FRACTURE LIVE AT ST. GEN’S – 1994

I saw Atom the other day and he nagged me about not having encoded more video after the purchase of my handy Elgato video converter. Thus, I went home immediately and started encoding. Atom’s nagging is legendary.

He passed me a few videos and one of them was a show recorded at Saint Genevieve’s Parish in the summer of 1994. St. Gen’s was (and still is) a Catholic school and thus, not the most logical location for a show. However, considering most of the bands who wound up playing St. Gen’s rec center were straight edge hardcore bands, I imagine it was one of the better uses of the center.

I can only remember going to two shows at the center. One when Franklin played along with Fracture and Frail and the show filmed here. Perhaps these two shows were one in the same? Who can really remember.

Sadly this video only captures a few moments of Fracture (with cameos by Dave, Tim, Carly and myself) but it does offer a captivating glimpse at the pokemon like cuteness of Danny O’Neill, bass player for Disregard. You could pinch him! I have no idea who filmed this.

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1. These days, my nephew attends Saint Genevieve’s.
2. This video was recorded on my wife’s 15th birthday, 8/27/1994.

In this shitty, shitty quality video the boys hammer thru Anton’s Syndrome and Thresholds to Adult Living.

“Symbolic knife in my heart and my head, one false move and I’m symbolically dead…”

RANDOM PHOTOS FROM RANDOM TIMES

Ever gotten ahead of yourself?

I realized this afternoon that I had uploaded many, many images and photos that I have yet to post here on the GoKidGo blog. Thus, it’s already time for some housecleaning. Meaning, before I add anymore files to our server, I am promising to clean out the backlog. The positive of that being more posts at a quicker clip.

The negative? Well, I’m not sure there is but I’ll keep thinking.

Today, we’ve got several photos that were sent to me a while back. While I don’t have any real stories to accompany these photos, I hope they kick start something from your own memory if you were there.

Most of these photos were taken during matinee shows at JC Dobbs on South Street. I’ve talked ad nauseum about JC Dobbs and how important that space was for putting on shows and seeing shows in the early 90’s but it really can’t be stressed enough. The photo above is actually Chumbawamba playing Dobbs on the Shhh! tour. Fracture opened up the show.

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Here’s a somewhat random photo of Dan Goldberg (who had played with Vile, Up In Arms and Public Descent playing guitar with a later band of his. Unfortunately, I’m not positive which band this might be.


I have absolutely NO idea who this is. However, I wanted to post it because it’s just fun looking at old photos from Dobbs. For all I know, this could be Nirvana. It isn’t of course, but that’s how little I know about this photo.


This might be my favorite photos of all time. It features Atom with Rob who played drums for Fracture, Barry and Matt. I believe the name of this band was Pleasant Greene but again, I have no idea. I just like that everyone looks confused.


Finally, here’s a photo of the 2.5 Children playing at JC Dobbs. Again, sadly, I don’t know much about this photo or the band in general but maybe you do!

A LETTER TO THE EDITOR ABOUT FRACTURE AND THIS BLOG


A funny thing happened yesterday. You might recall that I mentioned how I had obviously been a bit lax in updating this site. After I posted that article I felt a bit silly even acknowledging that I’d been lax because I’m not really sure that anyone even reads what I post here. Sure, a couple friends do, I’m sure, I can tell by the comments. But how many strangers read this blog? How many people not already intimately aware of the events surrounding the items posted here actually care?

Welp, as I got home yesterday, I had an email from a fella named Thomas Kretchmar. What follows is his email. I thought it was generous of him to take the time to write down his own thoughts so I asked if I could share them here. He said yes!

Sadly, he couldn’t furnish me with a photo of himself from the mid to late 90’s to go with the email. I think that might be a fun project to work on. Here’s his email. Enjoy.

Wow, Brian. I started going to punk shows in Philly late summer 1995, and then really got in the mix of that scene that fall/winter and in the years thereafter. I never heard a Fracture track until some time in the winter of 97/98 when my friend JohnPaul played a track – might have been Non Serviam – on WKDU and I immediately called in to ask him “what the hell was that?” — the song he had just played, melodic but blazing, had totally blown my mind. When he told me it was a local band that I had “just missed” my mind was blown again.

I was pretty involved in the Philly scene by that point and spent the next year of my life trying to get a hold of any Fracture records floating around out there. Nobody would part with theirs. I finally got a copy of the second 7″ from Sean Agnew by trading him a cordless phone for it (which I guess were pretty expensive things at the time). Or maybe it was the LP, not the second 7″. Can’t remember which I got first. I just remember the phone seeming like a very reasonable thing to part with to finally own some Fracture wax. After many more months of work I think I finally ended up with two copies of the second 7″, one of Lime, and two copies of the LP. (Had to double up where I could; those records were like gold.)
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It killed me then (still does now) that I missed seeing Fracture live by what had to be the smallest window. I spent a lot of time trying to get information from people about Fracture, just to learn the story, etc. I heard some good bits here and there, but never a fully painted picture.

Life moves on and I’m 34 and I’m in NYC and all professional and white collar and somewhat grown up, but I still listen to punk tracks almost every day at work and at home. Like everyone else, I think, from time to time I hit up google to try and learn something new about some song or band that I already know. I probably hadn’t googled Fracture in a year or so until earlier today when I gave the anthology a spin for the first time in a while. And, whoa — the GoKidGo page came up. The unbelievably detailed GoKidGo Fracture page. With a goldmine of Fracture information. Christmas in April for me. Well Hannukah, whatever.

Anyway I just wanted to drop a note to say thanks for putting all of those posts up. I noticed in the “information” section you say that you put the site up so that “the folks involved could revisit from time to time” — well, believe me, there are probably tons of people out there like me who you never even met who are extremely, extremely appreciative of the effort involved. Thanks so much. Finding this treasure trove really made my day. It’s unreal to me that 15 years after first hearing Fracture – who I’ve long called one of my favorite punk bands ever – I finally actually know the band’s story and its stories. Thank you.

Tom

Thanks Tom! And the photo above is of Fracture playing the 5 Arlington space in Ottawa Ontario the summer of 1995. Photo by the ever talented Shawn Scallen.

FUN FLYER TIME!


A fun site to visit in your down time is Hardcore Show Flyers. While the person running the site is obviously bent towards, “hardcore” in the more 90’s sense of the word, they have done a pretty amazing job archiving hundreds and hundreds of flyers from all over the damn place.

The flyer above is from a show Franklin played down in DC with Born Against. The Mountain Lodge was a small coffee shop space, so people were packed in and it was incredibly fun. Ralph and Roy ended up on the floor of the venue with Sam McPheeters while B.A. was playing. Needless to say, we were fans. Actually, a photo of that incident (I believe) is documented in the Born Against/UOA split 7″ insert.

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MAXIMUM ROCKNROLL – OUR SCENE REPORT

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.