He took the men in the back, paid them off, and from then on, he said, ‘I’ll have you tend bar from eight to twelve. One reached across the bar, touched my face and said, ‘He isn’t even a shaver!’ But Ernie had all the connections. Then the liquor board came in and thought I looked too young.
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When Ernie interviewed me, he said, ‘What do you do?’ And I said ‘Everything, everything.’ So he put me behind the bar, and I was in full drag at this point: pants, vest, shirt, tie, short hair. “Then at eighteen I was of age and I walked into Ernie’s, got my first job as a bartender, which I had never done. During WWII, Kent played trumpet in the Women’s Army Corps band. She soon changed her last name to Kent, wore a cross and lipstick, as Jews and lesbians did not get employed. As a teenager she rode into Greenwich Village to explore the lesbian bars in the shadow of the 6 th Avenue El. And The Horns Will Be Drowned Out By Bells.Buddy Kent was originally Malvina Schwartz of Brownsville, Brooklyn a predominantly Jewish area.Part 3: Lack of Interest & Stapled Shut.A Three-Part Recovery Program for Former Listeners.Unauthorized Duplication is the Obvious Solution!.i'm not sure if a cd version came out or was it just rumors now that's something i'd like to see posted. great to see justice is finaly being made for these bands in the blog world. each record kicking ass as much as the other. they are all a great example of the continuous transformation of the band. from their split with 23 more minutes or the first lp deadtime, to expand the hive, soul pollution and this split with grimple. everything they ever put out was amazing. anyway, i'd say this is grimple at its best (specially songs like system fuckers or pc), but i dunno about logical nonsense. i'll try to find it, i must have it somewhere. grimple's side was the same, but i think logical nonsense rerecorded some songs, and it had a different spoken word track.
i don't remember how a tape with en early version of this split came into my hands like three years before it actually came out. believe it or not i was listening to this record earlier today, and now i see it here. All you apocalyptic punk types are gonna love this stuff! There are five listed tracks on the CD, but as bonuses the band included a re-recorded version of "Pig's Blood Blues" (from the "Vinyl Retentive" Comp.) and an atmospheric spoken word piece. The gruff and pained vocals, as well as the jangly Bay Area bass lines are the big attraction for me, and are the main source of the power and lasting impression of these tracks. Here the band displays a slightly closer kinship to crust punk than to the Neurosis-metal that would become the signature of their later full lengths. These nine tracks are an essential part of their discography (there's a great Celtic Frost cover too!), so here are some high bit-rate rips for you (below)!Īnd we can't neglect Logical Nonsense, who on this disc offer seven earlier examples of their dark and menacing metal punk. Part of this was probably just an internal musical evolution, but was also perhaps influenced by the bands they were playing shows with (and doing a split with!). it just changed) adding a more serious, political, metallic, and, I daresay, crusty dimension. By this point (1993), Grimple's approach changed a little (not for the better or for the worse necessarily. These later tracks were, I believe, released on a discography CD which is out of print. Their "Grimple Up Your Ass!" LP is a plasma-ball of energy, absolutely exploding with power, grit, and snot! Those tracks are readily available and recommended, as are the not-quite-as-easy to find tracks on their split with Logical Nonsense (East Bay Menace Records). Grimple were a great example of the Oakland punk greatness I love, exuding the infectiousness of Berkeley punk of the late eighties, and the ferocity of street-punk and hardcore. Since I don't believe in transmigration of the soul, I'll have to conclude and accept that there's just a ton of great bands up there, and not many down here (how I wish that weren't true!).
Half the bands I love (from the US) are from somewhere in Nor-Cal. I must have been a Bay Area resident in a past life.
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