Month: October 2010

JC DOBBS – IT WAS SOMETHING

| Brian

As I had mentioned, being from the suburbs, there was no real awareness of what to do once you actually did have a band up and running. We had started playing music in the summer of 1989 as The Tazmanians, but other than playing in some random basements of friend’s houses, there wasn’t much really to accomplish. The dream was always playing somewhere that didn’t have a parent or two wandering around overhead.

After a few years actually learning the instruments we had selected to play. A process that was, as I recall, completely random, we met a fella named Ralph and became The Random Children. Ralph was from Mt. Airy which was at least a bit closer to the city than we were. He attended school at CAPA and knew people in the city that could actually book us a show or two. So, as The Random Children we started playing a couple of honest to god shows.

The first show we ever played in the city was at the Olde City Arcade. It was a couple of doors down from The Continental at 2nd and Market and still sits abandoned today. At the time, Old City was not the “charming” tourist adventure it is today, but instead, a burned out warehouse district. It was actually scary at night.

We played that show with our friends band The Mad Planets and a couple of other local bands. I think there was about 30 people there and it was like playing in a dark, horrible afterbirth of construction…but it was incredible. After that show, and the fight that broke out causing someone to fly through the front pane of glass (how great is that, right?) we really felt like, “Hey, we’re gonna get out of the burbs and actually play some fucking music.”
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Of course, the reality was that wanting to play shows and actually playing shows is drastically different. Even if you wanted to play, there weren’t many places to play. So the logical step was finding some sort of venue that would let young kids have all ages shows. JC Dobbs was that location. I’m not sure what caused us to pick that JC Dobbs located at 3rd and South. I can only assume someone mentioned they knew someone there and we thought that was enough of an in to give it a go. So one day, we called the club, spoke to the booking agent there, a woman named Kathy James, and amazingly, she let us have a go at it. Sunday afternoon’s 3 to 8, all ages.

We booked a lot of shows at Dobbs. Maybe 30 people would come out? Sometimes even 50. But at the time, that seemed like an army. An army of like minded kids looking to form some sort of community in a city where there didn’t seem to be one.

Those sunday shows were like an event. Everyone would plan for them. Everyone would be excited for them…I guess as only kids could ever really be.

The photo above was taken outside of JC Dobbs during one of those matinees. Must have been around 1990. Most of the kids in the photo are from the bands that were playing that day. It wasn’t a lot but it was something.

FRANKLIN AT THE 21st & CHESTNUT CHURCH

| Brian

Franklin started in the summer of 1992 and broke up in 1999. Being around that long provided us a lot of opportunities to play at nearly all of the venues available to bands at that time in Philadelphia. If shows could happen there, we probably played there.

After the incredible presence that the Cabbage Collective was for bands in the early 90’s, a completely DIY show collective that held events primarily in the basement of a church located at 40th and Baltimore in West Philadelphia, a kid named Sean Agnew started booking shows. When I first met Sean, he was this scrawny kid from Ardmore with a chin strap beard who booked a lot of ska shows. The Cabbage Collective had moved it’s primary residence from West Philly to the First Unitarian Church located at 21st and Chestnut. Having worked with the Cabbage Collective for so long, I think we were a little hesitant to play shows booked by a kid we didn’t know using the same space as the Cabbage kids. It seemed like a conflict of interest. It’s funny how even then, cliques always played a part of the music community.

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We played dozens of R5 shows throughout our existence. This photo was taken at the First Unitarian when we were playing a show with The Promise Ring. Sadly, I don’t remember the date of the show, nor do I know the photographer.

It’s a pretty badass photo tho.

FRANKLIN PRACTICE IN GREG’S BASEMENT

| Brian

I always liked this picture. Franklin used to practice in any number of places. Typically, our parents basements. We’d migrate from basement to basement forcing our parents to let us set up shop for a time being until they simply could no longer handle the noise anymore. Then we’d pack up shop and move onto the next location.

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Anyway, I think Roy took this picture between songs. I must have been diddling around trying to make sense of a guitar part. This must have been 1993 or so. The photo’s quality is such that it looks like it could have been taken in 1893.

THE FIRST BAND

| Brian

The first band I was ever in was called, “The Tazmanians”. Probably not one of the greatest names ever conceived, but for a bunch of kids who had just graduated 8th grade I guess it seemed like an awesome idea. I just dug up two cassette tapes of recordings The Tazmanians made and I look forward to encoding them and popping them up here. For every moment of crushing embarrassment, there are equally matched moments of, “Hey, we were pretty good for 8th graders.”

However, that’s going to have to wait.

Random Children was probably the first somewhat successful band I was ever in. Of course, using the term “successful” only means that we were successful in getting shows where there were people in the crowd that actually didn’t know us. I guess thinking about it now, I might be able to stretch the definition of success a little more. We did get some pretty awesome shows, people did seem to support us at the time, and we had a hell of a lot of fun for High School kids.

Anyway, today’s topic is the song Burn. This was on a 7″ we put out ourselves on a record label we started called, Elbohead. It was a split 7″ with a band called The Mad Planets. At the time, there were numerous local bands popping up and we had started booking all ages shows at JC Dobbs on South Street. Kathy James, the booking lady for the venue will forever get my respect for allowing a couple of suburban kids to book all ages Sunday Matinees at a bar.
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Being complete amateurs and really, knowing nothing, we recorded the songs for this 7″ (called 4 and 3 is 7) at a friend’s house. His father did some recording work for the mentally handicapped focusing on music therapy. He and his father had no idea how to record music for punk bands but it didn’t matter. We had no money, they had a reel to reel tape machine and the 7″ had to be made.

The recording is agonizingly bad, but is worth it so as to not let our youth go to waste.

Burn – The Random Children (from the 4 and 3 is 7, 7″)

THE NUDA

| Brian

I think looking back now, there was a very specific moment in time when we were playing that we recognized we were doing something different. When I say, “different” I don’t mean to make it sound as tho what we were doing was revolutionary or cutting edge, but for us, four guys trying to make music, it was a moment where we sort of stood back and said, “Well, that’s new for us.”

The Nuda was one of those moments. It was more lurching than anything we had ever written…thinking about it now, that sounds like something Greg would have said at the time and he would have been right. More importantly, The Nuda was the first time we added upstroke guitar playing to a song. A gesture most folks would think of as, “reggae”. At the time, Greg and Ralph were definitely listening to and learning more about the reggae culture and music so it’s logical it would have had an effect.

This song appeared on our 7″, Roy Is Dead. It was released by The Great American Steak Religion, a label out of Ottawa. At the time, working with Yannick and GASR was like…man, it was like a big deal. We called the 7″, Roy Is Dead because he had decided to leave the band and being Beatles fans, we thought it would be funny to pretend he died.

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Anyway, The Nuda.

The Nuda