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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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Early Beginnings For Famed Punk Rock Band “Black Flag”

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Black Flag became America’s premier hardcore punk rock band in the early 1980s Guitarist Greg Ginn formed the group in 1977, two years after he graduated from UCLA with a degree in economics and founded SST Records, an affiliate of the SST company he started originally at the age of 12 yrs. old. The label quickly grew with a loaded roster of other critically acclaimed punk rock bands, including Minutemen, Hüsker Dü, Sonic Youth, and Meat Puppets. When the bands original singer Keith Morris left Black Flag to form the “Circle Jerks,” Black Flag went through several vocalists before discovering … Continue reading Early Beginnings For Famed Punk Rock Band “Black Flag”

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Maty’s Corner #7

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Maty’s Corner #7 Good For You Greg Ginn & Mike Vallely New Band Together A new blast of punk fucking rock y’all oughtta know about is Good For You. This was put together by Greg Ginn of Black Flag and Mike Vallely of Mike V and the Rats/ Revolution Mother and all around bad ass skater. The album Life Is Too Short Not To Hold A Grudge is an 11 track blast from hard core past. The sound is reminiscent of My War era Black Flag.  Greg’s lines scream of those old days and Mike’s voice is somewhere between Rollins … Continue reading Maty’s Corner #7

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Maty’s Corner # 5

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Maty’s Corner Issue #5 Henry had a T.V. party, D felt like a gringo and Milo went to college A Story of SST Records and the South Bay sound SST which stands for Solid State Transmitters was started by Greg Ginn in 1966 as a business that sold electronics equipment.  It would not become a record label until 1978.  12 years to go from slanigin’ electronics to the label that would form an entire sound and scene. Now, we cannot quite tell the story of this label without proper focus on the big 3 bands of the South bay.  Those … Continue reading Maty’s Corner # 5