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Maty’s Corner #9 Punk Rock Changed Our Lives: Minutemen

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Maty’s Corner #9 Punk Rock Changed Our Lives: Minutemen               Starting in 1980 outta San Pedro, CA was one of punk’s most musically interesting and intense bands, the Minutemen. Consisting of Mike Watt’s bass genius, D Boon’s lyrical prowess and George Hurley’s above and beyond rhythm. They were a blend of punk, hard core and funk. They put out 10 recordings in 5 years. All of which were collected on Post-Mersh 1-3.             1981-83 was The Punch Line and What Makes a Man Start Fires? These make up Post-Mersh Volume 1. These recordings give an immediate sense of what … Continue reading Maty’s Corner #9 Punk Rock Changed Our Lives: Minutemen

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Maty’s Corner #12 Keith Morris

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Maty’s Corner #12 Keith Burned a Black Flag, Got a Midget Handjob, Won The Circle Jerk and Got OFF!                           This well known voice of our scene came screaming in 1976 as a co-founder of Black Flag.  Before all this though, he had gone to high school with Greg Ginn and Raymond (Pettibon) Ginn. Also worked in his dad’s bait shop with Bill Stevenson of Black Flag and ALL.  In ’76 Black Flag was known as Panic, thankfully that changed.  Keith’s time in Black Flag was short lived but did garner the seminal Nervous Breakdown Ep.  In ’79 he … Continue reading Maty’s Corner #12 Keith Morris