Great Interview, Thanks! Coady's been 1 of my all time favorite Drummers since 2006 & I just realized this the 1st time Ive seen a long-form interview with him. Whaaa?!
I clearly remember 15yo. me banging my head, right in front of the stage at the Brewery, and seeing Steves bare feet intermittently between his bass drums and my hair. \m/
😂 Holy smoke a doobie, Im now 60 yrs old …. It’s your old pal Robb D. Hope your well brother 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻I’ve been going down nostalgia lane, thanx for the memories ❤ btw, we called him Skippy as in Skippy the kangaroo 😆
7:54 Manchild 4, that's the one I bought 18 or whatever years ago. Still have that and happy I do. Good artwork! I love that one. What's so bad that you don't like. I particularly like the Melvin's tour diary. Very memorable and good artwork.
The Awful Truth was an awesome group. I got the last-known CD and I still play it all the time. It's out there if you look for it and it's worth it if you can find it.
Back in the day, Errol was a lamb. He didn’t look like a thug! We went to the same high school, but didn’t cross paths. And he did the most most amazing bio mech drawings way back then. And Milwaukee had one of the best punk scenes in the entire US.
What isn't documented are the multitudes of small scenes across America. We had our own legendary bands and venues. Everything wasn't just NY, LA, ,DC or Boston. Back in the day, ONLY the DC bands would come through our out-of-the-way areas
Barney talks a lot about things I can relate to. In this video it's bullying. In another one he spoke out against sexual violence. All more reasons to love him.
Coral was great. But it was the early Coral w/ Exceptional drummer ,Matt McGuigan. There is an early recording, engineered by Chip Jones , that’s dynamic, upbeat , angular & just great song writing. Maybe you’ve heard it! -Matt ( aka Lil Buddy)
I moved to Raleigh in '86 as well. I saw Light in August at the Brewery and they became my favorite local band. I probably saw them 3 times. Still have a flyer. When John was playing with John Singletary in Finger, I was playing with his brother Neal in Watchmen. I saw Danny Chavis' face flash by and remember when he and his brother Daniel came to my little one room apartment on Park Drive the morning after meeting them at a party in north Raleigh. They asked me to play bass in their band and I asked what the name of the band was going to be. Danny picked up the paperback I was reading, the Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury, turned to the table of contents, read the title of the first story and said: "The Veldt". Crazy fun times. Wow. Poindexter Records. Didn't Todd Goss work there? I remember John Howie being a friendly, somewhat shy, pale boy in a black leather jacket who dated the amazing Lejeune Gallant, the first singer in my band when we were called 7 Deadly Sins. It's very gratifying to learn that Brian is still the same self-deprecating, super talented, walking encyclopedia of music I worked with for ten years at the Rat. Brian you taught me a lot. When I met you I was listening to U2. Thanks for throwing me so many musical lifelines.
The first and only time I met Karen, I was living on Park Drive next to the fire station in 1986. I had just got a new amp and I was trying it out. She knocked on the door, said she had some guests over, and would I mind turning down my volume. She made a point of letting me know she was Woody's mom and that she would not normally ask anyone to tone down their artistic expression. Yeah I dropped the volume. Cool lady.
I was lucky that a friend turned me on to Allroy's Revenge in 1991. Otherwise, I would never have listened to these guys. Scott Reynolds does some vocal gymnastics on that album, very busy with lots of different inflections and changes. It's easily one of my top twenty records.
Honor Role was next level to a lot of us who followed music and played in bands when they were around the RVA area. I just thought they were the greatest from 85-88 and still love their music.
Thank you for allowing the time for Jerry to answer. I watched the Lydia lunch interview, and with all respect to Lydia, she talked over him constantly.
Yeah, because she's a terrible smug and self-obsessed person. _"I'm so controversial... look at me, look at me, look at me."_ Madonna for wannabe hipsters.
2 hometown friends actually moved out to Chapel Hill after high school simply bc of the music scene in early 90s. Chris says he still has his Snake Nation cassette, and Luke became the drummer for Cobra Kahn and others like Totimoshi in CA, then ((THORLOCK)) with me in Missouri, then eventually back to NC in the band MAKE. Luke Herbst!!!
As for Austin music, check out Doug Shan’s solo stuff and his work with Sir Douglas Quintet. The Complete Smash/Mercury Years is streaming and incredible. His early 70’s Atlantic Records solo stuff is collected in a great set called the Genuine Texas Groover is great too. He was amazing
