Show Review

MAXIMUM ROCKNROLL – OUR SCENE REPORT

| Brian

In 1990/1991, there was really only one way to let the world know that your city ruled. That would be the Maximum Rocknroll scene report.

Established as a way to let kids know about the music communities that were thriving in other areas of the country (and around the world), the scene report was like a note from the edge of space telling other astronauts, “fear not, there is life out here!”

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Several cities with thriving scenes (and dedicated writers documenting their scenes) would frequently be included in the monthly section of MRR. Smaller, less active cities (with less active contributors) not so much. Thus, Philadelphia, I believe, only ever had a few scene reports during the run of the segment.

Amazingly, Atom had a copy of the one scene report I wrote up and sent in to MRR featuring a very direct, straight forward account of the goings on here in Philadelphia at the time. While completely biased towards the areas of the music community I was actively participating, what can one expect? I was 16. I just wanted to see Philadelphia represented in MRR and the things we were doing at the time validated and counted.

Enjoy.

ALL AGES SHOW GET COOKIN’, FLIERS AND SHOW REVIEWS

| Brian

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.