Flipper Live 1980-81
Target VideoWow, this thing is a relic. Two full Flipper concerts from back when Will Shatter was not only alive but still had hair—including their opening slot for Throbbing Gristle's final show during which he somehow managed to snap the entire head off his bass without noticing. The best part though is when they turn the cameras away from the mess onstage and give you a glimpse of what the band's fans looked like in the early days. Are you ready for this? They were all total nerds. Seriously, the first show on this disc looks like the dance scene in Sixteen Candles set to some of the sludgiest, most barely-together music ever recorded. It's awesome. If I were a cool older guy who ran a record store or a skate shop where kids came to hang out, this would constantly be playing on a TV in the background.
LUKE TOYNBEE"Love Canal." Not too many good crowd shots, but solid jam nonetheless.Skinhead Army
Sab Grey
Skinflint PressI have no idea why, but somehow I convinced myself that this book was going to be really, really good. Maybe it's because I always considered Iron Cross a little smarter than all the English skinhead bands they took from. Or maybe, like the owner of the liquor store I was in last night whose eyes were welling up as he described the plot of Seabiscuit over the phone, I am just a sucker for an underdog with "a heart and spirit like you just wouldn't believe." I don't know. In any case, I was wrong. This book is pretty fucking terrible. And it's not just because the language is goofy. Sab actually seems like a pretty strong writer as far as describing things and syntax go—the problem is the plot reads like something an angry 15-year-old would have put together during in-school suspension. A tough-but-thoughtful skinhead and his two best buds (a mod and a regular punk) go for drinks at the local old-man bar then beat up a bunch of hippies after they set off a firecracker inside and it triggers a Korean War flashback in one of the regulars. No joke, that's the entire first chapter. I can't tell you what happens after that, because ever since reading the Korean War vet tell "Grey" and his pals "You boys are good boys" when they return from their beatdown, I've been too embarassed to even look at my copy of the book.Fingers crossed for the next one, though (honest).
LEROY GUMPTION
Target VideoWow, this thing is a relic. Two full Flipper concerts from back when Will Shatter was not only alive but still had hair—including their opening slot for Throbbing Gristle's final show during which he somehow managed to snap the entire head off his bass without noticing. The best part though is when they turn the cameras away from the mess onstage and give you a glimpse of what the band's fans looked like in the early days. Are you ready for this? They were all total nerds. Seriously, the first show on this disc looks like the dance scene in Sixteen Candles set to some of the sludgiest, most barely-together music ever recorded. It's awesome. If I were a cool older guy who ran a record store or a skate shop where kids came to hang out, this would constantly be playing on a TV in the background.
LUKE TOYNBEE
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Sab Grey
Skinflint PressI have no idea why, but somehow I convinced myself that this book was going to be really, really good. Maybe it's because I always considered Iron Cross a little smarter than all the English skinhead bands they took from. Or maybe, like the owner of the liquor store I was in last night whose eyes were welling up as he described the plot of Seabiscuit over the phone, I am just a sucker for an underdog with "a heart and spirit like you just wouldn't believe." I don't know. In any case, I was wrong. This book is pretty fucking terrible. And it's not just because the language is goofy. Sab actually seems like a pretty strong writer as far as describing things and syntax go—the problem is the plot reads like something an angry 15-year-old would have put together during in-school suspension. A tough-but-thoughtful skinhead and his two best buds (a mod and a regular punk) go for drinks at the local old-man bar then beat up a bunch of hippies after they set off a firecracker inside and it triggers a Korean War flashback in one of the regulars. No joke, that's the entire first chapter. I can't tell you what happens after that, because ever since reading the Korean War vet tell "Grey" and his pals "You boys are good boys" when they return from their beatdown, I've been too embarassed to even look at my copy of the book.Fingers crossed for the next one, though (honest).
LEROY GUMPTION