https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQzJvPZXk2s
eh, there's the youtube should you choose. I had to head there first before posting it to poaltube at any rate. He's the ex-frontman for Avail that started a solo folk career after his punk rock days. He's really pretty good. Makes music that resonates especially w/ me as we're both from RIC and much of the music is specific to the region and surrounding areas in context.
I'm all like, WHAAAT?! A punk band I am unfamiliar with?! But they're very local to Richmond, apparently. I wish they made it out to he scuzzy west coast in the 90s, because I would have certainly booked them, and if I hadn't, my wife would have. She was much more influential in punky hollywood venues, where I was more inland at the time, and worked with so many great bands, as did she.
Heck, I booked bands way out in the so-called 'inland-empire' of California all the way from as far away as France, but here I go getting boastful about ancient history, like Al Bundy or something...
But all that said, this guy dovetails right into my relatively recent obsession with folk / country. He's like an even more raw Hank III, especially lyrically. Thanks for turning me on to a great artist, man!
They toured Europe, played CBGBs or whatever it's called but yeah never really achieved mainstream success. Probably bad business decisions. Was the first punk concert I ever attended when I was 13. I came home w/ a bloody nose and smile on my face.
Fuck, that sounds great! Hell, I don't even remember who was playing when I experienced my moshpit devirginization!
Let me drink another beer here and see if that helps me remember. They were clearly great. Maybe Clawhammer! But no, that's way too late into the early 90s... and it had to have still been the 80s...
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