but the thing that I'm digging is that over time you stop hearing the style, you just hear the music. If you want to check it out you can listen to some tracks on their iMeem… Continue

Posted by jebbanner on June 12, 2008 at 3:30pm — 24 Comments

new Kill and Eat album+tour

hey everyone. my band Kill and Eat finished our album "Green Bushes." here it is. you can download it for free on the front page of our website. we won't have the material cd's until the first week of July, so we're just giving it away for now. http://www.killandeat.com/ let us know what you think! Summer Eastern U.S. Tour (more dates to be announced) 07.08 - Warsaw, IN - Dylan Ettinger's House, with Gringle 07.09 - Ypsilanti, MI - The Pleasure Dome, w… Continue

Posted by Caleb on June 12, 2008 at 11:17am — No Comments

The Singles: West Lafayette Armory Recollection (c. 1987)

The Singles played one and only one show in West Lafayette at an Armory show... I think it was our 2nd to last show as a band... Robert Brian Smith (Girls Can Touch and/or Snake, Baby!) got us on a bill since he was going to school at Purdue. I remember we had an ice-cold miserable van ride over from Muncie. I don't think vans in the 80's had working heaters! We got there and the time line was all messed up and we ended up getting slotted 4 hours later than we expected. The thing that really st… Continue

Posted by suade99 on June 12, 2008 at 10:07am — No Comments

The Life and Times of Shecky Pitts

This started out as my "About Me" babble, which really was just excessive. So I moved it here. So there. Born at Methodist Hospital on Hiroshima Day. Grew up at various points around Indy -- the Butler area, Fall Creek, 52nd & College.... After a torturous stint at Brebeuf I escaped to Broad Ripple HS, where I did dorky shit like theater and the weekly (!) newspaper. Long 'bout then I started hearing about this "punk rock" stuff and seeing Zero Boys graffiti on a retaining wall at the clean… Continue

Posted by Spencer (Shecky) Sundell on June 12, 2008 at 1:19am — 2 Comments

Part 23: Sway (Summer/Fall 1991)

As the Sunburn tour finally wound down in the spring of 1991, Mammoth pressured us to keep touring in support of the newly released Rosy Jack World. We did a vide… Continue

Posted by John P. Strohm on June 11, 2008 at 4:05pm — 65 Comments

back in tha day...

I lived at Collins LLC- 90-94, and here are some things I remember fondly about those days: the Collins Improv nights; open mics; Arson Garden; Culture Shock; Bauhaus; Siouxsie and the Banshees; the Smiths; my long-term friend at the time, Ted; Denise &Tony; drum circles at Lothlorien every once in a while; playing Second Story with GF; jamming with Gerry; discovering I could write music; discovering I hated practicing guitar, so stopped; all-nighters in the metals studio; Live from Blooming… Continue

Posted by Angela Boudreau-Berzins on June 11, 2008 at 10:28am — 21 Comments

Part 22: Freda Quits (Winter/Spring 1991)

There’s nothing worse about being in a band than being cooped up in a van for months with people you can’t stand to be around. It’s just an awful way to live. I can’t remember who proposed adding a second guitarist to the Blake Babies, but I’m inclined to think I did. We had Stephen Bonner joining us on tour, but still the thought of going out as a trio depressed me. I claimed the purpose was to free me up to do more adventurous guitar playing, but actually I wanted another person to diffuse the… Continue

Posted by John P. Strohm on June 10, 2008 at 11:30pm — 24 Comments

Bloomington Roller Derby and the Scraps 6-14-08

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