This Was The Scene Podcast

The Rocking Horse Winner was an American indie rock band based in Davie, Florida. They formed in mid-1999 and toured with Dashboard Confessional, Coheed and Cambria, The Format, Bayside, The Blood Brothers, The Weakerthans, Further Seems Forever, Midtown, and a ton. You may remember Jolie's voice in some of the OG Dashboard Songs.

Thank you Casey Iodine for the intro. I got Jolie on the Skype and this is what we chat about:

• Her new band The Darling Fire
• Having stage fright
• How she got connected with Dashboard
• Being on Equal Vision
• Hankshaw's antics at Fest
• Mackrock
• The Coheed story
• The Crazy house in Florida story
• Being in Seventeen magazine
• Did dating someone in the band cause riffs
• How scrappy of a band they were
• And a ton more

Check out her new band The Darling Fire's new album "DISTORTIONS" available on Iodine Recordings. The band features members of

The Rocking Horse Winner, Shai Hulud, Further Seems Forever, and As Friends Rust.

Available on several vinyl variants and CD from Iodine Recordings, iodinerecords.com or at Deathwish Inc. along with new merch designs.

Check out my new book The Couples' Checklist for my webcomic dailyBred. It's a great gift for Valentine's Day. I also have an Instagram for it.

If you market aggressively on Instagram Stories and want custom stickers then go here to get custom stickers or just email [email protected] and I can send you samples. These are great for B2C companies and Realtors.

Feel free to support the podcast for as little as $1 a month through Patreon

Or go to thiswasthescene.com to possibly buy some merch.

Vagrant Records is an American record label that was founded in 1995 by Rich Egan and Jon Cohen. It is home to artists such as Dashboard Confessional, Saves the Day, The Get Up Kids, Senses Fail, and Alkaline Trio, and a ton of others that you know and love.

I asked Rich if he'd like to be on the podcast, he said "Sure man, would love to do your pod." So I got him on the Skype after 30 minutes of trying and this is what we talk about:

• What was the first Vagrant release
• How he started Managing Face to Face
• Signing the Get Up Kids
• The massive Vagrant Tour
• The roadie leaving merch money in NYC story
• What were the best years at Vagrant
• Emanuel's record leaking
• The Vagrant podcast
• His thoughts on Saves the Day on Connan
• Ignorance is Bliss leading to a shit ass tour
• Amy Madden and the Dashboard Story
• And a ton more

Here's a link to Diner Parking Lots

Here's the Arcade Academy Bandcamp

Check out my new book The Couples' Checklist for my webcomic dailyBred. It's a great gift for Valentine's Day. I also have an Instagram for it.

If you market aggressively on Instagram Stories and want custom stickers then go here to get custom stickers or just email [email protected] and I can send you samples. These are great for B2C companies and Realtors.

Feel free to support the podcast for as little as $1 a month through Patreon

Or go to thiswasthescene.com to possibly buy some merch.

Eyeball Records is an independent record label originally established in NYC out of Apartment 4C on 14th St at Avenue A. The label later moved to Kearny, New Jersey. They've released albums by artists such as H20, Thursday, My Chemical Romance, Humble Beginnings, Pency Prep, and Murder by Death. In 2020 the label began releasing exclusive cassette and t-shirt bundles exclusively through The Hyv.

I heard about Eyeball for the first time when Humble put out their EP which we talk about in this interview. So I thought getting Alex on here would be a fine idea, he agree, and this is what we chat about:

• Eyeball starting back up
• Internal fuck ups on some releases
• Recording at the studio where Tupac was shot
• Getting help from Greg GoKart Records
• The Eyeball house
• How the H20 release was funded
• The aggressive lore that surrounded him
• Humble Beginnings
• Becoming homeless
• His relationship with Warner Bros
• The Gaslight Anthem record that never saw the light of day
• And a ton more

Go check out their website for the latest releases at eyeballrecords.org.

Check out my new book The Couples' Checklist for my webcomic dailyBred. It's a great gift for Valentine's Day. I also have an Instagram for it.

If you market aggressively on Instagram Stories and want custom stickers then go here to get custom stickers or just email [email protected] and I can send you samples. These are great for B2C companies and Realtors.

Feel free to support the podcast for as little as $1 a month through Patreon

Or go to thiswasthescene.com to possibly buy some merch.

Threadline were a post hardcore band from NJ. The life of the band was short lived but this was one of the very first bands that I met in the scene who my old band used to play shows with. Craig also did a bit of a run promoting shows under NOISExtra. From there he went on to do Elemae, and a ton of other bands.

