Jamming hard or hardly jamming

I was driving back up north, jamming on a bunch of old and some not so old Fresno music I’d found in my old room in my parents house. I’m going to post some of it on here. So this might piss some people off, but I think all of this is out of print/unreleased and not on myspace, and isn’t going to be hitting vinyl or cd or itunes or whatever anytime soon. But if anyone wants me to take their shit down then hit me up. Here are some jams from the archives. If anyone digs this shit let me know, I have a lot more old shit and I’ll toss some more up.

When I first got in the car to drive back up here I saddled into some of my old bands stuff. I’ll spare you that shitz. when I twerked it off the 99 and headed towards Los Banos I put in the old Fallouts Demo and my ears stoked on that shit. I didn’t remember it being that good. Those dudes had to be 13 or 14 when that was recorded. Think Crimpshrine by way of Op Ivy/Rancid and NOFX. I remember seeing those dudes a few times, mostly at CBA, and then when I left for college around 2001 Benny (vocals/guitar) left and my buddy James started playing with those dudes. A few years later they started playing metal and and changed their name to Bogan, and James left and they added un autre dude.

I’m kind of partial to the East Bay charms of the first demo. (Don't right click the link, click on it and it'll go to the mp3)

Here are a couple songs from both demos:


For a while I played in a band with Dave and if anything that might predispose me to not liking some of his bearded jam thunder. But when he left fresno and moved to Florida with his beard he hit me up with an acoustic demo of some of Sci-Fi Nightmares shit he was working on; the jamz was hot. Check out the myspace for fully mastered non acoustic version. The full version of this song should be on an upcoming 7” - here’s the unreleased acoustic cold and blue;



Occams Razor. I wasn’t in Fresno when these dudes were playing, I wasn’t even in the Country for a while when these dudes were playing. But when I moved back to Fresno someone hipped me to their tunes. I’d heard of them. I thought they were from Santa Barbara/Goleta, cause when I lived there I saw dudes were playing there. I never got too into their early output but their last 7” was pretty fucking great. Plus the artwork was killer. I found it in Bakersfield a while back. I don’t think it’s still in print. But if it is someone hit me up and I’ll remove this shit. This is probably one of the better records to come from fresno in the last fifteen years or so. So screamy; a ferocious kind of sass. (I just checked up on shit and it looks like theres one copy available here; hit that shit)

Heres a song off it and some of the artwork;

Wouldn’t be complete without a quick nod to Capitol Punishment. You can find more about them here. I’ve got the German pressing on white vinyl.
Here’s two songs off of the two party system 7”; - this is out of print. But you should be able to get it on ebay without going broke.

also; check out the stage dive records page. Dale just put up an old altered features jam that’s pretty dope, plus check out the Think Tank MP3s here. Think Tank was the post Maniax jam. The maniax shit was pretty amazing; 13/14 year old dudes who got some airplay on MRR radio and got invited to tour with Flipper and Black Flag, but they couldn’t cause they were too young! Holy shit. They just released their cd here- check it out shitz crucial…