This Was The Scene Podcast

Rx Bandits are an American four-piece band from California. The band formed in 1995 in Orange County, California. They have appeared on the Vans Warped Tour, Bonnaroo, Coachella, Bamboozle, and plenty of club shows throughout the world I think.

In 2001, after touring on their third album "Progress", Rich left the band, citing frustrations he had with certain aspects of the music industry. He later went to form The Sound of Animals Fighting. They released a trilogy of records between 2004 and 2008, and performed only four live shows, following their second release in 2006. The band's live lineup consisted of 12 different musicians and they often employed the use of animal masks to conceal their identity.

Rich slid into my DMs on IG a while back after he found the Donuts N' Glory interview (Episode 114) and we've been chatting about old scene stuff since then. I wanted to find out about his days in RX Bandits and The Sound of Animals Fighting, so I asked him onto the podcast, he said yes, and this is what we chat about:

• Donuts N Glory
• Flyers
• How The Sound of Animals Fighting got their sound
• Shame about the masks
• No Knife
• Nick from Link 80 writing him a letter
• The ska band shame
• Rejection letter from Mike Park
• How they got on Drive Thru
• Fenix TX
• The Gadjets
• Finch
• Being on the Bloodhound Gang's CD
• And a ton more

Go buy his Revolution on Canvas books and check out all of the music he's created by clicking on the links in the show notes.

Check out all of his other things below:

RxBandits

"Progress" Drive Thru Records

Revolution On Canvas: Poetry From the Indie Music Scene

Volume 1

Volume 2

The Sound of Animals Fighting

"Tiger & the Duke" Equal Vision Records

"Lover, the Lord Has Left Us" Equal Vision Records

"The Ocean and the Sun" Epitaph Records

Pyramids

"S/T" Hydra Head

"Pyramids with Nadja" Hydra Head

"Pyramids/Horseback: A Throne Without a King" Hydra Head

"Mamiffer/Pyramids" Hydra Head

"A Northern Meadow" Profound Lore

Sailors With Wax Wings

"S/T" Angel Oven Records

White Moth

"S/T" Angel Oven Records

Hospital Gown

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In 1992, Tripface was born. They began to organize and play shows with their friends within their small town, in basements, recreation halls, and garages. For the most part, they were parties, gatherings of a handful of skaters, metalheads, and geeks from the local area high schools. The bills were always shared with their friends Grid and a mix of side projects.

Playing a cross of 1990s metalcore and NYHC, the band grew in popularity on Long Island and began to make a dent on the East Coast. After a few months, the band recorded the Closed In demo.

They would go on to play many shows, including CBGBs, the QE2, Right Track Inn, the PWAC, and the Wetlands, sharing stages with bands like Warzone, Sheer Terror, Agnostic Front, Hatebreed, and Outburst. The rest of the information you will find out in this interview.

I think this time Monkey told me about their FB account where I got in touch with Scott and this is what we chat about:

• Loving the obscure hardcore bands
• What was their message
• Getting into fights
• Stony brooks radio station
• How they got on the Weston show I always talk about
• What was Earth Crisis like
• His anxiety with playing large shows
• The reunion show
• Who put their songs on Spotify
• And a ton more

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New York hardcore took a positive turn in December, 1994, when Shutdown emerged on the scene as one of few bands ready to take their music and message to the next level. With an emphasis on old-school values and new school musical sensibility, Shutdown were poised to take over where bands like Warzone, Cro-Mags and Gorilla Biscuits left off. With older members of the NYHC crowd supporting these "kids", success has been a natural transition.

They have played some of the biggest shows in past hardcore history, including one of the two tributes to Raybeez (Warzone) at CBGB's in the fall of 1997. Raybeez himself actually went as far as to state that Shutdown is "the future of hardcore".

Shutdown stopped playing full-time shortly after finishing a quick stint on Warped Tour in 2001. In 2006, Black & Blue invited Shutdown to play the NYC Superbowl of Hardcore which stands as the biggest hardcore show in NYC every year. In 2010, Shutdown announced its rebirth back to playing and doing random shows a few times per year.

I state in the interview that Monkey helped me find the band but it was actually Brian Schatzel who helped connect me. So thank you Brian and I apologize for always saying Monkey introduced me to everyone even though he was done it a lot.

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

• His thoughts on the current hardcore scene
• Andy from Kill Your Idols
• His brothers introducing him to hardcore
• Rick 2 Life
• The home promo video he sent Tony from Victory
• Signing with Victory
• California Takeover
• Why The band suddenly stopped
• Bands not liking them
• Working on a new record
• The Harley story
• And a ton more

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.

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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.

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Seti Alpha Six were a band from New Jersey. There's no write up out there on the internet so this is going to be the only thing really documented about them.

Also, We TRIED to get Joe on the podcast but he was stuck in traffic. So we had to carry on with out him and this is what Matt and I chat about:

• Losing 23% of his hearing
• My band touring with these fools
• Professional skateboarders skating at his house as a kid
• Playing with the Bouncing Souls when they were a funk band
• Recording with pneumonia
• The Rob Heiner piss gun story
• The Stan Hope House
• Rico
• Jay Pinball
• Working on the Vans Warped Tour
• The Shark Song
• The Goose
• And a ton more

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

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This is a REPOST from Episode 078 with Adam about the days of playing with his Pacakge.

