Welcome everyone to the SEASON 1 FINALE OF This Was The Scene, the podcast that takes a look back at the late 90s / early 2000 Nj Jersey Punk scene, I am your host, Mike Doyle.

Chris Barker is the reason I started playing music. We became best friends when we were 14, created Congress of Cow altogether which later became Lanemeyer. As you will hear in this episode, lanemeyer was a shit show. But this episode is more than just the oral history of Lanemeyer. It’s a conversation between 2 close friends over a few beers and some cheap chardonnay talking about the past 20 years. I’m not going to lie, this interview goes all over the place and is just about 3 hours long after I chopped 30 minutes off of it but I don’t care. I loved re-listening to it after I did the edit and I think this is the longest Chris and I have talked on the phone since we were in high school.

It’s the perfect bookend to this season and you’ll see why because here is what we talk about:

• How we found Flipside
• Doug Robinsons potty mouth
• My Mike Ziobro deli meat story
• Buying the wrong Blink’s first album
• How we first met
• Sandin Feuss kicking his ass in guitar
• His disgust for the Beatles
• My love for PM Dawn
• Our Coffee House show where we got kicked off the stage
• His fear of playing live shows
• The Face to Face w/ Guttermouth show at Tramps
• The Congress of Cow days
• Chris finding out about Static Prevails
• How he writes lyrics
• Our love for Spanish Love Songs
• Stories for the Big Screen
• Our revolving door of guitar players
• The moment he decided to quit the band
• the Sean Smith voicemail
• his stint at Drive Thru after he quit the band
• the midtown show in Orlando Florida
• Day at the Fair
• His bromance with Josh Humble
• Lots of randomness
• the song he wrote about my divorce
• And a ton more

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