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Slapstick is a punk-ska band from the Chicago area that was primarily active from 1993 to 1996. Started by a group of friends from the Elgin area, the group took inspiration from Operation Ivy and the guttural punk vocals of Crimpshrine. According to Wikipedia.

They went on to form bands such as The Broadways, Tuesday, The Lawrence Arms, The Honor system, and Alkaline Trio. The Broadways and Tuesday spent a week in Jersey in late 99 where my old band got to play a few shows with them and then we did our last tour with Brendan's current band Lawrence Arms for almost 2 months in late 2000 which was one of the best times of my life.

I heard of Slapstick in the Summer of 97 when ska was pretty giant and I fell in love with the song "There's a metal head in the parking lot" because it was poppy, honest and super fucking catchy. I reached out to Brendan to see if he'd like to reminisce, he said yes, and this is what we talked about:

• His punk rock babysitter as a child
• His psychedelic music recordings with Chris from Lawrence Arms
• Not knowing what ska was before joining Slapstick
• The Chicago scene
• How the band formed
• How he established his vocal style
• His love of the Goo Goo Dolls
• Getting signed to Asian Man
• Did he like ska
• What broke up the band
• No one liking the Broadways
• The Larry Arms
• The Slapstick reunion shows
• Nihilist Arby's
• And a ton more

This week's episode sponsored by Southern Tier Distilling Company.

Building on 300+ years of western NY spirit production, Southern Tier Distilling Company puts that heritage into every bottle.

Now, expanding their market to NJ, DE, and Ohio, more of us can enjoy these premium spirits such as STDC's Straight Bourbon, Silver Medal Award-winning Vodka, Smoked Bourbon and their 2XHopped Whiskey (a whiskey distilled from their gold medal winning 2XIPA)

In addition to their spirits, also available are their premium canned cocktails! The Gin&Tonic, Vodka Madras & Bourbon Smash. Great for camping, the beach, tailgating, and the golf course.

Available at most Buy Rite, Shop Rite & Joe Canal locations, or just ask for Southern Tier Distilling at your local liquor store.

Check out Southern Tier Distilling at www.stdcspirits.com and follow them on Instagram at @southern_tier_nj

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Before we begin I'd like to mention a guy from the NJ scene named Yale Klein. His niece was diagnosed with Leukemia in the midst of her first semester at Cornell. This is his Facebook post about it:

"As confident as I am that she will beat this, it is hard to watch my niece have to endure this both physically and mentally. And it's almost as hard, especially being a parent, to see my sister and brother in law work through this. Shout out to my nephew who has been a real trooper and an amazing little brother.

Anyway, Marlee has started a fundraiser for her 18th birthday and I wanted to share. It is donations to a foundation that helps with a variety of items related to Leukemia and beyond (of course she is asking to help others) obligations and no judgments.

She is my eldest niece and the type of person I hope my daughter aspired to be like as she gets older. She is the strongest almost 18-year old I have ever met."

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This episode discusses how I am expanding on the podcast's direction and why this is going to be known as Season 0 instead of 2.

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

New Found Glory are a pop-punk band from Coral Springs, Florida who formed in 1997. Matt from Red Leader Records introduced me to them 20 years ago saying they were going to be huge. Once they released Nothing Gold Can Stay their career went apeshit. These dudes used to frequent New Jersey and owe a bit of their success to local NJ heroes Midtown for introducing them to Drive-Thru Records.

Heath From Midtown connected me to Ian through Instagram where I asked if he'd like to talk about the origins of the band, Ian said yes and this is what we talked about:

• How his first bass was hot merchandise
• Using weed to get to know bands
• Envisioning being in a large band at the age of 13
• Their first tour with Vacant Andys
• Coming up with the name on a napkin at a red lobster
• What the Florida scene was like
• Who really got them on Drive Thru - Rob Hitt or Gabe Saporta
• Mentioning the One Cool Guy skate park show in Fl
• Did they get shit from Shai Hulud fans?
• How he got Drive Thru to make the band tour
• His fear of flying
• Recording with Jerry Finn
• Fucking up on stage at a home town show
• His Friendship with Chris from Less Than Jake
• Smoking up with Snoop Dogg
• And a ton more

This week's episode sponsored by Southern Tier Distilling Company.