I got Craig on the Skype and this is what we chat about:

• The NJ show where someone stole the cannon ball
• Joe Pulito taking forever with replies
• How he started throwing shows with NOISExtra
• Elizabeth from Hot Topic
• The Shades Apart show in White Meadow Lake
• Camber
• Ignition rebrand because of Oasis
• Did he tour over seas
• Do we love writing or playing music these days
• And a ton more

Check out his latest band The Atlantic Union Project.

Check out my new book The Couples' Checklist for my webcomic dailyBred. It's a great gift for Valentine's Day. I also have an Instagram for it.

If you market aggressively on Instagram Stories and want custom stickers then go here to get custom stickers or just email [email protected] and I can send you samples. These are great for B2C companies and Realtors.

Feel free to support the podcast for as little as $1 a month through Patreon

Or go to thiswasthescene.com to possibly buy some merch.

This is a REPOST of my interview with Travis Keller (episode 62) about the days of Buddyhead. Here is what we chat about:

• Meeting people through his photography
• Calling Dave Navaro
• How they got so many phone numbers
• Living in Tarzana
• The Icarus Line
• The Transplants not digging one of the posts
• Fred Durst
• Is he still down with Buddyhead following him
• Drive-thru Records
• And a ton more

Check out his new project http://americanprimitive.org/

Check out my new book The Couples' Checklist for my webcomic dailyBred. It's a great gift for Valentine's Day. I also have an Instagram for it.

If you market aggressively on Instagram Stories and want custom stickers then go here to get custom stickers or just email [email protected] and I can send you samples. These are great for B2C companies and Realtors.

Feel free to support the podcast for as little as $1 a month through Patreon

Or go to thiswasthescene.com to possibly buy some merch.

Nowhere Fast were a pop punk band from New Jersey. You may remember them from their 2 songs that were on the Pinball Records comp and their split with LWL. You may also remember their cover of Crowded House's "Don't Dream It's Over" on the Making Decisions about Punk compilation.

They had a short lifespan and 2 of their members (Heath and Tyler) went on to join Gabe Saporta's brain child, Midtown. We talk about this at the end of the interview which is quite entertaining.

Side note, the band I'm trying to think of later on in the interview who was from Chicago is Man Dingo.

I've had many many many people ask for this interview so luckily I got in touch with Ryan and this is what we chat about:

• His new book out that's called Nimrod
• The Bound Brook flood
• Jay Turon
• Matt Haick
• Big Wig
• The Heathcliff cover
• Breaking up before the split with LWL
• Heath and Tyler going off to be in Midtown
• Gabe Saporta
• Ben from Dillinger managing Merciana
• being the light guy for Dillinger for a tour
• And a ton more

Go check out his new book "Nimrod"

And go hire his dog walking business if you have a pet that needs to be taken care of. Dog Days NJ

Check out my new book The Couples' Checklist for my webcomic dailyBred. It's a great gift for Valentine's Day. I also have an Instagram for it.

If you market aggressively on Instagram Stories and want custom stickers then go here to get custom stickers or just email [email protected] and I can send you samples. These are great for B2C companies and Realtors.

Feel free to support the podcast for as little as $1 a month through Patreon

Or go to thiswasthescene.com to possibly buy some merch.

Stick Figure Suicide was a punk rock band from Milltown, New Jersey. The band was formed in 1997, and were part of the emerging emo-punk rock scene of the late 1990s in the Northeast. Their music has been described as a mastery of "old-school hardcore moves and hyperspeed tempos" with clean, precise, over-driven guitars, and they are classified as a blend of fast and melodic hardcore-punk, with lyrics that are occasionally humorous. They drew comparison to the music of the hardcore punk band Minor Threat, and even Against All Authority. Maximumrocknroll described their songs on the Road Kill EP Split with Mohawk Barbie as "displaying some pretty good energy of their own with their early '90s style hardcore.

I got Paul on the Skype and this is what we chat about:

• How to develop a screaming voice
• Dave Smalley
• Trash this CD comp
• Slicing his hands up at their first show
• Vintage Vinyl
• Their drummer over selling them to get them on shows
• Their song Dred
• Playing with Anti Flag
• Getting in a fist fight
• The Road Kill EP
• Meeting Dave Smalley
• And a ton more

Check out his latest band Sophistipunx.

Check out my new book The Couples' Checklist for my webcomic dailyBred. It's a great gift for Valentine's Day. I also have an Instagram for it.

If you market aggressively on Instagram Stories and want custom stickers then go here to get custom stickers or just email [email protected] and I can send you samples. These are great for B2C companies and Realtors.

Feel free to support the podcast for as little as $1 a month through Patreon

Or go to thiswasthescene.com to possibly buy some merch.

