Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
550Spyder wrote:
Wait really? I had no idea that Camilo and Santiago went to Gordon. Funny, I was a huge Naked Raygun fan (probably saw them 15+ times over the years).
Mike O'Connell was 3 years older than me but graduated with my brother. I saw R.O.T.A. play a number of gigs - including Igloo, Club Stodola, The Rusty Nail, etc back in the day - when they were a hardcore band ('Child! Adult!) with that guy that went on to be in White Zombie. Before they became the schlock Kiss thing (which I really liked).
I graduated with Steve Amella who was in a cool hardcore band called Insolent Respect - did a good gig with Corrosion of Conformity at The Bank on Lincoln if I recall correctly. Then there was that Jeff guy (tall long hair dude) who played bass in Impulse Manslaughter and went on to replace Joe Losurdo in a bizarre incarnation of Life Sentence. I also think there was a guy who had a cup of coffee (drums maybe?) with Fat Ted and the boys in Generation Waste.
Ah, I miss the old hardcore days....
Meehan, Durango, and Gonzalez were two or three years ahead of me. They started what I consider the first real punk band in Chicago, Silver Abuse. When we were in high school they ran an alternative Student Council ticket with a real burnout named Michael Oakleaf for president. I think they probably won, but those Resurrectionist preists and brothers weren't having it and gave the election to the usual dorks.
I didn't know Birdshit was a Gordon guy. Hell, I didn't even know Amella was his last name. Were you at the show we played with Insolent Respect at the Latvian Club on Elston?
I also didn't know Jeff Hauck was in Impulse Manslaughter. They were always changing bass players and singers at the beginning. Glen Herman doesn't like to talk about the fact that they started out as a schlocky metal band in my friend Rich's attic on Richmond. They were called Asmodeus. I still remember one of their lyrics:
Asmodeus
or Lucifer
Whichever, you prefer
The name is Satan
Come, sinful one
Hell is waiting
Have you seen my Rock and Roll thread? You might find some of it interesting:
viewtopic.php?f=84&t=59049I'll check out that thread. What band where you in? Chances are I know the band and we may even know each other outside of the forum from the 'scene'. If there was a hardcore show between say 1984 and 1989, I was there. Everything from 'big' bands like GBH/CroMags/LostCause at Metro, Ludichrist at Dreamerz, Exploited/7 Secs at Medusas, GWAR and UK Subs at Cubby Bear, GG Allin and The Meatmen at Igloo and all sorts shit in-between. Then all the local bands like Life Sentence, Lost Cause (who always got the great gigs with bigger bands), Insolent, Impulse, No Empathy, ID Under, ROTA, Generation Waste, Sharon Tate's Baby, Nadsat Rebel, Violent Tumor and of course the really good Chicago bands like Raygun and Out of Order.
And yeah, that was the guy's name - Hauck. Tall long haired dude that really didn't talk much. I'm pretty sure he was in Impulse. Might have it backwards. I do know he played in that post-Losurdo incarnation of Life Sentence that had Gus Roman from Lost Cause on drums and crazy, drugged out Erick Brockman singing in between bong hits. 'Win, Lose or Sue'
And 'Birdshit' - didn't know Amella went by that. Dude was scary smart, but a whack job. I remember going to his house after school to be part of their jams. Tony Niles (had a big 'hawk) was the lead singer and cool dude. Don't remember a Latvian place, but I may have been there. I do remember the gig they played at The Bank when C.O.C. used to be a hardcore band and not the Skynrd meets Sabbath southern thing they became. It was the 'Technocracy' era when Simon Bob Sinister was the singer. We all wound up partying heavily in a backyard - these twin skinheads that went to St. Bens - Moe and Evil Giddy. Not a lot of Mexican twin skins around. The Insolent guys, the guys from ID Under, Marc from No Empathy and the guys from a really good hardcore band called Number Nine. Hell, even thing KC and everyone's favorite Chicago hardcore whipping boy Joe Kelly from Lost Cause where there. Fun times for a 17 year catholic school kid.
Ok, here's Chicago trivia - remember all those goofy skinhead dudes that used to roam around Belmont and Clark (by the Dunkin Donuts) and the Army Surplus store at night and used to sleep/drink in that park on the corner of Fullerton/Lincoln/Halsted by WaxTrax during the days? There were the SHOCK guys from the south side, but then you had KC from Lost Cause, Darrell (I think he went to Lane - used to bounce at Medusa's) and that crazy black skin guy - I think his name was Duane? Running story was that the dude had killed like 500 people!
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