So I’ve delved into my collection of Pennsylvania ephemera to dig up another moldy oldie. This time? It’s State College’s T4.
I can promise you that I’ll be doing non-Pennsylvania releases soon enough for BJ. It’s funny though, I only lived up there for a little over five years and I still reach back to them there folks routinely. Enjoy!
One of our all time favorite bands ever from the 90’s. And a documentary? Sign us up!
Okay, we’re mildly obsessed with this band from Sacramento and it’s these types of anti-videos that endear them to us that much more. Try to buy their new 12" while yer at it. Or rather, good luck finding the 12"!
I think the assertion could be made that Pen Rollings is a living, walking, breathing anomaly. He went from one influential band (Honor Role) to another (Breadwinner) and had a band in between (Butterglove). And that all ended in ’92. Read all about this powerhouse guitarist in this definitive Chunklet article.
So that takes me to Ladyfinger. In early 1994, at the Shoebox in Athens, Ladyfinger played. The only thing anybody knew about the band was that Pen played drums and that Sean from Butterglove was also in the band. There were probably 50 people there and everybody either bought a shirt or a cassette tape that they were selling.
I really know absolutely nothing else about this band. They were great. They were short lived. They were…..well, an anomaly. Just like Pen.
Thanks to my buddy Gus Engstrom in Charlotte, I’m presenting you with the LF demo tape along with a couple additional tracks that he got from a fellow in Hex Machine outta Richmond. Since I can only post a maximum of ten tracks per blog posting, here’s a link to all 13 tracks via sendspace (for a limited time).
Track 1 (demo) – Ladyfinger
Track 2 (demo) – Ladyfinger
Track 3 (demo) – Ladyfinger
Track 4 (demo) – Ladyfinger
Track 5 (demo) – Ladyfinger
Track 6 (demo) – Ladyfinger
Track 7 (demo) – Ladyfinger
Track 8 (demo) – Ladyfinger
Track 9 (demo) – Ladyfinger
Track 10 (demo) – Ladyfinger
An ally of Chunklet had his house burn down this week which is very sad. One of his pets died in the ensuing fire which has got to be unbelievably heart breaking. However, with this said, this ally of Chunklet’s co-owns Matador Records. Said ally has probably a ten year head start on anybody that has ever read Chunklet. And that’s a pretty safe assumption.
Say what you will about Matador (either positive or negative), but what I’ve always loved about Gerard is that he’s never one to back down from a good fight in a tongue-in-cheek fashion. So about two years ago, he started shooting across the bow of Victory Records which I’m perfectly fine with. Oh, and then he shot across their bow again. Again, I’m fine with that too. Comedy is my life.
But Gerard got an email from Victory’s Tony Brummel stating "Karma".
Now, I’ve been burgled twice which can’t even compare to an entire house with a lifetime of memories burned to the ground. And yeah, I’ve poked at people over the years but to think that anybody would say that any tragedy is karma is just a fucking asshole. So…..
I nabbed these Victory jokes off the web with the hopes that the Chunklet comment section elite will come out to play and beef this list up because, well, it’s almost too nice. I’m sorry, but this really upsets me more than the fact that nobody I know can mention one decent record he’s ever released. Ever.
Q: What’s the difference between a prostitute and a band on Victory?
A: The prostitute actually gets paid for getting screwed.
Q: What does the Victory band get that the prostitute doesn’t?
A: Slapped around.
Q: How many albums does a Victory band need to sell to earn a royalty?
A: When it happens, we’ll let you know.
Q: Why do most stories about Victory bands feature a picture of Tony Brummel instead of the band?
A: It was his favorite picture from their photo shoot.
Q: What does a new band need to get signed to Victory?
A: A rejection from every other record label.
Q: What’s the difference between payola and Tony Brummel?
A: Payola isn’t a complete embarrassment to the music industry.
Q: Why doesn’t Tony Brummel get a hair piece?
A: He hasn’t figured out a way to charge it back to one of his bands.
Q: What’s the difference between an e-mail from Tony Brummel and a song from Weird Al Yankovic?
A: The Brummel e-mail gets more laughs.
Q: What do you call a hardcore straight-edge vegan that eats meat, drinks, smokes and takes drugs?
A: Tony Brummel.
Q: What’s the difference between the recording budget for a Victory band and the latest addition to Tony’s wine cellar?
A: He pays more for the bottle of wine.
Q: What’s the difference between someone getting chemotherapy and Tony Brummel?
A: The chemo patient looks healthier.
Q: What’s the difference between Tony Brummel and the average hardcore guy?
A: About 30 years.
Q: What’s the difference between a demo and an album on Victory?
A: The demo is actually recorded in a studio.
Q: What do the entertainment community and the medical community both agree on about Tony Brummel?
A: He’s completely impotent.
Q: What’s the difference between Victory Records and a major label?
A: The major label cares about more than just making money and screwing artists.
Wussup everybody. Fox Searchlight’s got this movie coming out soon, "Gentlemen Broncos" by Jared Hess (Napoleon Dynamite) starring Sam Rockwell, Jemaine Clement and Michael Arangano (not nec. in that order). We (we being my assistants John Brown and Michael Gallagher) made a cartoon using elements from the fictional works of Ronald Chevalier (played by Clement). Enough explanation. We’re really proud of this. It’s totally nuts.
The Turks are no strangers to the uh, pages (?) of Chunklet. But Saturday (8/1) the guys got together to do their “once every couple of years thang” in celebration of bass man’s Matt Reber’s 40th b’day. And seeing as I too am looking right down the ugly barrel of that number myself, well, I just had to go show my support. But this was no ordinary NBT awesomeness on display. No, this night the set kicked off with a COMPLETE throw-down of their 1993 debut album “Destroy-Oh-Boy!”. That’s right, every song machine-gunned right at you – one after the next, front to back, and start to finish. Wham-Bam-Fuck-You-Ma’am. The closers consisted of "Defiled" (complete with crowd get-down, of course) & their godhead cover of the Stone’s “Summer Romance” with a medley of “Fuck It” tossed in the middle for flavor. Phew.
Aside from a small, yet dedicated core of very cool folks Columbus, Ohio is one giant, festering frat-house of utter douchebags soaked in Axe body spray and raised on MTV’s “The Real World”. After spending 20+ years going to shows there, of this I am certain. But that’s okay, for that night I literally pissed on Columbus, in a parking lot, behind a pizza joint. Urination was never so symbolic. I can still feel the pride. Every garbage dump has its glimmering jewel. The NBT and their comrades are Columbus’s. I salute them.
Okay, so the guys at Chunklet are nerds. Deal with it.
But when discussions talk about record nerdisms, it gets heated. And this one? Well, it takes the cake.
It’s a challenge to name 5 good to great 10" records. Doesn’t have to be a classic. A stone cold essential. Just something that you’ve kept over the years.
On my record shelves? I think I have 15 10" records. Why? Well, most of them are given the heave ho.
Seriously, start a list. Man Or Astroman?’s "1000X", the Pavement 10", the two Oblivians 10"s, and then? Well, the list dwindles.
I open the floor.
Well, so do we. Kind of.
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