I stumbled across this photo of Franklin playing quite randomly. A fella by the name of Bryan Sargent (why does that name sound familiar?) has a flickr page with thousands of photos. Towards the end, there’s a whole slew of interesting shots taken in Philadelphia of several bands including The Smash Everyone Jazz Quartet, Spirit Assembly and several others…
Make sure you go take a peek!
No details available about this picture but it sure is Ralph up close and personal.
Again, working my way through some photo albums and I came across this picture I snapped somewhere on tour in 1996. This would have been on the tour Franklin and Goodbye, Blue Monday took together across the US with Atom as our ever faithful, responsible tour manager.
Remind me to ask Atom to give a written, detailed account of the time he was detained at the Canadian border trying to bring equipment into Canada so that our bands could play. It’s a true horror story.
Anyways, I just love this photo of Greg, Ralph, Josh and Tim. Often, playing shows on tour is the least entertaining part of the adventure. Moments like these, stopped on the side of a deserted highway looking out over the vast nothingness that exists outside our own experience is what makes the travel worthwhile.
Enjoy!
One of the unfortunate things that I have not been able to settle on is the correct spelling of, “flier”. Or is it “flyer”? I refuse to look it up because it seems like something I should know but alas, I do not.
Anywhoo, just a quick find here today.
Tim linked me via. “the Facebook” to this flier posted on this fellas page.
I can’t recall a thing about this show but please make note the polite comment on the bottom of the flier/flyer.
“Please bring some money for the touring bands.” Ah, the 90’s.
There isn’t much to say about this one. One year, getting ready for the road, we decided to make tshirts that would feature our faces. I shot these pictures using my old Minolta 35mm camera. Again, this was before digital so the oddly, out of focused edges were thanks to a shallow depth of field. Well, that and an old Minolta 35mm.
Ralph did his very best ODB impersonation while I wore aluminum foil on my teeth to make them look like platinum fronts.
Josh looks 12.
I still have this screen in my basement so someday, I think I might bomb the city with Franklin face stencils.
So, I just watched the 1979 Disney movie The Black Hole. Somewhere between 5 and 9 years old, it was one of my favorites. I thought it might be nice to revisit. Sadly, it doesn’t quite hold up.
Today, I received these three awesome additions from Chris.
The first one up top there was an unused advertisement originally meant for Maximum Rock n Roll. Elbohead was sort of a disaster from the get go and any real organized release schedule never existed. After the Four N’ Three is 7″ we had planned a split 7″ with Fracture and Pleasant Greene called Eastern View. I believe Pleasant Greene was a short lived band with Matt Lieberman and Atom Goren, perhaps post Cut-Short. Atom? Can you help?
Clearly, this didn’t happen. The advertisement you see here was poorly drawn by yours truly.
This flyer (I believe) was from our first Fracture/!Franklin US tour however, I really can’t say. It’s a terrible flyer tho and I’m proud to say that no one I know was involved in making it.
This last one is a letter sent to Fracture from Shedder Records asking them to be a part of a compilation they were putting out. I think we all thought that by Fracture being on this comp. they would sky-rocket to punk success (which at the time meant, being on a label other than one we ran ourselves).
Clearly, this didn’t happen either.
