This Was The Scene Podcast

Ultimate Fakebook is a 3-piece power pop band from Manhattan, KS. They released three full-length albums—Electric Kissing Parties (1997 - Noisome Records), This Will Be Laughing Week (1999 - Noisome Records, 2000 - 550 Music/Epic Records), and Open up and Say Awesome (2002 -Initial Records). Shortly after releasing their EP Before We Spark (2003 - Initial Records), they broke up.

I got them on the phone and this is what we talked about:

• Bro Hymn by Pennywise
• Having Falsetto in their songs
• Alternative Music
• Touring with Nada Surf
• Tenacious D
• Their first drummer
• The At The Drive-In / Get Up Kids tour that went through Wayne NJ
• Being the backing band for Reggie and the Full Effect
• Epic Records
• Why they stopped touring
• Playing with KISS
• And a ton more

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Dan Yemin is known for playing in Lifetime, Kid Dynamite and Paint it Black. You should go listen to all of those bands. After you listen to this interview.

After weeks of scheduling, we locked this interview down and here is what we chat about:

• Oktopus co-producing Paint it Black's album New Lexicon
• Using a flyer to start Lifetime
• When they finally found their sound
• Somewhere in the Swamps of Jersey
• Their reunion show in 2005
• The Melody Bar
• Forming Paint it Black
• And a ton more

Thank you, Brian Mcgee, for the intro to Mr. Yemin.

Check out his newest band OPEN CITY

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Texas Is the Reason was an American emo/post-hardcore band founded by former Shelter guitarist Norman Brannon and 108 drummer Chris Daly in 1994. They disbanded in 1997 and held brief reunions in 2006 and 2012–2013

In 1997, on the eve of signing with Capitol Records, the band flew overseas for a European tour. Ongoing intra-band tensions arising from the major label attention reached their apex. The night of the final stop of the tour in Bielefeld, Germany, Daly, and Brannon agreed before the show that if the show was "awesome", it would be their last. Brannon later related, "I walked on stage and we opened with 'Antique' and when Garrett started singing, there were eight hundred Germans singing along with us. I looked at Daly and knew that this was over."

I got Norman on the phone and this is what we talked about:

• The Anti-Matter comp
• What he wanted to find out when he interviewed people
• Working for Keith from Cause For Alarm
• Going to shows at CBGBs
• Dealing with trauma
• Becoming a Hare Krishna
• The song "Do you know who you are?"
• How he got Garrett in the band
• Their reunion shows
• Bands getting paid good money for playing shows
• The slideshow in 2006 at Irving Plaza
• His amp blowing up at a reunion show
• Knowing that they were a possible time bomb at the beginning
• Jets to Brazil
• And a ton more

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Today I chat with Matt Gray about his Bigwig days.

Here's what we talk about:

• Dealing with seizures
• Breaking his femur at a show
• His journal that he's kept every day since 1997
• What the second van was that I talk about in the Tom Petta interview
• Getting scabies
• Having a seizure during a show
• The mixing of the drums on Stay Asleep
• Their song "Friends"
• The Ataris
• Getting kicked out of the band
• The Starting Line
• The Tour with Gob
• And a ton more

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Midtown was an American pop-punk band from New Brunswick, New Jersey. Midtown was formed in November 1998 by three Rutgers University students but soon became a quartet. The group released three full-length studio albums and three extended plays before disbanding in 2005.

• Constantly playing a song on repeat
• The bands that influenced Midtown
• Writing really high notes in Lanemeyer
• His first band which wasn't Professor Plum
• Meeting Josh from Humble Beginnings
• How Midtown formed
• Gabe's usage of big words in songs
• Buying CDs with friends and dubbing them for each other
• Jay Pinball
• New Found Glory
• Their first album being amazing
• Vinnie from I am the avalanche singing background on a Midtown song
• Fenix TX and Drive-Thru Records
• Almost getting fired from the band
• Being roommates with Max Bemis
• And a ton more

Check out his label here http://isurrenderrecords.com/

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Forming in the suburbs of Atlanta while they were still in high school, Whippersnapper was originally called Corpus Spin. The band's five members, guitarists Mike and Jason, drummer Pat, vocalist Andy, and bassist Andy B., decided to adopt the current name fairly soon after the band's founding. Their first recording was a split 7" with Ronin -- soon they were hitting the ground running and touring with punk giants like Green Day, 88 Fingers Louie, and blink-182. Lobster Records issued their first two albums, America's Favorite Pastime (which was released in 1998 when the bandmembers were all 19) and 1999's The Long Walk. The first album featured pretty standard East Bay-influenced hardcore played with youthful energy -- but by the time The Long Walk was issued, the band had moved to L.A. and soaked up enough new influences to produce a more adventurous album that played with rhythm and lyrics, resulting in a more creative product. Appearances Wear Thin, Whippersnapper's first for Fueled by Ramen, appeared three years later.