Building on 300+ years of western NY spirit production, Southern Tier Distilling Company puts that heritage into every bottle.

Now, expanding their market to NJ, DE, and Ohio, more of us can enjoy these premium spirits such as STDC's Straight Bourbon, Silver Medal Award-winning Vodka, Smoked Bourbon and their 2XHopped Whiskey (a whiskey distilled from their gold medal winning 2XIPA)

In addition to their spirits, also available are their premium canned cocktails! The Gin&Tonic, Vodka Madras & Bourbon Smash. Great for camping, the beach, tailgating, and the golf course.

Available at most Buy Rite, Shop Rite & Joe Canal locations, or just ask for Southern Tier Distilling at your local liquor store.

Check out Southern Tier Distilling at www.stdcspirits.com and follow them on Instagram at @southern_tier_nj

Southern Tier, Why the hell not?

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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

This week's episode sponsored by Southern Tier Distilling Company.

Building on 300+ years of western NY spirit production, Southern Tier Distilling Company puts that heritage into every bottle.

Now, expanding their market to NJ, DE, and Ohio, more of us can enjoy these premium spirits such as STDC's Straight Bourbon, Silver Medal Award-winning Vodka, Smoked Bourbon and their 2XHopped Whiskey (a whiskey distilled from their gold medal winning 2XIPA)

In addition to their spirits, also available are their premium canned cocktails! Soon to hit the market are the Gin & Tonic with elderflower & cucumber, the Bourbon Smash with ginger, mint and lemon and the Vodka Madras with cranberry, orange chamomile. Great for camping, the beach, tailgating and the golf course.

They are now sporadically in markets around the US so ask your local shop for their offerings to get them into your local shop.

Check out Southern Tier Distilling at www.stdcspirits.com and follow Rob at southern_tier_nj

Southern Tier, Why the hell not?

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As always, thank you to the people who've donated to the podcast. If you'd like to do so just go to thiswasthescene.com and send whatever you'd like. It helps me with the $20/month to keep this thing live. I'm still in the process of designing shirts to sell to help keep this thing alive so keep checking the this was the scene facebook page for updates.

Feel free to subscribe, leave a review and share this with anyone who would love some nostalgia.

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Shower With Goats existed as part of the NJPP (New Jersey Pop Punk) scene from 1994-2000. They were well known for their unique blend of raw, upbeat punk tunes backed with emphatic vocals. Their influences ranged from many bands including Fifteen, Face To Face, Quit, Big Drill Car, All, Rhythm Collision, and even Crass on occasion. They went on to release several 7" records, 1 full length, and copious unreleased tracks on scattered compilation releases.

My old band Congress of Cow who later became Lanemeyer used to play a bunch of shows with them back in the day so I know Steve personally which made this a fun interview. They were a staple band in what people can argue is the Central or South Jersey scene.

Check out his Not For Profit label to help support the charities they help out with.

Also, check out their facebook page by clicking here.

The 2 of us got on a call and this is what we discussed:

• His not for profit record label
• The Westboro Baptist Church
• The Derby Firehouse
• His love for the Ramones
• His metal band with Dave before Shower with Goats
• Less than Jake staying with him for a week when they were on tour and playing in his living room
• Their song "I Eat You" breaking the ice at shows
• Struggling with shyness and depression and the band breaking him out of it
• The Carlisle PA debacle of a show which started the ending of Congress of Cow
• Their LP cover being designed by Pete Wonsowski who also designed artwork for Less Than Jake
• Springman putting Fallon's song on their comp
• His recent lottery winnings
• His split 7' with Chris from Less Than Jake
• And a ton more

I'd like to give a plug to my animation company drive80.com. We take your complicated message and un-suckify it.

This week's episode sponsored by Southern Tier Distilling Company.

Building on 300+ years of western NY spirit production, Southern Tier Distilling Company puts that heritage into every bottle.

Now, expanding their market to NJ, DE, and Ohio, more of us can enjoy these premium spirits such as STDC's Straight Bourbon, Silver Medal Award-winning Vodka, Smoked Bourbon and their 2XHopped Whiskey (a whiskey distilled from their gold medal winning 2XIPA)

In addition to their spirits, also available are their premium canned cocktails! Soon to hit the market are the Gin & Tonic with elderflower & cucumber, the Bourbon Smash with ginger, mint and lemon and the Vodka Madras with cranberry, orange chamomile. Great for camping, the beach, tailgating and the golf course.

