Month: November 2010

FRACTURE IN CLEVELAND 1995

| Brian


I had to post this video as well from aouoon’s youtube page. This video is of Fracture playing in Cleveland in 1995. The video begins with their song, No Way DNA, still one of my favorite songs of all time.

I don’t know why exactly, but it is.

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It’s funny to see Jeb contest the decision, Chris quietly accept it and Atom try to rationalize it to the crowd in his special, sarcastic way.

P.S. – Jesse really was a fantastic drummer that was a blast to watch play.

RANDOM CHILDREN IN A BASEMENT

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This is hella throwback. Jeff Vaders, a fella most of us grew up with and who played in several bands in the early 90’s shot me an email with some old cassette recordings he discovered. Before we had the opportunity to play any real, “shows” we would play exclusively in the basements of our parents houses. Typically, when they were gone for the weekend. These shows would consist of maybe 14 or 15 people and the kids who were in the bands playing. This recording was made in Jeff’s parents basement on New Year’s eve 1990. The recording quality ain’t so great (which kind of makes them awesome) and I’m not really sure why we ever did a cover of the Beastie Boys’ Rhymin’ & Stealin’ but folks seemed to dig it at the time.

I think I remember this evening as a time when, after the bands had played, we watched an Andrew Dice Clay stand up thing on cable. Or maybe it was Damon Wayans…I can’t really remember. Anyway, here’s the recordings of three covers (Pretty Vacant, Banned in DC and Rhymin’ & Stealin’) and one original called End.

Banned in DC

End
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Pretty Vacant

Rhymin’ & Stealin’

Thanks Jeff for the send in, it was pretty rad listening.

ALL AGES SHOW GET COOKIN’, FLIERS AND SHOW REVIEWS

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In 1991, once we had secured a location to put on all ages shows, we got busy booking as many bands as we could. Initially focusing on the few local groups we actually knew, we started calling out of state bands to draw more folks into what we hoped would turn into some sort of, “scene”. I was handling most of the booking of these shows and my primary interest was the music scene in Washington DC. Thus, almost every show I could book had a band from DC on the bill. Because of it, not only did we have some really great shows, we got to see some really great bands.

I remember receiving a 7″ in the mail by a band that, at the time, was unknown here in Philadelphia. They were called Jawbox and had just released a 7″ on Dischord/DeSoto. I still remember getting that package in the mail and thinking how rad it was that bands were now sending records and tapes to try and get shows here in Philadelphia, and how rad it was that I was getting a first crack at a new band. The Jawbox 7″ sounded amazing and we booked them the first chance we got. I think we guaranteed them $150 to play the show. Amazing.

Because of booking Jawbox, I had the pleasure of becoming friends with Kim Coletta, their bass player. She was working at Dischord and was so into helping others get things going in their towns that she would always be willing to put up with me, a 17-year old kid asking her question after question about setting up shows, how to put out records, distribute records, etc. The patience she must have had.

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In addition, I came across an old zine from here in Philly called, Icky. Sadly, I don’t remember much about it, but it was pretty sweet to flip thru again. Inside, there was a show review from this particular show at Dobbs. Sweet synchonicity.

FRANKLIN LIVE 8/13/1995

| Brian


Wow, this was a surprise even for me. There seems to be a real lack of any video documentation of Franklin playing live. I have a VHS tape somewhere that I hope to unearth and encode someday but this video popped up on Facebook yesterday thanks to Dan O’Neill. He found this video on YouTube user aouoon’s channel. There’s plenty of other goodies to watch over there if you’re in the mood.

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ATTACK!

| Brian

When Franklin started, we had this idea that we’d be a band with a split personality. We’d write songs like any other band that we would record and release and those songs would ultimately, sound like songs our band played.

Live however, we wouldn’t be concerned about, “songs”. Instead we would be concerned with the moment in time. Letting ourselves just be who we were at that given moment. Not worrying about a stray note, a missed change…we wanted to perform something that people would walk away from saying, “Well that was something.”

This lead to shows where the freak out was more important than the songs and I’d imagine in those days, we didn’t sound all that good. But we made a helluva a noise and it was, “something”. That idea or perspective, which I think might only have been held by me and Ralph, was abandoned after a few years. I guess ultimately, as you get older and more comfortable with your instruments, you start to feel that sounding professional or tight is the real goal.

Looking back, I’m not sure.  Some of the best shows I’ve ever played or seen were events where I don’t think I thought, “Man, we sounded tight!” or “That band sounded so professional” but instead, thought, “Well, that was something.”
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So, some of those shows, we might not have sounded all that good. Our equipment might not have been the best, but it was definitely something, indeed.

The photo up top was taken by Shawn Brackbill in a basement in Pittsburgh. Shawn is one hell of a photographer.

This photo was taken at a VFW. No idea who shot it.