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!FRANKLIN / FRACTURE SHOW PROPAGANDA

| Brian

Here’s a total surprise.

I’m not sure why, but for one or two shows, Franklin and Fracture thought it would be productive and valuable to furthering our agenda to create, print and distribute propaganda fliers at our shows. Each band created double-sided hand-outs that seemed to introduce folks to our methodology.

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P.S – This might be the only time !Franklin went on record as describing where our band name came from.

P.S.S. – I have a feeling revisiting this Fracture insert will inspire Jeb for some additional commenting.

SOME OLD FLYERS AND RANDOM PHOTOS

| Brian

Dug up some oldies…this flyer was for a show at the thunderous 508 House in Tom’s River, NJ. This was the final show of the Fracture/Franklin summer tour of 1995. That’s actually a picture of me singing for Astir-Few on the flyer.

These two photos of Franklin playing a Cabbage Collective Show at the church at 48th & Baltimore appeared in a zine that I no longer have. Looks like I just kept the photos. The ego, I tell ya.

From what I can recall, these photos were taken from a show we played with Hoover and Hose.Got.Cable but I can’t be sure.


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These two photos were taken in a basement outside of Baltimore, MD. in the fall of 1996. Franklin went on a 2 month US tour taking Atom and Schumow with us. Fracture had disbanded, so Atom had been spending time learning how to use sequencers and 4-tracks to record his own music. Atom booked the tour for us so we wanted him to also play some of his songs before we played on the tour. So, at each show, he’d perform 3 or 4 songs.

This was the start of Atom & His Package and this show here in this basement, I believe, was Atom’s first, actual performance as Atom & His Package.

Another flyer I found of a show that was held out in the Philadelphia suburbs. While we didn’t play the show that’s me playing guitar in Franklin on the flyer.

FRACTURE/FRANKLIN 1994 TOUR DIARY!

| Brian

Thanks to Roy for digging this gem up! I present to you, Atom Goren’s tour diary of the first Fracture/Franklin US tour with a nice intro from Atom himself, now 36 years old…

Here it is…. sorry for the large censored portions. I am a scaredy cat. While there is a little embarrassment reading some of the stuff from the 19 year old version of me, it’s certainly fun to fill in the cracks in my memory from a wonderful time with awesome people. I know I have pictures that accompany so many of the entries somewhere… like the one with Jeb and the Indianapolis next door neighbors’ kids… Ralph and the limousine driver in Ohio, us at the salt flats in Utah…. just not sure exactly where they are right now.

It’s particularly cool to see the birth of Roy’s love for the dragon tattoo that he ended up getting, documented. If anyone is interested, I can email the uncensored version, though the uncensored version basically is the same, but includes a lot of references to things like going to the bathroom, which a self-respecting (and employed) teacher doesn’t do.

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TRUE HIGH FIDELITY DEMO

| Brian

Thanks to Atom and his summer break from teaching for unearthing this long thought lost gem!

True High Fidelity, when originally formed, featured Mark Scott of Fracture on singing duties. It was short lived, but this iteration of the gang recorded a demo. At the time, sadly, I recall people thought Mark’s singing sounded odd which is odd in itself because, listening now, it sounds pretty fucking righteous. I had believed there were three songs recorded for this demo, but Atom only came across two. Two is of course better than none.

I shot Mark an email to fill in some of the details and here’s what he had to say:

“Following the first Fracture and Franklin tour of 94, I’d become acquainted with the boys of True High Fidelity. Liked them all. Dave and Josh were hilarious. Chris was charmingly psychotic. Tim was the world’s nicest guy. When they asked if I’d like to sing with them, I was a) honored, b) excited to work with new personalities, c) excited to sing, and d) excited to work on music that was stylistically very different from that of the other band I was in and loved. We got along famously for a while, and in December of 1994, sojourned to Baltimore to record three songs at Social Services with the great Tony French. As happened with Chris O’Neil during the recording of the Fracture LP, I lost my voice from a combination of too many cigarettes in the freezing cold and too much barking into a microphone. We scrapped my vocals, and I resolved to record them back home at Chill Factor. My vocals were recorded by Eric Horwitz.