They are now sporadically in markets around the US so ask your local shop for their offerings to get them into your local shop.

Check out Southern Tier Distilling at www.stdcspirits.com and follow Rob at southern_tier_nj

Southern Tier, Why the hell not?

I'd also like to mention my animation company drive80.com to anyone out there who is a marketing director that is looking to un-suckify their brands message. We do this by telling your story within 60-seconds or less using animation. Check it out at drive80.com

As always, thank you to the people who've donated to the podcast. If you'd like to do so just go to thiswasthescene.com and send whatever you'd like. It helps me with the $20/month to keep this thing live. I'm still in the process of designing shirts to sell to help keep this thing alive so keep checking the this was the scene facebook page for updates.

Feel free to subscribe, leave a review and share this with anyone who would love some nostalgia.

With that said, let's get started.

Welcome everyone to 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.

This week I'm doing something slightly different by interviewing Doug Robinson of the Sleeping. Yes, the Sleeping was a band that formed in 2003 which is outside of my current premise of this podcast. However, Doug grew up in the late 90s scene as a young lad. He's also from the same town as I am which is pretty cool. AKA Jefferson Twsp.

I wanted to get the viewpoint of someone who grew up going to the same shows as we did and ended up creating a band as our scene faded away.

This would also be a good time to mention that there are only 2 episodes left of Season 1 before I take a tiny break and launch season 2 where I already have a ton of interviews in the cue. I'll tell you more about that in the next 2 episodes.

For now, here is what Doug and I spoke about:

• His sister making him learn how to dance to Selena
• Getting shit on by people for liking Pennywise
• His love for 6 Felter Place
• Mt Arlington Elks Lodge
• His conversation with Jimmy Eat World about Clarity and Chris Carraba playing at the Wayne Firehouse
• The show where Random Task used TVs before they played even though I think this was the Escape Engine
• Living with CJ from Red Rover
• Squatting in his old house when his family moved to PA
• Playing in front of 5,000 people
• His Mariachi story about his future
• And tons more

This week's episode sponsored by Southern Tier Distilling Company.

Building on 300+ years of western NY spirit production, Southern Tier Distilling Company puts that heritage into every bottle.

Now, expanding their market to NJ, DE and Ohio, more of us can enjoy these premium spirits such as STDC's Straight Bourbon, Silver Medal Award winning Vodka, Smoked Bourbon and their 2XHopped Whiskey (a whiskey distilled from their gold medal winning 2XIPA)

In addition to their spirits, also available are their premium canned cocktails! Soon to hit the market are the Gin & Tonic with elderflower & cucumber, the Bourbon Smash with ginger, mint and lemon and the Vodka Madras with cranberry, orange, and chamomile. Great for camping, the beach, tailgating and the golf course.

They are now sporadically in markets around the US so ask your local shop for their offerings to get them into your local shop.

Check out Southern Tier Distilling at www.stdcspirits.com and follow Rob at southern_tier_nj

Southern Tier, Why the hell not?

I've got more room for sponsorships so just email me at [email protected] if you'd like a spot

As always, thank you to the people who've donated to the podcast. If you'd like to do so just go to thiswasthescene.com and send whatever you'd like. It helps me with the $20/month to keep this thing live. I'm still in the process of designing shirts to sell to help keep this thing alive so keep checking the this was the scene facebook page for updates.

Feel free to subscribe, leave a review and share this with anyone who would love some nostalgia.

With that said, let's get started.

Welcome everyone to 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.

Right Turn Eddie was a ska band from the late 90s that was made up of Josh, Pete, Pat, Steve, Big Pat, Shotgun, Metal,

and sometimes Johnny Tummillo who would fill in on drums from time to time. He also fronted Folley.

They're sound was reminiscent of the Bosstones and Reel Big Fish, with some punk rock thrown in the mix. I'm not very good at explaining shit as you can see.

I looked up to Josh back then because he seemed to have a solid outlook on life and he owned a house at the age of like 17.

