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smithing_chick

Punk Rock Girl- 20 Years On

Jul 26, 2009 19:45

Last night I got to revisit a major force in my misspent youth. The Continental Ballroom- which was just as much a state of mind as it was a collapsing shithole passing as a music club. Probably more so, considering ( Read more... )

reunions, punk, continental ballroom, rock, bands

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aspasia93 July 27 2009, 06:55:48 UTC

good goat! it seemed like a good idea at the time.

I wish I could have been there, but the budget angel was not with me this month.

I'm glad that Bob, Larry and Gary DIDN'T play a set. Larry and Gary went their ways for a reason. It would have been totally un-punk for them to play together simply for the sake of marking 20 years.

I can close my eyes and still see it all plain as day, like it happened a few hours ago.

Somewhere here, I still have my Out Of Hand and my Lost Cut Out The Heart shirts.

I still remember -- I think it was the April or May '90 show when everybody who was leaning out the sliding "barn door" to smoke was just dropping their butts into a pile of wood debris without bothering to stub them out first. Eventually the whole damn debris pile outside in the dock area started smoldering so badly that the show was temporarily stopped.

Somebody needs to make a new LEHC t-shirt "I was there when we caught the Continental on fire!"

smithing_chick July 27 2009, 07:18:28 UTC

Gary wasn't there, actually- it was the original drummer that they had before Gary- Ken? He plays with the Trashed now. He's the one that played with them when they did the reunion show a year or two ago, although at that show the part of Larry Weaver was played by Rob Burke, also of The Trashed. The drummer was into the idea but Bob & Larry both got that deer-in-the-headlights look when it was suggested.

Who *I* would have liked to have seen would be the guys from Lost but I think their lead singer dropped off the face of the planet.

"I was there when we caught the Continental on fire!" Lucky for us the building is brick or the whole place probably would have gone up.

aspasia93 July 27 2009, 07:21:23 UTC

holy crap! Ken was there? I completely forgot about the demo EP way back once upon a time before Gary!!!

I know Morbid played with the Scum for a while, didn't know he had played with them again last year.

bisonmomma July 30 2009, 21:58:13 UTC

Damn. I did want to go to that. I actually had the day off, but we had our annual picnic at the peninsula that day, then we had people come back here to get drunk & watch "Bender's Game." Still, I should have sneaked out & come down there. It's not that far from my house.

You mentioned people I haven't thought of in a long time. I remember Stacy O & several great parties at her apartment. And there was another girl who was friends with John R. and Evil Rob - she lived near one of of the Scum & I think it was him who once got drunk & pissed in her sinkfull of dirty dishes. Ah, good times.