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- Punk rock... it's the reason I can't hear anything today. Or remember anything. Bloomington... It's the reason for my delayed adulthood, and the start of my "career" as a school teacher a few years before mandatory retirement. But it was all worth it, because I got to sing "We're the Band that You Can't See" with a paper bag over my head to a crowd of confused and annoyed college students at Bullwinkles, when I was in high school.
- What bands are you or have you been in?
- The Panics, Visiting Food (!), The Landlord Tenant Relationship, The, The Cute Band, Gluttons For Punishment, Johnny ESAD and the Phlegm Masters, Johnny ESAD and the Musik Killers, Johnny ESAD and the Hard Cold Lumps of Cheese, Johnny ESAD and the Men Without Jobs.... and, of course, the Doo Dads.
- What city are you from?
- Bloomington
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- http://www.daisybrain.wordpress.com
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Posted on October 26, 2009 at 10:02am —
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- At 1:29pm on August 31, 2009,
Ross Danielson said… - wow! I figured something was up when I woke up feeling all cute as a bug!
You can find me @ rdanielson@laserpacific.com
Hope yee and family are doing well!
- At 1:36pm on November 30, 2008,
BURD said… - The T-shirts were mightly appreciated-they all went but 3-my kids grabbed those-thanks Eric-wish you coulda been there. Maybe next year?
- At 9:19pm on November 18, 2008,
BURD said…
- At 8:51am on November 9, 2008,
BURD said…
- At 7:20pm on October 12, 2008,
BURD said…
Harmony School-November 29th-12 noon
- At 3:07pm on September 27, 2008,
BURD said…
- At 2:13pm on August 13, 2008,
Craig Dalrymple said… - At 10:55pm on August 12th, 2008, Craig Daniel Dalrymple said…
Well, Mr. Spears, now in order to be really cool, you're going to have to change your name to Eric Spears-Cyrus because MILEY CYRUS is THE FUTURE OF ROCK AND ROLL! You know Miley is going to phase out her Hannah Montana character, so be cool and ahead of the curve!
Britney may be too old to be cool for today's 2nd graders, but she obviously has plenty mental health problems and angst, even though you'd never know it from her idiotic fluff music or her airhead public statements. But when Britney shaved her head, got a tattoo, and went into rehab she suddenly looked like a messed up punk boiling over with angst.
I agree with you that after looking at those Bloomington party pictures it looks like we all had tons of fun even if we can't remember much of it! As for angst, the Panics had it and so did Yellow Rain but as a whole the Bloomington punk scene in the early 80s did have a Ramones good time party vibe with a sense of humor and that's what I liked about the Panics and Moto-X.
The Columbia, Missouri punk scene definitely had more angst and a dark, experimental edge to it than the Bloomington punk scene. You want angst? You want rage? You want insanity? Go to my Lurking Fear myspace profile at http://www.myspace.com/lurkingfears, and listen to "Dirge," "Werewolf," and "Hanging Out With The Dead." We also had song about suicide called "Last Time." I actually tried to inject more of a Cramps-style crazy, cartoon horror sense of humor into our monster music but the angst is still there. In other words, when you hear my vocals, I sound like I am totally insane! For more on this, send me an email message.
Turning back to to the more light-hearted, party time B-ton punk scene, I've got some rare photos for you that I scanned today: a 1983 picture of you in the Dalrymple family kitchen wearing a Ramones T-shirt with beer in hand while chatting with Jane Guskin. I have to admit that I had a crush on Jane. All right, I had the hots for her, OK?! Jane was just about the smartest and coolest punk rock girl I ever knew. I don't think she liked me very much but I liked her.
WELCOME TO NAME THAT BAND! The other photo at first appears to be a Panics reunion but I'm not sure what band you were playing in then since there's no John Barge and Mike Ost is there onstage but Andreas Cluver is on drums. The gig was the WQAX Meadow Dance in Dunn Meadow during the summer of 1982.
Enjoy the pictures! Cheers, Craig
"Let the stories be told, let them say what they want,
Let the photos be old, let them show what they want,
Let them leave you up in the air,
Let them brush your rock 'n' roll hair,
Let the good times roll..." the Cars
- At 11:56am on August 13, 2008,
Craig Dalrymple said…
- At 11:55am on August 13, 2008,
Craig Dalrymple said…
- Vermont and New Hampshire sound beautiful and laid back. Maybe you could get a Ben & Jerry's ice cream flavor named after you, a blend of Vanilla and with chocolate chunks and chopped peanuts called "NUTTY PUNKY CHUNKYI"
I guess we all tend to mellow out to some extent as we get older. Although in my case, I'm even more high strung and wound up and stressed out than ever and I rarely ever feel relaxed. And I still have plenty of that punk anger inside me too, although I keep it under control (most of the time).
- At 11:06am on August 12, 2008,
Craig Dalrymple said…
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