I reached out to him to get an interview and he said Steve should join. I agreed and this is what we talk about:

• Their van Bruce that they bought from Congress of Cow
• Their original name Spaz
• The Butler show with Against All Authority
• Johnny Tumillo from Foley
• Josh never remembering lyrics
• The mysterious Matt who was their cheerleader
• Recording with Chris Badami of Portrait studios
• Jim Slim and the midget tossers
• What Congress Of Cow means
• The sweet 16 party we played with them
• Their horn players
• How their drummer Steve's Dad used to scare the shit out of me
• And a ton more

This week's episode sponsored by Southern Tier Distilling Company.

Building on 300+ years of western NY spirit production, Southern Tier Distilling Company puts that heritage into every bottle.

Now, expanding their market to NJ, DE and Ohio, more of us can enjoy these premium spirits such as STDC's Straight Bourbon, Silver Medal Award winning Vodka, Smoked Bourbon and their 2XHopped Whiskey (a whiskey distilled from their gold medal winning 2XIPA)

In addition to their spirits, also available are their premium canned cocktails! Soon to hit the market are the Gin & Tonic with elderflower & cucumber, the Bourbon Smash with ginger, mint and lemon, and the Vodka Madras with cranberry, orange and camomile. Great for camping, the beach, tailgating and the golf course.

Check out Southern Tier Distilling at www.stdcspirits.com and follow Rob at southern_tier_nj

Southern Tier, Why the hell not?

I've got more room for sponsorships so just email me at [email protected] if you'd like a spot

As always, thank you to the people who've donated to the podcast. If you'd like to do so just go to thiswasthescene.com and send whatever you'd like. It helps me with the $20/month to keep this thing live. I'm still in the process of designing shirts to sell to help keep this thing alive so keep checking the this was the scene facebook page for updates.

I've added a limited number of stickers to the merchandise

Feel free to subscribe, leave a review and share this with anyone who would love some nostalgia.

With that said, let's get started.

Welcome everyone to 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.

If you grew up in Northern Jersey and needed a place to find independent music you would go to Scotti's record shop in Morristown, sound exchange on rte 23, hot topic in the Rockaway mall (yes that's where you could actually find bands) OR you could take a ride to Pompton Lakes and visit Flipside Records where you would find Alan Rappaport manning the register. He opened people's eyes to bands like Sicko, Discount, Plow United, Mineral and Jimmy Eat World before they were making videos about underwear pool parties.

My friends and I would pile into my buddy Lucc's car, drive to Flipside and use whatever money we could find to stock up on new music. I wanted to get his perspective on the scene back then, he said "totally down man" and this is what we talked about:

• Who actually kicked him out of Lanemeyer
• Disney World's effect on his punk rockness
• How he started working at Flipside
• Introducing Donuts and Glory and Steve from Right Turn Eddie
• His Lua pool party shows with Discount, My Pal Trigger and LTJ
• His relationship with Jimmy Eat World
• The Backstage rehearsal studio
• And a ton more

This week's episode sponsored by Southern Tier Distilling Company.

Building on 300+ years of western NY spirit production, Southern Tier Distilling Company puts that heritage into every bottle.

Now, expanding their market to NJ, DE and Ohio, more of us can enjoy these premium spirits such as STDC's Straight Bourbon, Silver Medal Award winning Vodka, Smoked Bourbon and their 2XHopped Whiskey (a whiskey distilled from their gold medal winning 2XIPA)

In addition to their spirits, also available are their premium canned cocktails! Soon to hit the market are the Gin & Tonic with elderflower & cucumber, the Bourbon Smash with ginger, mint and lime and the Vodka Madras with cranberry, orange and camomile. Great for camping, the beach, tailgating and the golf course.

Check out Southern Tier Distilling at www.stdcspirits.com and follow Rob at southern_tier_nj

Southern Tier, Why the hell not?

This episode is also brought to you by my new book I'll eventually like kids when they're adults. This is a collection of comics I've drawn daily on my Instagram account. You can find me on Instagram by searching for yourdailybred.

As always, thank you to the people who've donated to the podcast. If you'd like to do so just go to thiswasthescene.com and send whatever you'd like. It helps me with the $20/month to keep this thing live. You can also buy merch there.

Feel free to subscribe, leave a review and share this with anyone who would love some nostalgia.

With that said, let's get started.