Formed in early October of 1995, Boxer was a Boston-based four piece fast on the rise in the indie scene. With aggressive, heartfelt lyrics Boxer delivered the finest in east-coast punk. They managed to share the stage with acts such as Lagwagon, Weston, Lifetime, Screw 32, Good Riddance, Jimmy Eat World, and Bracket. Their debut and only album, "The Hurt Process," was put out on Vagrant Records as the labels first release. The band broke up soon after that release and Dave and Will went on to form The Lot Six.

Thank you again Casey from Iodine Recordings for connecting us

• Just wanting to be a pop punk band
• Passing on being the singer for Big D and the Kids Table
• Playing a show with Lifetime
• Being Vagrant's first band
• Rama from Big Wheel
• Recording with Trevor Keith
• How signing to Vagrant effected the crowd size
• Auditioning for Kid Dynamite
• Chris leaving to play with The Dillinger Escape Plan
• Their guitarist going off to play with Jared Leto and Tom Delonge
• The Lot Six
• Getting a gun pulled on them
• And a ton more

Go check out his latest band Beat Awfuls on bandcamp.

Check out my new book The Couples' Checklist for my webcomic dailyBred. It's a great gift for Valentine's Day. I also have an Instagram for it.

If you market aggressively on Instagram Stories and want custom stickers then go here to get custom stickers or just email [email protected] and I can send you samples. These are great for B2C companies and Realtors.

Feel free to support the podcast for as little as $1 a month through Patreon

Or go to thiswasthescene.com to possibly buy some merch.

Saves the Day is an American rock band from Princeton, New Jersey, that formed in 1997. They released their debut studio album, Can't Slow Down, in 1998. It was followed by Through Being Cool in 1999, which featured their first single, "Shoulder to the Wheel". Stay What You Are was released in 2001, peaking at No. 100 on the Billboard 200. It spawned two successful music videos on MTV2, for the singles "At Your Funeral" and "Freakish", and has since sold 300,000 copies.

Thank you to Andy Luca from the new jersey pop punk 1994 - 2002 group for posting a link to Bryan's website which lead to me getting in touch with him.

I got Bryan on the Skype and this is what we chat about

• Quitting the band
• The Earth Crisis yogurt show
• Sounding like Lifetime
• Eben joining the band
• The Stryder
• Getting stage fright
• Psychodelics
• Staying in Gerard Butler's apartment while recording Stay What You Are
• The Jimmy Chamberlin story
• In Reverie
• And a ton more

Go check out the band Soul Glo that Bryan talks about.

This week's sponsor is Mint 400 Records.

Mint 400 Records is an indie record label from NJ with bands across the United States, Canada, and Europe. The label features everything from Indie Rock & Folk to Post-Punk and Soul. Over 400 exciting releases.

You can find Mint 400 Records' releases streaming at Spotify, Pandora, Tidal, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Deezer, and more or at all mp3 outlets worldwide. Visit www.mint400records.com for links and more info.

Here's a clip from their artist Yawn Mower's song "Sixteen Minutes" from their forthcoming release To Each Their Own Coat.

Check out my new book The Couples' Checklist for my webcomic dailyBred. It's a great gift for Valentine's Day. I also have an Instagram for it.

If you market aggressively on Instagram Stories and want custom stickers then go here to get custom stickers or just email [email protected] and I can send you samples. These are great for B2C companies and Realtors.

Feel free to support the podcast for as little as $1 a month through Patreon

Or go to thiswasthescene.com to possibly buy some merch.

The Jazz June was formed in 1996 by students attending Kutztown University. The group recorded its first full-length album in 1997; their first two albums were recorded through Canadian record label Workshop Records. In 1998, the band signed with Initial Records and went on to release three albums through the record label. They disbanded in 2003 after four full-length albums, but reunited for benefit shows in 2006 and the release of an outtakes-and-rarities compilation the following year. In 2014, the group announced they were reforming and releasing new material on Topshelf Records.

I got Andrew on the Skype and here's what we chat about:

• The meaning of Jazz June
• Taco Bell
• People we dislike from high school
• City Gardens
• Jon Cheese and punk rock realtors
• Making Rolling Stone's top 40 list
• J Robbins
• When the drums kick in
• The Built to Spill story
• And a ton more

Check out the release of their album The Medicine on tape by Friend Club Records.

Check out his new band Post Skeleton

Check out my new book The Couples' Checklist for my webcomic dailyBred. It's a great gift for Valentine's Day. I also have an Instagram for it.

If you market aggressively on Instagram Stories and want custom stickers then go here to get custom stickers or just email [email protected] and I can send you samples. These are great for B2C companies and Realtors.

Feel free to support the podcast for as little as $1 a month through Patreon

Or go to thiswasthescene.com to possibly buy some merch.