A PHOTO PHANTASY!

I guess they say that pictures often speak for themselves. I’m not sure if that’s true when it comes to old photos of teenage kids in a very specific period of their lives but I thought it couldn’t hurt to give it a whirl.

With that being said, this post is filled with photos. Lots and lots of photos. They don’t have a direct correlation to one another and in many instances, they fall out of chronological order. For folks reading this blog, those who weren’t there when these pictures were taken, they might serve as nothing more than reminders of your own youth, discovering music, friendship and the little joys you reflect back upon with fondness. I can say that each of these photos stirs something entirely different in me. While nostalgia can be a deadly thing, it’s a wonderful place to visit from time to time.


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More to come for sure! Thanks to Jeff Vaders for scanning and sending these along!

THE TAZMANIANS – FINAL RECORDINGS

Today, we’ve got the rest of the recordings I have of The Tazmanians. The first post I put up about our songs targeted the music we had recorded over the summer of 1989.

This final batch were all recorded at various times prior to The Tazmanians morphing into The Random Children somewhere in the spring of 1990. By this time, we were sophomores in High School when our friend, Haim Koenig introduced us to a fella named Ralph Darden.

Ralph grew up in Mount Airy, the final stop in the city of Philadelphia before one succumbs to the suburban wasteland. Haim knew Ralph because they had played in a band together called Grooving Power. Haim, always the most direct of people, thought The Tazmanians were good, but that our singer Ron wasn’t all that keen. Because Haim was a year older than us and had a way more impressive record collection than any of us, we pretty much considered him, “Right” in most topics about music and bands. So, one night, Haim brought Ralph to one of our practices at Niles Martin’s parents house. We liked Ralph instantly. A few weeks later, Haim would bring Ralph to see us play at Springfield High School’s Battle of the Bands (photos coming!). We sort of knew instantaneously that we wanted Ralph to be our singer. He was hilarious, creative and most of all, fucking punk. He was from the city (which gave us the feeling of being way cooler than we were) and he knew about the city, he knew kids in the city…it just made sense. Plus, he could sing.

Thus, being completely shallow, self-absorbed High School kids, we kicked Ron out (a life-long friend at the time) and Ralph joined. Kind, kids are not. Especially kids in bands.

Here are some photos I dug up from the particular night we met Ralph for the very first time. It’s odd to have a visual document of the moment you meet someone who will go on to be one of your longest running friends…but I’m glad we do!


T.J., Ron and Brian. You can see Ralph sitting in the doorway between T.J. and Ron.


Ron


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Brian


Greg

End – Recorded 9/18/1989

Take a Stand – Recorded 11/4/1989

Reunion Time – Recorded 11/4/1989

In the Past – Recorded 12/9/1989

Thieves Guild – Recorded 12/9/1989

RANDOM CHILDREN PLAY WITH FUGAZI – 3/2/91


In 1991, Random Children seemed to be doing pretty well. Of course, doing anything at all was success in and of itself. We were probably playing one show per month and it seemed, that people liked the fact that there were some new bands playing around Philadelphia. Looking back, I have to assume that they were happy to see anyone doing anything since it couldn’t have been our music they were into because frankly, we weren’t that good. However, there are moments during the brief history of that band that make me think, “Hmmm, maybe we weren’t that bad”.

I remember Ralph calling me at home one evening late in January 1991. I was hanging out in my room listening to records and Ralph seemed particularly excited. He explained to me that Random Children had been asked to play a WKDU show at Drexel University with Fugazi.

Now, there are very few moments in my life that I can look back and say, without hesitation, that I almost peed my pants in excitement but this was one of those moments. Being 16 years old and having the opportunity to play a show with (what was then) our most favorite of favorite bands was like…jesus, I don’t know how one could even describe it.

Needless to say, we were excited. The show happened at the Creese Student Center and all I seem to remember is stepping out onto stage and being completely amazed by the number of people who were about to watch our mediocre band. It looked like a sea of heads sans bodies and was definitely more people than I had ever seen at a show. Of course, looking back now, it was probably about 1000 people, less than a sold out show at the Church or Starlight Ballroom, but still…it looked incredible.

I don’t remember much of playing the show because I think I was to in awe of the experience. Here we were…playing our very own songs…punk songs that we wrote about our limited experiences growing up thus far…in front of a sea of people…opening up for Fugazi…a band that we considered to represent everything we believed music could and should be.

Here are some photos from the show. Sadly, I don’t recall who took them.

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I also had to throw in this, “official” flier for the show. Look at what was possible with 1991 computer technology!

Here’s a YouTube clip of Fugazi from that show. Sadly, I couldn’t locate any Random Children footage although, I know it does occasionally still play late at night on Drexel’s television station which is kind of funny.

During the set, I stood just over Ian’s amp filming the show with my parents VHS recorder…that’s my arm leaning against the wall at random times. That camera was damn heavy. Now ask me where that video I shot is located…

RANDOM CHILDREN – NURSERY SCHOOL 7″


After we had recorded the 4 and 3 is 7″, we quickly realized it wasn’t all that great on the sonic front of things. I still remember getting the test press back and thinking, “Jesus the vocals are loud”. It’s funny to remember how clueless we were back then about anything having to do with recording or pressing a record. I’m convinced I thought that the plant that would cut the record would, “fix” the vocals and send us back a perfect sounding 7″ record. Duh.

Nonetheless, I don’t remember a single person saying to any of us, “My god man, this 7″ is horrid! The mix is unlistenable and the songs themselves are juvenile at best!” Thus, we carried on!

We continued to play shows around Philly and we might have even played a show or two outside of Philadelphia. When it did come time to record another 7″, we finally figured out that we should probably do it in a “real” studio. The real studio we discovered was run by a fella named, Jim Femino.

I had met Jim a few months prior to recording with him because, at the time I was finishing up becoming an Eagle Scout of all things, and part of that process was to intern at a place of business that interested you. Recording music seemed like a logical choice. So once the internship was over, and because none of us really knew any other recording studios or how one might even find one, we went to Jim’s.

Jim’s claim to fame (other than running a studio out of his basement in Royersford, Pennsylvania) was that he was a founding member of the band, Boston. While, I don’t think Jim ever made it onto any of the records, he swears by this fact and we didn’t really care one way or the other.
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We recorded these four songs over a couple of days and at the end of it, spent what was to us, an obscene amount of money. I believe it was close to $1000. While still not a great recording, it at least sounded more like a band that recorded in a place that had a lot of things that light up and flash, and that was better than nothing. Jim still seems to be doing stuff with music.

Contradiction

2 Sides

Nursery School

Song X

RANDOM CHILDREN IN A BASEMENT

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.