Welcome everyone to 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.

Brian Molloy cut his teeth in the punk scene before Green Day and the Offspring took the stage and opened the world's eyes to what was happening outside of MTV. He created a zine in the late 90s that wasn't focussed on band reviews, or show reviews or root beer reviews (shot out to annoyance zine)

Instead, he created short stories with a punk rock tone in hidden in the background and called it Just in time for nothing. I remember buying copies of his zine at shows and wanted to get his take on the scene back then.

I asked him if he'd be down to talk about it and he said "Certainly!"

In this interview we discuss:

• Yabo's room in Gleaming the Cube
• The Descendants
• His conversation with Jay Bentley from Bad Religion
• His famous photo of him holding the Ernie Doll on the back of Green Day's Dookie
• Hardcore band Uprise
• How he started his zine
• DJing shows in the city
• I try to talk him into finally publishing a book
• And a ton more

Before we begin, I'd like to talk about liquid alcohol that's yummy.

This week's episode sponsored by Southern Tier Distilling Company.

Just when you thought Southern Tier had cornered the market on world class brew, the founder, Phin DeMink, has turned his sights to art of distilling. Founded in 2015 and production starting the summer of 2016, Southern Tier Distilling Company broke onto the scene in western NY!

Building on 300+ years of western NY spirit production, STDC puts that heritage into every bottle.

Now, expanding their market to NJ, DE and Ohio, more of us can enjoy these premium spirits such as STDC's Straight Bourbon, Silver Medal Award winning Vodka, Smoked Bourbon and their 2XHopped Whiskey (a whiskey distilled from their gold medal winning 2XIPA)

In addition to their spirits, also available are STDC's premium canned cocktails! Soon to hit the market are the Gin & Tonic with elderflower & cucumber, the Bourbon Smash with ginger, mint and lime and the Vodka Madras with cranberry, orange and camomile. Great for camping, the beach, tailgating and the golf course.

Great things on the horizon for all things Southern Tier!

Check out Southern Tier Distilling at www.stdcspirits.com and follow Rob at southern_tier_nj

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This episode is also brought to you by my new book I'll eventually like kids when they're adults. This is a collection of comics I've drawn daily on my instagram account. You can find me on Instagram by searching for @yourdailybred.

Here's one of my 5-star reviews - "Still great even if you're a parent who loves your kids. Hilarity and relatable life observations. Come to think of it, if Seinfeld had a daily Instagram comic, it might be this"

As always, thank you to the people who've donated to the podcast. If you'd like to do so just go to thiswasthescene.com and send whatever you'd like. It helps me with the $20/month to keep this thing live. I'm still in the process of designing shirts to sell to help keep this thing alive so keep checking the this was the scene facebook page for updates.

Also, I've added a limited number of stickers to the merchandise.

Feel free to subscribe, leave a review and share this with anyone who would love some nostalgia.

With that said, let's get started.

Welcome everyone to 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.

Kraig Marshall graced the NJ scene in the late 90s with his backyard shows, his band Sticker, and then went on to form Example 24 which took him in a completely different direction, musically. This interview goes in many directions but the one thing that's unmistakable is how passionate Kraig is about music and his roots.

In this interview we discuss:

• The Masonic Temple in Ridgewood
• Filming videos of 7-seconds and Ministry
• The Pure drive in creating music
• Jeremy Humble's keen fashion sense
• Getting added last minute to shows
• The bad blood with Sticker after he got dropped
• His backyard shows
• Example 24 starting with one sound and then taking a hard left
• His relationship with Richard from Filter when Title of Record came out
• His transition to just writing songs and then finding people to tour with
• We jump back to talking about Sticker and his backyard shows
• And a ton more

Before we begin, I got myself a sponsor.

Many of you might remember Robert Muscatello from LWL. Welllll he works for Southern Tier Brewing who is sponsoring this episode. Here's a little about them:

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As always, thank you to the people who've donated to the podcast. If you'd like to do so just go to thiswasthescene.com and send whatever you'd like. It helps me with the $20/month to keep this thing live. I'm still in the process of designing shirts to sell to help keep this thing alive so keep checking the this was the scene facebook page for updates.

Feel free to subscribe, leave a review and share this with anyone who would love some nostalgia.

With that said, let's get started.