Shortly after the recording, I was dismissed from the band. With the benefit of hindsight, I think there were two factors. For one, I’d gone batshit crazy. For the other, the boys were moving away from their DC influences and gravitating (pun intended) towards the San Diego destructo sound, and were eager to scream and be crazy. In all honesty, they were much better at this than I was, and I think I enjoyed watching them after my exit as much as I enjoyed performing with them. I did, however, miss it.
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My final show with True High Fidelity was on my birthday, March 2, 1995, opening for our heroes Trenchmouth at Haverford University. I drank two 40’s and smoked a joint with Staley in the van just prior to our performance. I was most likely horrible, and hope no video exists, but I did enjoy it. I do think back on my time with those guys fondly. (Ed. note – I forgot all about this! I think Mark spent a good 40 minutes passed out in his mother’s mini-van from being too mucked up!)

Thanks Mark! Enjoy!

True Hi Fi – Mark 1

True Hi Fi – Mark 2

FRACTURE – FIRST DEMO

| Brian

Believe it or not, I was actually able to get someone’s thoughts on a topic other than my own. A novel idea if I do say so myself. After some mild harassment, Atom sent me this great article about Fracture’s formation and the recording of the very first Fracture demo. While it never was officially released, the two songs here were made available on the Fracture CD discography that No Idea released. Sadly, there seems to be no trace of the original four song demo so I fear that two of the songs might be lost to time. Anyways, here’s Atom!

Fracture started originally I think with two singers, Jeff (traded from Up in Arms/Pleasant Greene for three first round draft picks and a player to be named later), who departed soon after for Public Descent and Chris, who would remain singing for the duration of the band. For its initial few months, Jeremy Rockett played guitar, Jeb Bell played bass and his younger brother Rob Bell played drums. I joined on a few months later, and though Jeremy had a way cooler name for playing music, for some reason, I stayed on as guitar barre chord player while he moved on to Public Descent. Iā€™m pretty sure this separation happened the morning that we were to play a show at J.C. Dobbs in downtown Philadelphia. I donā€™t remember the details. Jeb, Chris and I played together for about six years as Fracture with some significant changes that I think Brian described in another post.

After we played for a few months, we had decided that it was time to record a 4 song demo that we were hoping to put out on Elbohead Records as a 7ā€. At the time, we were in 10th & 11th grades and though we were of similar ages as The Random Children (also better looking, wealthier and better athletes), from my perspective, they felt kind of like older brothers with respect to a playing music. The Random Children had been a cohesive band for a lot longer than us, had played shows, had a member who actually lived in Philadelphia proper and was made up entirely of members who wanted to be in the band. It seemed that Jeb conscripted his younger brother Rob to play drums for us, and while Rob seemed happy(-ish, anyways) to oblige, it seemed like heā€™d way rather be fixing up cars than playing with us. Regardless, whatever Jeb was threatening Rob with to keep him in the band was working and we were ready to record a few songs after a summer of practicing.

At this period in Fracture, we all (perhaps Rob excluded, because he liked artists the rest of us snobbily thought were ridiculous like Led Zeppelin, Black Album era Metallica & Yanni) adored Operation Ivy. This led Chris to frequently ask that our songs become exactly like they had been arranged, only ā€˜more skaā€™. We looked to our older/wiser bandfriends the Random Children since we had no idea about who recorded bands, how they recorded them and clearly how much was fair for someone to charge recording a band. We ended up recording at Jim Feminoā€™s studios in the summer of 1991 because the Random Children had recorded their 7ā€ there. The recording cost us $800 or so, which at the time, considering the average gallon of gas was $1.12, was probably too much money for a band to pay that had, at nearly a majority share, sported solid state Peavey amps.

If my memory serves me correctly, my dad drove me back from the week down the shore with the family a day early so I could record my guitar parts after Jeb and Rob recorded the bass and drums. It was partially a memorable time, because during that early week in August, 1991, the steeple from the Oreland Presbyterian Church, which was located across the street from where many of us went to elementary school, was separated from the church during a very rare tornado. I remember driving by it with my dad on the way to the recording studio, with my solid state Fender Princeton Chorus (thatā€™s right! Jebā€™s got the Peavey!) amplifier, which I KNEW would be the last amp that Iā€™d ever have to buy because:

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– It had chorus BUILT IN to the amp! Holy shit!
– It sounded great at a volume that wouldnā€™t disturb a lightly sleeping brother in the next room.

Anyway, here are two songs that ended up on the Fracture discography ā€“ not sure where the DAT went with the additional two songs (I believe they were called Me & Lime).

We ended up NOT putting these on a 7ā€ and ended up waiting until the fall of 1991/spring of 1992 to record the ā€˜Limeā€™ 7ā€ at ā€˜Rubber Grooveā€™ studios in East Falls. Thatā€™s another story though.

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