Vans Warped tours from 95-98 were some of the best punk rock bills of the 90s. Lots of fun time had in those years. If you appreciate this work and would like to make a donation. My paypal is - paypal.me/fromthenosebleeds
1:02 It's My Job To Keep Punk Rock Elite 2:24 Leave It Alone (cuts) The Longest Line (missing) 2:50 Stickin' In My Eye (cuts in) 5:16 Bob 7:34 Hot Dog In A Hallway 10:55 Murder The Government 11:49 Six Pack Girls 12:15 Hobophobic (Scared Of Bums) 13:02 Monosyllabic Girl 14:32 Linoleum 17:32 Quart In Session 19:45 Together On The Sand 20:56 Green Corn 23:01 Don't Call Me White 25:29 The Brews
they talk about in the book, when fat mike, Melvin, and smelly got together for the first time, Smelly was the only one who actually knew how to play his instrument well. the singer didn't show up and he was gonna quit cuz they sucked lol
+sebbapalacio That's cause Fat Mike was straight edge at that time. Then he started doing drugs and drinking and wrote mostly shitty songs (except for War On Errorism)
+Jimmy Saboter Nah, he just started doing hard drugs when he hit his 30's, after he had taken care of business and gotten Fat Wreck Chords off the ground. He drank for sure. There's a vid of them playing the Bizarre festival even earlier than this and he's chugging a big bottle of wine the whole show.
Colin A nice didn't know that! Dude he wrote songs like the Decline and other great songs throughout the 91-2003 era. There are some stupid childish sounding songs like "Franco Unamerican" i don't know i can blame drugs for that.
Jimmy Saboter Yeah, there's no denying that The Decline is a masterpiece. I mean, to write a cohesive 18 minute song and have only a couple of repeating parts just takes a crazy amount of talent. Fat Mike has just always been a really good songwriter/lyricist. Franco Unamerican is about how Mike used to be apathetic about politics and then saw how important they are once he saw what George W. Bush was doing to his country. Not that childish. You can't really blame drugs for the writing of shitty songs. Besides, Mike only parties hard when he's on tour and not writing songs, anyway.
Colin A Franco is childish in the sense of songwriting, not lyrics. I mean hear the riffs and their continuation. I bet that you could easily convert this to a lullaby for babies. This song has lost anything "hardcore". The riffs and the music is so childish and headed for mainstream audience that it could be on "Green Day's Warning"...i liked Cokie The Clown though
I was at this show. 98 was the beginning of the end of them sounding good live. Although I would argue some of these songs are pretty sloppy, some are pretty good.
These youngins were talking to me about warped this year. And I just laughed, showed them some old clips, nothing after 98 and they were like, sad and depressed that they never got the real deal punk rock. They got whatever the fuck trash Lyman puts up now. But at least they had fun and he's keeping it going.
Feel ya man. Last one i went was same place 2009 with Bad Religion,NOFX as headliners and they had another stage called "old school" punk rock. Adolescents, D.I., Dickies, TSOL, etc. Probably the very last year they had the pure punk rock bills.
I'd like to share with you all the documentary about live concert video bootlegging i've been working on called the Bootleg Cowboys. Here is the first 16min - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-gKaOB4zxZIQ.html
androlescent I've been a NOFX fan for a pretty long while, and now that I think about it, most of their older live footage does show him playing a P-bass. I guess I never really paid attention before he started playing Danelectros.
+androlescent I remember seeing a heavy petting zoo poster when i was a little ass kid and feeling disturbed, but it made me listen and that shit changed my life. I'm 32 now.
+androlescent I remember seeing a heavy petting zoo poster when i was a little ass kid and feeling disturbed, but it made me listen and that shit changed my life. I'm 32 now.
Im the same age as you and remember buying Smash as my first real punk cd in 95, that opened the door for all the great Epitaph ,Fat bands of the era. But I agree 98 was the last good year for that whole genre, as soon as Enema of the State came out it took the whole genre from alternative to pop and ruined everything..
Was sober since punk in drublic ...& i think never did cocaine without heroin ,just in the begining.its not important ...its fucking killing it like alwais.The best musician in NOFX clean or not.Excuse me i dont talk english .super proud of people who survive and improve from that fucking hellhole. Its a badass nice guy.Role model for people who suffer from drug use slavery.