I got Andy Munn on the Skype and this is what we talked about:

• Jim Cherry
• The propane heater in the van story
• The Jackie Brown story
• Getting on Lobster Records
• Putting on a show for Blink 182 before they were huge
• Staying with weird-ass people
• And a ton more

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Latex Generation is a New York, USA punk rock band formed in the early 1990s. The name was inspired by a news report heard on the radio by bassist Tommy Rockstar that spoke of the current generation of teens and the threat of STDs, especially the AIDS epidemic. The band of young high-schoolers (at that time) agreed to the name "Latex Generation" instead of "Dead Cat Lickers". They are also referred to as "L8XG" or just "LG". They went on to release 2 full-length CDs, 3 7" records, a number of compilation album contributions and toured around the world. They are currently disbanded.

I got Tommy on the Skype and here's what we talked about:

• The difficulties of working for yourself
• How he started screen printing
• His Guns N Roses documentary
• The Peawack in Long Island
• Their logo
• Motherbox Records
• One Foot Records
• Going on their first tour
• The band Tilt
• The Tijuana story
• The Alien Story (you don't want to miss this)
• And a ton more

Check out their website - latexgeneration.com

Check out his screen-printing business here - https://www.underground.press/

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Lobster Records is an independent record label based in Santa Barbara, California. It was founded by Stevan Lubarsky in 1991. The label started with Bad Neighbor, a Montecito-based rock band, with a huge local following featuring Alan Duncan and Mark Bennett on guitars, Sean Murphy on drums, Todd Roll on Bass and Zak Remington on lead vocals. Former members include Lynn Strait on Bass (R.I.P Lynn) and Bobby Champagne on drums (R.I.P Bobby).

Steve went on to develop Buck Wild, featuring Lagwagon guitarist Shawn Dewey, and has since released records from marquee pop-punk acts such as Yellowcard and Over It. They have also started a new label title Oort Records which has signed bands such as Faster Faster and Nottingham.

I got Steve on Skype and this is what we talk about:

• Promoting concerts in College
• How he got the label name
• Book Your Own Fucking Life not being the best resource for him
• Losing the label to a shit deal
• Focussing on artwork and top producers for the brand
• Some Major Labels not knowing how to keep a bands sound
• Joystick and NJ Joystick
• The process of running a label
• His releases being available on victorymerch.com without his knowledge
• How Whippersnapper got on the label
• How he plans on Rebooting the label
• Looking for bands outside of California
• The Whippersnapper MLB logo
• And a ton more

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Piebald is an American alternative rock band who started as a hardcore band in Andover, Massachusetts, out of the same scene that produced Converge and Cave In. Originally a key Massachusetts post-hardcore band often seen touring with fellow DIY hardcore bands such as Jesuit, Reversal of Man, and Harvest during the mid to late 1990s, they later moved to the Boston suburb of Somerville and became a staple of the Greater Boston indie rock scene.

A turning point in Piebald's career came when they recorded seven tracks, and put them on the CD that came to be known as Sometimes Friends Fight. Their musical sound had greatly matured, and Travis' lyrical ability was finally brought to the forefront of the band's music. Another two seven-inches later, Piebald was ready for another metamorphosis.

In 2007 they called it a day, but have since played some shows since then.

I got Travis on the Skype and this is what we talk about:

• Growing up knowing the guys from Cave in and Converge
• Starting off with a heavier sound
• Hydra Head Records
• Their school bus
• The Actuality of Thought Comp
• Sharing the bill with harder bands
• Playing bass for Cave-In
• Big Wheel Records
• The Macrock Story
• Jon Cheese
• The response to All ears, All eyes, All the time
• Doing shows with Dashboard in February 2020
• And a ton more

Check out their tour with Dashboard Confessional in February

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"The Last Scene" will be the FIRST comprehensive chronicle of what many believe is the LAST underground, DIY music scene. One forged in VFW halls and community recreation centers across the United States in the late 1990s/Early 2000s.

This is the story of the punk and emo kids who gave us the last "new" thing in rock music, during an era of change for the music industry and youth culture at large.

Kyle Kilday's objective is to make a feature-length doc that covers about a 10-year period and I envision the narrative being organized chronologically into 3 distinct time-periods: 1997 - 2000 2001 - 2004 2005 - 2007 (with a "Where Are They Now," "What's It All Mean" coda...)

I got Kyle on the phone and this is what we talk about"

• Getting into music because of piano
• The band Drexel
• Jimmy Eat World's album Clarity
• Fred from Taking Back Sunday
• How he's setting up the interviews
• The Kickstarter
• Dealing with music licensing
• And a ton more

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