I reached out to Adam thanks to Chris Gethard and this is what we talk about:

• His amazing website that still exists
• Chris Gethard
• Buying shitty albums
• the band Fracture
• How he found the Package
• Playing on the Chris Gethard show
• Playing Fest
• Who did his artwork
• The hate-mail he got
• And a ton more

Check out his favorite band, Future of the Left.

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Blount were a skate punk band from Pensacola, Fl. They had splits with Shocking Truth, Strung Out, and put out their only LP on Fearless records in 96.

Thank you Josh Marsh for your intro to Jack who I got on the Skype and this is what we chat about:

• Replacing the first singer
• Playing a show with Rancid on their first tour
• Hanging with Lagwagon
• Opening for Rancid
• Signing to Fearless
• Working with Jim Cherry
• One decision changing the whole band's history
• The photo on Discogs
• Brian Fallon
• And a ton more

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.

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The Militia Group was founded in 1998 by Chad Pearson as a booking agency, booking for artists such as Slick Shoes, Craig's Brother, Dogwood, twothirtyeight, Acceptance, and Element 101. In 2000, Pearson teamed up with Felton to turn the agency into an independent record label based out of Huntington Beach, CA. Some of the bands they signed were Rufio, Noise Ratchet, Copeland, The Rocket Summer, Acceptance, and Cartel. The Militia Group stopped releasing new music in 2012, though its back catalogue is still in print.

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

• The Kansas City scene
• Putting out records when he was 16
• Revelations distribution
• Noise Ratchet
• The Rocket Summer
• Cartel
• Getting burned out
• And a ton more

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

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Dog Pound were early 90's punks with a van-load of attitude from Passaic County, NJ. They toured the US from dive bars to legion halls to basements to pizza joints.

Real quick, the connection we had wasn't great so there are some spots where it sounds like the audio jumps around. That's because there were random delays when Jeff was talking so some stories have weird transitions mid sentence.

I contacted him through his FB account, asked him to chat, he said yes, and this is what we talk about:

• Not starting off punk rock
• Getting told to grow his hair
• What made them start putting on legion hall shows
• Forgetting the words while playing live
• Sound Exchange in Wayne, NJ
• Playing with Jawbox
• Having an edge as a band
• King Dickley Kool
• Getting soured by the scene change
• The Heroine story and shit on the walls stories
• And a ton more

You can visit their Dog Pound bandcamp page to listen to their albums.

You can also check out his songs on bandcamp.

Check out my new book The Couples' Checklist for my webcomic dailyBred. It's a great gift for Valentine's Day.

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Smoke or Fire originally formed in 1998, Originally calling themselves Jericho. Their fan base grew as they played DIY basement shows and small clubs throughout the Northeast. When living in Boston proved too expensive, the quartet moved to Richmond, Virginia to explore the punk rock scene and to work on their second album. They changed their name to Smoke or Fire when they signed to Fat in late 2004. Their debut album, Above the City, was co-produced by Fat Mike of NOFX and was released in March 2005. From there they released 2 more albums before calling a day.

Thank you Casey from Iodine Recordings for the intro to Joe. This interview is awesome so I'm ecstatic for you fine folks to check it out.

Side note, Joe lives in Germany so there's a part where we start talking about where he lives but I don't reference that it's there which would make that part of the conversation confusing.

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

• How he started singing without knowing how to sing
• FSU fucking up the scene
• Playing a show at a club in some random dudes basement
• How they met Tim from Avail
• Quitting their jobs to go on tour with Avail
• Getting signed to Fat
• What he said to Drive Thru
• Touring with Against Me
• The Czech Mafia story
• The Gwomper plane crashing story
• And a ton more

Check out there new release on Iodine Recordings "Beauty Fades" which features Smoke Or Fire's debut EP "Worker's Union" and many other unreleased tracks on vinyl for the first time. It's available for pre-order now through Iodine Recordings with only a few color variants remaining. Available everywhere on May 27.

Check out my new book The Couples' Checklist for my webcomic dailyBred. It's a great gift for Valentine's Day.

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.

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Formed in 1990, Sense Field was one of several contemporary bands to popularize the post-hardcore or "emo" subgenre. The band was initially signed to Revelation Records, releasing three albums, and later signed with Warner Bros. in 1996. However, problems within the label caused the band to sit in limbo for five years as the label was re-staffed multiple times. The band was eventually released from their contract and Sense Field won the right to re-record the album they had originally written for Warner Bros. Records.

They later broke up in 2004. They reunited for Revelation Records 25 Year Anniversary Show. And played again for Jon Bunch's Tribute concert in 2016.

To this day I rock out to Overstand and Outlive The Man on a weekly basis because they are fucking bangers.

I was lucky enough to get guitarist Chris Evenson on the Skype and this is what we chat about:

• Finding their scene
• The Revelation van
• Playing shows with harder sounding bands
• Writing Building
• Getting mixed by Andy Wallace
• Overstand's guitar riff
• Signing to Warner Bros
• What Save Yourself did to the band
• Jon joining Further Seems Forever
• Playing Revelation 25
• How they got the singers for the Jon Bunch Tribute concert
• And a ton more

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 Tom Barrett's song "Together, Together, Together" from the Five Songs EP.

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.